Oh no, the Goddess of Life has been summoned by Truth!
Truth didn’t expect this to be discovered either, after all, she didn’t have that thing on her feet that could allow the Goddess of Life to sense her presence like the Saintess did.
Fortunately, just as the Goddess teleported and swapped Aisia from behind the cathedral back in, Truth, right in front of Tia and Reg, teleported again and swapped Little Mist from behind the cathedral back.
“Huh?”
Little Mist looked confused.
‘Why was I swapped back again?!’
Beside her, Reg also nodded involuntarily as he watched Truth return to her idiot form.
If this was a persona switch, then he was utterly in awe of Truth’s acting skills!
“Go play somewhere else. From now on, if you get into trouble, remember not to bring it to the cathedral—bring it to the Mist.”
After all, the cathedral was the Goddess of Life’s territory.
One careless move could expose the entire cathedral to the Goddess of Life, so it was best to avoid that.
Reg nodded to show he understood and immediately left.
Sure enough, having a backer at the door was good—it instantly took care of a noble from the royal capital.
If not for Truth, Hawkins’s plan to return and inherit the family business would only be an effective means of escape from this affair between Hawkins and that snake witch.
Just as he reached the cathedral entrance, he suddenly noticed several malicious gazes across the street constantly trained on him.
He knew at a glance they were Hawkins’s people!
‘Hiring someone to stake me out? Seems this guy hasn’t given up.’ Reg thought to himself.
‘Since that’s the case… then I’ll pay him back in kind. Anyway, the entrance is the cathedral. I have a temporary Demon Hunter outpost. Truth is inside the cathedral. I won’t go—I’ll just follow the crowd!’
So Reg stepped forward and found a few Demon Hunters to go to the temporary outpost.
Inside the cathedral, the Saintlight of the Goddess of Life briefly swept over everyone present, then established a mental connection with Kashan.
“Faith… what happened to the Saintess?”
“It’s the Ninth Saintess. During my surprise inspection, I discovered she doesn’t know Priest Etiquette or Holy Maiden Etiquette at all, and she even used the excuse that you said not to learn them!”
“Is that so? What about Aisia, the local High Priest? I remember they were in charge of Truth’s etiquette lessons and examinations.”
“Needless to say, they pulled strings for Lady Truth. And Aisia intends to let those two arrogant fools… actually, Goddess, you are spoiling Lady Truth. This will spoil her into a second Lady Aisia!”
“I… spoil Truth?” The Goddess of Life was stunned.
‘No, I’ve been raising her like this—is that considered spoiling?’
For centuries, the Goddess of Life’s attention to the Saintesses had gradually waned.
They could stably utilize the subsequent powerful blessings, and at most she would give the Saintess that robe, and that was that.
And yet now Kashan says I’m too doting?
The Goddess of Life knew very well that regardless of these so-called Chief Priests, in terms of management and education, human society undergoes earth-shattering changes every ten or twenty years—almost in the blink of an eye.
For example, twenty or thirty years ago, homosexuality was something everyone denounced, but by now it has become completely normal, and all sorts of strange fetishes have popped up.
To the Goddess of Life, it was like one second humans were still conservative in their marital thinking, the next second men and women were messing around, and the next they started trying cross-species communication—very absurd.
In order to accept some suggestions from within the church for maintaining rule during this period, and to give them a certain amount of autonomy, the Goddess of Life was now willing to listen to the advice of the Royal Capital Archpriest Kashan and others.
“Then from now on, should I increase the intensity for Truth?” Said the Goddess of Life.
“It’s not about intensity… I mean, Goddess, please don’t agree to those trivial little matters from Lady Truth. It will ruin her!”
Kashan was very concerned that Truth had directly asked the Goddess for help just to drive away a noble from the royal capital.
The privilege of having the Goddess as a Saintess was not to be abused like that!
“I see… fine. I won’t agree from now on. It saves me a lot of trouble.”
‘So it’s about money? The royal capital is negligent? A bunch of small troubles like that… Very well, from now on, I’ll have her wear the anklet.’
“Then there’s the matter of Lady Truth’s etiquette. Due to the negligence of High Priests Tia and Aisia, I suggest bringing Lady Truth back to the royal capital to relearn the Priest Course, and then have another reliable Saintess conduct the Holy Maiden Etiquette Exam on her!”
“Alright, let me think… a reliable Saintess… then let her be in charge of the Holy Maiden Etiquette Exam.”
The Goddess of Life replied. It was really a false alarm.
She thought it was something major, but it turned out Truth just didn’t know Holy Maiden Etiquette and thus couldn’t obtain Faith Power.
However, this matter still needed attention.
After all, a Saintess who couldn’t guide Faith Power was really no different from an ordinary Priest.
If in the future during grand ceremonies she couldn’t help collect Faith Power, causing waste, that would be troublesome.
Then the Goddess of Life took another look at “Truth” standing before her statue with guilt written all over her face.
Hmph, she didn’t expect Truth to have gotten so chummy with the other Saintesses so quickly, and even learned to use me as an excuse so fast… Must have learned from Aisia, right?
“You seem to be up to no good lately, huh?” The Goddess of Life suddenly said in Little Mist’s mind, startling her so much she almost jumped on the spot.
‘Huh?! Why is the Goddess of Life here? And she says I’ve been up to no good lately? Could she have discovered some of my little secrets… If so, I’m done for… Truth, save me!’
Because of fear, Little Mist’s legs began to tremble, her face pale, making her look even more guilty. Beside her, Tia was the same.
After a while, Kashan finally ended her communication with the Goddess of Life.
She lowered her hands from prayer, turned to look at Little Mist and Tia, and said coldly.
“Lying is wrong, you know?”