"May I know why you summoned me my lord" asked Simone as he stepped inside in the study room


    "Simone, come sit it''s nothing serious I just wanted to know about valentine. It has been some time since last he contacted me. And I had something to ask him."


    "I see, lord valentine has certainly been busy because of current state of kingdom. He is following the deacon around to help stabilize the kin… do …" Simone abrupttly fell head first on the marble table.


    Sard quickly retrieved the bug from his pocket and stopped for a moment before he took a long breath and placed the bug on Simone''s forehead. The bug quickly got absorbed in skin without any scars. Sard waited and waited for an eternity. Every second, to him seemed like forever


    After some time passed sard saw Simone standing up like a puppet he saw in luminara, a sorcerer that was caught alive had hidden it in his home, however unlike that puppet Simone stood up and bowed to sard becoming more human like with each passing second.


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    Meanwhile inside the prison room linus turned translucent and arrived on his throne, "link rename all the old nanobots with ''ol'' series in front " "command executed successfully ""show the nanobot 1"


    A translucent window appeared in front of him, which turned to solid slowly


    "link bring some popcorn as well"


    "master, we don''t have them as of now our treasury is completely empty"


    "No popcorn? How am I supposed to watch the chaos without my favorite snack?" "master you should grow up, how inhumane of you, a person is trying to …" "okay enough let me watch this show."


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    Although he had converted Simone into a puppet using some unknown bug, he still couldn''t believe whatever he says and if Simone is being controlled by that boy, that boy seem to have very comprehensive detail about deacon and valentine.


    "who are you?" asked sard while his expression turned solemn


    "I am priest Simone of Siona''s radiance church"


    "who is valentine to you"


    "I am lord valentine''s subordinate"


    Sard had decided to ask some personal questions such as


    "what do I call valentine in private, when we were still junior ranks"


    "old miser"


    Sard sighed to make his mind to ask the main question. As not even the deacon knows about this.


    "were you the one who killed wade, or his death has anything to do with"


    "yes, he died by master valentine''s hand"


    Sard''s body went limp from the nonchalant admission of Simone, he had thought how he was going to kill Linus,


    Sard asked, despite fully knowing the answer in his heart "why, why did they wanted to kill wade."


    "After you took Wade as your disciple, Master Valentine met him during wade''s mission, at that time both master valentine and wade were rank 5 experts, and lord valentine had no hope while wade could easily advance with some accumulation. And after some month, they met once more when you introduced lord valentine as your brother to wade, I was also there at that time. It was after several months later that lord valentine must have known about source bead and he contacted deacon. Deacon Samuel ordered me to follow lord valentine and kill wade at that time I was only tier 1 priest but killing wade required our combined effort, in the end we killed wade and retrieved the source bead of tier 2 divine bishop, although I wanted the source bead, deacon gave it to lord valentine as his potential was really bad, since he was your brother, it''s easy for him to spy on you."


    Sard was stumped and stood there as if this betrayal has killed his heard, his sworn brother has betrayed him for a tier 2 priest''s source bead.


    Hearing Simone''s words sard was trembling form rage his head was filled with thought of killing deacon and valentine, he wanted to kill everyone who was involved, the person he called brother betrayed him for a source bead, the person he served under killed his disciple and the person he worship gave his approval. He feels as if his life has become a joke.


    .....


    As sard was falling in madness the surrounding were dancing for rampage, the air turned thick with a deep scent of blood than the next second hands rose from the ground and tried to grab sard''s feet, eyes''s bleeding and blood entering his mouth, bringing a metallic flavor with it..If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    "sard control yourself, you are falling for madness, you need to be alive to take revenge" Linus hurriedly projected his voice in sard''s mind


    Sard suddenly woke up and quickly used holy protection using all his spiritual power, he knew if the timely reminder didn''t came form Linus, he might have enter the rampage state. Than the revenge will be the last of his worry. He would have turned into a beast with only one motive- rampage and to kill.


    Sard gasped and took a deep breathe than slumped down on his chair, sard used his spiritual power to calm his mind. His eyes still unfocused and mouth gasping for breath, while mind wandering in memories.


