My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

Chapter 884 521: Baris's Millennium Journey

For the great Lady of Daylight, the Inquisition began composing a hymn of loyalty in Sun City.It was a pity that Alice, this so‑called Daylight Divine Selection who had yet to grasp any real power, had no chance to participate in the Inquisition's arrests; otherwise, given Alice's temperament, no one knew what kind of trouble she might have stirred up.

However, the Chaos in Sun City very soon spread, along the connections between sects, to all regions under the Daylight Church's rule.

There was no need for Baris to deliberately push anything; under the manipulation of schemers and the well‑intentioned, the investigations into these sects quickly turned into mass arrests, and soon after, into trials targeting the conservative and neutral sects.

The priests, fanatically devoted to the Church's expansionism, raised the name of the Lady of Daylight high and carried out swift suppression of these sects.

Next, the conservatives and neutrals could no longer satisfy the extremist priests; they turned their gaze of judgement toward those sects that supported expansion but were not radical enough.

In this wave, a sharp blade raised against the entire world was gradually coalescing.

During this process, Shen Sui had actually been observing Vivian's condition the whole time.

Though Baris and Vivian ultimately shared the same goal—to create a Dawn Continent without Gods—

after experiencing the departure of her two close friends, Vivian and Shen Sui, Baris, who valued friendship so deeply, began to undergo subtle changes in her mindset.

Shen Sui did not know exactly what Vivian had said to Baris before leaving, but he was very certain that with Vivian's then‑naive nature, she absolutely would not have pushed Baris toward a decision like "becoming the Lady of Daylight, conquering the entire continent, and utterly annihilating the other Gods."

One must know that the failure of the Twilight of the Gods back then was, to a large extent, because Vivian, in order to keep the calamity from spreading across the whole continent and harming commoners who were already living in hardship, chose a near‑Beheading‑Operation style of swift victory—killing only the Gods and those stubborn high‑ranking priests—which was what led to the later Recovery of The Gods.

According to Shen Sui's understanding of Vivian, even at that stage—when she had already been betrayed by her companions and the commoners she wanted to protect—she was still, at her core, kind, and probably still unwilling to harm ordinary people.

Shen Sui actually did not care much about the future of the Dawn Continent; the existence or absence of Gods made little difference to him. Helping Vivian was more about emotion and the quest in the game.

If he had to state a stance, his sympathies actually leaned more toward Baris's way of thinking.

As long as the rule of the Church and the Gods objectively existed, no matter how you struggled, the moment you touched the Extraordinary field, you could not avoid the Church.

Over the past thousand years, the Church had never allowed any system of Extraordinary Power inheritance beyond its control to exist; this was also why the Roland Magic Academy had been so heavily suppressed. If not for the Academy's exceedingly deep foundations, it would long ago have vanished from the river of history like the other Magic Academies.

Switching the interface to Baris's page, Shen Sui watched Baris's psychological journey scrolling across the Dueling Device.

Baris truly was not good at lying to her own friends and kin.

While Shen Sui chatted idly with her, though she spoke no secrets aloud, in her heart she could not help but recall the experiences of the past thousand years.

Vivian's conversation with Baris before she left was presented before Shen Sui in a glimpse‑through‑a‑tube fashion.

Back then, Vivian really was still very naive; even though she had already been betrayed by those she protected, she still begged Baris not to harm the people who were shouting to burn her alive.

[After Vivian left, the Twilight Council fell apart.]

[Baris was confident she could, by sheer strength, force the loose Council back into a single rope, but what difference would such one‑person rule have from the empires or Church‑states of old?]

[When an insider opened the city gates and they faced the descent of a dozen Gods, Baris was forced to lead the last members of the Council into flight.]

[That was the darkest moment of Baris's life.]

[Hunted by the united forces of the Gods, they were forced to skulk and hide everywhere.]

[Those who had supported the Twilight Council were slaughtered beneath the iron hooves of The Gods.]

[For the first time in her life, Baris felt powerless.]

[She disbanded the remaining Twilight Council, telling them to scatter and flee for their lives as they wished.]

[The lost Baris began to wander across the Dawn Continent.]

[She herself did not know what exactly she was searching for—perhaps Claude and Vivian's whereabouts, or something else entirely.]

[At last, when she went to Lake Paiyiga to check the Treasure Box Claude had left behind, she passed through a village that had been massacred.]

[Among the villagers' corpses, she picked up a baby girl.]

[Baris's life seemed to have a goal again; she gave the girl a name using Vivian's surname.]

[Back then, she probably had already, deep in her heart, formed the idea of training this girl as Vivian's successor.]

[This girl named Alois Yimiti was a natural Mage; no matter what kind of Magic Baris taught her, she could master it in the shortest time.]

[Unfortunately, Baris was not a Mage, and the Magic she had learned was limited.]