Wherever Flames Burn, the Will of Light Lives On

Wherever Flames Burn, the Will of Light Lives On—Bonus Chapter [35]

(Word count adjustment bonus chapter [3/5])

The Lightkindling Ritual had begun.

While the People of Light resisted the counterattack of the Void Lords and those abyssal creatures, in the heart of the radiant battlefield, Xe'ra and the other nine Naaru leaders from various Faith Factions had already completed the dispersal and reorganization of Faith Power.

It was like a net cast across the sea of stars, connecting every node where believers resided. The Naaru formed the higher structure of that network, gathering the faith and will of the People of Light throughout the stars upon themselves at this moment.

It would have been extraordinarily difficult for any other faction to do this.

Though Faith Power transcended reality, it was still affected by space. Gathering faith across the Cosmic Stars was no easy feat. The losses caused by spatial barriers alone would have been enough to make those religious leaders weep blood.

But the Light faction did not have that problem.

The reason was simple. Over the past twenty-five thousand years of continuous conflict between the Army of the Light and the Burning Legion, eighty percent of the People of Light settlements throughout the stars had "migrated" into the Light Cosmic Domain. The faith of the Light had already been gathered there, and the Naaru, who had spread that faith within the Light Cosmic Domain for countless years, were thoroughly familiar with the process.

When Diakum said he could not compare to the Naaru in this regard, he was not being modest.

These beings of Light, shaped by An'she through his devotion to the light, seemed to have received some unseen calling. Everything they had advanced over the past tens of thousands of years had laid the perfect foundation for