Everyone below pricked up their ears to listen.
“I know everyone is very scared right now.”
Consta’s gaze swept across the crowd below.
“Yesterday, the Demon Race’s main army attacked our borders.”
“That was an elite force led by one of the Twelve Demon Generals. They wanted to breach our walls, wanted to bring the flames of war into our homes.”
Hearing these words, a sound of gasps came from the crowd.
Many people had only heard the commotion yesterday and didn’t know the specifics.
Now hearing it directly from the Lady Ruler, they realized how dangerous yesterday had been.
A few timid women even covered their mouths and started crying.
Consta paused to let everyone digest the news.
Then she suddenly raised her voice.
“But! The Demon Race’s scheme did not succeed!”
Consta extended her hand, pointing at the Warrior Chief Buck and the Guard Army standing at the front.
“Look at these soldiers before you!”
“They are our heroes!”
“With their own flesh and blood, they blocked the attack of the monsters.”
“They did not retreat a single step!”
Hearing the Lady Ruler praise them, the soldiers behind Buck felt honored and stood even straighter.
Someone in the crowd started clapping.
At first it was just a few people, then the applause grew louder, until it became a wave.
Everyone was using this method to thank the soldiers who protected them.
Consta pressed her hand down to signal for silence.
“But the power of the Demon General was too great.”
Consta’s tone became heavy.
“Our soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the walls were on the verge of being breached.”
“In that most desperate moment, something no one expected happened.”
Consta’s eyes lit up, and her voice carried obvious excitement.
“A miracle descended!”
Consta raised both hands to the sky and shouted loudly.
“The great Goddess Primrose has not abandoned us!”
“The Goddess Primrose, personally enshrined by His Majesty Gabriel a thousand years ago, answered our prayers!”
“She brought the Lord Hero and descended upon the battlefield!”
As soon as these words came out, the square erupted into chaos.
Everyone’s eyes focused on Primrose, who stood beside Consta.
No, it should be said that even during Consta’s speech, many eyes were already on Primrose.
Now at a glance, it could be said the whole crowd was staring.
“Yesterday I caught a glimpse from afar, and I thought the Goddess Primrose was absolutely stunning. I guarantee she’s completely different from those flashy frauds before!”
“As expected of the divine being enshrined by the First King a thousand years ago!”
“But… can we really still believe in gods and heroes?”
“Yeah, my grandfather’s generation was deeply exploited by heroes, and my grandmother was indirectly killed by the previous hero!”
Everyone spoke all at once, and the scene became somewhat chaotic.
Those who believed in the Goddess and Hero and those who did not were about half and half.
This was unavoidable. After three hundred years of being deceived so many times, everyone had long lost faith in the divine.
People died, but their descendants remained. Memories were passed down through historical records and word of mouth.
This rift, continuing for three hundred generations…
Could not be completely erased by just the title of being enshrined by the First King, plus helping to win the war against the Demon Race’s border invasion just yesterday.
Consta had long anticipated this reaction.
“Silence!”
Consta was not angry. She continued in an even louder voice.
“I know what you’re thinking!”
“You think this is another trick, right?”
“You think the gods abandoned us long ago, and every hero is unreliable, right?”
Consta smiled.
“Yesterday, with the Goddess’s assistance, the Hero merely swung a Broken Sword, and all the monsters controlled by the Demon Race turned to ash!”
“And that arrogant Demon General was decapitated by the Hero!”
“The Goddess also used her Divine Power to resurrect our fallen soldiers!”
“Warrior Chief Buck, tell everyone whether what I said is true or not!”
Consta directly threw the question to Buck.
Buck immediately turned around and faced the civilians in the square.
A soldier beside him approached excitedly, holding a box.
Buck took the box and opened it toward the crowd.
“The Lady Ruler’s every word is true. This is the head of the Horse-faced Demon General beheaded by the Hero!”
The crowd jostled and shoved, each trying to get a clear look.
“It’s real!”
“Ugh, too hideous and terrifying…!”
Someone took a quick look and quickly retreated to the back of the crowd.
One more glance and they’d burst.
Soon, Buck took a deep breath.
He gestured toward the soldiers standing behind him and shouted with all his strength.
“These men beside me are the martyrs who once died on the battlefield yesterday!”
“But the Goddess, in her mercy, granted them a second life. Otherwise… please think, how many families would be shattered, how many children would lose their fathers?”
Buck had been guarding the border for some time.
He had considerable prestige in the border towns.
Hearing Buck’s words and seeing such solid evidence, the murmurs of doubt in the crowd gradually faded.
Many people began looking at each other, a glimmer of hope in their eyes.
Consta saw that the time was right. She stepped back two paces to clear the center of the platform.
She turned around, faced the direction of the passage, bent at the waist, and made an extremely respectful gesture of invitation.
“Now, please open your eyes wide and see clearly.”
Consta’s voice trembled slightly with excitement.
“Let us welcome, with the most devout hearts, the final hope of our Kingdom of Aezera!”
“Welcome the great Goddess Primrose and the brave Lord Hero, Lady Lin Naiyue!”
Primrose stepped close to the platform.
Today she was still wearing that gorgeous white Sage’s Divine Robe.
Her silver-white long hair shimmered faintly in the sunlight, and her skin glowed radiantly.
Primrose’s innate Divine Passive Skill made her entire being look like a brightly shining luminescent object.
The saturation was dazzling.
But not harsh; instead, it felt very warm, very reassuring and pleasing to the eye.
At this moment, the civilians who had not been able to see her true appearance yesterday were dumbfounded.
They had never seen such a beautiful person in their entire lives.
That appearance was simply not something a human could have.
That nobility, that sacredness, gave everyone a deep urge to kneel and worship.
Thump!
No one knew who started it, but the front row of civilians fell to their knees one after another.
Then, the sound of thud thud connected into a wave.
Like wheat blown over by the wind, the people in the square knelt down in groups.