Chapter 436: Mother and Daughter

In the blink of an eye, another week passed....

Shengcheng of Radiance, this is the headquarters of the church, and also the place where the Lord of Radiance first manifested His miracles. This place was originally a barren desert, but because of the miracles, this place became a fertile oasis. People built a city on this oasis. Hundreds of years later, this majestic and huge Shengcheng was formed.

Also because the people living in the Shengcheng are the most devout believers, the most buildings in the city are churches. To meet the daily prayer needs of all the city's people, the Shengcheng started large-scale construction, building countless churches. In the city, a big church every thousand steps, a small church every hundred steps, this is absolutely not an exaggerated description, but a fact.

And in the center of the Shengcheng, an exceptionally majestic and spectacular huge church lies there. It's just that this church is not open to ordinary people, and only high-level church personnel are qualified to enter it.

Even those high-and-mighty Cardinals only have the qualification to enter, not to live in it. They are only allowed to enter for a short time during work reporting time every day, and they are not allowed to enter at other times.

Because this is the residence of the Lord of Radiance and the gods and messengers under His seat, the interior of the church can no longer be considered the human world, but a heavenly sanctuary shrouded by the power of great gods. Among the ignorant mortals, only the Pope of the church is allowed to serve as a servant day and night, ready to listen to the Lord's oracle at any time.

It's just that this situation changed a month ago. That day, the Lord descended an oracle, and the Pope brought people overnight to welcome a teenage girl into this Shengcheng of Radiance. Subsequently, the entire Holy Church also received a notice that the position of Saintess would be added to the church.

Saintess Sophie Liya, all the high-level officials of the church kept this name firmly in mind.

After all, nominally, this sky-dropped Saintess possesses authority that overrides all Cardinals, and she will be on the same level as the Pope.

And in fact....

Inside the Shengcheng of Radiance, an old man with a majestic face was crawling humbly in front of a white-haired, golden-eyed girl at this moment, as if this was not a girl, but some kind of holy existence walking in the human world.

In fact, this is exactly the case. Others don't know the identity of this girl, only thinking she is a Saintess, but Pope Saint Peter XIII knows clearly that the Saintess title is just a fake title used to fool ignorant mortals. The true identity of this girl in front of him is the daughter of the great Lord of Radiance, a true holy existence.

A month ago, the Lord descended an oracle, saying that His daughter would descend to the human world to conduct a trial, and asked the Pope to personally welcome the reincarnation of the Saintess back.

According to the Lord's guidance, the Pope finally found this Saintess in the slums of the Shengcheng. This task was actually not difficult. After all, this Saintess was so different. Her pure white and naturally holy and noble temperament made people recognize her from the crowd at a glance.

It's just that Sophie Liya didn't pay attention to this fanatical and devout Pope who was crawling on the ground. The pure white girl just stood in the center of the church, looking up at the statue of the twelve-winged angel at the end of the temple.

That is the statue of the Lord of Radiance.

At this time, Sophie Liya's heart was a bit chaotic.

She was originally participating in the Witch's Night well, but a month ago, she had just descended, and before she could do anything, she was suddenly blocked at the door by the Pope with a group of Cardinals. Then, without a word, they granted her the title of Saintess, and then brought her into this Shengcheng of Radiance to protect her.

Of course, it was called protection, but it was actually house arrest. She had been locked in this huge church for over a month.

Fortunately, it was only limiting her freedom, and she didn't suffer any abuse. Even the high-and-mighty Pope had turned into an old servant this month, personally serving her very thoughtfully. Everything she ate, drank, and used was the best in this world.

It's just that every time Sophie Liya wanted to ask what was going on, this Pope old servant wouldn't say anything, just letting her wait patiently, saying that after a while, the great Lord would personally answer all her questions.

According to the church's statement, the great Lord of Radiance is too powerful, and the mortal world cannot accommodate His descent at all. Therefore, His true body can only live in the divine kingdom of heaven. Therefore, if the church wants to establish contact with the great Lord, it needs massive faith to build a channel to carry the descent of the oracle.

