Chapter 357: Chapter 357: The One Who Strips Divine Authority, One Person Influences All the Gods

Rein walked to the table and pulled over a wooden chair to sit.

"You don’t understand how terrifying a Faceless Divine Son is."

"They possess a powerful authority of disguise."

"Given enough time, a Faceless Divine Son can truly and perfectly disguise himself as anyone in your life."

"Even your parents or your lover. It doesn’t matter if their appearance, voice, or even their habits are different."

"You wouldn’t be able to tell at all, because that power will subtly and forcibly alter your perception and judgment of that person!"

Rein’s words sent a chill down Lance’s spine.

"So, during the time before the Faceless Divine Sons were completely hunted down..."

Rein continued.

"The Faceless Hermitage Association would often send their Divine Sons to infiltrate major Guilds, Kingdoms, and even the True God Churches to steal secret Knowledge."

"However..."

As Rein spoke, his tone took on a strange quality.

"The real reason the title of Faceless Divine Son became so utterly infamous, the reason that all the organizations on the continent resolved to join forces and purge them..."

"Was actually a heinous incident that occurred a hundred years ago."

’Serious enough to face a joint suppression from every organization.’

Lance’s mind raced, imagining all sorts of scenarios.

’Did he steal secrets involving the gods? Or perhaps silently replace the political leaders of a Kingdom? Or maybe some major organization was destroyed because of a leak...’

All these guesses flashed through Lance’s mind one after another.

But the answer Rein gave next made Lance feel like his brain had completely crashed.

"The Faceless Divine Son from a hundred years ago..."

Rein looked at Lance and slowly uttered a single word.

"He spent his entire life, relying on his authority of disguise, to do just one thing."

"Women."

The moment that word was spoken...

The entire room fell into an instant silence.

Not only was Lance stunned...

Even Ella turned her head in a daze to look at Rein.

Rein cleared his throat and continued the absurd story.

"If you were to chronicle his life’s experiences, you could definitely write hundreds of bestselling, racy travelogues that would be all the rage across the continent."

"Because he used his perfect disguise and his ability to alter perception."

"He was once the husband of a Duchess, a Countess, a Temple Knight, a High Priestess, and even a Nun..."

Even Rein’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch as he said this.

"He was even audacious enough to disguise himself as a Priest of several True Gods, like the God of Justice, the God of Wealth, and the God of Wisdom."

"And in the names of these gods, he would invite all sorts of noblewomen who were devout believers in the True Gods for so-called ’late-night blessing guidance’..."

"Scum!"

Ella snapped back to her senses and spat out the word fiercely.

Then, she turned her head and gave Lance, who also held the status of a Divine Son, a look filled with contempt.

Noticing Ella’s piercing gaze...

"Tsk! Scum!"

Lance criticized the man’s actions in an envious tone.

"So how did he finally get caught?" Lance asked curiously.

"I heard it was the Evil God, Faros himself, who personally sent down a divine oracle to expose him to the major Divine Halls."

Rein’s answer once again took Lance by surprise.

"Because that Divine Son was too successful with women. His disguise techniques had not only reached the pinnacle of perfection, you could even say he was on the verge of completely stripping the authority of ’disguise’ away from Faros, its original owner!"

"He was that incredible?!"

Lance was shocked once again.

’This senior is such a badass? He not only slept his way across the continent, but in the end, he was even trying to steal the authority from the very god who gave him the power?’

"It’s true."

Rein sighed.

"Because that Divine Son wrote about his absurd life experiences in a series of travelogues and had them printed in large quantities."

"The major mainstream Divine Halls never noticed anything unusual because the channels he used for distribution were all underground and rather discreet."

Rein directly stated the reason why the man was able to seize a god’s authority.

"And it was precisely this behavior that, without anyone noticing, gathered hundreds of Legends about his ability to disguise himself!"

"Hundreds of Legends with the exact same core! When such immense Power converges..."

"Even the authority of a god can be forcibly shifted."

"After this outrageous incident came to light, the major Divine Halls were furious and joined forces to purge all the Faceless Divine Sons."

"After that, not even the True Gods had any new Divine Sons born."

Rein concluded.

"Because everyone got scared. No one could guarantee that another exceptionally talented Divine Son wouldn’t appear and develop their god’s authority to such an extent."

