Chapter 178
A thin layer of gray floated in the sky.
In the dim clouds, the morning sunlight resembled fish scales in water, refracting beautiful patterns between the layers of clouds.
The largest cathedral of the Sun Temple in the Holy Federation’s sacred city was bathed in the morning light. In the past, devotees who witnessed such a sight would invariably praise the grace of the Sun God.
As the crisis of Return to the Void approached, it should have been the time for divine miracles to manifest. Countless people needed spiritual solace to cope with the despair of the approaching catastrophe, which led to the rapid expansion of the Candlelight Society.
Thanks to the Dawn propaganda, the previously obscure White King gained numerous followers in just a few days.
As for the Sun Temple?
In this age of spiritual awakening where various extraordinaries were showing their might, a Sun God that existed only in the words of believers and religious propaganda, without showing any divine miracles, was no longer worthy of blind faith and worship.
The Sun Temple, once a dominant power in the empire, had been gradually abandoned since the spiritual awakening, with followers dispersing like clouds.
Fortunately, the Pope, who fundamentally didn’t believe in gods, made timely changes by training the last batch of devout followers into extraordinaries. He also compromised with the government, returning some rights to them in exchange for government support, allowing the Sun Temple to successfully transform in the new era into an official extraordinary organization alongside the Special Affairs Bureau, the Faithful Society, and the Haotian Temple.