Chapter 1257

The consciousness of the Star of Azure was leaping wildly. Just when the Undead Sovereign had blocked it, he had once proposed a suggestion: let it discard some things in exchange for a brand-new small star, transfer its consciousness to the small star, and regain a new life.

At the time, the Star of Azure had refused. Firstly, it had no trust in the other party and did not believe his words; secondly, it knew all too well how difficult it was for a small star to grow into a star.

A small star must at least devour and absorb all the matter and consciousness of an entire world to have a possibility of growing into a complete star, and the quantity involved in this is truly enormous.

At the time, it still had other paths, so it refused without the slightest hesitation.

But now, the other path had already been blocked off. It had lost its main body, and apart from its consciousness, it had nothing left to lose. Thus, this proposal made its frantic heart stir.

Having lost its main body and retaining only a very small portion of its power, the future of the Star of Azure was extremely bleak. Originally, it was just an aging star, but now it had become an old and crippled star. Without a doubt, it would welcome death at a faster speed than before.

If it converted into a small star, at least the problem of its lifespan would be solved. As long as it was still alive, who knew what might happen in the future?

Having figured this point out, the Star of Azure looked hesitantly at the face on the main body that had once belonged to it. Now, the only problem was, could the other party be trusted?

Was he truly willing to give it a star seed? Or did he want to trick it into offering a spiritual lock-contract, then directly obliterate it and snatch away this last bit of star power as well?

The consciousness of the Star of Azure swept back over the Sovereign and returned to Ang. Compared to the skeleton behind him, Ang was more worthy of trust. This was an opponent who had defeated it, an opponent worthy of respect.

"I offer you the spiritual lock-contract, Lord of Stars." The Star of Azure said slowly, and a massive spiritual lock-contract slowly floated up from its body.

However, what shocked Anthony and Negris even more was not the spiritual lock-contract, but a huge flame of faith ignited in front of Ang: "Faith... flame of faith? It ignited a flame of faith? This... has the laws been overturned? It, a dignified star, actually ignited a flame of faith?"

Shock, bewilderment, absurdity—all sorts of feelings surged into their hearts. The fact that the Star of Azure submitted to Ang was not as shocking to them as this inexplicably ignited flame of faith.

A star, the most primordial existence in the void, the foundation of all matter and consciousness—admittedly, the Star of Azure was old at this moment, but it shouldn't have fallen to the point of igniting a flame of faith, right?

However, after the shock, curiosity couldn't help but surge up. Negris said: "This is a flame of faith ignited by a star's consciousness. Damn it, doesn't this mean it's the faith recognized by the strongest consciousness in the void? Quick, quick, see what's special about it."

Ang received the spiritual lock-contract and the flame of faith, took a look, and said: "Lord of Stars."

"Lord of Stars? What does that mean? Is this the information from the flame of faith?" Negris asked in bewilderment.

The flame of faith is the predecessor of divinity; it contains a strong cognition of a certain faith. For example, Xiludi, she believed that Lisa's Lord was the incarnation of the Goddess of Beauty, so she ignited Ang's flame of beauty.

Or like Negris, it felt that Ang's divine skills would be a waste if he didn't become the God of Planting, so it ignited Ang's flame of planting. These were all their simple cognitions of a certain existence.

Now, the content of the flame of faith was "Lord of Stars." Could it be that the Star of Azure's simple cognition of Ang was "Lord of Stars"?

Negris asked hesitantly: "This flame of faith is outrageously large. How many faith nodes do I need to fill into it? Igniting the flame of faith is easy, but how do I transform it into divinity? Is it okay to build a Church of the Lord of Stars? Can the faith of ordinary creatures transform this flame of faith ignited by a star into divinity?"

Ang shook his head; he didn't know either.

"How about I try?" After Anthony finished speaking, he immediately prayed devoutly: "Supreme Lord of Stars, you are the Lord of billions of stars, your radiance shines upon the void, piercing through the pitch-black nothingness, billions of stars offer you as their Lord, your will is the direction in which billions of stars shine..."

Great Prayer Art—

As the Lord's only spokesperson in the world, Anthony represented all believers who worshipped light, brilliance, the undead, beauty, planting... and so on. When he activated the Great Prayer Art, almost all devout believers could perceive it in the dark, and then subconsciously began to pray.

However, soon, Ang shook his head; the flame of faith had no changes at all.

At this stage, faith power has no meaning for the flame of faith. What is needed is to establish a faith network. The faster a faith network with enough nodes is woven, and the faster nodes with devout faith are woven, the faster the flame of faith will transform.

In the process of transforming into divinity, the number of believers is very important, and the number of fanatics is even more important. Under Anthony's leadership, weaving a faith power network of hundreds of thousands in an instant was too simple, but the flame of faith didn't change at all.

"Could it be that the distance is too far?" Negris said.

Ang shook his head.

"Even I don't have it? Then it's not a distance problem." Anthony said.

Other believers were far away, but his distance was not far. Moreover, he could perceive the faith network, which meant that Ang could also perceive the faith network, it was just that it couldn't connect to the flame of faith.

"That is to say, the faith of ordinary believers has no meaning for it. To transform it into divinity, do I need a bunch of stars as believers?" Negris gasped.

There were only two stars whose existence had been confirmed: one was Gomeizburg, and the other was the Star of Azure. The little fire man could only count as half. How could he find "a bunch" of stars as believers?

"Then this flame of faith is useless. What a pity." Negris said regretfully.

"Uh, although it is a bit of a pity, the Lord just contracted a star, and saying such things is a bit too much, right?" Anthony said.

"Uh, that's right, snatched a star." Negris finally reacted a bit. Ang captured a star and also received its spiritual lock-contract; the flame of faith was just an incidental item.

This was something that had never happened before. A star was actually captured by someone and had to offer a spiritual lock-contract. Ang was truly worthy of being the Lord of Stars.

Ang released his armor transformation, threw all the fallen power to Xia Mala, then picked her and Luna up and flew out from within the star, pointed at the star's main body, and said to the Star of Azure: "Return it to you."

"What?!" The Star of Azure exclaimed in disbelief.

"What? No! Why return it to it? Didn't you say you'd give it a star seed? Such enormous power, you're going to return it to it?" Negris also exclaimed.

Ang shook his head: "Too old, exhausted, too late."

(End of chapter)