Chapter 474: Chapter 6: Lofty and Aloof

“Boss, wrap up all the garments you have here for me.”

“Huh?”

“Can’t understand? I want all the garments you have here!”

Lynch threw a bag of gold coins onto the table.

“Ah!!!”

The shopkeeper, who was stunned speechless, quickly beamed with joy and hurriedly instructed the few shop assistants to pack up all the garments in the store, filling several large boxes.

Returning to the Guardian Tower, Lynch placed the boxes on the ground, and then snapped his fingers. The boxes opened, and the garments floated out, suspended in mid-air.

Lynch said to the Messiah, “See, pick the ones you like and wear them.”

Messiah stepped forward, her gaze fixed on the garments in front of her.

Lynch watched her expression.

However, her eyes were full of confusion, as if facing a very difficult task.

After a long time without finding an answer, she turned to Lynch and said, “Sorry, I don’t know.”

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This is really quite challenging, not being able to select even a single garment, what can we expect her to do…

Take it slow.

Lynch randomly pointed to a few, “This one, this one, and this one… just these, hmm… put this one on first.”

He wrapped up a few selected garments for the Messiah, finally picking out a beige dress for her to wear and cover her body.

“Hmm… and this face needs changing too…”

This kind of appearance is too conspicuous, the Light Goddess… with such an image, in Lynch’s Witch Domain, if she were to go out, she might cause a sensation before taking even ten steps, which he did not want.

Immediately, Lynch made some modifications to Messiah’s image.

With his level of magic, altering appearances was as easy as playing, and with a few gestures, he changed Messiah’s face.

The adjustments weren’t many, just raising the brow bones a bit, shrinking the eyes, modifying the nose bridge, and adding some freckles to the face.

Making only one or two slight adjustments wouldn’t show much, but altogether, the image was completely different from before.

Previously, she was like a goddess with a naturally exuding holy aura, but now she’s just an ordinary woman with slightly outstanding looks.

Lynch also transformed his own appearance, which was much easier; he simply switched back to his original look. Now that his identity had been cleared, even if someone saw his face, it wouldn’t matter.

After all, his enemies were all in the Land of Ancient Ruins, and with that land now embroiled in war, his enemies were too busy saving themselves.

“Let’s go, the world is so big, let me take you to see it.”

…

Meanwhile, in the Light Church Court, the Praying Temple.

The Bright Divine Prayer Hall, the largest palace within the Light Cathedral.

This was originally the place where the Holy Daughter of Light meditated, with her living quarters in the back, where she prayed and met with believers.

However, because there were too many believers coming to pay homage to the Holy Daughter, from morning till evening without pause, it essentially evolved into the largest chapel within the cathedral, with a large number of believers coming here daily to pray and worship.

There were also clergy from within the church who persuaded Alya, saying she didn’t need to let all these believers in, advising her to appropriately maintain her status and that there was no need to personally meet every Tom, Dick, and Harry.

However, Alya did not follow the clergy’s advice. Though she had a cold personality, she took the identity Lynch had given her very seriously, believing that meeting believers was one of her duties.

In contrast, during the era of the second generation Holy Daughter of Light, Julia, everything was completely different.

Unlike the approachable Alya, who lacked class consciousness, Julia, who was born as a princess of a nation, inherently had a bloodline-deep admiration for the powerful class.

Though she was pushed along by circumstances when she was still a muggle, her ultimate choice to accept the circumstances and willingly become a plaything for others indeed revealed her inner longing for the higher class.

Thus, when she truly stepped into the upper world and held real power in her hands, she immediately began to assert her authority without hesitation.

She first ordered the expansion of the Light Cathedral, extending it outward and dividing it into two parts, the outer and inner halls.

The newly built outer hall essentially assumed the responsibilities of the former Light Cathedral; all church activities, including believer prayers, worship, and masses, were conducted in the outer hall, prohibiting entry into the inner hall.

The inner hall was cleared out as a place for the clergy to meditate.

The two were separated by a long corridor, guarded strictly at the entrance by a team of Church Knights, with stern vigilance.

Even within the inner hall, access was restricted to certain areas.

Julia further refined the internal authority structure of the entire church, creating a deeper division than before, with the hierarchy from top to bottom as the Holy Daughter of Light, the four Red-clothed Archbishops, regional bishops, 12 White-robed Priests, Light Priests and priests, down to the missionaries and nuns as the basic clergy.

These hierarchical divisions had existed in the church before, but previously, they were more symbolicities, especially with Alya, the top figure, personally meeting believers. This set an example, making it impossible for ordinary clergy to display any arrogance.

Though there was admiration from small to big figures, and class consciousness between lower and upper classes, it wasn’t so noticeable.

But now, it was different.

The kind of clothing a class would wear, the number of Divine Servants they would have, the number of Light Knights serving as guards, the type of dwelling they would live in… Julia delineated these matters meticulously, achieving a true one-to-one correspondence between classes.

At this moment,

In the empty Bright Divine Prayer Hall, Julia, dressed in pure white sacred clothing, held the golden Light Staff and knelt before the Statue of the Light Goddess, engaged in her daily prayers.

To speak of devotion… it wasn’t really the case; after all, as a Wizard Apprentice, she knew well what prayer was about, essentially just another form of meditation.

“Tap, tap, tap!” At this moment, the sound of footsteps echoed from behind, and soon an elder entered accompanied by a few clergy.

It was Father Yodel, formerly of Alya’s church.

Having been one of the key figures to elevate Alya to a high position, Father Yodel received due reward after Alya became the Holy Daughter, becoming a regional bishop.

However, as he entered the church at this moment, he dared not show even the slightest disrespect to this former subordinate.

He followed the holy rites completely, stopping at the entrance, washing his hands in the Holy Water brought by the nuns, tidying his appearance, then walking carefully forward under the watchful guard of the Light Knights, keeping his head down and staying humble.

He stopped twenty steps away from Julia, the closest distance his rank allowed him to approach the Holy Daughter of Light.

Father Yodel bowed and said, “Your Highness, Holy Daughter.”

He cautiously glanced forward.

Before him, Julia, kneeling on the steps – though the steps weren’t high – always seemed to give a sense of…

Being above all!

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