Towering statues of angels stand quietly in the middle of the square in the heart of the Holy See, with wings stretched out to cover the sky.

The gesture of holding the sword in one hand and the text of the law in the other symbolizes the irreplaceable supremacy of the Evangelical Church for countless years, full of majesty and sacredness.

A large number of figures in white robes are now surrounding the statue, maintaining a posture of kneeling and praying.

Neat and dignified, revealing the beauty of order, when looking down from the sky, it is snow-white, and it looks very solemn.

The only one standing is the new pope.

It was a somewhat balding man who looked to be in his forties, with a hooked nose and sharp eyes, one hand quietly caressing the top of Andy's head in front of him, and the other hand holding a rosary.

His mouth is the same as that of the others around him, reciting the scriptures of the Evangelical Church.

In addition to this, a large number of transcendent beings are watching this seemingly ordinary, but in fact unusual scene through the TV screen.

The pious will follow the prayers, and the pan-believers will remain silent at this time, but at the same time, there will be many people who look at the scene with a sneer and disdain.

However, no matter how disdainful they were, they never took their eyes off the grand picture.

And when a pure and flawless white light was born, an instinctive awe involuntarily emerged from the bottom of these people's hearts.

The white light came from the gap between the Pope and the boy's head, and after birth, it slowly spread all over his body.

Against the backdrop of the night, this scene is very obvious, and Andy's whole person becomes hazy and illusory, as if it may disappear at any time.

That's how the ritual should be.

The kingdom of heaven has been closed for thousands of years, but not only the angels no longer walk on earth, but all the phenomena related to it have disappeared.

Therefore, when the Son was admitted to the Kingdom of Heaven, people could not actually see such a shocking picture.

Most of them end with the contemporary Son turning into a ray of light and disappearing into the sky.

However, this ceremony is an exception.

The holy light did not stop after covering Andy's body, but instead spread out from his body, constantly soaking everything around him.

The surface of the square, the towering statues, the pope, the large number of worshippers kneeling...... Everything you see is like a sacred filter.

The scene was spectacular, drawing countless exclamations and joyful glances.

And when a warmth like a breeze extends from the visual senses and spreads to the audience's body and mind, many people are even more excited and tearful.

"Praise the Gospel! Praise be to God!! ”

In the Japanese-style hall of Kozia's house, someone couldn't help but shout, and the whole person seemed very fanatical.

Sister Lily, who sat at the head of the seat, felt a dull roar in her heart.

"Cult?"

That's the giant who called himself Prometheus.

"Orthodoxy."

Lily, who had been educated as a nun since childhood, corrected it with her mind.

The giant appeared at the beginning of the ritual, almost half an hour from now.

It's not a long time, but it's not a short time either.

Because she is always communicating with it, the girl has lost the panic she had at the beginning in her heart at this time.

This is mainly because of the condition that the giant exhibits.

Although the voice is terrifying, the words are not the slightest hostile, and the temperament can even be called gentle, and the slightest contact can make people involuntarily let down their guard.

What's more, Lily found that the other party was not much different from a blank piece of paper-

This giant with a mysterious origin doesn't have many memories of the past!

It even thought about its own name for a long time before it could barely remember, and it still had an uncertain tone, let alone any hostility and purpose.

Because she suspected that the giant's existence was related to Andy, the girl also deliberately let it watch the ritual scenes on TV.

As a result, the other party focused on the "atmosphere" of the church as a whole, and did not have any special attitude towards Andy at all.

This can't be disguised.

Because Lily doesn't think that the other party has the need to disguise in front of her.

Although he couldn't see the figure, the aura of the voice, silently, had already revealed that he had some kind of powerful and unknown power.

Very terrifying power.

"How can it be Orthodox to interfere with the hearts of mortals with forces that do not belong to mortals?"

The loss of memory obviously does not affect the way the giant sees the problem.

The nun did not know what its specific state was, but through this sentence, the other party's position was fully revealed.

"Because we think that well-intentioned intervention is good a lot of the time."

She replied.

The other party sighed when he heard this, and didn't speak again, and he didn't know whether he was thinking about the meaning behind the words, or whether he was noncommittal.

