Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2641: Celestial Empowerment Vs Divine Enlightenment

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

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

”My brother, kowtow before me, the true son of heaven, and rise to a new world free of materialistic illusion,” the Emissary of Light announced through the guard captain. His two-stories-high apparition projected from the captain’s body stopped showering light over me and retrieved its hand, regarding me with a benevolent gaze, though the superiority it directed toward me was hard to miss.

I stared blankly at the apparition before glancing around, feigning confusion as if wondering whether he was speaking to me. Then I warned him once again, ”You’re talking to me? Enough of your nonsense. If you’re done performing your tricks, erase your influence from my citizens while I’m still being polite?”

Listening to me, the Emissary of Light was astonished, nearly yelping in disbelief but remained stunned. This was the first time someone weaker than him had resisted his ability to turn a being into his follower by directly introducing faith into their will. Until now, he had believed resistance was impossible unless he lacked the required faith, or the target surpassed him in strength. Today, however, this Southern Hope was different. He appeared entirely unaffected, as though he had not even sensed the skill’s presence. He would be lying if he said he wasn’t worried, as the guard captain looked a little panicked.

Seeing the Emissary of Light stunned, I couldn’t help but subtly before yelling at him impatiently, ”What are you spacing out for, you charlatan? Quickly, let go of them. If anything happens to them—”

The Emissary of Light cut me off mid-sentence, once again stretching his hand above my head and chanting aloud, ”I, the true son of heaven, guide you back to the embrace of heaven, freeing you from these materialistic illusions!”

Soon, I was bathed in another wave of light showers. This time as well, I let it be and did not resist. The result was the same as before. It was unable to break through the protective covering of my primordial calamity soul gem. However, one thing had changed. After using his ability on me, the Emissary of Light yelled, ”Kowtow before me, you heathen. Your sins are too deep to be washed away at once.”

”Cut it out!” I shouted, before rushing forward and grabbing the guard captain by his neck, uttering, ”You brought this on yourself. I warned you enough times. Since you aren’t willing to listen to my words, I will no longer be polite.”

Seeing me grab his neck without giving him time to react, the Emissary of Light was shocked realizing something wasn’t right, ’How come the Southern Hope suddenly felt a lot stronger unlike he previously perceived?’

Before he could resist, I poured my celestial power directly into the guard captain’s divinity, mimicking the same method the Emissary of Light used with his I have no idea what its called ability to turn beings into his die-hard followers/ believers.

The Emissary of Light was not physically present, so it had been difficult to hack his grimoire and thoroughly learn his origin card and its abilities, even to determine the ability’s name. Whatever it was called, Hive Spirit had recorded its data. Using the data gathered for soul division and healing, it replicated a version I could use, powered by celestial energy instead of faith, as originally intended.

However, my version only empowered the target’s willpower, therefore I called it the Celestial Empowerment. It did not implant faith toward me, unlike the Emissary of Light’s ability. It was also not as showy as the original. After all, faith and celestial power were inherently different, even though all stemmed from primordial energy. Now, that made it tricky for me to use my empowerment against the original version.

”How are you able to use my Divine Enlightenment?” the Emissary of Light uttered, sensing my Celestial Empowerment flooding the guard captain’s divinity. With that he began to struggle vigorously, but found that he could not break free of my grip on his neck, nor could he access the guard captain’s soul energy, rule power, or grimoire as they were restricted by the celestial blood fate domain. All he had was his faith. Otherwise, he would never have been able to infiltrate the celestial blood fate domain and project his soul projection through the guard captain.

However, after sensing the difference between my Celestial Empowerment and his Divine Enlightenment, he smirked. ”Ha, it’s just a cheap knockoff of Divine Enlightenment. But this proves it. The rumors about you didn’t do justice to your genius and brilliance. You aren’t just the future of the Southern Region, but the entire Card World. Unfortunately, we were born on different sides of the border. It’s such a pity. I would have loved to get to know you and work with you for the sake of our almighty father, the card celestial.”

I frowned as I listened to the Emissary of Light, noting that his arrogance had not diminished even after I gave him a taste of my strength. I wondered where his confidence stemmed from when I could clearly sense my Celestial Empowerment clashing with his Divine Enlightenment within the guard captain’s divinity.

That realization lifted a weight from my mind. I had been worried that I might foolishly end up empowering the faith implanted in the guard captain’s will along with his will itself, which would only strengthen the Emissary of Light’s hold over him. However, that did not happen. As it turned out, Celestial Empowerment functioned strictly according to my will. Sensing my intent to oppose the Emissary of Light’s Divine Enlightenment, it empowered only the part of the guard captain’s will that resisted the implanted faith.

That resistance was small and weak, incapable of doing anything on its own. But once reinforced by celestial empowerment, it began to fight back harder than ever before. Seeing that my plan was working, I began to pour in more celestial power. Just then, I felt the Emissary of Light tighten his grip on my hand that was clutching his neck, squeezing it until it nearly burst into a bloody pulp.