【Commandment Updated】

【Identity 1】

【Primary Commandment: Oathkeeping】

【Commandment Feedback: New Addition - (Sacrifice Attachment): Contract Artifact can forcibly drain parasitic and controlled targets' life force to enhance the artifact.】

【Identity 2】

【Primary Commandment: Forgiveness】

【Commandment Feedback: New Addition (Isabella) - Resoluteness: When you resolutely commit to certain actions, your mental resilience increases.】

For Jacques, they had completely lost in every sense.

But for Naimes and his group, they had achieved total victory - an overwhelming win.

From this point onward, all those who opposed them had completely vanished.

Jacques wouldn't be killed immediately because Naimes still needed the research results from the old priest that he possessed.

That's right, the old priest had indeed failed.

Research relying solely on blood couldn't create a Saint, but Naimes wasn't seeking a Saint anyway.

What he truly wanted was simply the immense power enhancement derived from the old priest's research on Holy Blood.

Why had the Church never imposed substantial punishment on the old priest from beginning to end?

Part of the reason was that he had voluntarily left Breathspring City, abandoning the power center on this whale's back. The source of thɪs content is novel•fire.net

Another reason was that experimental failure didn't mean there were absolutely no results.

The old priest and his team had pursued perfection too excessively - they wanted to perfectly replicate a Saint's power. But for the Church, simply enabling some people to attain the power level of Saint descendants would have been sufficient.

Naimes and the Church shared similar perspectives.

The requirements for becoming a Saint were too demanding - it required comprehensive sublimation of an individual's soul.

The cost-effectiveness simply wasn't high enough.

Naimes felt the old priest's final form as a Being of Light was quite promising.

Using hypnosis, illusion techniques, or other methods to control a group of people, then transforming them into Beings of Light to serve as disposable suicide squads.

Basically, any individual living in this material plane would find this extremely troublesome to deal with.

Naimes could win because at that moment he had stacked the power of three identities, not only experiencing explosive numerical value growth but also possessing sacred attributes equivalent to a Petitioning Angel.

In other words, from numerical values to traits, plus the techniques Naimes had cultivated through his own training.

With these three aspects combined, Naimes dared to exchange blows with even a true Saint, let alone a flawed pseudo-Saint.

"Isabella will probably remain unconscious for some time before awakening. Once she contacts the Church, investigations will inevitably follow." Naimes gathered all his subordinates in his home to arrange subsequent matters.

"Op, you handle collecting the remaining experimental data from the old priest."

"Duplicate what can be copied, take away what cannot."

"Then take the others and hide in the wilderness for some time."

After Naimes finished speaking, Op immediately nodded, indicating he understood.

After this battle, he had completely abandoned all petty schemes and now served Naimes wholeheartedly.

After all...

Op's mind recalled that one-winged, blind Petitioning Angel.

Although Naimes hadn't explicitly stated it, everyone knew this contained enormous secrets.

And the greater the secret, the greater the achievements Naimes might attain.

Those following Naimes could consequently gain more benefits and accomplishments.

As a businessman, Op clearly understood the significant risks involved, but any endeavor required evaluating both risks and returns.

Regarding this current risk, he decided to follow through.

Meanwhile, Naimes continued arranging subsequent tasks for these people.

Among these, the more troublesome aspects involved the village guard and Lia.

Lia's whale transformation could no longer be suppressed. Once the transformation completed, she would advance to Steel Seed level.

Ordinary people genuinely couldn't handle watching over her.

Letting her roam freely would be extremely dangerous.

Moreover, upon successful whale transformation, Lia's existence would trigger agitation in the Floating Whale.

Once such agitation occurred, the Church would inevitably dispatch people to investigate.

The Church might lack Saints, but they certainly didn't lack Gold Seed level individuals.

This world's most complete and crucial methods for seed number growth remained in the Church's hands.

To be precise, in the hands of God.

Although they had suffered special disasters forcing everyone to live on whale backs, their culture hadn't fractured and remained relatively intact.

At least their power system had survived intact.

Additionally, upon reaching Gold Seed level, lifespan received tremendous enhancement. Consequently, the Church even preserved some Gold Seed individuals from before the whale-back era.

Thus, Gold Seed individuals weren't as scarce as imagined.

Triggering Floating Whale agitation, for the sake of millions living on whale backs, already justified Gold Seed intervention.

Furthermore, among magical schools, one school specialized in prophecy.

Prophecy school magic could apply to combat perception, detection of traps and deception, and long-distance, long-term information gathering.

A Whale Transformation Disease case that had already undergone whale transformation, once it triggered omens, basically couldn't remain hidden.

Especially since after whale transformation, the patient still wouldn't possess normal rationality.

A mindless yet violent individual with Steel Seed level power also proved difficult to conceal.

"After whale transformation, they essentially become whales that continue growing. For unknown reasons, Whale Transformation Disease patients only obtain brief peace after consuming human organs."

"This represents a massive unstable factor." Naimes considered that, rationally speaking, activating the contract's contingency plan to tear up the contract without loss, then killing Lia immediately upon her whale transformation would be the most correct choice.

What Naimes needed to consider was how to prevent others from developing "when the rabbit dies, the fox mourns" sympathy after this incident.

After all, if Lia must die, then the village guard must die too.

If the deaths appeared too direct, the team cohesion that had just been established through victory would instantly dissipate.

However, right at this moment, Naimes seemed to sense something.

Standing up, Naimes opened the basement door.

The village guard's expression drastically changed as he quickly followed, ready to act at any moment.

Despite the enormous power gap, this represented the final thing a father could do.

The moment the door opened, what appeared wasn't that ugly, obese Whale Man.

Instead, it was a girl draped in simple linen cloth. The girl wasn't pretty, bearing the pallor from long absence from sunlight.

She seemed to see the village guard, opening her mouth awkwardly as she haltingly called out: "Dad."

The village guard stared blankly at his long-unseen daughter, tears unconsciously flooding forth.

In that instant, he cared about nothing else, rushing toward Lia with streaming tears, tightly embracing his daughter in his arms.

Lia felt caught off guard by everything, but quickly broke free from her father's embrace. She glanced at Naimes with puzzled eyes, then ran toward another room in Naimes' house.

Pushing open the room door, a white-haired person with closed eyes currently sat by the bedside, the single wing behind them slowly shrinking as it withdrew into their body.

Upon seeing this person, Lia quickly ran over and leaned against them.

"Anin?!"

"Yo, long time no see my original self. But what's this situation?"

"Waking up to find a little girl - I'm not a priest, I don't fancy little boys, hmm, don't fancy little girls either."