But when she turned her gaze back to Viktor, she found that he still maintained a calm and elegant demeanor.
There was no surprise or astonishment on his face, as if everything was within his expectations.
Priscilla froze in mid-air, staring blankly at Viktor like a wooden statue.
Then, what she heard was Viktor's deep murmur:
"As expected..."
All of this is the result of Viktor deliberately leading us to this point.
Why did Viktor choose Shulburn as the battlefield, yet not order the residents of Shulburn to evacuate beforehand?
Instead, these humans were left in Shulbon, where they were only given basic protection by mages.
Because believers need these humans.
Similarly, Victor also needs these humans.
The believers wanted to convert them into the same believers, to make them share the same belief in justice.
Because they were taking a desperate gamble this time, hoping to lure Gwen to them and thus summon the goddess of justice.
The reason Victor needs humans is because of—demons.
Demons feed on human desires and negative emotions; the more humans there are, the stronger they become.
Although Councilor Lorelei's melodious singing successfully blocked the brainwashing effect on the believers, it did not include the demons.
Demons awaken the hidden desires deep within people's hearts directly, rather than attempting to eradicate their thoughts at their very core, as believers do.
However, Victor did not intend to use demons as the final decisive means.
The demon was only part of his plan, the purpose of which was to incite the desires within the residents of Shulbon.
This will trigger two behavioral patterns among believers.
First, the inhabitants of Shulbon refused to be assimilated and refused to become followers of the goddess of justice.
Of course, this alone is not enough to prompt believers to attack these humans.
However, the appearance of the demons stirred up the desires within the residents.
Anger, envy, greed, gluttony, sloth.
These outbursts of negative emotions and desires led believers to morally judge the residents.
They question whether they will commit crimes or breed new evils.
Because the number of people aroused by desire was not small, but covered almost the entire city's residents.
Ultimately, the believers' singular mindset became overloaded, leading them to decide on a final judgment against these residents—
Humans who do not accept the goddess's justice and are likely to commit crimes are evil.
Evil must be eradicated.
However, this has already exceeded the scope of justice as defined by the goddess of justice.
It's important to understand that believers will not intentionally attack innocent people.
But now, simply because these humans "might commit crimes," they intend to wipe them all out.
This behavior is sufficient to be defined as truly evil.
Such behavior by believers will surely resonate deeply with people.
At this point, Viktor had succeeded.
He successfully transformed the believers' stance from their subjective "justice" to their objective "evil."
That's right, when the whole world recognizes them as evil, they become evil itself, and no one recognizes their orthodoxy and justice anymore.
They thus lost the right to call themselves "justice," and consequently, the right to summon the goddess of justice.
But the Goddess of Justice will not disappear, so another organization is needed to replace the believers of the Goddess of Justice.
This organization that replaced the believers was the Mage Council.
At this point, the false goddess of justice will become the true goddess of justice.
However, Gwen's appearance brought an unexpected surprise to Viktor.
Although he had considered the possibility of Gwen's appearance, after all, the primary task of the Goddess of Justice's return was to eliminate these believers.
Therefore, he was prepared to deal with Gwen's appearance and stop her at any time.
If Gwen were to wipe out this huge community of believers in the name of justice...
It's likely that Gwen's own personality will completely disappear and be entirely replaced by the goddess of justice.
But Gwen did not do that.
She did not act in the name of "justice," but instead chose to appear before Victor in the name of "protection."
It is for protection, not for the elimination of evil.
The "Justice" in the sky also saw this; Gwen lacked "Justice."
In her view, protecting Viktor was more important than upholding "justice."
That's why they collapsed and ended up in this crazy state.
Perhaps I have misunderstood you.
A familiar and calm voice suddenly sounded softly from behind Gwen, causing Gwen, who had been guarding him, to be slightly startled.
But she didn't turn back, because she remembered...
What she had to do was stand in front of Viktor and shield him from all obstacles...
Suddenly, Gwen felt a force pulling her back.
The next second, she was forced to fall backward into the man's arms.
Upon realizing this, Gwen almost felt her body go weak.
Even her snow mastiff armor failed to maintain its shape.
The silver-white helmet that revealed her face turned into swirling ice crystals and gently rose into the air, fully revealing her slightly surprised and beautiful face.
Then, Victor gently leaned down and rested his head on her shoulder.
He reached his hands behind her back and wrapped them around her in front of him.
In that almost collapsing, dark blood-red sky, Victor's lips moved.
Words, whispered in her breath, gently reached Gwen's ear.
That was a certainty.
"You are my wife."
It also comes from his genuine approval.
"It's my choice, and I will never change it."
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