After all the blessings descended, the blessed people were in disbelief. Finally, they clasped their hands together, or jumped up excitedly, or continuously kowtowed towards the shrine, or eagerly showed their blessings to those around them.
Those who did not receive blessings looked enviously at these lucky recipients, but without jealousy. The common people of this era were so simple, and besides, they wouldn't dare to be jealous.
Being jealous of the blessed was blasphemy against God, and the more blessings they received, the safer they would be.
"I'm so envious. I know I've also made some mistakes, so God won't favor someone like me. Being sheltered is already a great blessing."
"What mistake did you make?"
"Less nonsense."
After God left, people stood up and discussed enthusiastically among themselves, or gathered around the lucky recipients of blessings, wanting to know what kind of blessings they had received.
Kaneshiro Yokawa excitedly walked up to Ayame Yomogawa: "Ayame, my good daughter, what blessing did you receive from Great God?"
"Could you let your father see it too?"
Ayame Yomogawa looked at the surrounding samurai and her father, whose mustache was happily curled up, feeling a bit flustered.
Her mind was still a bit muddled at this point.
She hadn't expected to receive a blessing from God either.
Although she was the sole heir of the Yokawa family, she considered herself just an ordinary girl, at most caring about whether the commoners and samurai lived well.
But it was only caring; she couldn't make decisions about food or anything else.
"Father, the blessing I received is healing magic." Ayame Yomogawa carefully raised her hands, and a faint green glow emanated from her slender fingers. Then, she released the faint green light onto the head of a samurai wearing a bandage.
The samurai, startled, took a step back, stepped on the foot of the samurai behind him, and was then pushed forward.
After the green light fell on the samurai's head, the itching on his skin made him quickly tear off the bandage.
"Healed? Not a single scar."
"It's amazing!"
"Lady Ayame is incredible!"
"A blessing for healing injuries?" Kaneshiro Yokawa's eyes grew even more fervent. The power to restore injuries to their original state was a dream for samurai; there were no samurai who didn't get injured.
Ayame Yomogawa nodded: "It can heal all injuries and diseases, except for limb regeneration." She thought gently to herself, with God's blessing, no one would get sick or injured anymore.
"Lord Yokawa, I also received a blessing." A tall samurai wearing leather armor stepped forward.
"Oh, it's Kibito Arakawa." Kaneshiro Yokawa quickly looked over.
"The blessing I received is Blade Aura." Kibito Arakawa said, drawing his samurai sword and slashing at an empty section of the city wall.
A silver blade light shot from the samurai sword, cutting a ten-centimeter deep, one-meter long sword mark into the city wall from ten meters away.
"Hiss—" All the samurai looked enviously at Kibito Arakawa. This guy was usually very reasonable and occasionally helped commoners in trouble. They used to think he only did hard labor, but now he was favored by God.
"Kibito Arakawa, from now on, you don't need to call me 'Lord' anymore. After all, you are favored by God." Kaneshiro Yokawa said, as an old fox, he saw things more clearly than anyone else.
Now the commoners would still revere him, but as time went on, he, without blessings, would quickly lose his prestige.
Perhaps he would even have to rely on his daughter's influence.
"Ayame, hurry to the shrine. Don't keep God waiting."
"Yes, Father." Ayame looked at where the Yokawa residence used to be, clasped her hands together, bowed reverently, and then jogged down from the city wall.
Kurusu, the samurai guard originally responsible for Ayame's safety, clenched his fists unwillingly.
He knew that from now on, the young lady would no longer need his protection.
He had not received God's favor either.
Everyone who had just received blessings rushed towards the shrine.
Ikoma looked at his good friend, the chubby boy, and curiously asked: "By the way, Takumi, what blessing did you get?"
Takumi grinned smugly: "Hehe, mine is much cooler than yours, Ikoma."
"It's Fireball." He said, jogging while raising his hand, and a small red fireball appeared in his palm.
"Although it's small, its power is greater than gunpowder. It can blast a pit in the ground, and it can definitely kill several Kabane with one shot."
Ikoma tapped his heart: "Mine is Penetration. I can pierce steel plates just by throwing small stones with my hand. As long as I prepare enough small stones in advance, I can pierce many, many Kabane hearts."
Kabane could only be killed by piercing their hearts, but Kabane hearts had a membrane as hard as steel.
"Can an ordinary girl like me become a hero?" The girl with light chestnut hair tied into a side ponytail doubted herself. She was just a very ordinary steam mechanic girl, and her daily life was very simple. Was it because she was too strong-willed when her peers made mistakes?
However, God choosing her must mean she has undiscovered talents, right?
God certainly couldn't make a mistake.
But she definitely wasn't going to fight Kabane. The blessing she received was 'Harvest,' which allowed crops to grow faster, enabling a harvest every three days.
"I never thought I'd be chosen. Well then, I'll be put to good use by God." The purple-haired girl pushed up the goggles on her head.
Her name was Arichi. She was originally a Kōtetsujō crew member who transported supplies between various Iron Fortresses. She never expected to encounter God's descent when she arrived at Xianjin Station this time, and even be chosen by God.
She received a superpower called 'Telekinesis,' which allowed her to move things with her mind. However, for now, she could only push down a samurai at most, or make herself lighter to run faster.
Xia Wei's projected shrine was very large, materialized as a one-to-one replica of an Inari Shrine from a certain anime.
He sat casually on the innermost Torii Gate of the shrine, calmly watching the people who were coming.
Next, he wanted these people to carry his divine name and miracles throughout Hinohomoto.
At the same time, he also split off several divine thoughts, distributing all the divine power in his divinity, casting it across the entire world.
This divine power was enough to perform large-scale miracles. As long as most of the people in a given land believed in him, the Miracle System would begin to bestow blessings.
After the blessings, this faith would instantly become unbreakable.
The unification of faith could be completed in a very short time.
"I didn't expect Hinohomoto to be the last to unify its faith after all the divine power was used up." Xia Wei stroked his chin.
Unifying faith and the collective will of humanity was a race against time, after all, this was not his home turf. The world will was frantically guiding Kabane all over the world to infect humans.
Even some humans who had become Kabaneri had their self-will interfered with by the world will, causing internal strife among humans, and even preparing to open the fortress to release Kabane into the city.
The lowest-level world will, without sovereignty like 'Fate', generally couldn't easily interfere with individual humans.
It could only perform large-scale macroscopic interference.
"Do you think it's just me? Watch me summon two others for you." Xia Wei perceived the world will's frenzy and showed a playful smile.
Behind him, the Gods Base appeared, and a star map simultaneously materialized before his eyes.
In the star map, two bright stars were already flickering.
These two stars were the Demon Slayer World and the Apocalypse World from the Gods' Order.
Two white halos slowly emerged, radiating waves of will.
They were roughly asking what was the matter that he suddenly sought them out?
"Do me a small favor, interfere with the operation of this world's will."