Lette squinted slightly, "Witch? Old man, don't make things up.
I know quite a bit about the Tower of Truth too. I've never heard of any Witch Project."
"Of course you haven't, it's top secret in the Tower of Truth! Besides the three Great Sages and the thirteen members of the Truth Council, no one else knows about it."
Moslian seemed quite proud of possessing such confidential knowledge, "It's an experiment capable of overturning the world! And its truly terrifying aspect is, it's already succeeded!
It's just a pity that the great Tower of Truth was besieged by you ignorant people.
You should be thankful that the Tower of Truth at the time focused most of its energy on the verification of knowledge and truth.
Otherwise, you would have had no chance of victory!"
Lette scoffed, "When heaven wishes to destroy something, it first drives it insane. The outcome of the Tower of Truth was self-inflicted; its end was already destined, merely a matter of time.
But seeing as you mean to say..."
As he spoke, he pressed down Emily's head, "Is she one of your Tower of Truth's witches?"
"No! That's impossible!"
Count Laurence was in a panic, though he was somewhat pedantic and timid, he wasn't foolish. From the conversation between the two, he keenly sensed that his daughter might be in danger.
"Emily is my daughter, my biological daughter! She is a member of the Lawrence Family! She's definitely not some witch! Holy Knight, sir! You must see clearly!"
Moslian chuckled coldly, "She is indeed not a witch. Or rather, she is merely a link in the witch chain. My purpose in doing all of this is to steal the Witch Power!
Alright, I'm done with my part, now it's your turn."
Lette raised an eyebrow, "Playing word games, aren't we? How childish."
"This is called perfectly avoiding the power of the oath, it's your fault for being vague in the beginning."
Moslian pointed his magic wand at Lette, "Alright! Hurry up and reveal your secret! Why is the Holy Shackles ineffective on you?"
"I never said the Holy Shackles were ineffective on me. In fact, the seal is still in effect so far."
Lette pulled aside his shirt to reveal chain-like imprints on his body, "As you can see, I indeed cannot communicate with the Holy Light Goddess, nor can she bother me any further.
In this regard, I have you to thank."
"Impossible, since you lost the link with the Goddess, how can you possibly use Divine Arts? Even the legendary White Robed Archbishop and the Divine Crowned Pope perished under the Holy Shackles!
By what reason could you?"
"The Divine Art System and Magic System are different, you should know that."
Lette picked at his ear, cheekily gathering Holy Light at his fingertip, "Magic relies on magic configuration and the ratio of different attribute elements, with spells merely being mnemonic formulas to construct configurations.
Mages, Sorcerers, Alchemists, Wizards, while each has its own characteristics, all roads lead to the same destination.
But Divine Arts and Divine Curses are different, take the Holy Light Church's Divine Officers for example, we don't store Light Elements within us, but Holy Light mixed with Divine Power.
When we cast Divine Curses, we also need configurations, but we only handle part of it. The remainder is provided by the Holy Light Goddess.
It's like the Holy Light Goddess providing different models of Magic Crystal Cannons, and the Divine Officer only needs to handle the loading, aiming, and firing.
This results in, once sealed by Holy Shackles, even if the rank of the Divine Officer is high, it doesn't matter.
After all, without a barrel, no matter how powerful the shell is, how accurate the aim, how elegant the firing posture, it's all useless.
But I'm different, aside from the official server provided by the Holy Light Goddess, I also set up my own private server."
Moslian smacked his lips, "Private... private server?"
"Yes, I really like the encapsulation concept in the Divine Art System, where you can directly call upon a Divine Curse when needed without having to restructure every time.
But I didn't get along with the Holy Light Goddess, she often gave me a hard time. So, in a fit of anger, I set up my own system and no longer have to care about her moods."
Lette clapped his hands at this point, "Oh, I forgot to tell you, actually, I'm not at max Element Affinity with Light Element, but with Light Law Affinity.
In terms of authority over the laws, I surpass the Holy Light Goddess.
So never mind the Holy Shackles, even if she personally intervened, she couldn't seal my power.
Unless you find someone with higher authority over the Light Law."
Upon hearing this, Moslian shrieked angrily, "Rubbish! You, an ordinary person! How could you possibly surpass a god in authority over the laws?"
Lette shrugged, "It's innate. No need to get riled up. The Lord of Truth hasn't reacted, proving that what I'm saying is true."
With that one sentence, Moslian's face turned as pale as snow. If it's true, do I still have a chance?
No choice, strike first!
"Holy Rank Magic! Dimensional Wind Blade!"
"Super Position Divine Skill! Light Fall!"
The two of them struck nearly simultaneously, with Moslian gathering two massive wind blades in front of him capable of tearing through dimensional barriers.
Holy Rank Magic is instantly cast without chanting, and casting two at once is enough to rampage the entire continent.
But unfortunately, facing him was the terrifying Lette, who with a mere point commanded a Super Position Divine Spell one rank higher.
Twelve layers of Holy Light Array stacked above Moslian's head, a beam as thick as a finger locked onto his forehead.
With a crisp bang, the roaring Holy Light descended directly enveloping him.
Moslian was forced to cross-launch two Dimensional Slashes, tearing apart the space above to divert a large portion of the Holy Light. But the remaining part still obliterated two-thirds of his body.
Even though his flesh quickly regenerated after the light faded, the recovery speed was noticeably slower than before.
At this point, Moslian completely believed Lette's words. Instantaneous Super Position Divine Spell casting is something only the Divine Crown Saint Emperor Delanos I did during the Holy War.
And that was only successful under the blessing of the Three Great Holy Artifacts, and after using it, he temporarily lost the ability to fight.
Yet this young man before him, carrying the Holy Shackles Seal, wielded it with ease.
"Superposition Magic, with your strength, how many times can you cast it?"
Lette grinned, "Hard to say, depends on when the Holy Light Goddess notices. As a sworn enemy, you should know.
When Divine Officers use Divine Arts, they pay part of the cost, and the Holy Light Goddess pays part.
Usually, the ratio is about nine to one.
If there's a blessing from the Goddess, plus some Holy Artifacts, blessings, baptisms, and special circumstances, the Goddess's part might increase.
Some can even reach an astonishing fifty-fifty split.
But I'm not on good terms with her, before we completely fell out, it was always a ten to zero split, she didn't spend any Divine Power, and let me foot the entire bill.
When you're under someone's roof, you endure it. But after I fell out with her, I wasn't going to be polite.
I found a loophole on her end... it's complicated to explain, just know that now when I use Divine Arts, the cost is now zero to ten split with the Goddess footing the bill.
So before she notices anything amiss, finds the loophole, and figures out how to fix it.
I'm using Divine Curses with the Goddess paying, basically freeloading!"
Moslian was terrified, unable to tell if Lette was bluffing, but from the start, everything was beyond his understanding.
With no other option, he reached for his heart.
"Didn't expect to use it in a place like this."