Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

The latter seemed to be homesick, with a face full of hesitation and confusion.

The former looked curiously at the power reactor at the rear of the ship. Only at this moment did she stop insisting on her slave status.

But Li Ang seemed to see the expressions of those naughty children in his previous life who wanted to take apart their toys on her face, and he felt a little uneasy about it.

There are more and more things for them to worry about, and their lives are getting more tiring day by day.

Leon sighed and was brought back to the present by the girls' exclamations.

Since the Theocracy is an island nation, its area is much larger than the Glittering Fields. When approaching it, one cannot even take in its edge at a glance. It is like flying over a continent.

Looking down from the sky, the white castle, high towers and church spires of the "Throne City", the capital of the Theocracy, reflected the morning sunlight. Shrouded in a hazy glow by the morning mist, it felt quite sacred.

The towering white walls surrounding the capital bear witness to long years of stable rule.

"The Leishan Church where I live and where our teacher is buried should be over there." Alulu said, pointing to a mountain.

"Over there? Don't you know where you live?" Zoe was puzzled by Xiao Niu's words.

"I, because when Fang Gen and I left the island, it was also our first time. They showed us the way. I could only see Thunder Peak from the sky, but I wasn't sure where Thunder Mountain Church was."

The pink-haired girl said with some grievance.

"It's okay, don't worry about that, we can find a local to lead the way."

Li Ang comforted her and asked, "Should we go to the city first to buy your teacher's coffin?"

Just as Xiao Niu was about to speak, several medium-sized airships approached the God of Weapons from a distance.

"Outsider, you have entered the airspace of the Wattam Theocracy. Land at the port immediately."

Alafia was carrying out official duties everywhere and was familiar with the procedures for visiting Sky Island. She was now heading to the airport.

However, the words coming from the loudspeaker on the Theocracy's ship were harsh.

"It is the Promise Keeping Festival, and the Theocracy does not receive outsiders. Please explain your purpose. If you offend the goddess, you will be shot down as a heretic."

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"Keeping Promise Festival?!"

Dorothy was startled by the sudden encirclement, and the half-elf began to count frantically on her fingers.

"According to this year's calendar, Keeping the Promise Festival is indeed around these days. Everyone here is a fundamentalist. If they strictly adhere to the custom of not interacting with outsiders, they won't really want to shoot us down, right?"

After Dorothy finished speaking, the other three girls, who didn't have much idea about airship travel, also looked nervous.

Seeing Dorothy's hopeless appearance, Leon sighed and said, "No, think about whose ship you are on."

Ellaphia snorted softly.

"What is the Promise Keeping Festival?" asked Zoe, who knew nothing about the Wattam religion.

Andasu also looked confused.

Li Ang explained to them.

The sky of Newbis is so vast, and the isolation of the sky island has given rise to various cultures, including strange and niche customs in a corner, as well as large-scale religious beliefs.

Because Watamu religion is widely spread, its main religious festivals are part of the customs and practices of many islands and are also well known to Leon.

The Promise Keeping Festival is one of them.

In their "Loving Kindness and Salvation Sutra", the goddess worked with the saints baptized by her divine power to eliminate demons and bring peace to the world.

Because demons are full of sin, fighting them is extremely difficult, but the saints always keep their promise to save the world, even until the last moment of their lives.

The belief in these saints even led to the division of Watamu into other sects.

In order to commemorate the saints, later believers would fast for a week to half a month and recite scriptures every day, which gradually formed the Feast of the Promise.

During this festival, according to custom, believers will not interact with non-believers.

Therefore, in a religious hub island like the Wattam Kingdom, this festival must be xenophobic, which is why Dorothy was worried.

"Of course I'm not afraid of being shot down. Miss Paladin is so powerful, and with you here, they definitely can't do it."

Dorothy curled her lips. "I was afraid of a fight, and you didn't do anything, just watched us fight."

Okay, so that’s what I was worried about.

If you think about it carefully, this guy has seen how Alafia easily killed the Empire's Annihilation Knight, so he really shouldn't worry about any danger.

However, Li Ang didn't know why, but he always subconsciously felt that she was stupid.

