Claire watched with great interest for a long time. People kept praying beneath the statue, and later, she even saw some placing fruit and snacks beneath her bronze statue. It made Claire laugh.
When Claire was about to leave, she reached out and wiped away the features of her face from the statue, leaving only a rough outline.
It was not that Claire disliked revealing her face. Rather, doing so would better benefit the development of the Church of Order. Ever since Griffin Territory had prospered, she had appeared before the people of the territory less and less often. After so many years, many of them no longer even knew what she looked like.
What she looked like was not important. More importantly, what they believed in should be an idea, not a specific person. In their minds, she was a lord who loved her people like her own children and could bring them happiness. That was Claire, but not entirely Claire. It was only one part of her. Claire was still human, and she was not as perfect as the people imagined.
Therefore, Claire needed to separate herself from that image and leave them with an idea to believe in. That way, they would believe in it more deeply and imagine the perfect lord in their hearts.
This was why Claire stripped away a portion of her divinity, leaving it to the people for endless imagination. It was like believing that someone far away had risen from nobody to a wealthy boss, while never believing that your childhood friend could succeed, because that person was too concrete to you. Things that were too concrete made it difficult for fantasies to arise.
After this trip, Claire also gained some ideas regarding her church's Divine Arts, and once she returned, she