The Shengcheng holds a grand festival every month. The oracle received in the last festival was to welcome the Saintess, and for how to arrange the Saintess later, the church needs to wait for the next step of the great Lord's instructions.

In short, the Shengcheng is already preparing for an unprecedented grand festival. By then, the great Lord of Radiance will descend a manifestation, and by then, all the Saintess's doubts will be answered.

Of course, Sophie Liya knew the truth and naturally wouldn't believe such nonsense. She knew very well that this mother of hers was not a god at all; she was just a powerful alien invading this world.

It was just that some of those lies were indeed true; the Lord of Radiance was indeed too powerful, and such a weak world could not withstand His descent. If He were to force a descent, this world would be directly crushed.

Invading another world is a technical job.

Just as normal people have doors at their entrances to prevent theft, worlds also have "security doors."

The periphery of a world generally has a defensive layer called the "World Barrier." Generally speaking, any item from another world that has not obtained entry permission will be blocked by the World Barrier and unable to enter.

And the role of the World Barrier is not just to prevent the invasion of foreign objects; it is also a form of protection for the world itself.

Once the World Barrier is destroyed, the unprotected world will be eroded by the endless void in minutes, directly entering the end of the world.

This is also the reason why the Lord of Radiance cannot descend in His true form. With His power, He could break through the "door" in minutes, but then He would only get a broken, apocalyptic ruin, which is really not very cost-effective.

Therefore, a normal invasion is actually a form of erosion of the world. To put it bluntly, it is to find a way to trick the people inside the door into opening it for you. This way, you won't destroy the door, and you can easily invade this world.

As for how to trick people into opening the door, the three major natural disasters each have their own special techniques.

Angels rely on faith; as long as the dominant species in the world becomes believers of Heaven, the door can naturally be opened easily.

Demons rely on contracts and lies; they will seduce the children of destiny in those worlds, causing them to corrupt and fall, acting as guides and actively opening the door.

As for giant dragons....

Alright, giant dragons don't like to play this kind of delicate work, and they are too lazy to play it. They don't break the door, but choose to take the door and the house together, directly swallowing the world in one bite, and then all worries are gone.

First swallow the world into the stomach; the dragon stomach isolates the void, and then break through the door to enter, so there is no need to worry about the void damaging the world body that has lost protection. At that time, the entire world will turn into nourishment for the giant dragon.

Therefore, Sophie Liya knew very well what the grand festival mentioned by the old Pope was about; it was actually "opening the door" for Heaven, so that those angels coveting this world could descend.

Of course, because the church had not yet completely controlled this world, this door was not considered fully opened; it could only be said that a crack had been opened. Big shots like the Lord of Radiance certainly couldn't get in; at first, only some weak angels with average strength could enter.

At this time, after more than a month of preparation, the entire Shengcheng outside had entered a carnival. Countless fanatics walked the streets, piously and fanatically reciting the "Gospel" passed down by the Lord of Radiance, while other believers who were not so pious were also swept along by this torrent of people. Infected by this atmosphere, they also began to pray with the crowd.

Thus, a massive amount of faith power turned into a torrent and was transmitted to the Radiant Temple in the center of the city.

And inside the Radiant Temple, Sophie Liya watched all this quietly. The old Pope behind her was still prostrate on the ground, praying with his whole body on the floor, while on her two sides, dozens of low-rank angels were guiding the gathered torrent of faith, letting it turn into a channel communicating with Heaven.

These low-rank angels were the so-called "divine envoys." They were all summoned to the lower realm by the church through successive grand festivals.

Although they were all low-rank angels, their power was still overwhelming to weak mortals. It was precisely because of the power of these divine envoys that the church had been able to develop and grow so smoothly and quickly over the years.

However, Sophie Liya did not pay attention to these low-rank angels. After all, in the more than a month of waiting, she had already figured out that these existing low-rank angels were nothing more than past phantoms restored by the Witch's Night.

The pure white girl's gaze was fixed on the twelve-winged statue in front of her, her eyes full of solemnity and anxiety.

According to normal circumstances, the Lord of Radiance appearing in this Witch's Night should also be the same as those previous low-rank angels, just a past phantom in the God King's memory.