"I'm sorry, I forgot the time of the Promise Festival." said Alulu.

There is a reason why local believers cannot predict the festival time like Dorothy.

The time of the Promise-Keeping Festival is not fixed, or rather, some of the festivals of Newbiss are like this.

Since the land has disappeared and the oceans have vanished, there is no natural cycle similar to that on Earth in the Newbis world. The water cycle and climate are the result of various spirits pulling magic to interfere with the material world.

The world's spirituality follows certain laws, but it can also deviate for mysterious reasons.

The beginning and end of the Shounuo Festival are determined by a celestial phenomenon during the Newbis rainy season - thunder and lightning clouds.

The blue-green thunderclouds are like a river in the sky, starting from the Sabrum airspace, flowing through the Ignis airspace and the Flores airspace, and then returning.

In the past, if you wanted to know when the thunder and lightning cloud phenomena would arrive in these three airspaces, you could only guess based on experience.

In recent years, scholars in Qianta City have developed a set of analytical theories that can predict the time of weather and celestial changes in many airspaces of Newbis based on the movement of spirits and magic in the sky, and have developed a set of calendars that are the most accurate to date.

The calendar was promoted by the guild, but only the more prosperous places were willing to accept it.

Dorothy had lived in Sparks Harbor and used this new calendar.

Perhaps it was because the Theocracy of Wattam pursued a traditional lifestyle, or because of the Leishan Church where Alulu lived, Xiaoniu did not know about this calendar.

When she left, it was still early for the Promise Keeping Festival, and she had no way of knowing whether the festival would arrive when she returned.

"It's okay, it shouldn't take much effort." Li Ang said.

This is the good thing about coming here on Ella's ship. Given her status, the Theocracy has to give her some face.

The medium-sized airship flying in the distance came closer and perhaps recognized the emblem on the large ship that everyone was riding on, and the tough words came to an abrupt end.

After hovering in the air, a religious knight stood on the bow of one of the ships and shouted towards this side.

"I didn't realize it was the Order Air Cavalry who was visiting. My apologies. What's the matter?"

Ella Fiya stepped on the flying sword and flew directly in front of him.

After a few words of conversation, probably knowing her identity as the leader of the Flame Air Cavalry, the Knight of the Guards fearfully let three Theocracy airships lead the way, taking the God of Weapons to the Theocracy's airport.

However, when Alafia flew back, she looked unhappy.

"These small fish are really troublesome."

"How to say?"

"I said I just wanted to borrow the land for a rest, and they were willing to accommodate us, but asked us to stay in a specific place."

Li Ang glanced at Alulu and said, "My group member is a local. I can't stop her from returning to her own church, right?"

When he spoke, he also meant to ask the pink-haired girl.

Alulu said, "During the Day of Keeping the Promise, the Theocracy does refuse outsiders. We used to fast and chant indoors and didn't understand anything else. I'm sorry."

"Let's go and see." Li Ang smiled at her.

The airship landed in the airport under the guidance of the Guardian Knights. Ella Fiya asked the others to stand by, and only she and the Star Flower Brigade got off the ship.

Three people got off the three medium-sized boats, led by the knight who had spoken to the blond kid, and was the captain.

"Everyone, I will take you to the temporary reception hall. If the Order Corps has any official business, they can pass on the information through the staff inside the hall."

It sounds like staying in the Theocracy of Wattam these days is equivalent to house arrest.

If it weren't for the arrival of the leader of the Order Flame Corps, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be qualified to be placed under house arrest.

Leon looked around and saw rows of religious knights guarding all the roads in the port.

Just before landing, he saw that there seemed to be guards in many places on the island. They really attached great importance to this festival and treated it with great seriousness.

There shouldn't be anything to be wary of here. Leon guessed it might be the religious tradition of the festival. After all, it came from commemorating saints who fought against demons, and it might be imitating the attitude when facing demons.

Devil... Leon remembered the church stained windows that Alulu mentioned when they were talking.

In the past, he had rarely had the opportunity to enter the Wattam Church, but he did often hear various variations of the story of the goddess slaying demons.

