A Lesson in the Holy Guard's Benevolence: The Great Prophet Defeated the Synthetic Queen with Words

The great Prophet, a sage recognized throughout the Cosmos, a Saint posthumously canonized by the Holy World Guardians, the hero who had sacrificed himself to single-handedly seal away the Synthetic Queen-Zarqlan had returned in triumph!

If the Synthetic Queen's return had mostly filled the Sea of Stars with fear, Zarqlan's return filled the entire Sea of Stars with shock and excitement.

Incidentally, thanks to Xi Yan's pleas, Cetana had not declared war on the Old Bastards, despite originally intending to declare war on every Awakened Empire and destroy them. Instead, she trusted Xi Yan to persuade them to submit to her grand undertaking.

Oh, dear! Yet another debt to the Human Empire that could never be repaid!

Meanwhile, the Great Prophet Zarqlan, whose resurrection had been formally announced, had stepped forward. The Human Empire, the Shroudwalker Enclave, and the stunned Holy Guard had all verified his identity. His remains were now brimming with life and served as his current body.

After painstaking investigation by the Shroudwalker Enclave's leading experts in the psionics field, the possibility that Zarqlan's current consciousness was a fabrication of the Shroud had largely been ruled out. He was confirmed to be the very same Saint from all those years ago.

The Holy Guard had only just awakened as the Doctrine Enforcers when they heard this earth-shattering news. Before Zarqlan, their representatives put on a display of facial contortions that went from shock to disbelief to streaming tears, leaving even the Great Prophet struggling to keep a straight face.

Now, apart from Xi Yan, the Nameless Apostasy-er, and the Holy Guard, Cetana was the only person in the entire universe with a direct connection to Zarqlan.

Zarqlan seemed to know some of Xi Yan's and the Heavenly People Empire of Faith's secrets. He had also secretly supported