Affleck's Struggle

But Okasi was, after all, Daixi's elder, and since Daixi was to be the head of a part of the underground organization in the Finley Kingdom when they were young, Okasi did try to protect the fragile kinship between them to some extent.

Although it was rare, it was incredibly precious to Daixi at the time!

"Don't worry, I will spare Okasi's life. After all, our Light-Dark Kingdom also needs experienced religious figures to develop faith."

Ten days later, at the headquarters of the Darkness Church

Affleck looked at Fengyun with a sorrowful expression and said, "Do you remember? You once promised to do something for our Darkness Church!"

When Affleck said this, a glimmer of hope flashed in the eyes of the other elders and high-ranking Church who were completely powerless to resist under the confinement of the God's Domain.

Joel, Muba, June, plus Fengyun —four God-level Experts in total—were suffocating them. Fengyun's past promise was now their only lifeline.

Fengyun's lips curled slightly, and a transparent wave emanated from his sea of consciousness. Apart from Affleck and Okasi, all the high-ranking members of the Church present who were touched by this wave collapsed to the ground.

Upon closer inspection, there was no trace of life left!

Because of his status as a resident of the Dark Alliance and his parents, Fengyun had promised to do a small thing for the Darkness Church that wouldn't violate his principles.

However, this does not mean that the Darkness Church, in alliance with the Light Church, would let him go because of this promise, given that the Darkness Church, in alliance with the Light Church, was plotting against him through Huo Dan and wanted to annex his Light-Dark Empire!

His purpose in coming here today is to destroy the Darkness Church and turn this place into the territory of his Light-Dark Empire.

This move is a clear statement of their stance. Under these circumstances, they still want to rely on past promises to avoid the destruction of the Darkness Church? Ha! Impossible!

After killing the man, Fengyun nodded and said, "Yes, I did promise. Now, speak!"

While he couldn't possibly let the Darkness Church go because of this promise, he also wouldn't break his word; even condemned prisoners need a last meal before their execution. As long as Affleck's request wasn't excessive, Fengyun wouldn't mind helping him fulfill his dying wish.

As he sensed the life force of his own people draining away, Affleck's pupils instantly darkened, and despair overwhelmed his heart.

But he was, after all, Pope- level figure, and he was unwilling to give up even if there was only a sliver of hope.

Fengyun killed all the other high-ranking members of the Darkness Church except for himself and Okasi. Although this was meant to show that he would not let the Darkness Church go, it was also a glimmer of hope.

The Church cannot be supported by one or two people.

The deaths of those people just now basically signify the demise of the Darkness Church.

In this situation, if Fengyun's ultimate goal is to seize the Dark Alliance's territory, then whether Affleck lives or dies is irrelevant.

Driven by a strong will to survive, Affleck's brain raced as he analyzed the current situation, trying to find a glimmer of hope for his own survival.

"Value, I need to make myself valuable, I need to demonstrate my value, only then can I possibly survive by taking advantage of the promise Fengyun once made!"

"As the Dark Pope, as long as I am alive, even if the Dark Alliance is swallowed up and the Darkness Church is destroyed, I am essentially preserving the spark for the Church's resurgence!"

"It's not impossible to rebuild the Darkness Church in the future, and let the glory of the Lord of Darkness shine upon the earth once more!"

In a flash, Affleck slowly spoke, but he didn't make any demands. Instead, he said, "Fengyun, do you know why that old bastard Huo Dan, attacked you back then?"

Fengyun was slightly taken aback upon hearing this and asked, "Why?"

Back then, Huo Dan went to the Light and Light-Dark Empire with people from both the Light Church and the Darkness Church. Although he didn't know the specifics, he knew that Huo Dan's exile of him to Plane Prison must have been related to the Light Church and the Darkness Church.

After he captured Huo Dan, he wanted to ask him something.

But due to Beirut's sudden intervention, and to avoid any surprises, he directly killed Huo Dan.

He didn't intend to delve into the matter further, since in the Coiling Dragon World, might makes right. How the Light Church and the Darkness Church had colluded with Huo Dan was no longer important; he would simply eliminate them all with overwhelming strength.

But he never expected Affleck to say this to him now.

Affleck said with a hint of helplessness, "Given the relationship between our Darkness Church and you back then, there was no need for us to clash with you."

"The reason we took action against you back then was because those bastards from the Light Church actually reported your affairs to the higher-ups, saying that you were disrespectful to the great Lord of Light, but your strength was too great, and the higher-ups needed to send someone to eliminate this heretic!"

Fengyun curled his lip and said, "Are you saying that all of this was started by the Light Church?"

"Hmph, you dare to be disrespectful? I haven't actively attacked the Light Church since I became a god, so how have I been disrespectful?"

"What does this have to do with Huo Dan?"

"He's from Hell, what does he have to do with the Light God Plane?"

"And how did your Darkness Church get involved? This has nothing to do with you, does it?"

Affleck breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself, "As long as we can communicate and he's willing to listen to me, that's good. Next, I just need to shift all the blame onto the Light Church, divert Fengyun's anger, and then make a suitable request, and I'll have a chance to live!"

Having made up his mind, he immediately said bitterly, "Yes, the Light Church is truly a scoundrel!"

"My lord, after you became a god, you did not harm the Light Church in the slightest, but they accused you of having ulterior motives because you had once infiltrated the Light Church. After becoming a god, you even called yourself the Lord of Lord of Light and Darkness and Darkness, saying that you, a mere rookie who has just become a god, do not take the great Lord of Light and Lord of Darkness seriously."

"To invoke the name of the Lord of Light and Darkness is to disrespect the great Lord of Light and the Lord of Darkness, and to harbor ambitions to offend the great Lord of Light and the Lord of Darkness."

"Actually, most of the time, the higher-ups won't pay attention to these kinds of tattling."

"But what's outrageous is that the higher-ups actually took them quite seriously, and insisted on assigning that old geezer Huo Dan to investigate the matter, so Huo Dan got dragged into it."

"After Huo Dan came to our Darkness Church to confirm your situation, our Darkness Church was also forced to get involved."

Upon hearing this, Fengyun's expression darkened slightly. He truly hadn't expected that the real reason he had been banished was because of his title Lord of Light.

For a moment, I felt a mix of emotions!

After all, the Lord of Light and Darkness was merely a name he gave based on his own characteristics of cultivating both light and darkness.