Just like the guild selling "The Adventure of the Sword King" everywhere, Leon only believed that the story of the goddess of the Watamu religion slaying demons was a cultural crystallization derived from primitive mythology, just like the culture of other regions.

But after meeting the real devil a few days ago, he now has a strange feeling.

The even stranger feeling was that he was still being transformed into a demon.

Doesn't that mean that I, a demon, have actually entered the encirclement of the gods' believers who are on high alert?

"There are natives of the Theocracy among us," said Elafia and the knight captain.

"The Knights' Reserve?"

The captain glanced at Allulu. Perhaps sensing the divine magic within her, he had no doubts. He simply said, "Then they should fast and recite scriptures as soon as possible. Bringing outsiders back to the Church with them during the Promise Festival is already inappropriate."

Xiao Niu lowered his head, feeling a little aggrieved.

Since Li Ang met her, he didn't think she was a stubborn believer. While believing in the goddess, she also had her own set of principles.

So, after hearing what the captain said, Alulu felt mainly the sadness of a child being blamed, rather than feeling that she had violated the doctrine.

Ignorance is the best policy, and this principle should also exist in the teachings of Watamu.

"It would be the same if we went back to her church to celebrate the Promise Day, right?" Leon said.

The knight captain frowned and spoke a lot in one breath, the gist of which was about abiding by doctrine, maintaining customs, and not making arbitrary extensions or violating traditions under various excuses.

As for their Knights of the Church, it is in accordance with the Feast of Promise to be on high alert at this time.

As the person guarding the airport during the Promise-Keeping Festival, his attitude was that he had to be stationed in a specific reception hall, and this was for the sake of the Order Air Cavalry Regiment.

The Theocracy of Tam is one of the few places that does not allow guilds to set up offices, and the Order Air Cavalry is used to guard order.

To put it bluntly, they might not even give face to the Order Sandstorm Group of the Sand Sky Region itself. Alafia's identity could only allow everyone to land safely.

If it were some air cavalry regiments, they might start from here and fight their way in.

But as the leader of the Order Group, Alafia could not do such a thing. On the surface, she had to respect the traditions and customs of various local forces and follow other people's rules, unless they really wanted to mess up something.

But with her personality...

The blonde girl was frowning at this moment, and her magic power was fluctuating slightly, even causing her long golden hair to move without wind. It was obvious that she was quite unhappy.

"It's okay, I'll figure out a way later. Let's go to the guesthouse first," Li Ang said to her softly.

The girl's expression eased slightly, and she wondered what he wanted to do.

"You'll know when you arrive."

Everyone was taken into a building outside the airport. The conditions inside were pretty good, and they even provided vegetarian cakes and tea.

It's not that the Church is deliberately targeting us, it's simply conservative.

Zoe picked up a piece of white plain cake and tasted it, then shook her head, showing no interest in such a tasteless thing.

"These fundamentalist bastards are making such a fuss just to celebrate a festival." Alafia snorted.

There is also a widespread belief in the Goddess of Mercy in the Ignis Sky. As the local boss there, she certainly knows about the Day of Keeping Promises, but the residents of the Fire Sky are quite secular. They may even just pretend to fast, reciting a few passages to show their gratitude, and most of their energy is spent on taking the opportunity to take a holiday and have fun.

Li Ang asked Alulu: "Starting from the airport, can you return to Leishan Church?"

"If we get to the vicinity of Thunder Peak, we can try to find the way, but I don't know how to get to Thunder Peak from here."

"Now that it's the Promise-Keeping Festival, there's definitely no one willing to lead the way, and traffic may be completely stagnant." Li Ang said thoughtfully.

"We can go straight through the air and then we won't have to find the way."

Alafia raised her tiny fingers, activated her magic power, and created pure magic metal behind her, which then formed a suspended flying blade.

The structure of the flying blade was different from the ones she had used in battle before. It was only in the shape of a flying blade, without a blade on the edge. It even curled up to form a shield, and the blade was also wider.

It looks like it was designed for people to stand on.

"You come and take us there?" Li Ang smiled.

"Simple little things."

Douding raised his chin slightly.