But the Lord of Radiance of the past would not confer her the title of Saint. This kind of accident where she was ambushed as soon as she landed could only be due to one reason: that what was about to descend was the true consciousness of the Lord of Radiance, the King of Angels who was about to break free from the God King's seal in reality, or perhaps her paternal mother.

Although Sophie Liya actually hated her angel bloodline, and she disliked the Lord of Radiance just like other witches, it had to be said that when this mother was really about to appear in front of her, the pure white witch still had complicated feelings.

The attraction and closeness brought by that bloodline inheritance were not transferred by human will.

With the infusion of a massive amount of faith power, the statue, which was originally just a cold stone sculpture, began to come alive, exuding strong vitality and vast majesty.

Obviously, the power of the Lord of Radiance had connected to this statue and was using it as a carrier to descend an avatar.

And as the vitality within the statue became stronger and stronger, the sense of closeness and yearning in Sophie Liya's heart also became stronger. Her body and even her soul seemed to be urging her to step forward quickly, preparing to welcome her mother's descent.

But Sophie Liya's will forcibly suppressed these annoying instincts. The pure white girl stood straight in the distance, watching all this with a blank expression.

Soon, the statue seemed to revive. The statue of the majestic King of Angels, which originally looked gender-neutral with a handsome face, disappeared, replaced by a female angel with a noble and gentle temperament and a kind smile on her face.

However, the iconic twelve pure white wings behind her also revealed her identity.

And this also verified Sophie Liya's conjecture.

The Lord of Radiance at this time in history was still a gender-neutral beauty; her deciding on a gender was something that happened after losing to the God King.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

Sophie Liya spoke first. She looked at the female angel opposite her, whose face was almost exactly what she would look like when she matured, her brows locked tightly.

"Relax, my child, I am your mother; would I harm you?"

Gabriel, however, did not react at all to her daughter's indifference. She just stepped forward and then circled around this daughter she was meeting for the first time, looking her over carefully.

"Didn't I tell that cute little one who carries your Ring of Oath before? Now I just want to be a mother for once."

Looking at this daughter who was almost exactly the same as she was when she was young, Gabriel felt it was quite novel. She was also having a blood descendant in the true sense for the first time, and for a moment, she really didn't know what to do.

However, remembering the little one named Dorothy she had met before, her expression suddenly became strange.

What was this complicated feeling of just getting out of jail and learning that she had a daughter, but before she could experience the feeling of motherly kindness and filial piety, she suddenly discovered that this little cabbage was about to be arched by someone else's pig?

"You've met Dorothy?"

Sophie Liya, who was still trying hard to put on a cold, emotionless appearance, couldn't help it as soon as she heard this.

She had originally thought that the Young Lady knew the Lord of Radiance was about to awaken through internal news from the Inquisition, but now it seemed something was wrong. How did it seem like the Young Lady had personally asked this King of Angels?

"Of course, that is indeed a good child, but it's a pity she is a very troublesome witch, favored by too many people. Otherwise, I would have thought about taking her back to Heaven with you."

The Lord of Radiance answered with a look of regret.

She really had a throne at home waiting for this daughter to go back and inherit. Naturally, she couldn't let her daughter really be arched by a pig, unless the other party married into her family.

She still quite appreciated that little one, and she could also see that the little one really cared about her daughter.

Recalling the little witch who "wasted" the three questions she had promised without hesitation, Gabriel's mood became even more complicated.

It's just a pity that the water on that little one named Dorothy is too deep. Let alone her own daughter, even if she went herself, she wouldn't be able to handle it. The three Witch Kings would never let her go, which is quite regrettable.

"I will never go back to Heaven with you; there is no room for negotiation on this matter."

Sophie Liya was silent for a moment, then said firmly.

"I'm not negotiating with you either, just notifying you. Whether you go or not when the time comes is not up to you; it's up to me."

Gabriel was not angry either; she just said these extremely authoritarian words with a smile on her face.

Thus, the atmosphere in the temple became frozen.

... Mother and daughter in a standoff...