Chapter 610 – Faith Enlightenment

Chapter 610 – Faith Enlightenment

The Faith Enlightenment Miracle Shard contained a wealth of theoretical knowledge about faith power and faith magic, as well as instructions on how angels could prepare themselves for learning faith magic.

All of this knowledge was completely unfamiliar to Mo Lan—she had never encountered any of it anywhere before.

Regarding the origins of faith magic, there was one thing she had guessed correctly: the angels hadn’t mastered faith magic from the very beginning.

Holy light magic was the magic naturally carried within angelic bloodlines.

For a very long period, the angel race had been known for their holy light magic and aerial combat capabilities. Back then, the angel race hadn’t been a particularly powerful species in their original world.

Their racial strength had been roughly on par with the current Elf race.

The Winged Ones of the Sacred Mountains could be considered the angels’ original form.

Later, some angels discovered that when intelligent beings went extinct, the world consciousness—the supreme existence that governed the laws—would also perish.

After further experimentation, they found that when all intelligent beings in a world lost consciousness, the world consciousness would gradually fade away as well.

Combined with the fact that the angelic power within their own bloodlines was itself an amalgamation of consciousness power and light elemental force.

The angels naturally arrived at an idea: if they could seize the consciousness power of all intelligent beings in the world, wouldn’t they be able to wield the authority of the world consciousness and become gods of that world?

Pursuing this goal, the angels began devising various methods to harvest the consciousness power of intelligent beings. That was when they discovered that when intelligent beings worshipped and felt gratitude toward them from the depths of their hearts, they would receive a completely new form of energy. This energy could substitute for their own consciousness power, merging into their angelic power to unleash even more powerful holy light magic.

The angels named this energy “faith power” and used it to develop a whole series of spells—faith magic.

Armed with faith magic, the angels gained abilities that exceeded their innate potential. The path of ascending to godhood through faith became the unwavering road to power that all angels pursued.

However, the angels eventually discovered that the more faith power they accumulated, the more easily they were influenced by the wills of their followers.

When too many different voices inhabited a single body, there was only one outcome—madness.

As countless angels descended into madness and corruption, one angel had a thought: if they had fewer emotions and less contemplation, wouldn’t they be immune to having their judgment swayed by the different “voices” within faith power?

After countless attempts, a method emerged—condensing one’s own emotions into a Ring of Faith to contain and manage faith power.

The angels abandoned their emotions, allowing themselves to maintain absolute rationality under the torrent of faith power and harness this energy.

This method proved effective. The angel race never again produced a mad angel. Every High-Ranking Angel who had condensed a Ring of Faith became an emotionless machine, singularly devoted to the pursuit of godhood.

The angels’ practice of brainwashing themselves to strengthen their own angelic power had also been inspired by faith power.

Fanatical believers provided the most powerful faith power. So by becoming their own fanatical believers, they could naturally possess formidable willpower, elevating the effectiveness of their holy light magic to the next level.

Even if their angelic power had been pushed to its limit by bloodline strength, faith power could serve as a substitute, allowing them to continue growing stronger.

The overall racial strength of the angels had advanced by leaps and bounds as they universally adopted the path of faith.

Indeed, some angels had actually become “gods” of their worlds by collecting faith power.

But they weren’t beings comparable to the world consciousness.

The hearts and minds of intelligent beings were difficult to control. It was simply impossible to make everyone willingly become a fanatical believer and provide the strongest, purest faith power. These so-called “gods” were merely the supreme powerhouses of their respective worlds.

Mo Lan hadn’t found a single actual faith spell in either set of memories. Just reading through the knowledge in this Faith Enlightenment was enough to make her lose all interest in faith magic entirely.

Stripping away all the self-aggrandizing rhetoric the angels wrapped themselves in, in Mo Lan’s view, faith power and faith magic were nothing more than a shortcut the angels used to break through their racial and talent limitations and grow powerful quickly.

And this shortcut came with severe side effects.

For angels, taking this shortcut had its pros and cons. For Mo Lan, she would have to be out of her mind to take such a shortcut.

Sorceresses not only had unlimited potential in All-Element Magic, but also possessed Manifested Gifts imbued with the power of laws. As long as she stayed alive and developed her talents, she would only grow stronger—there was absolutely no need to rely on faith power to enhance herself.

After sorting through both sets of memories, Mo Lan let out a long, heavy sigh.

She couldn’t help but vent to her friends in the Sorceress’s Home group chat.

【Mo Lan: I never would have imagined that one of the Continent of Valen’s top races—the angel race that once split dominion of the world with the demons—actually boosted their combat power through faith power. Both holy light magic and faith magic have side effects…】

【Lilith: These secrets of the angel race are absolutely shocking!】

【Vasida: The angels are truly ruthless! They just threw away their own emotions without a second thought!】

【Sylph: I know! Without emotions, what’s even the point of being powerful? They can’t even feel happiness anymore!】

【Mo Lan: Sigh, all my efforts in the Holy City were a complete waste of time.】

【Lilith: So are you planning to leave the Holy City next and head to the Abyss to study demon magic?】

【Mo Lan: Probably. There’s no point staying here any longer—it would just be wasting more time.】

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Mo Lan thought about how she had spent all this time painstakingly researching magic candy, renovating a shop, serving customers, and luring angels into her trap, only to come away without a single piece of impressive magical knowledge. It left a bitter taste in her heart.

After chatting with the Sorceresses, she went to the Eight-Times-Speed Gossip Alliance group chat and shared the information she had gleaned from the angel memories today.

【Garona: Now I understand why the High-Ranking Angels all stay on Heaven’s Peak and almost never come out through the Gate of Heaven. Without emotions and in a state of absolute rationality, they would have absolutely no interest in worlds that can’t provide them with faith power!】

【Melinda: I even think there might come a day when the angels take the entire Heaven’s Peak and fly away from Valen, just like when they first descended upon it.】

【Camilla: Maybe it’s not that they don’t want to leave, but that they can’t! A semi-plane that massive still depends on the main world’s laws to function properly. It’s not something you can just pack up and go!】

【Evelyn: I used to think the angels’ research into light-element magic was at Valen’s pinnacle. Turns out they unknowingly went down the wrong path long ago!】

【Euphemia: How pitiful!】

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