"If something like that really happened, the reputation the Divine Halls had built up over thousands of years would be completely dragged through the mud."

’To usurp a god with the power of a single man, and scare all the True Gods into not sending down any more Divine Sons...’

’What a legend!’

"If there’s a precedent, then why is the Faceless God willing to risk his authority being taken away again by bestowing his blessing on me now?"

The story didn’t resolve the doubts in Lance’s mind.

Rein looked at the puzzled Lance and said:

"Because not everyone can take disguise to that level, like the previous Faceless Divine Son did."

"You have to understand."

Rein explained with a serious expression.

"If a mortal accepts a god’s blessing, they become subject to the one higher in the hierarchy of that authority—in other words, the god themselves."

"And this kind of high-dimensional power of authority will constantly erode its user."

"During its use, if the user cannot, like that previous one, use various means to Plunder more control back for themselves, then the god can reclaim the blessing at any time, without any hindrance."

"Furthermore..."

Rein’s next words were what he really wanted Lance to be wary of.

"If a related Divine Descent Ceremony is used to assist, the blessed Divine Son will be used as a physical vessel for the god to descend into the Material Realm. It’s impossible to resist."

Hearing this, Lance understood everything instantly.

’This Faros... he’s underestimating me, Lance!’

’He doesn’t think I, Lance, have the ability to strip away his divine authority at all.’

If he reasoned backward from this point...

Lance finally understood why Faros had suddenly driven this wedge into him at that moment.

On one hand, the god must have seen some immense potential in him and wanted to use him to carry out some conspiracy.

On the other hand, he figured that even if he granted Lance the Power, Lance would never be able to use the authority to the same insane degree as the previous Divine Son.

Because all the Divine Halls would be watching any Faceless Divine Son.

That was why He dared to so boldly hand this authority over to him.

He, of course, knew that in this world, once the identity of a Faceless Divine Son was exposed, they would be hunted down relentlessly by all the major powers.

In the process of being hunted...

If Lance wanted to survive, he would have to rely on this blessing to constantly disguise himself and escape.

And as long as he began to use this Power frequently, he would inevitably and irreversibly deepen Faros’s spiritual erosion of him.

After that, He could use Lance to advance some kind of scheme.

If, in this gamble, Lance was unfortunately not skilled enough and got himself killed...

Then he would just be dead.

To Faros, the loss wouldn’t be great. At most, it would be the loss of an undeveloped vessel of a Divine Son. He could just find another one later.

"What a brilliant, self-serving scheme."

Lance sneered inwardly.

"Is there any way to get rid of it now, or hide it completely through some method?"

Rein shook his head.

"It’s too difficult. To deal with a god’s blessing, you must borrow the power of another True God."

This method is actually very dangerous, because when faced with a Faceless Divine Son, almost all True God factions would choose to eliminate them on sight.

And the ritual for removing the blessing of an Evil God is a privilege only enjoyed by those Holy Sons and Holy Daughters who were lured into depravity by one.

"Or, we could talk about it after you advance to the Legendary rank."

"We don’t meet either of these conditions."

"Then it looks like I’ll just have to slowly figure out a solution myself in the future."

Lance sighed.

"However, since the erosion won’t deepen as long as I don’t actively use this ability, I should be fine for now if I just control myself and don’t use it."

"You must still be extremely careful in your daily life."

Rein added, still worried.

"Until we find a solution, you’d better not set foot in any True God Church’s Divine Hall territory."

"Faceless Divine Envoys have been captured before. They should have methods of detection."

"I know, Uncle Rein."

In fact, after figuring out the Evil God’s true intentions...

The heavy stone in Lance’s heart was finally lifted. He wasn’t actually that worried.

After hearing the example of his predecessor, he even felt this might be a golden opportunity!

The previous Faceless Divine Son was able to do it.

Why couldn’t he, a Transmigrator with a cheat, do the same?

First of all, the authorities of the gods are surely suspended above the Star Realm.

And his own [Foreigner] Source Material inherently has an advantage when dealing with matters related to the Star Realm.

And don’t forget.

That item called the [Misleader’s Blank Bookmark].

It has the ability to change the core of a Legend!

’Who knows, once I get a little stronger...’

Lance thought to himself with glee.

’I could learn from that senior Divine Son, use my cheat to gather hundreds of Legends of the same type from all over the continent, and then completely snatch that old schemer’s authority for myself!’

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