A woman draped in white gauze.
She gently lifted the veil that covered them.
The next moment, the guards beside Aililan, including Milisanel, upon seeing the person beneath the white veil, all panicked and fell to their knees.
People from the borderlands didn’t recognize them, but here in the Holy Land, among the most elite knights, how could they not have seen the Saintesses’ faces before?
The Diligence Saintess had a cheerful personality.
She gestured to everyone that there was no need to be so solemn.
Yegeerlinai might be beautiful, but Aililan’s gaze fell upon another Saintess, and she spoke with some nervousness: “Te-Temperance, Sister Temperance… why are you here?”
Lizberu smoothed her long, silvery-white hair, her bearing graceful, her voice as warm as the sunlight: “Chastity, aren’t you happy to see me?”
Aililan shook her head hastily: “No, not at all. Even in my dreams, it’s always you who appears!”
Lizberu gave a gentle smile: “Then, surely, it must have been a good dream?”
Aililan thought back to that unforgettable first dream, her eyes dodging a little as she said, “It’s the best dream I’ve ever had.”
Meeting again brought excitement and joy.
And also an uncontrollable, fluttering heart.
When facing Theresa, Aililan mostly felt protective, but when facing the Saint of Temperance, Lizberu, it was a feeling she couldn’t quite put into words—a kind of… caring, maybe?
Thinking about her current situation, Aililan lowered her head in shame and said, “Sister Temperance, I… I think I might have messed things up.”
Aililan thought she would be scolded.
But.
Yegeerlinai was secretly snickering.
Lizberu, on the other hand, showed a look of comfort, walked over, and gently hugged Aililan, soothing her: “Chastity, you’ve done very well already. How could I blame you just because you didn’t get a perfect score?”
The Diligence Saintess came over with a smile and snatched Aililan away from Lizberu’s embrace.
Aililan: Darn Diligence.
Yegeerlinai squeezed and hugged her, and only after a long while did she hum, “It’s not that you didn’t do well enough, Chastity, it’s just that someone bad showed up among us.”
Aililan struggled free.
“Sister Diligence, please behave.”
“Aiya, it’s faded, it’s faded, Chastity, our feelings have faded!”
“Ahem.” Aililan coughed dryly, sneaking a glance at Saintess Lizberu before straightening up and saying, “Things are urgent right now. Let me handle the situation, then I’ll explain to you both in detail.”
Lizberu shook her head: “There’s no need.”
Aililan was puzzled: “Sister Temperance?”
Lizberu took a step forward, a glimmer of milky-white light flickering at her feet. A complex teleportation magic circle was etched beneath her, and Yegeerlinai had already stepped into the array, saying, “Since we’re here, do you really think we’ll let you be bullied?”
Yegeerlinai agreed, “It’s just a small tribe of orcs. If it weren’t for the church’s century-old prohibition, we would have crushed them long ago.”
Yegeerlinai also stepped onto the teleportation array, unable to help but urge, “Chastity, what are you dawdling for?”
Aililan: “Ah?”
With a wave of Lizberu’s hand, Aililan was pulled into the teleportation circle as well.
A flash of white light, and the three highest Saintesses of the church vanished from the council chamber.
The guards looked at each other in confusion.
Milisanel was dumbfounded.
“Damn, the three Saintesses—did they just go after that orc army?”
“Damn, what if something happens?”
“Damn, the sky’s falling.”
“Damn, wait… It’s the orc tribe’s sky that’s about to fall. My Saintess may be pitiful, weak, and helpless, but the Saintesses are all terrifyingly strong.”
After the white light faded.
Aililan found herself in the wilderness. Behind her were a few sparse mountains, and ahead stretched an endless plain.
Far in the distance, dark dots seemed to approach—these were the troops of the Jackal tribe, numbering more than two thousand. Yet on the vast plains, they appeared insignificant.
“Chastity, what do you see? I don’t mean the orc army,” Lizberu suddenly asked.
Aililan said, “Endless fields, fertile land.”
Lizberu seemed very satisfied with this answer, and smiled in relief: “Good.”
Seeing that her two sisters were in no hurry, Aililan took the chance to ask a question that had been bothering her: “When I was in the city, I killed quite a few orcs. Does that go against our doctrine?”
Lizberu asked in return, “Chastity, do you know what our church’s foundation truly is?”
Aililan: “Please teach me.”
Lizberu said:
“The church is the church of humanity.”
“The church puts the interests of humanity first.”
“That is why we endure, why, in wars and expeditions against other races, our vassal states are justified in following us.”
Lizberu paused, then continued: “I remember you asked me in a letter about the power of balance. That’s a very good example.”
“That power belongs to ancient deities.”
“The Goddess of Balance is also an exiled outer god.”
“But why did the once-glorious Church of Balance vanish, even though they had a deity?”
“When humanity was strong, they demanded fairness toward other races. When humanity was weak, they couldn’t make other races be fair to us.”
“In the end, their church was abandoned, and their goddess was exiled.”
Aililan asked, “What about us?”
Lizberu smiled and said, “In this world, nothing lasts forever.”
“When we become corrupt.”
“When people lose faith.”
“When the church no longer suits humanity’s needs, maybe even our god will one day be exiled.”
“But so what? We just have to do what we ought to do now.”
“What happens after…”
“Has nothing to do with us.”
Aililan felt a tingling on her scalp.
The Saint of Temperance wasn’t just gentle, strong, and broad-minded; in her, Aililan saw a sense of grand mission. She admitted she was a little obsessed.
She thought she’d fallen under Sister Temperance’s spell. This woman who could not be ignored was simply too lovable.
While the two talked.
The distant army drew ever closer.
Yegeerlinai blew a horse-whistle, summoning a unicorn warhorse.
“I’ll go ahead and wait for you.” She said.
Yegeerlinai strode forward, a set of armor radiating pure white halos appearing on her body, and she charged the unicorn straight at the vanguard wolf riders.
The unicorn went faster and faster.
Finally turning into a streak of white light.
Aililan couldn’t help but worry: “Linai…”
Lizberu, walking ahead, said, “Don’t worry. Diligence is almost at the threshold of godly prohibition.”
As soon as she finished speaking.
Aililan saw that the wolf riders didn’t even have time to react before they were pierced through by Yegeerlinai and her horse.
“Sister Temperance, why do I feel like I’m the only one who’s weak?”
“Chastity, your power is immense. You just haven’t discovered it yet.”
The two strolled leisurely across the battlefield, surrounded by broken bodies.
Suddenly, Aililan thought of something—the Saintesses may not have appeared in the main game, but could they be like a DLC addition?
Everyone knows, the mobs in the DLC are not only no weaker than the main game’s bosses—they can even beat those bosses up.
The Saintesses in the DLC—
All have beautiful stats.