This was undoubtedly the happiest day in Solari's life. Even when he awoke in the dead of night, facing an empty room, he couldn't contain his emotions from meeting the Goddess.
Even though the Goddess spoke only two sentences to him in the Life Courtyard, they left his mind racing.
He became the only believer in centuries, since the time of Henry III, to receive the Goddess's attention.
It was the Goddess who chose him, an honor even Pope Carlo had never received.
And because of this, the whole affair became subtly complex.
Logically, as the actual ruler of the Far West, Pope Carlo should have been the person most likely to receive the Goddess's attention, a notion that even Solari himself had always believed.
After Julius's death, Carlo's series of measures, preparations for the Seventh Epoch and Doomsday, and the introduction of the Salvation Contribution Points had united the residents of the Far West; these were tangible contributions.
