And thus, The Holy Sun Church quickly exploded in popularity. The world was ruled by magic and strength. Lawrend was very powerful, so it wasn’t even a challenge.
As for the story about how Otor beca so obedient.
Humility called Otor into a secluded room in the castle. When he arrived, he was clueless as to what was about to happen to him.
Nao created a hallucination potion with the help of Aleshia’s Darkness Magic. It was spread inside the room as mist. Humility entered the room at that ti.
Elena and Ember were hiding in secret rooms beside the room. They cast their Divine Lightning and Phoenix Fire magic. Because of the hallucination, Otor saw sothing that wasn’t supposed to be there.
His greatest fear was reignited with the combination of the two magics. He saw the sa image that shook his soul the first ti he saw it.
Lawrend stood in front of him with a rotating sun. It emitted heat and sparks of electricity. It wasn’t a perfect copy, but it was enough to fool Otor in the hallucination.
“My Master is a god. As his servant, what will you do?” Humility asked.
When she spoke, the Lawrend in front of Otor shattered. It was still the sa scene, except it was Humility holding the sun in her hand.
“Y-You can cast that magic too!?” Otor scread with fear.
He tried to stand up from his chair, but he felt powerless. His soul was weak, and he had no idea how to defend himself from magic that directly attacks the soul.
As an Earth-Earth Mage, his physical defense was high but not his soul defense.
“Yes. With the glory of my Master, you will be able to cast the sa magic as long as you follow him,” Humility replied.
“What…”
Otor was flabbergasted at her words. She just told him sothing that should be impossible.
Each Mage got their own elents. For her to claim that ant she was confident that it was possible.
“My Master is a god. If you serve him, you will be able to imitate a fraction of his power. With that, you can live a longer life and beco more powerful compared to others,” Humility continued.
She deliberately made her voice sound soothing and charming. It was really hard for Otor to resist.
All of his life, Otor had aid to beco a Heaven Mage. He had tried many ways to surpass his current power level, but all of them had ended in failure.
It was very discouraging, especially when he sotis unknowingly compared himself to Lawrend. He was the firefly and his light can’t overco the moon.
“That’s a lie… You’re a dual-elent mage aren’t you?” Otor asked and refused to believe it.
“Would I be able to use Master’s magic so easily even if I was? Hehehe.” Humility grinned at him.
She took a step forward and that caused Otor to feel fear. He was too familiar with the Supernova Spell.
He hadn’t personally experienced it, but he had watched it destroy a whole Imperial City and kill an unstoppable Earth-Earth Mage.
Being so close to it was like placing his head inside a guillotine with his body shackled. Even if he tried to resist, he would die.
“What do you want to do?” Otor bitterly asked.
He was scared and tempted by her offer. He was confident at his strength. The mont he saw that she wasn’t keeping her promise, he would run away.
He wouldn’t be able to fight back head on but running away was still possible. With that in mind, he grew braver.
“Hehehe. Just beco the first Cardinal and spread Master’s word to the world. If you do a good enough job, Master will bestow you with his power and a chance to beco a Heaven Mage.”
Naturally, Humility had never confird these things with Lawrend. She was mostly speculating. But she believed her Master could do anything.
As long as she told him about it, he would make it happen. At least, that’s what she imagined him to be.
…
“What if I can’t do that?” Lawrend asked Humility with a frown.
Listening to her narrate her story made Lawrend realize how broken in the head this woman was. She really thought he could defy magic and give an Earth-Earth Mage the power to create suns.
“Hehehehe. Since it’s you Master, anything is possible,” Humility chuckled daintily with her hand covering her mouth.
“Ugh. I will mark the points I want modified in the Solar Path Book. I want it done before next week,” Lawrend said.
He found that he had been giving up trying to correct his maids’ behavior lately. He had beco soft for them.
Lawrend opened the Solar Path Book and started encircling phrases with a red pencil. In a dozen minutes, he finished.
“Here. I want to beco a decent god, at least. I can predict what will happen if so believers take this book literally and start handing out punishnts indiscriminately,” Lawrend explained to her.
In his previous world, he had heard a lot about these groups that interpreted their religious books seriously. It ended up in dangerous acts that hard a lot of human life.
In the future, he didn’t want his religion to beco like that.
“But why, Master? Shouldn’t this be normal? You’re very powerful!” Humility complained.
She glared at him in dissatisfaction.
“I’m powerful in terms of magic, but the most powerful thing in the world is Will. I realized that as long as I want sothing to happen, I will make it happen. No matter how hard it was. The only determining factor was my will.”
Lawrend stared at the ceiling. He looked like a wise sage giving a profound lesson. He rembered each ti he failed.
He would always try again. That was his Will. He only made sense of it after connecting all of the elents.
It seed truly impossible for him to succeed at that ti, but he persisted and persisted no matter the dead ends he had hit.
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