The Second Magatsu Blade

As the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy's voice fell, one passerby after another emerged from the darkness, crowding the street behind him.

They were all people controlled by the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy's Heart Calamity, drawn here from all over. Upon reaching this street, they silently knelt behind the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy like a tide, their foreheads pressed tightly to the ground like trembling slaves offering their loyalty to their master.

In this country, everyone had to worship the gods.

And the divine envoys who walked among mortals represented the gods' will. They were beings whom everyone had to revere. As generation after generation passed, that reverence and unconditional obedience had gradually evolved into fear.

And fear was the nourishment of Heart Calamity.

Of the 3,224 people within a radius of ten kilometers, 3,192 met the condition of "fearing his existence from the depths of their hearts." This meant that unless all 3,192 people died, the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy himself was immortal.

This was the most troublesome of the seven Oracle Envoys, Oracle Envoy No. 2—Heart Calamity.

This strength did not actually stem from the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy's own ability, but from this country's culture, history, and environment.

If he were thrown into Great Xia, hardly anyone would fear an Oracle Envoy. There would be pitifully few candidates he could turn into vessels, and killing him would be effortless. But in this land that worshipped the gods, as a divine envoy, wherever he went, he had an almost endless supply of substitutes!

This was also why Amamiya Haruki's master had repeatedly lost to Oracle Envoy No. 2.

As time passed, more and more people gathered behind the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy and knelt on the ground. There were already more than three hundred of them. In addition, nearly three thousand potential vessels were either