Chapter 270 : Chapter 270
Chapter 270. Meeting the Lord of Radiance Again
Fulan could tell that Una no longer bore those draconic features. Her figure was as small and slight as when Fulan had first seen her.
But what surprised Fulan was that Una had changed in another way. Fulan could sense that, just as in the trial before, Una was now filled with radiance.
With the naked eye, Fulan could see a mass of light hidden within Una’s chest, emitting a blazing white glow.
This was precisely the radiance Fulan’s body had been able to emit when she had previously become a Radiant Priest. And now that she saw it on Una, that could only mean...
She could also feel the aura of a First-Tier Professional coming from the other party, which meant that Una had most likely already stepped into a formal Tier.
Fulan raised her brows at that. Strictly speaking, it had not even been half a year since the last time she saw Una.
The power brought by the Dragonization Potion alone was nowhere near enough to support someone who knew nothing and raise them to a formal Tier within half a year.
This was most likely the Lord of Radiance’s doing, allowing these believers to advance quickly and at low cost.
Una, meanwhile, had also begun to size Fulan up. From the very beginning, she had noticed that something about this Emissary was not right.
First of all, there was the difference in appearance. She clearly remembered that the Emissary had been much taller than her, with a far better figure as well.
But the Emissary standing before her now was different. The other party was now even shorter than she was, with a small, slight frame. No matter how she looked at it, this did not seem to be the same person.
And yet the radiance emanating from Fulan, the radiance that marked an Emissary, could not be faked. Una could feel warmth from the other party.
And when she slightly stirred the radiance within her own body, she could sense a faintly dazzling light coming from Fulan. That was the sign of an Emissary. There was no way she could mistake it.
Seeing this, Fulan let out a sigh and said,
“It has been a long time, Una.”
When she came up this time, she had originally intended to communicate with the Lord of Radiance.
It was only because she had not found a way to make contact after arriving that she had been unable to do so immediately.
She simply had not expected to meet an inhabitant of Monsa here. Had the Lord of Radiance done something?
She clearly remembered that under normal circumstances, Spirit Realm beings could not casually leave their own domains.
When Una heard this, her eyes lit up, and she said,
“Emissary, it really is you?!”
The shock and delight in Una’s voice left Fulan somewhat at a loss, and then Una asked,
“Emissary, how did you become like this?”
“My former body was given to me by my god. This body now is my original one.”
Fulan directly used the Lord of Radiance as her explanation. Judging by Una’s manner of speaking, the Lord of Radiance had most likely already gathered the faith of all Monsa into his hands.
Otherwise, Una would not have shown such an attitude before.
Back then, because Fulan had helped her escape the God-Forsaken Land and clear her name from the accusations of the High Priest and divine punishment, Una’s attitude toward Fulan had been full of gratitude and admiration.
At that time, Una had not called her “Emissary.” She had directly addressed her as “Lady Laiyi.”
But now it was obvious that the Lord of Radiance had intervened with Una and made use of a term Fulan herself had never even mentioned before: 【Emissary】.
Fulan could find that same term among her own traits. Judging from its description, the Lord of Radiance held her in very high regard.
At the time, however, she had thought that the identity of a priest was troublesome and that it was better to continue firmly along the path of a mage.
But now Fulan no longer considered it a trouble. Instead, she regarded it as an opportunity. Through this chance, she might be able to uncover more hidden knowledge concerning gods...
And on top of that, she could use the identity of the Lord of Radiance’s Emissary to obtain some power. As long as she handled things properly, there should be no bad consequences.
With that in mind, she asked Una,
“Why are you here in this market?”
That was Fulan’s greatest question. Even if Una could leave her domain, why had she come to this market? What exactly was her purpose?
Una did not answer that question immediately. She looked around, then gestured toward the surrounding crowd, indicating that there were simply too many people here.
“Emissary, come with me.”
Watching Una turn around and walk away, Fulan had the feeling that the other party was deliberately avoiding the crowd, as though Una wanted to tell her something that was not fit to be heard by others.
That gave her a rather unpleasant premonition, but since this was the Spirit Realm anyway, she still followed.
She was now, in a sense, also a Spirit Realm professional. If nothing unexpected happened, then if she died in the Spirit Realm, her body in the Material Realm would also be severely injured, but at the very least, she would not die.
For true death in the Spirit Realm to also mean death in the Material Realm, one would have to reach at least the Third Tier.
At the Second Tier, although the shell in the Material Realm still would not die, every death in the Spirit Realm would still bring certain negative consequences.
So she was not afraid that the other side might try anything in the Spirit Realm. At worst, she would simply go back down and recover from her injuries.
