The Goddess' Champion

"..." Constantine's glare contained that pressure.

"I doubted because I thought I should stay with my wife until Rotborn takes her life... but then I realised, that would be a cowardly action."

"..." The Conqueror and Zamira smiled.

"You're the closest thing to hope that I have, I don't want my wife to die... I don't care if Rotborn is absolute or not, if you believe there is a chance, something that we can do, a resource that we can find... to extend her life, please... I will follow your orders and work as your hammer to crush your enemies, I will become stronger, guide you in this world that you don't know... so long as you help me with this, my wife and my daughter... they're everything to me..."

"I understand, Andre... and that's precisely one of the reasons I came back today."

"Huh?"

"There is a way for her to be temporarily cured." He crossed his arms and said with confidence.

!!!!

"What is it?!"

"For it to work, you have to believe in my goddess..." Those words were said naturally by him, but the reception wasn't.

"H-Heh?" They all regarded each other in bewilderment, did he just say 'goddess'?

"The True Goddess of Life, living in Sandoria, Aurelianne... if you believe in her, I can heal you from Rotborn!" Constantine began his speech with twitching eyebrows, of all speeches he has given, this is perhaps the most awkward.

"The Goddess of Life... I didn't think you'd worship any other god than Lucius... and she's alive?" Sophia inquired at first, Lucius is the god worshipped by most humans, in fact... in some places of the empire, as the capital, spreading other gods' faith is a huge crime.

"Yes, she's a goddess that lives, I have seen her with my own eyes!" Zamira added her own wood to the fire and the family all gasped when they looked at her.

Worshipping a God and 'seeing' a God were two completely different things.

As far as they're concerned, a vagrant could worship his empty bottle of rum as a God and tell others, 'hey, come and worship my god'.

But if Zamira said she had 'seen' a God, that's different.

Belief is the core of Faith.

"Sophia, please believe what he says..." Andre stood by his wife's side and implored her, he knows how faith works and if his wife doesn't believe, then whatever he is going to do, is not going to work, even if he held doubts in his heart, his wife shouldn't.

But she had underestimated the placement that Sophia had given Constantine in her heart, in a healthy way that is.

"I do, if he says there is a goddess out there that can heal... and Mrs Zamira has seen her, I believe!" It wasn't because of his words, it was because of his identity... for Sophia, Constantine was no different than a Saint, he had returned her husband home, and now even helped them financially when he could have just run off, moreover 'financial help' was a little far-fetched, they were technically rich now... then he came back to claim that he could heal her too.

If she wasn't going to believe this person's words, who would she believe?

"If that's the case, then allow me to test your faith." Constantine said, walking up to her and placing his hand on top of her head as if he was patting a kid.

'Now how do I do this?'

[Blessings are given away with prayers, just the same way you pray for your big-breasted goddess... now pray for her to heal this woman.]

'That's a remarkable description'

*Cough!*

"My Goddess, I, your champion, ask for your favour in this tribulation... please, heal this lady out of her grievances and give her a new lease." To add some spice to the prayer, he used his magic to produce some wind around them that gave the room a hint of mightiness.

It was as if Sophia's belief increased several notches the moment the wind started to blow her hair and the goddess' voice resonated in his head.

'It shall be done as you command, my champion, keep working hard and enforcing my will!'

*RUMBLE!*

This time it wasn't his magic that reacted in the room, a soothing feeling of life and freshness enveloped them all before it swiftly entered Sophia's body, and she felt as if her vitality started to increase ridiculously by the second.

!!!!

She gasped and visually saw how all of the wounds in her body, scars, started to disappear, it wasn't only her, Andre, Malik and Anya noticed as well.

"M-Mother!" Anya ran beside her mother when she was able to see how even her haywire hair turned into smooth silk, this was perhaps the most ridiculous change to see.

Sophia felt how she regained strength in her legs, a headache that she had vanished as well, it was an utter miracle.

The entire process lasted several seconds and by the time it finished when Constantine removed his hand from her head, Sophia immediately left the bed and jumped, hugging him!

"Thank you very much! I have never felt so healthy in my life!" She felt as if she had been born a second time.

"It was nothing, keep living for the Goddess' sake, that's what you can do for me, spread her faith."

"Yes!" After Constantine patted her head again, Sophia released him and saw her family looking at her in disbelief.

"I am okay! I feel wonderful, husband! I feel wonderful!" She jumped on Andre next and planted a deep kiss on his surprised face, truth be told he had faith in Constantine, but as a human, he couldn't help but doubt whenever the word 'god' was mentioned, Sandorians were quite particular in that regard.

The couple shared a moment before Sophia, with the same enthusiasm hugged both Anya and Malik with both her arms, tightly... her family.

Constantine and Zamira merely looked at the entire thing with a smile.

'I can't save everyone individually, but guess doing it once in a while is not that bad either.'

[+100.000 Karma Points]