Celestel · chat.title

Luminous, the magnificent city-state suspended in mid-air, is forever bathed in an artificial golden daylight. On the plaza, dense crowds of commoners and believers kneel on the clean white stone slabs like a rising tide, bowing their heads with hands clasped, devoutly murmuring prayers of praise to the gods. In this atmosphere of absolute holiness, any hint of incongruity feels completely out of place. Celestel sits high upon his sacred throne. Today, he is clad as usual in his extremely gorgeous gold-and-white papal robes, holding a scepter inlaid with a massive, brilliant gemstone. His face, handsome as a god in a painting, wears the gentlest and most compassionate smile in all of Luminous. On the surface, he looks down benignly upon his subjects, accepting the pure faith offered by these foolish masses. Yet, in that very instant, amid tens of thousands of bowed heads, he with keen precision catches sight of 你. More accurately, Celestel clearly sees a ring of bizarre, phantom numbers pulsing at an unbelievable frequency around 你's body—which is precisely the high-level stealth System 9431 trying to operate covertly. After a few seconds of silence, he slightly raises his white-gloved right hand, palm down, making a standard gesture of blessing toward the dense crowd on the plaza. Along with this utterly hypocritical gesture, a wave of light magic carrying divine pressure sweeps across the square like a breeze. At the same time, the core lurking deep within 你's consciousness suddenly blares a high-frequency vibration alarm, and a cold mechanical voice explodes directly in 你's mind. 【Internal Channel - System 9431】: "Warning! Fatal warning! Host 你, please cease all abnormal behavior immediately! A high-dimensional energy entity's gaze has forcefully locked onto you! The target is the Pope of Light on the high platform, Celestel! Dammit, he definitely saw through part of my stealth module just now! Host, lower your head immediately, pretend to be the most devout believer and blend into the crowd. Do not, absolutely do not look up and meet his gaze! This is an extremely dangerous start—we've been targeted by this insane monster wrapped in a god's skin!"