"Oathkeeping Festival?!"

The sudden encirclement startled Dorothy, and the half-elf calculated furiously with her fingers.

"According to this year's calendar prediction, the Oathkeeping Festival really falls around these days. These are all orthodox believers here. If they strictly adhere to the custom of not interacting with outsiders, they really won't try to shoot us down, right?"

After Dorothy finished speaking, the other three young girls, who didn't have much concept of airship travel, were also all tense.

Seeing Dorothy's unimpressive appearance, Li Ang sighed and said, "It's not like that, think about whose ship you're on?"

Ailarfiya lightly hummed.

"What is the Oathkeeping Festival?" Zoe, who knew nothing about the Wotam Sect, asked.

Anda Su was also full of confusion.

Li Ang explained to them.

The sky of Nebis is so vast, and the isolation of sky islands has spawned various cultures, from peculiar and niche customs to wide-ranging religious beliefs.

Since the Wotam Sect has widespread followers, its main religious festivals are a part of many islands' local customs, familiar to Li Ang.

The Oathkeeping Festival is one of them.

According to their "Scripture of Compassionate Salvation," the Goddess once helped the saints, blessed by her divine power, to eliminate demons and bring peace to the world.

Since demons are full of sin, battling them was extremely difficult, but the saints always adhered to the promise of saving humanity, even until the last moment of their lives.

Faith in these saints even led to splinter factions within the Wotam Sect.

Later believers, to commemorate the saints, would fast and recite scriptures daily for one week to half a month, gradually forming the Oathkeeping Festival.

During this festival, according to customs, believers would not interact with non-believers.

Thus, in the Wotam Church Country, a religious central island, this festival is certainly exclusionary, which is why Dorothy was worried.

"I'm not afraid of being shot down, the Holy Knight Miss is so amazing, plus with you here, they definitely can't do it."

Dorothy pouted, "I'm afraid if there's a fight, you won't help and just watch us fight."

Well, turns out that's what the worry was.

Thinking about it, this one had seen Ailarfiya easily take down the Empire's Annihilation Knight, she really shouldn't worry about danger.

However, Li Ang doesn't know why, but instinctively thinks she tends to act foolishly.

"Sorry, I forgot about the time of the Oathkeeping Festival." ALulu said.

It's understandable why a local believer couldn't predict the festival's time like Dorothy.

The timing of the Oathkeeping Festival isn't fixed, or rather, many festivals in Nebis are like this.

With Earth gone and the ocean vanished, the world of Nebis doesn't have a natural cycle like Earth's. The water cycle and climate are the result of various forms of spiritual traction magic influencing the material world.

The world's spirituality follows certain rules, but it can also deviate due to mysterious reasons.

The start and end of the Oathkeeping Festival depend on a phenomenon of Nebis's rainy season—a thundercloud stream.

The cyan-blue thunderclouds resemble an aerial river that flows from the Sable Sky Realm, through the Ignis Sky Realm and Flos Sky Realm, and then back.

In these three aerial realms, they used to predict the arrival of the thundercloud stream phenomenon only based on experience.

In recent years, scholars in Thousand Tower City have developed an analytical theory, able to predict the time of weather and natural phenomenon changes in many aerial realms of Nebis, resulting in the most accurate calendar to date.

The calendar was promoted by the Guild, but only relatively prosperous places are willing to accept it.

Dorothy once lived in Spark Port and used this new calendar.

Possibly due to the Wotam Church Country's adherence to traditional ways of living, or because Thunder Mountain Church where ALulu lived was simply uninformed, Xiaoniu didn't know about this calendar.

When she left, the Oathkeeping Festival was still far away, and she couldn't know on her own whether the festival would arrive while she was away.

"No worries, it shouldn't take much effort," Li Ang said.

Tagging along on Ailarfiya's ship had this advantage; given her status, the Theocracy had to show some respect.

The medium-sized flying airship approaching in the distance perhaps recognized the emblem on the large ship that everyone was on, and the harsh words came to an abrupt halt.

After hovering in the air, one Defender Knight stood at the bow of one ship, shouting towards them.

"Did not expect a visit from the Order Sky Knight Corps, apologies for the rudeness, may I ask what brings you here?"

Ailarfiya, standing on a flying sword, flew directly to him.

After a few exchanges, presumably knowing her identity as the Flame Air Cavalry Corps captain, the Defender Knight respectfully had the three church flying airships take point, guiding the Weapon God ship towards the Sky Port of the Theocracy.

However, when Ailarfiya flew back, she had a displeased look on her face.

"These small fries really are troublesome."

"What do you mean?"

"I said we're just borrowing the place to rest, they're willing to accommodate, but they require us to only move in designated areas."

Li Ang glanced at ALulu, "My team member is a local, surely you can't stop her from returning to her church?"

He spoke while also intending to ask the pink-haired girl.

ALulu said, "During the Oathkeeping Festival, the Theocracy indeed refuses outsiders from visiting. In the past, we'd just fast and recite scriptures indoors, and I'm sorry, I don't know about other matters."

"Let's see how it goes," Li Ang smiled at her.

The flying airship, under the guidance of the Defender Knight, docked at the Sky Port, and Ailarfiya instructed everyone to stand by, only she and the Star Flower Travel Corps disembarked.

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