Fulan followed Una forward as well, walking after her through a crowd that seemed endless at a glance. When they reached a certain corner, Una suddenly led her into a narrow alley.
After weaving through it for a while, she opened the door to a house.
What appeared before Fulan was a staircase leading underground. After observing it for only a moment, Fulan followed Una down.
Una did not use any kind of password. She simply flashed the Light Prayer of a Radiant Priest at the entrance, and the final door opened at once.
Fulan followed Una inside. The basement seemed to have been furnished a little by Una and the others.
The floor was covered with soft cushions, and on the wall directly facing the entrance stood a small angel statue.
The moment Fulan entered, the eyes of the angel statue lit up slightly, then dimmed again.
“Una, why are you back? Wasn’t it not yet time for the search?”
A tall man stood up from the corner. He first saw Una push open the door and immediately asked in confusion.
But when his gaze fell upon the person behind her, he froze in place, unable to speak.
Only after Fulan closed the door did he tremblingly force out a few words.
“Emissary... why is it you?”
The man’s eyes were wide with shock, his face filled with disbelief. He had never imagined that he would encounter the legend within the church here—the Emissary of the god.
Fulan had no impression of this man at all. Presumably, he had not been among those she led in attacking the priests. He was probably someone newly accepted by the Lord of Radiance from among Monsa’s residents.
Fulan scratched her head and decided that she had better explain things to these believers first. It could not be easy for the Lord of Radiance to maintain the image of a god before these followers either.
So Fulan said to the believer,
“I was merely passing by here by chance. There is no need to panic. I was not originally planning to involve myself in your affairs.”
Only then did the believer seem to awaken from a dream. He reverently bent himself slightly and performed a gesture of respect that Fulan did not recognize, then said,
“Praise the Holy Light, Emissary of my Lord.”
“Praise the Holy Light. May the radiance gather upon you and me.”
The latter sentence was not spoken by Fulan. Una had cut in ahead of her and said it to the male believer instead.
It seemed that Una knew Fulan was not very familiar with the contents of those holy scriptures, so she had not allowed her to speak rashly.
After the “greeting” was finished, the male believer asked Fulan,
“May I ask why you have come here? Have you received our Lord’s command and come here to help us?”
Fulan smiled and said,
“It is only because there happens to be a statue of my Lord here, so I have come to borrow it for a while.”
She pointed toward the statue on the platform, and when she did, the statue’s eyes flashed once again.
Without giving him a chance to continue questioning, Fulan said directly,
“You need not ask me anything. Carry out the arrangements my Lord has given you. After I communicate with my Lord, I will tell you my decision.”
Upon hearing this, the male believer and Una both understood at once. They turned their heads aside and moved into the corner of the room.
Fulan took a deep breath. The moment she entered, she had already known that she could contact the Lord of Radiance through this statue, which was why she had spoken as she did just now.
She walked up to the statue and softly recited the first sentence from her tattered book.
“I praise the Lord of Radiance...”
This time, Fulan did not even have time to finish the full sentence before she saw the eyes of the angel statue erupt in a brilliant light, and then she heard a voice like this:
“Why have you come here? Instead of helping me develop believers in the Material Realm...”
Fulan interrupted directly and said,
“My actions in the Material Realm have not begun yet. I came up this time to discuss this matter with you.”
It seemed that Fulan’s words stunned the other side. After quite a while, the voice finally came again, almost in complaint:
“No, wait, after all this time, you still haven’t started? Didn’t you only spend two or three days on it back in Monsa?”
Without question, the Lord of Radiance was much stronger than when Fulan had last encountered him. This time, Fulan could vaguely perceive the Lord of Radiance’s form from within the statue.
And this time, she and the Lord of Radiance were no longer communicating through the pages of the book. The Lord of Radiance was directly transmitting his words to her ears.
All of this pointed to one thing: during the time since Fulan left, the Lord of Radiance had already grown very powerful.
It was entirely possible that by now he no longer needed to order Fulan about and could act personally.
And yet under such circumstances, Fulan felt not the slightest fear. Instead, she said directly,
“To tell the truth, when I had just come out of the trial, I did not want to help you develop believers.”
“Because in the Material Realm, I had the path of the mage available to me. I did not have to wade into your muddy waters. Who knows what lies further down the path of the priest?”
“But now I have changed my mind. That is why I came up this time—to discuss this matter with you.”
After she said all this, only silence remained at her ears. Much later, a single sentence from the Lord of Radiance finally came.
“I thought we were already friends.”
This time it was Fulan who fell silent. Her mouth opened slightly, yet no matter what, she did not know how to respond.