Chapter 353: To tell you the truth, you are actually my father

Time rewound two years prior, to the birth of the Inverted World.

Everyone looked up at the sky to see an enormous mirror, strands of black dust drifting down; on the other side was a tranquil and splendid world.

The secrets of magic exposed themselves that day without being coerced, and people spontaneously placed their faith in the gods, the rising instances of violence making their belief all the more frenzied.

The Church, after a brief surge in influence, encountered a precipitous decline.

Simply put, people realized that gods were unreliable; one couldn't purchase divine protection even with a fortune, and the clergy of the Church were more rapacious than devils, akin to capitalists in their greed.

Faith in oneself trumped faith in gods!

For the people of Windsor, who even doubted the gods, trusting in a queen was naturally out of the question—the country erupted in chaos, with gunfire and flames reaching to the skies.