My Arms Can Turn into Blades

Chapter 531 - 37: Limit

Upon hearing Hank Machado’s words, Hecate, who was standing by, did not respond. She simply gazed towards the coastline and softly said, "Don’t make a big noise over there."

"Don’t worry."

Hank Machado smiled confidently, then said, "We know what to do."

"... Will there be an issue with our faith?"

But Igri Saba, standing next to Hank Machado, wasn’t as confident. He worriedly said, "If they fail and get killed... we will lose our believer status instantly, and never be able to reach the Zhan Kan (closest to god) realm in this lifetime."

The Hank Machado and Igri Saba on Chuituo Beach are not just simple duplicates.

They are actually the springs of their faith.

To fight for honor and faith is merely a slogan for most Church Empowerers.

But for the elite of the Church and Advanced Empowerers, it’s not just a slogan.

Just like the domestic Stone Stage is divided into five phases, the Church also has similar phase classifications.

The five domestic phases are—Core Gathering, Solid Core, Che Xin, Zhan Kan, and Seal.

Among these, the promotion from Che Xin to Zhan Kan, Si Yujie once told Chen Lusi that the most important is ’to understand what you want, what you don’t want, and to explore the thoughts rooted deep in the soul, rooted in the bones.’

Although the Church doesn’t have such a saying, the spring of faith, after all... is really the same thing.

’To explore the thoughts rooted deep in the soul, rooted in the bones,’ is essentially faith, only domestically there’s no restriction on this, such faith can be protecting a daughter or living freely.

Of course, it could also be more private thoughts, such as exactly what Xia Yue believed in for promotion to Zhan Kan, no one knows, Si Yujie is also unsure.

The Church, however, is a bit stricter, though there are quite a few unconventional faiths, like ’piety’ that most Church Empowerers, except for a few Ascetics, avoid because once selecting this spring of faith, it means a lifetime of living simply, abstinent and self-sacrificial, and once indulgence begins, faith will become unstable. If it is a Holy Coffin Knight, the name on the back of the ring will be immediately erased, even turning completely into an ordinary person.

Even for the most devout believer, living simply, abstinent, and self-sacrificial for a lifetime... is still too strict.

Therefore, most Church System Empowerers choose relatively more forgiving virtues as the spring of their faith.

And these virtues are not limited to those recorded in the Revelations, corresponding to sins; influenced by the famous religious military actions in world history—the Crusades, it actually also includes knightly virtues.

This is the popular choice.

For instance, Igri Saba chose courage.

Hank Machado chose spirituality.

And these Church elites, innately gifted existences, basically, when very young, would confirm their spring of faith, and as they age, continuously strengthen related concepts and faiths, thus bringing themselves closer to the chosen virtue, making faith increasingly pure, easier to be favored by God, and step quicker into the Zhan Kan (closest to god) realm.

This is a broad road for the vast majority of Church elites.

And what Hecate is doing now... is equivalent to stripping away the springs of faith, the two Hank Machado and Igri Saba who have believed in courage and spirituality from an early age, and throwing them into the battlefield.

This, of course, is not as simple as creating duplicates.

In fact.

The Hank Machado and Igri Saba on Chuituo Beach have no idea that they are fake.

Because they possess past memories, devout faith, and their own glory.

They only feel that they are the real Hank Machado and Igri Saba.

On the contrary, the real bodies here feel very uncomfortable.

Because they have already become faithless.

Hank Machado is still fine.

But as a Holy Coffin Knight, believing in courage, Igri Saba... feels as if something is missing inside, and the whole person is somewhat uneasy.

"Don’t worry."

Hank Machado, upon hearing Igri Saba’s words and seeing the Holy Coffin Knight who suddenly lost his former flair, found it amusing: "That’s your ’courage’... my spring of faith is spirituality, which highly impacts my strength, but for you, whose spring of faith is ’courage,’ it makes no difference. Perhaps another you is currently slaughtering on the beach over there, do you have no confidence at all?"

...

"Confidence! Yes, Tang Language is right, Wu You, can’t you be a bit more confident?"

At the same time.

Chuituo Beach.

Shu Li looked at the invaders lying scattered on the ground, then patted Wu You, who had just been yelling, on the shoulder, and teased him.

...

"It’s not about the lack of confidence."

Igri Saba shook his head after hearing this: "The extraction of the spring of faith has too great an impact on us..."

Speaking up to this point.

He paused, then suddenly raised his fan-like right hand: "If something unexpected happens over there, we will completely become faithless, I will immediately lose the Holy Coffin Knight title, even without discussing these, the lack of the spring of faith will severely downgrade the body’s strength, I am a bit uneasy, it’s too risky."

"...Unexpected?"

Hank Machado, upon hearing this, sneered: "It seems the lack of the spring of faith has greatly affected you indeed, what unexpected could happen? Think about it, how many noteworthy opponents are over there. If not to attract the attention of the Celestial Strategy Mansion and make them divert a large amount of force, worrying about what trump cards they have, we wouldn’t even need the two of us to show up! Those fools at Ise Jingu could just sweep through!"

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