    Wade was a lively person he was gentle even to an animal he had never ever harmed a plant, he was completely opposite of sard who was know as the light of darkness, despite being from divine pathway, he was a devil equivalent, especially to anyone outside of the church of light as he considered anyone from the church as his family. Sard was the strongest and most feared bishop in all of church''s congregation. Even from different church he was feared more than the dark alliance''s devil sect. That was the reason he liked wade so much, he wanted to protect that kid for his innocence and for his own humanity.


    Sard''s eyes were bleeding and as the blood flowed toward his cheek it began to boil and disappeared. He had made his mind, there is no need to take care of any family, instead he will become the very devil he abhorred. He shal— will destroy the very church he served.


    "what is your decision sard, do you want to follow me ?"


    "what is your motive my lord"


    Linus smiled after Listening sard and he let out blood lust accidentally


    Sard was suddenly startled by the blood lust projected by linus


    "to have fun, while destroying our enemies. Or the world probably"


    Sard smiled hideously while saying "I obey my lord"


    Just as sard took the oath of church''s destruction, the source power in his body started to disperse, but sard didn''t care about it, as his mind was still chaotic from the recent revelation.


    He unhurriedly sat on the floor and used essence for the first time after becoming a bishop, this calmed his mind, same as before, but with a different conviction. He worked for church now he will work for its fall.


    Sard had calmed down now. As he received linus''s next instruction.


    "dismiss Simone, he will make a good spy inside samuel''s faction, also your source of magic has broken, what are you going to do now"


    Sard dismissed simone absent minded and ordered him to forget about this meeting.


    He was feeling sorrow, he served the light lord for 30 years and all of this was gone just because of a bishop''s greed. Now he has regressed to a tier 1 mage, and further progression is very, very difficult.


    "You can worship me sard, I can become your source, you have walked very far away on divine path, you can''t switch now."


    "Worship you" sard chuckled as if he has heard a joke. But he still went ahead and tried to pray to Linus as he prayed to light God, but there were some problems he couldn''t connect to him


    "hey, you are not worshiping Aurelius, try to imagine me sitting on throne"


    Sard followed Linus''s instruction and immediately he has connected to somewhere in cosmos, he saw a castle rising from a boiling blood river, and siting on the main throne was someone surrounded by dark fog, he couln''t determine as the fog was to dark to even notice what was in front of him, . Sard felt as if he was an ant being stared by a god. And on the 5th seat from the throne was sitting Linus, in his hand looked like a glass of wine, he looked at him playfully than swiped his hands as if dusting a fly than sard returned his room.


    Sard was in disbelief as to what did he just saw, he has reconnected to a source and this time to an angel, he was sure who sat on that throne was definitely a god, so naturally in his court''s fifth seat was an angel. Linus was an angel. That boy was an angel. Sard couldn''t believe that he was in front of a god. Sard quickly calmed down and tried to pray to Linus once again, this time was different as he has already connected the source, sard felt the pure power burst like a dam in his body he quickly broke through to tier 2 once again, and this time he was feeling as if he can defeat the previous him in a breath. He has become a peak tier 2, a deacon of divine path, however this time was different, his body Is receiving a different energy, it feels contradictory, like holy yet negative energy. And it felt purer without any blemishes, like a clean breeze of wind in spring.


    "My lord Linus, may I know what your orders are." sard called out to his connection with Linus.


    "The play is just beginning sard, first I will go to Luminara from here. Meanwhile you can do what you are best at, usurpation, usurp the seat of deacon, or try to become tier 3 by the next month."


    "Yes, my lord, I have already felt my breakthrough. my breakthrough is nearing. After breaking through I will contact duke welheim and bring him to our camp"


    "Okay, contact me if you need my help."


    "My lord how are you going to esca— leave from the prison room"


    "Aren''t you going to free me?"


    Sard''s mouth twitched, this lord was really unreliable, he can escape easily yet, want him to make a move. Sard felt the feeling the fatigue wash over him, but he still has work to do


    "haha, don''t worry I will just disappear from here. And if you have any enemy, you can pin it on them. Such as some dukes from Nereidia the country of water god, the major power behind deacon Samuel"


    "I don''t think that will be a good idea, instead, I will wait for them to make a move. While I will navigate in dark to injure their forces as much as I can"


    "oh, I thought you will need some time before acting against the church"


    "The moment I worshiped you as my source of magic, I became your servant. Now I don''t have any reservation in moving against church"


    "Good, you should take care of here, I am leaving now."