Lily didn't think about the other party, but turned her attention back to the TV in front of her.

The giant in her dream came to reality, and of course she attached great importance to it.

But you can't get any useful information from the other side.

Then you can only look at Andy.

Although the giant itself did not have any special attitude towards Andy, it was obvious that this matter had nothing to do with Andy.

And at the same time as the ritual unfolded, the giant's voice sounded, is this phenomenon accidental?

Or rather, will its awakening have something to do with this ritual?

I can't say for sure, but if you look closely at everything on TV, you can't go wrong.

The surrounding family members were also watching intently at this time, and the emotional turmoil before had calmed down with the passage of time.

But the light that spread from Andy did not go out, but became brighter and brighter, setting off the scene on the TV like a white curtain.

It's not glaring, but it's hard to see any details.

That is until a hazy angel figure descends from the sky and reaches out to grab someone's blurred shoulder outline.

Suddenly, the light on the TV screen overflowed, extremely dazzling, and then suddenly extinguished as if the power had been cut off!

The people in the room were caught off guard.

But before they could get up and check, the TV with a black screen lit up again.

The scene is still revealed, but the core area is no longer the black-haired Son.

"Is it over?"

The ugly man sitting next to Lily asked with some confusion, "Andy was taken to heaven?" ”

The answer to this question is actually obvious.

Lily didn't respond, and the family elders sitting around stood up one by one in amazement, as if they had experienced a baptism that they would never forget, and they couldn't hide their emotions.

This is actually related to Andy's departure.

After all, no matter what, he is the biggest and only backer of the Kozia family.

Now that this backer has passed away, although there is still a legacy, there will be no changes, but after all, it makes people feel complicated.

The girl who is the head of the house doesn't have this mind.

It's not that I don't care if Andy is gone, but because at this time, the giant who calls himself Prometheus is telling her something that no one else is aware of.

"Your surroundings are changing."

"Change?"

"It's getting clearer."

“…… What does that mean? ”

"I'm not sure, I think you know better than I do."

When the girl heard this, her mind moved, and she immediately thought of the rituals buried deep in all parts of York.

The ritual was almost complete, but she couldn't start it because she couldn't figure out the core knowledge.

But now it seems that maybe that knowledge is not the key to opening up?

Or even if she doesn't understand it, it won't affect the official operation of the ceremony?

If so, it would explain why Andy didn't care about it.

But......

"Is this change synchronized with the incident just now?"

She couldn't help but ask.

"Yes."

A dull voice replied from the bottom of his heart, "And at the same time, there is also a special situation in your Holy Son. ”

"What's the special situation?"

"He seems to have gotten stronger."

"It seems?"

"I'm not sure, it's too short, and I'm not on site, I can't see it thoroughly."

Lily didn't ask any more questions, but hurriedly stood up and ran to the most important place in Kozia's house at the moment.

It was a study and the heart of York ceremonies.

The study was empty, with no other furniture in it, except for a desk at the center.

On this desk, there is a large, yellowed map that looks like parchment.

The surface of the map is filled with various lines and markings that correspond to the geography of the world, and at first glance there is nothing special about it.

A little inspection can reveal that a pentagram pattern is quietly lit up in one corner.

That's where York is located.

The girl was not surprised to see this, because the pentagram was already lit up when the ceremony was completed.

It's just that it's not so bright...... Plain as day?

After a few closer looks, she noticed the difference.

Before, it was only the lines of the pentagram that lit up, but now, the empty space inside it also lit up!

This seems to represent the complete activation of the ritual, and the effects are beginning to radiate throughout York?

The girl breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile involuntarily appeared on her face.

Although there had been some speculation about the giant's words before, the guess was not as clear and inspiring as the facts.

After all, this means that what she spent a lot of energy and time doing before was not in vain!

"Strange."

The giant Prometheus seemed to see something unusual again, and even his tone was puzzled.

"I woke up from here?"

"I guess so."

Lily replied, and then couldn't help asking, "Don't you even remember how you woke up?" ”

"My mother seems to be called Clymene, and it has something to do with the sea."

