Chapter 2642: The Big Blunder

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Southern Capital, Guild Association Mall

Seeing the Emissary of Light display such strength within my celestial blood fate domain, my eyes widened in astonishment as he forced his way through the domain’s power. He broke its restriction on the guard captain’s access to soul energy, rule power, and grimoire, then crushed my hand that was gripping his neck into a bloody pulp.

"Behold, heathen! This is the power the all father bestowed on me, his one true son. Rejoice as you get to die through his miracle. I will pray to my father that your soul will be spared from eternal damnation," the Emissary of Light shouted freeing himself from my grip. He then watched me, instantly healing my crushed arm with no effort. I appeared as good as new.

"Tsk." He couldn’t help but click his tongue in annoyance. His miracles did not come cheap. Each one consumed a vast amount of faith. Forcing his way past the restriction on the guard captain’s access to soul energy, rule power, and grimoire, then crushing my hand that gripped his neck into a bloody pulp, had been especially costly. Seeing that it had not even managed to truly injure me left him dissatisfied.

Though he had amassed a tremendous amount of faith within his origin card, he was saving it to become the true son of the card celestial. That goal was not merely expensive. It was staggeringly so. He was not even certain he could gather enough faith to achieve it, maybe if he were to turn the citizens of all five regions into his followers then he might be able to accumulate enough faith over a decade. Therefore, he used his faith as sparingly as possible.

The Emissary of Light gracefully cleaned the blood staining the guard captain’s body using his cleaning card as precaution after all he was in a blood domain, that too a celestial rule domain at that. He soon learned that crushing my hand that was using the celestial empowerment on the guard captain’s did not stop me from continuing to empower the guard captain’s will against his divine enlightenment.

The guard captain and the other demigods were still within my celestial domain. Using it as a medium, I simultaneously applied my celestial empowerment to all of them.

Under its influence, the guards who were still kneeling within the domain suddenly let out gut-wrenching screams as their willpower, strengthened by my celestial empowerment, purged the faith implanted within them. Once I confirmed they were free of the Emissary of Light’s faith, I lifted my celestial domain’s restriction on each of them and ordered, "Retreat! Fall back!"

Following my command, the demigod guards who had wanted to fight the Emissary of Light alongside me retreated instead. They were still muddled and powerless after awakening from what felt like an eternity dreaming of versions of themselves willing to sacrifice everything for the Emissary of Light doing shit they weren’t proud of. They clearly weren’t in shape to fight, so they chose not to hinder me. Since I had been able to free them from the Emissary of Light’s influence, they believed I could do the same for their captain.

I then fixed my gaze on the Emissary of Light. He was struggling to move as his influence over the guard captain’s will continued to weaken as my celestial empowerment fought his divine enlightenment to bitter end, hindering his ability to maintain his soul projection through him.

Considering the amount of soul energy I had used solely on the guard captain, he should have awakened from the Emissary of Light’s influence like the other guards. However, the Emissary of Light’s soul projection made it difficult for the guard captain to completely root out the faith embedded in his will, as his Divine Enlightenment was constantly pressing against it despite my Celestial Empowerment.

I had no intention of backing down. Now that the guards were awake, my celestial power was free to supply entirely to the guard captain. I planned to fight the Emissary of Light’s Divine Enlightenment to the bitter end with my Celestial Empowerment.

No matter how much celestial energy I devoted to my Celestial Empowerment on the guard captain, the Emissary of Light spared enough Divine Enlightenment to match it. I was even forced to borrow celestial power from the card celestial. This made me wonder just how much faith the Emissary of Light had accumulated in his reserves.

Then a thought lodged itself in my mind. My livestream plan to expose the Emissary of Light might have backfired.

How so?

I blamed the audience from the Empire. Witnessing the struggle between the two of us, their faith in him was being tested, yet most remained resolute. With all these factors combined, the Emissary of Light was receiving a sudden influx of faith. I even feared that his struggle against me was not consuming his faith, but instead adding to his reserves.

’Damn these fanatics!’ I cursed inwardly as I studied the Emissary of Light’s expression and realized he was feigning struggle. He had already seen through my plan. My celestial blood domain was not truly restricting him, and he had also sensed the sudden influx of faith. Given that, it was no surprise he had caught on by now.

From the looks of it, he was hatching his own plan to harvest even more faith from his fanatic followers. That was why he was putting on such a convincing display of resistance, pretending to be cornered and helpless.

Seeing that I had caught on to his plan, the Emissary of Light met my gaze with a faint, almost reverent grin. Then he cried out, his voice carrying a finality that made the heavens tremble, "Let there be light."

In the next instant, a blinding, overwhelming golden radiance erupted from the guard captain’s body. It surged upward like a divine catastrophe, condensing into a towering golden apparition of himself vast enough to blot out the sky. My celestial blood fate domain screamed as it was torn apart, its crimson glow shredded and erased as the golden light flooded the land, drowning everything beneath its brilliance.

The world itself seemed to submit, crimson swallowed whole by gold.

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