Chapter 634: The Lighting Ceremony

Chapter 634: Chapter 632: The Lighting Ceremony

The passionate crowd had already gathered in the central square of Mandela Town, and the entire square was packed with people.

All the town’s guards, along with the Elf Mage Guild and even mercenaries from the Mercenary Guild, were temporarily hired by Ocam to help maintain order and prevent chaos and stampedes.

At this time, it had been just about an hour since Hilia arrived in Mandela Town.

Fortunately, the town was not very large, and with all the visitors, there were only tens of thousands of people, and not everyone rushed over. Many saw the crowded square and chose to retreat or watch from nearby trees and rooftops.

When Hilia appeared, the entire square erupted in a strong wave of cheers.

It was as if some kind of divine celebration ritual; Hilia even felt that some peculiar force was forming.

Rose’s shadow appeared beside her, reaching out to grab, a faint golden light emerging and slowly condensing in his hand.

Hilia glanced over and had the vague feeling that this golden peculiar force was related to everyone’s shouts.

“This is the power of faith,” Rose said with a smile. “The emergence of faith means that everyone present worships you greatly.”

Hilia blinked, a bit skeptical: “Is this the power of faith? How does it condense so easily?”

“Did you think it was difficult to condense?”

“Well, it should be difficult. I’ve seen those cults make people pray for eight hours a day just to squeeze out a bit of the power of faith…”

Rose said indifferently, “That’s the lowest kind of faith power, already polluted by Demonic Qi. This method relies on pollution, making believers unable to leave, constantly generating the power of faith. Although it’s garbage, the advantage is obvious: the power of faith can be extracted and used by anyone, and it doesn’t need to maintain the image of gods. You might not even know what kind of weird way believers imagine you during their prayers.”

“The faith born from their fervent worship due to your salvation is one of the purest kinds of faith power. As long as you can maintain this fervor, when you become a god, you can convert these people into fanatical believers, continuously producing the purest power of faith.”

“Maintain the fervor continuously?”

Hilia fell into deep thought.

Rose smiled and said, “It’s not easy to maintain. You saved them briefly, and they thank you for a while, but it will fade over time. If you keep saving them, they will take your salvation for granted, and taking things for granted doesn’t generate faith power.”

“Is it that difficult?” Hilia blinked. Just thinking about maintaining such fervor felt extremely challenging. With her personality, it’s likely that maintaining it would become an expected demand, eventually leading to resentment from the benefactor.

“Of course it’s difficult. Otherwise, why would the gods ignore such pure faith and focus on other chaotic matters instead of directly helping believers—oh, they do help occasionally, performing some miracles to keep believers hanging.”

As Rose spoke, he couldn’t help but laugh.

“This method of becoming a god, your strength will fluctuate with the strength of faith, making it unstable, unlike my way.”

“Lord Rose’s way…” Hilia hesitated for a moment, but couldn’t resist asking out of curiosity: “What is Lord Rose’s way of becoming a god?”

Rose said, “Stacking values.”

Hilia: “?”

“As long as you can use Divine Power, your combat power is similar to that of gods, and you can choose whether to use the power of faith autonomously… wait, you are a god.”

“Uh…”

Alright, Hilia felt even more perplexed.

Luckily, she wasn’t Benovia, so she quickly put the matter behind.

Feeling the fervor from the square and the surrounding people.

Hilia said nothing, waiting until the fervor calmed down a bit, then she flew straight up into the air, reaching a height where she could overlook the entire city.

A distance of about three to four hundred meters, at this distance, those with poor eyesight probably couldn’t see clearly.

But soon they could see clearly.

From Hilia’s body, a strong Holy Light burst forth.

Within this Holy Light, there seemed to be peculiar energy flickering.

But no one could feel it.

Because that was the Divine Power Rose condensed using external Magic Power.

Beneath the Holy Light, everyone below, including those watching from outside or those inside houses who hadn’t come out, felt warmth.

Some who hadn’t come out saw the Holy Light outside and walked out, either standing at the doorway or on the window sill, looking at the figure in the sky.

Hilia slightly closed her eyes, frowning, her face showing a pale shade.

Rose was initiating the array ritual surrounding the Elf Forest, consuming a massive amount of Magic Power. Even Hilia, who had undergone three deep Divine Realm experiences, was struggling.

This was after Rose summoned a large amount of external Magic Power; otherwise, without it, Hilia would have been instantly drained.

Under the cover of the Purification Skill’s light, the entire city faintly emitted a soft fluorescence.

If viewed from ten thousand meters high, one could see peculiar streams of light beginning in Mandela Town, gradually illuminating numerous cities outside and within the Elf Forest.

Of course, this could only be seen at night; it was currently daytime, and the soft fluorescence seemed like mere scattering of sunlight, causing no reaction from others.

Rose flew to a higher altitude, gazing at the faint light appearing indistinctly.

These places all bore his warning marks, although these marks could not monitor anything around them, nor accomplish anything, unless someone discovered the array ritual and tried to interfere with the array, allowing him to discover it immediately.

He was waiting to see if the Divine King or Haroldias, the God of Life and Death, would discover.

Gods below the rank of Main God couldn’t detect his setup; only those above Main God could.

“I wonder if this fishnet will catch any fish,” thought Rose.

However, unfortunately, until the array ritual was successfully initiated and the light gradually faded, he sensed no interference with the ritual, nor did Hilia experience any feeling of being watched.

“Judging from this, Haroldias’s situation is probably not good, maybe sleeping?”

Rose pondered for a moment, continued to sense for a while, and when nothing was detected, he returned.

By this time, Hilia’s purification ritual had also ended.

Her face was pale, just like when performing purification in Watch City.

That was her worst mental state during purification, and her current state was no better.

Seeing Rose’s shadow descend, Hilia said, “Lord Rose, can… can we leave? I don’t want everyone to see me like this.”

Rose nodded: “The task is completed, let’s go.”

“Great!”

Then Hilia happily ran away.

Below, countless people were eagerly anticipating.

But after waiting a long time, they didn’t see Hilia coming down, and only when Ocam sent someone up to check without finding Hilia did they realize she had left quietly.

Everyone was bewildered on the spot.