Instead of answering her question, the other party said to herself: "My grandmother is Gaia, and if I remember correctly, she controls the land. ”

Clümene, Gaia, or something, the girl had never heard of, like the name Prometheus.

But she only thought that she was too young and unheard, so she didn't suspect anything.

"So what?"

"The land beneath your feet is close to the sea, and the rituals on the map are buried deep in the earth, and if it has something to do with my awakening, it still has something to do with it, but it's certainly not the main reason - and."

It paused, then said hesitantly, "And I seem to be dead, how can I come back to life?" ”

Lily obviously couldn't answer that question.

But she was seeing some eyebrows right now.

Before that, the other party basically had no memory, so she regarded it as a blank slate.

But right now, this giant, who only heard the sound but didn't see the figure, obviously recalled more of the past!

Why is this happening?

Considering what happened during this period, the girl naturally put her suspicions on Andy.

When Andy is baptized, the giant's voice sounds, Andy is ushered into heaven, and the giant's memory begins to revive again.

Even, she thought about it carefully, and the time when she dreamed of the giant seemed not to be the night when the ritual framework was completed.

But after Andy became a legendary dependent......

"Does this have anything to do with his elevated status in the church?"

A guess was born.

But because there were so few clues, the nun couldn't be sure of anything.

It's just that just when she was thinking about asking this Prometheus carefully if she recalled more information, an accident suddenly happened-

The pentagram that lit up on the yellowed map actually began to swell!

This expansion is extremely distorted.

As if pulled by some force, the five tips began to fly in their respective five directions.

And its "torso" grows larger in the process.

The envelope spans the whole of York, across the countries of North Africa, and even beyond the seas and lands of Africa!

Sister Lily was stunned.

Because in her opinion, this phenomenon is simply impossible.

The pentagram corresponds to the ritual trunk buried in York, and that trunk is specifically made up of a large amount of resources and supernatural powers.

It is solid, and it cannot be moved, like a well-built underground structure.

But now, the building is swelling!?

"Is the map broken?"

Reluctantly found an explanation, and the girl's mood eased somewhat.

However, this explanation turned out to be incorrect.

Because then a subordinate came in a hurry and reported a message to her.

A large number of roars were inexplicably born from the borders around York, and were spreading like thunder in all directions!

The sound was also accompanied by a continuous vibration, although not strong, but the scope was too large, causing the entire land plate to seem to be unstable!

The nun was completely stunned and did not understand why this had happened.

You know, the pentagram ceremony was forged by pouring the resources of the entire York......

If it weren't for the fact that before this, the empire purged most of the transcendent families in the territory and left all the income from the family to her, she could complete this in ten years, which would be considered fast!

But now, this hard-to-finish ritual is really expanding at a rapid pace?

Where does the impetus for growth come from?

Where are the "physical rules" of solidifying ritual architecture?

Is this phenomenon also related to Andy?

There are too many questions, which completely breaks the girl's perception of the extraordinary, making her in a trance, and even thinking that she is dreaming!

But this is clearly not a dream.

Because a familiar and unfamiliar figure flickered in front of her immediately afterward, making her a thriller and instantly become extremely conscious.

"You, you're—"

"Lily Kozia?" The other party asked rhetorically with a gloomy expression, which made the girl's flustered mood immediately calm down.

"Yes, Your Majesty." She responded respectfully, and her heart became very vigilant.

Because the one who appeared in front of her was the emperor of the empire!

It stands to reason that for Andy's sake, this emperor should be his own person.

But looking at that expression, she couldn't be sure of this.

However, to Lily's relief, the other party did not embarrass her in the future.

Although she always had a gloomy face, she seemed to be in a very bad mood, but she just told her a few words and left decisively.

came in a hurry, and went inexplicably, which made the girl very confused.

What made her even more puzzled was the other party's advice.

"York's ceremonies were arranged by the Emperor, not Andy...... Why did she want me to tell such a lie? ”

Inwardly asking about the giant who didn't know where, the girl was a little apprehensive.

But before the giant could respond, a figure appeared, disrupting her thoughts.

Because that's still the emperor.

And as if it were a repeater, it asked the same question as before.

"Lily Kozia?"

(End of chapter)