432 Reactions of Different Parties (2/2)
In the Holy City of Lance, the pope, Benedict II, was standing beside a window, holding the staff. The new star was under his close scrutiny.
”It's not vanishing…”
”The track doesn't make sense…”
”Based on the position… Is it from the Congress of Magic?”
Soon the pope calmed down. He gazed at the new star indifferently and observed its orbit. when he believed that he had understood and remembered all the information about it, the pope raised the staff, his body bending slightly backward. Benedict II half closed his eyes and said to the sky in a low voice,
”Almighty God of Truth, you are one and everyone.”
”You are the instant and the forever.”
”You are the creator and the master.”
As he was praying, a layer of white holy light covered him. The divine powers started collecting from above, and slowly spread out and covered the entire city and its surrounding areas.
Feeling the power, the Grand Cardinals, Divine Knights, the Cardinals, and the common followers all calmed down from the great shock of seeing the new star. The look on their face softened as they were deeply touched.
It was the air and power of the Lord!
”You are one and everyone.”
”You are the instant and the forever.”
…
Hundreds of thousands of people started praying. Under the dominating power, their voice joined together and an astonishing resonance was created.
The scene was beyond magnificent.
When the praying became louder and louder, the pope pointed at the sky with his staff!
In the sky, a white light spot emerged from nowhere. It grew bigger and bigger. Soon, its light became as bright as the artificial star and the sun.
From inside of the light ball, a beautiful and refreshing hymn came out. The entire sky became holy and clean.
In Lucien and the rest of the sorcerers' eyes, the entire night sky had been lit up by the light ball. They could also faintly hear the hymn.
Lucien had expected that the Church would not keep the artificial star in the air for too long, since it was a great provocation to the authority of the Gold of Truth.
If sorcerers could create stars, then what was the God of Truth who was said to have created the world? Just a sorcerer who is a bit more powerful than the grand arcanists?
But what Lucien did not expect was that the Church would react in such an exaggerated manner.
The light ball became clearer and clearer. It seems that its inside was divided into seven layers. In the first layer, beautiful angels with a pair of wings and pure white souls were playing the wonderful hymn praising the true God on the pianos, harps, clarinets, and horns.
From the second layer to the fifth, the convivial scenes were similar. The angles and souls had nothing but pleasure and happiness to enjoy. The only difference was that the angels had more wings - there were Virtues, Principalities, and Cherubim.
In the sixth layer, there were the illusional figures of six Seraphim. They each stood in one direction, as if they were escorting the seventh layer.
In the seventh layer, besides the endless holy light spreading out, there was a Seraph holding canon. Lying prostrate beneath the light, the seraph was serving the God of Truth.
Lucien knew exactly what it was!
This was the real divine spell, which killed the last consul of the Magic Empire!
This was the real divine spell of great cost to the caster!
This was the real divine spell that only the pope could cast!
God's Arrival!
While observing the divine spell very carefully, Lucien turned on the monocle permanently enchanted with electromagnetism messaging to test how the artificial planet responded to signals.
In the light ball, all the angels burst out pure divine light, and the light joined with that of the seventh layer. Like ocean waves, the light spread out and covered the entire sky.
”This is the response from Antiffler No. 1…”
Then the sound of electrical noise took over.
Staring at the sky which had turned milky white from the holy light, hearing the electrical noise, Lucien subconsciously compared the power to that of the God of Silver Moon and concluded that, although the two powers were within the same level, Alterna was slightly weaker.
Then again, this was just a vague conclusion drawn by a senior-rank sorcerer. Maybe it was far from being accurate. Even for a legendary like Douglas or Dracula, evaluating these kinds of power could be very difficult.
The reason why the artificial planet was named Antiffler No. 1 was that Antiffler was the capital city of the ancient Sylvanas Magic Empire, where Douglas was born and grew up.
A mysterious gate drawn with countless constellation symbols suddenly showed up in front of Fernando, Lucien, and the other sorcerers. Douglas in his grey magic robe staggered out of it. The colorful gems circling above his head had mostly disappeared.
However, Douglas was in a high spirit. His excitement could not be hidden on his genial face.
”Finally, I've experienced God's Arrival…
”Unless he wants to fall early, the pope won't be able to use God's Arrival in the next five years!”
Lucien finally realized why the president made the artificial planet so bright. It was not simply for showing off his achievement.