Chapter 698: Condemnation deck
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Translated by: La0o9
Edited by: Dr.Lock
Proofreader: Arya
[Attention]
[You are turning into a card]
Reading that on the War God UI, Gu Qing Shan completely froze.
It might sound egotistical to say that Gu Qing Shan personally felt like his ability to forcefully keep calm was already quite impressive, but the notification just completely blew all of that away.
Without waiting for him to think too much, the girl had finished her preparations.
The girl lightly tapped the center of her own forehead.
A sprite of light that gave off unimaginable majesty came out from between her brows, perfectly caught in between her fingers.
As soon as this sprite of light appeared, the entire world seemed to disappear.
Time and space no longer existed.
Only this sprite of light that illuminated the entire world existed.
Billions of worlds and all creatures within them seemed to prostrate themselves before this light.
Even Gu Qing Shan himself couldn’t help but feel the urge to worship it.
The girl carefully held his sprite of light as she walked before Gu Qing Shan.
She lightly muttered: “Allow conversion”
The light was then pushed into Gu Qing Shan’s chest.
A blinding glow appeared around Gu Qing Shan’s body.
For a brief moment, he felt that the world itself went away from him as he quickly sank into a world of darkness.
Myriads of unknown creatures were hidden inside the thick darkness, but as Gu Qing Shan appeared, those creatures happily cheered at his appearance.
At the same time, glowing lines of text were quickly scrolling past the War God UI.
[You are becoming a card]
[You’ve violated the Laws established by the Gods]
[The will of the Gods is about to execute you]
[You’ve obtained the only conversion permit that exists since the Age of Old]
[Following the unified vow of the Gods, you have the permission to convert]
[You have completely transformed into a card]
The glowing text stopped here.
A card suddenly appeared in the center of the War God UI.
It was a grey border card, depicting an endless mist of primal chaos on the back, and Gu Qing Shan holding his two swords on the front, hovering in the air.
Below the card, a few lines of text were written.
[Grey card sword cultivator Gu Qing Shan]
[Grade: Grey card Lv0]
[Partner: Condemnation Angel – Dusk]
[Residence deck: Fugitive Deck]
After Gu Qing Shan read through the details of his own card, the information flashed and disappeared, replaced by new lines of glowing text.
[Accepting the position: Envoy of Condemnation]
[You have become an Envoy of Condemnation]
As the final line of text appeared, endless light shone itself on Gu Qing Shan.
The mysterious world disappeared from his vision.
Gu Qing Shan noticed that he had returned to the desert on Drifting Sand world.
The grey runes that had surrounded him before disappeared.
He slowly landed on the ground and tried moving his body.
——-nothing really changed.
“The conversion was successful!”
The white-dressed girl joyfully cheered.
Gu Qing Shan looked at her.
She was smiling in a close and intimate manner unlike before while giggling happily: “From today onwards, you are my one and only partner”
She raised both hands into the air, jumping for joy: “Amazing, I finally have a partner!”
“Wait a minute, I still don’t understand what’s going on” Gu Qing Shan stopped her.
The girl looked at him: “Didn’t you say you wanted to save those 300 or so people?”
Gu Qing Shan replied: “Yes, I did”
The girl continued: “And you can’t become a Divinity anymore right?”
Gu Qing Shan replied again: “Yes”
The girl clapped her hands: “That’s why I converted you into the same type of existence as me”
“…You mean a card?” Gu Qing Shan muttered.
He almost felt like he was dreaming.
“In other words, I’m also a card now? I’m one of your cards now?” he couldn’t help but asked.
“No, you’re the same as me, an Envoy of Condemnation” the girl shook her head.
Gu Qing Shan asked: “I’ve never heard of that name before in my life, what is that?”
The girl was about to answer him.
When the entire desert suddenly began to tremble.
This was such a huge earthquake that when Gu Qing Shan and the girl hovered in the air, it wasn’t until several dozen seconds later that the quake stopped.
The two of them landed again.
“Strange, as far as I know, this world has never had an earthquake ever before” Gu Qing Shan wondered.
The girl carefully sensed her surrounding as her expression tightened: “Oh no, I have to tell you everything now, there isn’t much time”
“Go ahead” Gu Qing Shan replied.
“You know what a Prehistoric World is right?”
“I do, they’re worlds that existed before the Gods”
The girl spoke: “And this world is one of those Prehistoric Worlds, which includes the Law of ‘Eternal’—– and the ‘Eternal’ Law will sometimes allow a Prehistoric World to give birth to creatures that are even more powerful than the Divinities. Those creatures are usually mindless, besides knowing how to hunt Divinities to fill their stomachs, they can only derive joy from havoc and destruction”
“Sounds terrible”
“They are, whenever such a type of Eternal-born creature is created, it is a huge calamity for the Divinities”
“Fortunately, the Divinities have one point of superiority—– the fact that they can create weapons and powers that far exceed their own power”
“And the Envoy of Condemnation is one of them?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“Exactly, you’re very quick on the uptake” the girl praised him and continued, “everything that can threaten the Gods are unanimously deemed by them to be sinful”
“The Envoy of Condemnation was created by the power of seven Daemons, given the power that far exceeded those of themselves and a mission to protect the seven Daemons, eliminating the sins that obstruct their way” (1)
Gu Qing Shan asked: “How many Envoys of Condemnation are there in total?”
