Shen Sui couldn't help but laugh, "Serves you right. Who writes a diary anyway?"

"Isn't it because I was thinking that when I forget some key things in the future, I could have a memory anchor?" Vivian pouted, recalling the parts of her diary she had lost, her face turned a bit grim.

"What? Is there something private in those diary entries?"

"It's not really about privacy... All the diary entries related to privacy are kept in the safest place... The lost parts are all things I wrote when I was in school... quotes..."

"Quotes?" Shen Sui covered his mouth, trying hard to suppress the curve of his raised lips, "Is it the kind I am thinking of?"

"Ahhh! Yes! Yes!" Vivian lamented, "It's the type where I wrote some teenage ramblings and thoughts."

Shen Sui initially wanted to laugh loudly but, seeing Vivian's expression, feared that she'd pounce on him if he did, so he held back his laughter with all his might.

The reason Vivian regards these as her dark history is entirely because, to the current Vivian, the things she wrote back then seem really naive and immature. Although they already had the beginnings of the future Twilight Saintess Vivian's thoughts, student Vivian was much more extreme than Twilight Saintess Vivian.

But even such writings, for a priest, were already quite advanced in thought.

According to records from the War God Church, Vivian's authentic manuscripts were personally destroyed by Harms.

A man who lost his faith due to a crisis saw similar viewpoints in the writings Vivian left behind.

That's how humans are; they often accept and believe all the views of others simply because they share one viewpoint with them.

It's the typical example of "where you sit determines where you stand."

Ah... Talking about it really is ironic.

The High Priest Harms, who was very likely to destroy the entire War God Church, was actually cultivated by the War God Church itself.

However, the reason Harms became the High Priest is indeed very dramatic.

Initially, given Harms' position within the War God Church, theoretically, he shouldn't have been able to reach the High Priest position.

Yet the reality is so absurd; two successive High Priests died unexpectedly, plunging the War God Church into chaos.

Just like when the Thunder Church eventually elected Adoma as the Pope, amidst the balance of factions within the War God Church, Harms was eventually pushed to the High Priest position.

In the eyes of the top ranks of the War God Church, Harms perfectly met their requirements:

No entanglement with any faction, easy to control due to lack of power, and unable to stop them from dividing the church's interests.

What? Loyalty to the War God? That's secondary.

However, these church leaders have probably been away from the lower levels for too long.

Indeed, Harms lacks in power, but it refers more to not having any family backing among the upper echelons.

And the reason Harms is like this is simply because he previously refused to form factions.

As a church priest who climbed up from the bottom and also the most distinguished civilian priest, Harms has never lacked supporters within the War God Church. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

When Alice and Liames were hastily leading students away from the problematic War God Stone Forest, Shen Sui had already uncovered the War God Knights and priests active near the War God Stone Forest through Arianna.

Almost all of them share the same background as Harms, many were war orphans.

"Initially, I wanted to see the War God Church become a joke." Shen Sui sighed, saying to Vivian, "But after reading the intel, I can't laugh anymore."

"Quite normal." Vivian cheerfully responded, "The world itself is a bad cold joke."

"No, it should be a hellish joke." Vivian paused, correcting herself.

Alice's fear was evidently unnecessary.

Perhaps due to the veil provided by Vivian's Candlelight Illusion, or perhaps because Harms genuinely wished from the heart to believe the Twilight Saintess could resurrect, anyway, in the following days, her puppet successfully concealed itself beside Harms, waiting for the opportunity he mentioned to arise.

In this regard, all Shen Sui could say was that there aren't too many naive fools in the world; rather than being duped by con artists, many are deceived by themselves.

Uh... Shen Sui recalled the scam news he'd seen... Well, maybe there are indeed that many foolish people.

"Saint Yimiti is delayed by a few more days?" The next day, Shen Sui received a call from Xinyuan Tanchun.

"Yes, indeed," Xinyuan Tanchun said, "The Pacific seems to have a lot of disasters these days."

"Extraordinary power invasion always causes some anomalies." Shen Sui said, recalling the news he'd seen that morning, recently various parts of the world seemed to be experiencing frequent disasters, likely due to this world's rejection of the extraordinary invasion phenomenon.

Though he said so, Shen Sui wouldn't believe the excuse of delay due to disasters.

Evidently, Vivian's "resurrection" disrupted both sides' plans, causing the Saint Yimiti to delay the cruise competition a bit to allow the two worlds to reach some unified pacing.

But who are they ultimately communicating through?

While Alice was still active in the War God Stone Forest, Shen Sui hadn't received any prompts regarding the approach of Soul Cards, which showed that at least near Alice, there were no Soul Cards from other Life Card Masters.