Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence-Chapter 478 - 190: Majestic Divine Grace, Triumphal Sevenfold Ceremony, Third Holy Omen

Among the Order Gods worshiped in the Mortal Empire, the Sun Goddess Violet is perhaps the one who most favors monumental holy images. Unlike the Empire’s National Church, the Redema Church, which prefers grand and magnificent temples, or Shalya who favors white marbled churches.

This distinction leads the followers of the Sun Goddess Church to typically place particularly tall goddess statues in front of their monasteries.

The religious advisor of the territory’s Sun Goddess Church in the Hesse Territory, Shepherd Leader Rong’en, has said that with his current strength, he could lead the construction of religious holy images a hundred meters tall.

However, the territory suffered severe damage in this battle, and the Provincial Affairs Council invested nearly all of its finances into the restoration of the territory, so the divine temple remains unchanged. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

The Gothic-style temple’s spire towers high, with ornate decorations. To show that this is the Bauhinia Clan’s temple, it is adorned with emblems made of red brocade, and the church and surrounding square are filled with vermilion Bauhinia flags, with the ten-meter-high white holy image standing tall in front of the square.

As dawn pierced through the rose window lattice of the monastery, over a thousand knights wearing robes embroidered with the Bauhinia emblem kneeled on one knee first. Their Milan-style plate armor refracted rainbows in the holy light, and the battle song under their feathered helmets startled the ravens from the bell tower. Following them were nearly two thousand armed attendants, who, despite wearing only coarse linen and chain armor, formed a silver tide with their polished halberd blades during their kneeling.

Though this statue is only five stories tall, as thousands of shining knights and soldiers kneel uniformly in front of the statue, it refracted dazzling light under the rays of the Fiery Sun, making the entire monastery suddenly majestic and solemn. The grand and white holy image became even more radiant, with golden divine grace flowing over the religious holy image.

This scene caused the participating citizens celebrating the spectacle to exclaim in shock, as farm women hurriedly pulled up their coarse cloth skirts to kneel, seeing the golden armor of the knight lords resonating. The offerings equipped with forest monster fangs and beastman rune war axes were now glowing with splendid golden hues, similar to the holy image. Children squeezed under the temple’s eaves swore they saw the stone statue slightly bow its head, bestowing blessings upon devout knights whose armor bore arrow scars.

This was truly a manifestation of divine grace, a golden light suddenly appearing on a usually silent, towering white holy image after numerous knights knelt with one knee and prayed devoutly. How could any foolish and superstitious empire citizen not be greatly moved?

Thus, a large number of citizens around the square immediately knelt and continuously prayed devoutly towards Violet’s holy image.

And of course, Violet would bestow such intense divine grace, as for the past three days, it was these knights invoking the name of the Sun Goddess that shattered the massive formation of the Green Dragon’s Fang army with their hoof-covered warhorses. At this moment, there is still the damp moss of the forest wedged in the seams of their armored plates, and the notched swords are stained with hardened goblin blood, these scars serving as the best evidence of the Saintess’ divine blessings.

The glory earned for her by Hesse Territory, the epic victories achieved by calling her name, were known even if she was not paying attention in the divine realm.

These were her most devout believers, the most glorious warriors, many of whom had reached the level of fanatics, the most precious believers a divine spirit could have.

As the Sun Goddess bestowed divine grace, the entire square heard the clear and joyful tolling of bells from behind the holy image of Her Majesty Violet.

Then, seven golden light-transformed skylarks and golden eagles soared into the sky from the crown of the statue.

This scene even shocked Rong’en and several Divine Chosen Knights, who looked up in amazement at the sky, and Rong’en soon became overjoyed, saying to Su Li: "Lord, this is the third holy omen recorded in the ’Triumphal Sevenfold Ceremony’ Chapter of the Violet’s War Prayer Scripture: Holy War Record Chapter. It means we have received a higher level of blessing, and we’re not likely to receive a Holy Relic of Glory anymore."

"Triumphal Sevenfold Ceremony? What is that?" Su Li, though unaware of these church scriptures, felt an inexplicable awe!

One must know that in Rong’en’s words, the Holy Relic of Glory pales in comparison to all this.

The importance of the Holy Relic of Glory to knights and the empire is well-known; it is the very foundation of the empire itself.

Yet this holy omen surpasses the foundational roots of the empire?

Rong’en promptly replied: "Lord, you should know that both glory and triumph holy omens are rewards bestowed by divine spirits to their followers for glorious victories. However, typically a secular territory achieving a remarkable victory (which is not easy, requiring overcoming strength through weakness and achieving substantial results) and offering abundant sacrifices may obtain the Glory Holy Artifact. Due to its commonality, it has become the basis for the empire’s nobles to govern their plots."

"But a triumph holy omen is basically unattainable by ordinary secular territories, usually bestowed upon armies commanded by legendary knights or saints of faith after achieving epic victories, as a high-specification divine reward. This is a unique divine blessing for high-tier believers who worship the divine spirit."

"The triumph sevenfold ceremony is an exclusive divine grace of the Sun Goddess Church, with its origin recorded in Violet’s War Prayer Scripture: Holy War Record Chapter."

Rewards only granted to legendary figures and saints among divine believers?

Su Li questioned himself inwardly, feeling he had no connection to either. In terms of strength, he had not even touched the shadow of a legendary level. As for sainthood, that was even further out of reach; he wasn’t even considered a fanatic or devout believer, given that he barely read a few books from the stack of scriptures piled higher than a person under Her Majesty Violet, leaving him unfamiliar with the war prayer scripture.