The girl shook her head: “How many? To create just one of me, the seven Daemons used up all of their powers”
“To fight the sins that they themselves cannot win against, the seven Daemons created many powerful items and artifact, granting them to me to form the Condemnation Deck”
“With the protection of the Daemons as my mission, I traveled through the infinite worlds, killing or sealing those creatures away and ensured the safety of the seven Daemons”
“During my final mission, the seven Daemons discovered that the Prehistoric world we are currently standing on will birth a particularly powerful sinful existence, so they ordered me to act”
“As the Envoy of Condemnation, I came without hesitation”
“But the situation at the time was extremely hard to deal with, I had no choice but to use all of my powers to put the sinful creature to sleep temporarily”
“Now that I think about it since those Divinities knew me so well, they probably chose the most powerful creature on purpose, using it to get rid of me”
“Wait a minute, you said that they got rid of you?” Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but ask.
The girl sighed: “Yes, at the time when I sealed the creature when I had used up all my powers, the Divinities used their traps they laid beforehand to ambush me and seal me together with the creature”
Gu Qing Shan thought about what he just heard for a bit and asked: “Could it be, they were afraid of you?”
The girl answered: “Yes, during the final period of time that I was with the seven Daemons, I gradually gained my own thoughts and feelings, no longer a simple tool—— I could never forget the look of fear they showed the first time I expressed my feelings to them”
After a brief moment of silence, she continued: “After sleeping for countless years, I slowly reawakened”
“And found that the outside world has changed so greatly that I couldn’t recognize it anymore, the seven Daemons were also nowhere to be seen”
“Furthermore, there were no other Envoys of Condemnation in this world, instead there existed card users”
“I think this might be because the Divinities were afraid of another Envoy of Condemnation who formed their own emotions like me, but weren’t willing to just discard the potent power that they meticulously crafted, so they adjusted the Law of the cards, turning it into the significantly weaker card users of today”
“Then how did I become an Envoy of Condemnation?”
“Because as I was created the four Pillar Gods granted me a conversion permit that allows me to turn any person I chose into a Envoy of Condemnation——- but I think both the Pillar Gods and the Daemons thoroughly regretted that decision”
“Besides that, there was another reason” the girl stared closely at Gu Qing Shan and spoke: “Just like me, you are an existence whose soul has been released—— the seven Daemons don’t have the ability to release the soul of mortals, only the four Pillar Gods can”
“Which means, the only cooperation between the Daemons and the Pillar Gods resulted in the birth of me, the Envoy of Condemnation”
Gu Qing Shan went silent.
So I was seen through.
In truth, if it were for this girl being like this, he wouldn’t have held back against any enemy, eliminating them so that his secrets never get out.
But now, this girl just casually revealed to him that she knew, and even tried her best to help him convert, forming a mutual secret between the two of them.
——even having a release soul is only the most basic requirement, an existence strong enough for even Divinities and Gods to fear, it could be seen just how powerful an Envoy of Condemnation is.
Isn’t this exactly what I was looking for?
“And now what?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
The girl continued her explanation: “After I woke up, I discovered that the sinful creature was still within my seal”
“Together with myself and the entirety of the Condemnation Deck—– the only thing I managed to regain was my consciousness”
Gu Qing Shan scowled: “Gods shouldn’t have made this kind of elementary mistake, how did such a thing happen?”
The girl explained: “After a long time of sensing the outside world, I discovered the reason. A church-like organization was moving large amounts of personnel and resources to study the seal—— they wanted to obtain the unimaginable power of the Condemnation Deck”
“So while they still haven’t succeeded, I began to plot my own escape”
“I gradually found out that I would only be able to escape the seal by entering slumber again after scattering all of my powers and sealing my wisdom away, becoming the weakest since my birth”
“But this would cause a certain problem”
“What’s the problem?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“Once I leave the deck, the sinful creature that even Divinities couldn’t go against will soon wake up” the girl answered.
Gu Qing Shan gradually understood what she meant.
“So in the end, you still fell into slumber, turned into your weakest form and escaped the seal” he commented.
The girl looked straight into Gu Qing Shan’s eyes and sincerely spoke: “In truth, that wasn’t my decision. It was because that church insisted on obtaining the power of the Condemnation Deck—– slowly but surely, they managed to undo the seal, if only for the blink of an eye”
“I took that chance, turned all of the Condemnation Deck into the Fugitive Deck and scattered all of my powers”
“And I escaped the seal”
“Sure enough, the church quickly discovered me and tried to bring me out from deep inside the Abyss of Sin” the girl said.
“You turned the Condemnation Deck to the Fugitive Deck…” Gu Qing Shan repeated.
This was the same as what the War God UI told him.
“Why is it called the Fugitive Deck?” he asked.
The girl answered: “Because I’ve lost the majority of my power, didn’t you already know what that means?”
Gu Qing Shan trembled a bit and realized.
“That’s right” he muttered, “now that you’ve left the seal, the creature that the Divinities were afraid of would soon awaken as well”
The girl added: “That world-wide earthquake just now was most likely the creature turning in its sleep, I assume that it will completely awaken very soon”
“Which means, we need to escape right away?”
“Exactly”
“How much time do we have left?”
The girl extended a single finger.
“One day. After one day, all living beings of this world will surely become the creature’s food” the girl slowly told him
TN: Please forgive the confusing use of the terms “Divinity” and “God” in this chapter, there is no easy way to explain them to not be confusing without spoilers, so please bear with the author and myself.
(1) Daemon: This is what Dusk refers to the seven Gods as, if you want a refresher on what Daemons are, check the glossary for confusing terms.
