The Sacred Empire of Yuras had a long and storied history. After passing through the warp-gate that stood at the south of Yurasia, the capital city of the Empire, one would emerge in the ‘Plaza of the Sun,’ which had been praised as the most beautiful and sacred place in Yuras.

This square held all the statues of the saints who had been revered in Yuras throughout the ages.

The Thirteenth of April happened to be one of Yuras’ anniversaries.

‘...Anise’s birthday,’ Eugene recalled.

In Yuras, the Faithful Anise was considered their most famous Saint, her fame exceeding even that of the founder of Yuras, the Incarnation of Light. This was because the people of Yuras felt much closer to the Saintess, who was said to have slain three Demon Kings alongside the hero, the Great Vermouth, three hundred years ago than they did to the Incarnation, who founded Yuras so long ago.

Perhaps that was why followers of the Light gathered to Yuras from all over the continent on the Thirteenth of April. The same went for this year as well. Although there were still a few days left until Anise’s birthday, the warp-gate and the Plaza of the Sun were already packed with followers of the Church of Light.

Mingled in with the crowd, Eugene looked up at Anise’s statue.

It was located in the center of the Plaza of the Sun. The statue of Anise was floating in the sky with a pair of outspread wings. It was a truly grand statue made up of various magical minerals, gold, and jewels. The different bright shades of the materials shone even more in the sunlight, and in the dark of the night, when the sun went down, the statue would emit its own light in order to light up the plaza.

In this plaza, Anise's statue was the only one that had been made with such effort and cost that it could even float in the sky like this. While the statue floated in the sky, the visitors who came every day could only look up to see it from far below, but on Anise’s birthday, the Thirteenth of April each year, her statue would descend to the ground, giving the believers a chance to get a closer look.

Eugene stared up at Anise’s statue for quite a long time.

In his previous life, he had never visited the Holy Empire. When he first became a member of the party in his past life, Vermouth had already become the...