Son of the Hero King

Chapter 340 CH 309:HOLY DAUGHTER (1)

[Lustburg, Church of Castitas – Halls of Purity]

What was a church? What was the concept behind it?

No matter what name a center of religious beliefs may take – a church, a temple, a mosque, and so on and so forth constituting so many possible names – these centers were essentially a place of reverence for the worshippers.

A place where people joined and prayed toward the God or gods they believed in, they venerated.

In principle, it was a saintly place that allowed no disrespect, neither toward the almighty existence nor toward its agents, and where only the faithful were allowed to join.

Of course, reality was obviously far different than what mere words of ideality could describe. The world itself did not run by mere ideology alone, so it was not a surprise.

Most beings – be it humans, elves, demons, or even angels – only turned towards the divine entities in times of great turmoil in their personal lives.

They did not come to pray, to worship, or to respect. But simply to beg and demand divine grace when they were even in the slightest pickle, without caring about the inevitable question of whether they were worthy or not, to receive the grace of the almighty existence they seemingly venerated.

Those people would beg the divine beings for help when they needed their help the most and then...just conveniently forget about them when they did not require their help or grace anymore.

People of true faith were really few and far between.

But why was that, really? Why were people so harebrained to not be faithful towards the almighty, even when they were aware of the benefits and the reality that their faith would generate.

The answer to that question was also pretty basic. Twisted yes, but basic nonetheless...

Most beings, of this world and any world for that matter, born with the ability to reason, hated following something or some entity they could not see or even feel, and for what? The only thing promised to them was a slightly possible intangible reward that would only come after they were not of the mortal world anymore, only when death would embrace them to lull them into the depths of eternal slumber.

Even though the goddesses had done many miracles and their existence was proven for a fact, for most people in this world, their existence invoked a sense of dread...

The goddesses weren’t a source of worship, but simply a source of fear and respect, like how the weak bowed to the strong due to their inability to cross them.

This monumental fact held true for both of the two main religions running camp in this universe – Chaos and Order... Even the smaller religions consisting of the faith of the goddesses of Virtue and Sin followed the same principle.

Goddesses were feared, for their whims could end everything and anything without them being able to say or do anything about it...

Goddesses were respected for their almighty power that could do anything imaginable.

The truly faithful were thus summed up to become few and far between.

But on this day... Standing in the balcony and observing the pious and reverent expressions of the people as they kneeled and prayed while shooting fervent gazes toward the small figure of one single woman... Camelia couldn’t help but wonder just what in the world was happening.

‘But I can’t feel any fluctuation from her.’

Camelia couldn’t help but wonder if Aurore was simply that charismatic and if she was looking too much into the situation.

All of this stemmed from one fact.

Aurore Highland had indeed awoken from her long slumber.

When Gerald sold out all the conspirators, Camelia had sworn to wake up Aurore. Furthermore, she had received orders from Castitas to do so recently.

But the problem was... Camelia was not the one who woke her up.

After years of slumber caused by her disease— Aurore woke up on her own.

[1]: You can refer to Interlude 2 if you forgot.

(AN: I received a Dragon cj_savage. So there will 2 Bonus chapters after this. Thanks for the Gift.)

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