Chapter 813: Chapter 419: Annihilating a Hundred Thousand Troops!
"The dark side of the Love God, huh..."
Louis lifted his head and looked at the sky.
"And the Eternal Fierce Sun as well..."
His mood was already starting to grow heavy and irritable.
There were just too, too many things that refused to go as people wished.
He had thought that once he advanced into the Divine Realm, he would be able to change many situations, but the fact proved that the state of affairs would not go his way just because he was strong.
In the surging torrent of history, even a being of the Divine Realm would still be heavily constrained.
The Emperor was like this.
He himself was like this.
As long as matters were directly decided by sapient races, accidents would never cease.
Just as the martial arts web was about to spread out over the sky above this city, Louis received messages from all sides.
The first to rush in was not the Love God’s dark-side organization that was trying to threaten him.
In the face of absolute power, they did not yet have the qualifications to make him change his mind.
But what if it was the other churches?
Then he would have to give it some thought.
If it were only one church, he might still be able to suppress the thoughts in the other side’s heart according to his own will.
But the problem was, the ones who had sent him complaints were not just one church, but practically all the churches.
The only reason he didn’t say all of them was that the God of Love Church and the Church of Glory and Justice had not joined in.
Otherwise that "practically" could be removed outright.
He pinched the bridge of his nose.
It wasn’t the same as the traditional sense of the arcane web.
The arcane web was a special energy conduit that formed by itself along the meridians of heaven and earth.
Whether it was spell slots or the Goddess of Magic, in essence they were just its byproducts and administrators.
So even if the various powers knew they were within the coverage of the arcane web, they wouldn’t have much of a reaction.
Or rather, they were used to it.
Long, long ago, likely before their ancestors were even born, the arcane web had already spread across the entire continent.
Excluding the few innate or later-formed no-magic zones, it covered practically every corner of the world.
The implication being: even if you wanted to avoid it, you couldn’t.
But Louis’s martial arts web was different.
This was something man-made after the fact, directly controlled by Louis, a promotion-world that could affect everyone within its range.
Such a thing manifesting over the skies of the Lokeshi Empire Imperial Capital made it impossible for all church members to sleep peacefully.
Because in order to interfere with the Love God’s dark side and search for potential crises, Louis had already activated the power of information interference.
This was also why he absolutely had to deploy personnel from all sides around the city, precisely so he could, to the best of his ability, magnify the martial arts web’s influence to the utmost and protect the entire Imperial Capital.
Yet things did not go the way he imagined.
Information interference... interfered not only with the Love God’s dark side, but also with the power coming from the gods.
This world was just one giant ramshackle troupe.
Louis had never carefully pondered another question before.
Namely, was there an essential difference between spell slots and Divine Arts?
If you insisted on explaining, the various powers could find thousands upon thousands of ways to argue how the two differed.
But now, standing at Louis’s current height, he could clearly sense that the two actually originated from the same framework.
The only difference was that one drew on the energy of the world’s meridians and released it in the form of Magic.
While the other used the god’s own power and released it in the form of Divine Art.
Which was why Louis could likewise use the power of the Divine Realm and descend destructive force upon the mortal world in the form of martial arts.
And given that he was still active on the Star Continent itself, he didn’t need to worry about any weakening of his power from crossing between worlds.
So in actuality... he understood that the church forces were right to jump out at the first possible moment.
The martial arts web appearing directly over the Imperial Capital was equivalent to him setting up an artillery battery over everyone’s heads.
And the information interference had cut off the connection between people and gods, tantamount to seizing the gun in the churches’ hands.
For any power, this kind of move was utterly unacceptable.
So after thinking it over a little and understanding the situation, he couldn’t help but say that the factions on the Star Continent were still a bit too civilized.
Up to this very moment, only the churches had actually come out to stop him.
Regardless of whether the other forces were waiting to see someone else make the first move, just speaking of his operation alone—if this were in his previous life, his own side would already have declared an all-out war.
No, rather, they would never have allowed him to set the martial arts web up over their own heads in the first place.
As soon as the other side had such an idea and tried to approach the area, they would have been sunk on the spot.
A figure appeared beside Louis, dropped to one knee, and said in a pained voice:
"Lord Louis, our church can’t hold them back any longer."
The one speaking was the Sack Knight.
He didn’t even dare raise his head now, feeling he had no face left to meet Louis.
After all, strictly speaking, it had been he who requested Louis’s involvement in this incident.
He wanted to protect the reputation of the God of Love Church, and even more, he did not want the Love God’s dark side to make a comeback and taint the pure faith of the God of Love Church.
Yet now, under unprecedented internal pressure from within the church, he himself had chosen to raise his hands and surrender.
It was too terrifying.
If he still didn’t make his stance clear, internal turmoil would erupt within the church first.
For Priests, Divine Art was a power they absolutely could not give up.
The more devout the Priest, the more so this was true.
Whether it was striking down evil or healing others, or even, with a bit of selfishness, using it to amass wealth, all of it presupposed that they could use Divine Art, only then did they have the chance.
And now, feeling their Divine Arts grow more and more difficult to use was as unbearable as having their flesh eaten away.
To see injustice and yet have no way to stop it was a stab straight into their conscience.
