The more they oppose, the more it shows that I am doing the right thing

"The gods do not favor children with eyebrow pencil."

[An Su Moningsta (16), beginning the order of succession draw]

The sheet of sunlight before his eyes transformed, with brilliant golden rays constantly twisting and pulsating, forming one after another exquisite and arcane sacred patterns, all of which were the Holy Imprints of the Seven Great Churches.

An Su fixed his gaze and first saw the ’Healing’ belief seal, comprised of angel wings and a scepter, followed by the Druid Sect’s emblem, formed from a great tree and antlers... One after the other, the holy emblems lined up in succession, their appearance order corresponding to An Su’s sequence of entering the rooms.

Accordingly, they were:

Healing, Chastity, Druid, Alchemy, Order, Radiance, Star.

An Su slightly furrowed his brow, looking at the order of rooms he was to enter the arena in. The sequence wasn’t great.

Against Princess Cersei, if An Su wanted to win, he needed to pass through at least six rooms, so the more suitable rooms were better placed earlier on, with the hardest rooms ideally at the end.

But now, the two he was weakest at were right at the front.

The first was the Healing belief.

Though An Su proclaimed himself as a saint of the medical arts, able to guarantee a two hundred percent survival rate in the emergency room—even achieving zero negative feedback from all patients, perfectly handling the frequent medical disputes—he was widely recognized in the Chaotic Frontier.

Yet, ’letting patients have twins and then sacrificing them’—such advanced, civilized, and scientific medical techniques were too far ahead of the times; these backward, blood-drinking natives of another world probably wouldn’t be able to accept it.

Then there was the Chastity belief.

This sect was the second most niche among the seven major sects and possessed the highest difficulty for a Church’s exams; only a handful of saints qualified to enter—its saints’ initiations required the approval of a holy creature designated by the goddess, the unicorns, known for their peculiar and perverted virgin obsessions.

After all, no one was like the perennial virgin Merlin, who was naturally a Sacred Body of the Chastity Sect; it was a pity that he had bad luck with the Radiant Holy See and could not shine and thrive within the Chastity Cathedral. Continue your adventure with NovelBin.Côm

However, maintaining chastity was just the minimum requirement.

Chastity Church was formally known as ’Chastity and Suffering Church,’ and its followers were not referred to as ’saints’ but should be called ascetics or sufferers.

Just as the Druid Court corresponds with the Esoteric Sect’s Life Ecclesia, and the Order Church with the Sanctuary of Chaos,

the Chastity Church corresponded with the Esoteric Sect’s Painful Church.

Through decades of physical suffering rituals and spiritual cleansing decrees, they sought power, with ’suffering’ as their life’s pursuit. Their magical system was also associated with ’suffering’. Born into the Chenxing family, An Su had hardly experienced hardship, so his understanding of this sect was not profound.

Ascetics adopted a variety of ways to practice, all in all, it involved actively seeking suffering, imposing various restrictions and decrees upon themselves in life, but during combat, they could turn those decrees upon their enemies.

Some emulated the monks of Eastern nations, practicing silent meditations for over a decade without speaking, aiming to achieve the highest-tier Silence Decree, desiring to ban their enemies’ magic incantations in battle.

Now, this gentleman has made some accomplishments; once he issued his Silence Decree, his opponents contracted the most severe halitosis, potentially knocking themselves unconscious as soon as they chanted, effectively achieving silence on a physical level.

Others ascetics were more traditional yet enjoyed cosplaying. After researching ancient texts, one had drilled a hole in his palm. Once combat began and the Chastity Magic was successfully cast, he could cause a small hole to appear on his opponent, with the location determined by the rank difference between them—sometimes in the head, sometimes in the chest, or perhaps the ear.

If one’s rank was far superior to the enemy’s, a lethal hole could appear in critical areas like the head or chest, ensuring an instant kill; a smaller rank gap would only allow for a non-lethal location like the ear, leaving the opponent alive.

Since ascetics possess more than one type of Chastity Magic, they had to endure multiple types of hardships simultaneously.

These were just the typical ascetics; the highest-tier among them must be acknowledged as a saint. He was from the Chastity Sect during his sainthood, a genius amongst suffering since his youth and incredibly unlucky, who after witnessing all the pains of humanity, sought to reach the pinnacle of suffering by switching to the Radiance as an officer—

And then he followed Merlin.

Each time he took the blame, he gained a deeper understanding of the Church’s corruption and the people’s suffering,

After bearing the blame for Merlin more than a dozen times, this saint had now comprehended the absolute pinnacle of suffering, just awaiting the day to switch back to the Chastity Church, then he could ascend to a demigod of suffering, and his Chastity Decrees would reach the highest-tier ’Unselectable’ and ’Damage Transfer’ Decrees.

However, it seems unlikely he’ll leave before Merlin finds another Blamebearing Saint.

In summary, entrance conditions for the Chastity Church are extremely stringent, but in return, its Chastity Magic is quite twisted. An Su had barely suffered in his life, ending up in the awkward situation of having theory without practice.

Excluding those two, the sequence of the other rooms hardly mattered; there was no significant impact.

It just happened that those two were upfront...

[An Su Moningsta (16)]

[Selection order draw complete]

An Su gently knitted his brows, and then he noticed new text forming before him in the entangled light. He looked carefully, and his brows abruptly rose,