章 133: Confidence

Fear and panic were evident in the Safirans' eyes.

After all, for years, all the Safirans did was work in the mines day and night just to be able to eat.

Not only did they become dependent to Count Dempsey, but also lost their sense of self, and their confidence was crushed.

After all, the Safirans became prisoners and slave-like in their own beloved land to the point that some of them had to escape from it in order to survive and live better lives. It was such a painful and demoralizing experience to the Safirans.

The people of Safiro were once independent, bold, and free.

But Dempsey had targeted those traits as if telling the Safirans that they were not as strong as they thought. That they had nothing without their forest or the protection of their deity.

With what happened to Mt. Esme and the long-suffering they had gone through, most of the Safirans now believe that their guardian deity had perished.