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"You seem to be very active, Ars."

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Not so much. How is Pope Paul?　How have you been?"

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"Yes. So far, the Church is at peace. A new shrine has been installed in the great church in the city of Fontana.

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　I had returned to the city of Fontana some time after I had finished talking with Leon in King's Landing.

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　I had already made it possible to go back and forth between the royal capital and the city of Fontana by means of a transfer magic circle.

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　I don't know if this is the reason or not, but the city seems to be more active.

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　I felt that I could hear more people passing by and the voices of shopkeepers calling out for customers than usual.

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　Moving through the streets of Fontana, I went to the church.

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　The large church in the city of Fontana, which has become the headquarters of the Holy Light Church.

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　There were many people there, too.

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　The church was also packed with people because, as Pope Paul had said, a new object had been placed in the church.

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　It was open to the public for a limited time only, and many people were there to see it.

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　The sacred object is called the armor of the goddess or the armor of Aisha, which I donated to the shrine.

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　In other words, the treasure of the Kingdom of Resolute, the holy relic, the miniskirt armor that Olivia wore, was the sacred object.

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　In fact, I once took this armor of the goddess to Aisha.

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　Aisha lives in a temple in the Divine Realm, controlling a yorishiki and communicating with her brother and husband, the first king, through her thoughts.

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　I showed her the armor I had worn thousands of years ago and asked her what she was going to do with it.

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　But Aisha was not so interested in the armor.

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　Oh, you have brought something unusual.

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　That's all she thought.

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　It seemed that Aisha, who no longer needed to fight, treated this armor as if it were old clothes she had worn long ago, and asked me to bring her new clothes as soon as possible.

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　So, this armor of the goddess became useless to the original owner, Aisha, and I took it back.

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　But of course, I will never wear this armor.

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　It is for women, of course.

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　But that does not mean that there is no use for it.

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　Thus, the armor of the goddess was donated to the archdiocese.

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　Pope Paul was extremely pleased with this gift.

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　Well, perhaps it was natural.

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　Because in the former Holy City there were indeed some treasured relics.

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　But Naja has turned them all into salt and nothing remains.

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　And now we have a relic that God himself has recognized as a holy relic.

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　How could we not be happy?

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　But there was something more than that that made Pope Paul happy.

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"So, the effect of the armor was true after all. Anyone who steps into this large church will understand. The space inside the church is pure.

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I'm sure it is. The armor of the goddess was also meant to be worn by the god. This is the best proof that the Church, not the Risortes, possesses this relic armor.

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　The armor of the goddess is displayed under tight security and is seen by visitors.

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　The armor of the goddess was not placed by itself.

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　It was displayed on a mannequin made of hardened bricks that I had made.

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　The mannequin is female, to match the armor.

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　But the female mannequin was not made at random.

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　It was made by copying the body of Aisha herself, who was made into a statue of a god by [synthesis] with a labyrinthine nucleus in the divine world.

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　In other words, the armor of the goddess displayed in the Grand Church is worn by Aisha's mannequin.

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　And the armor of the goddess had a mysterious effect.

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　Brian, the head of the Sult family, who was with Olivia and her brother Bite when they were dueling in front of the gods, once said to me.

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　The armor of the goddess has the effect of changing loyalty and faith into power.

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　Loyalty means that if a noble or a knight shows his loyalty by kissing a cage of the armor, the armor wearer will be able to use the magic that the noble or the knight can use.

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　Belief was the power that comes from people's faith in God.

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　However, when Olivia was wearing the armor of the goddess, her fame was a substitute for faith.

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　But not now.

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　Even if it is a mannequin, it is a body in the exact same style as the body of the goddess Aisha, and she is wearing the armor.

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　It seems that the mannequin made of hardened bricks, which I had created by applying magic power to a statue of a god and tracing it perfectly, has been judged to be an alter ego of the god.

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　In other words, when people saw the armor of the goddess in the big church, they recognized that it was the god wearing the armor.

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　This created an interesting effect.

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　Or, rather, it was an effect that was originally there, but forgotten over the years.

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　It was the belief in God throughout the land that gave power to the armor, and the effect of the [sanctuary] was realized with the armor of the goddess at its center.

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　The [sanctuary], which can purge the immortals of their impurities, is normally only available to those of the cardinal class.

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　However, with the power of people's faith alone, the [sanctuary] was always kept in effect in this great church where the armor of the goddess was placed.

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　When this mysterious effect appeared, I decided to go back to the god world again to check with Aisha.

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　And I found out that this was a normal effect.

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　The armor of the goddesses draws out tremendous power when worn by someone like Aisha, who is far more famous than Olivia, the dragon princess, and who is the object of their faith.

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　When this happens, a part of the power leaks out and the effect of the sanctuary overflows around the armor.

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　In other words, it is not the Kingdom of Resolute where Olivia the Dragon Princess was, but the Church, which worships God, that can truly use this armor, and therefore the ownership of the armor should belong to the Church.

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　Therefore, Pope Paul is happy to display this armor in his large church, as if he took it from the Kingdom of Risorthe.

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　Besides that, the fact that the [sanctuary] is activated is also very significant.

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　Because, in the past, in order to seal the first king and the king of the Immortals, the cardinals always activated the [sanctuary], though they took turns.

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　In other words, the Holy City was recognized as a land with a clean space by the power of the [sanctuary].

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　However, this was not the case with the Grand Church in the city of Fontana.

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　For this reason, there were a few who questioned whether or not this northern church could really be recognized as the home of the church.

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　However, the effect of this armor will counteract that.

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　At any rate, just like the former Holy City, it is now a place where the effect of [sanctuary] is always in effect.

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　Thus, the Great Church of Fontana became to be recognized as a holy place that replaced the former Holy City, both in name and in reality, with the acquisition of a new sacred object.

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