Fate works, as it should.

Leonard's eye shone a bright golden and he cut down half of his spirit and molded t into a blessing.

As he visibly aged, Ricardo swallowed all the blessings in one go.

"Leonard if you want to see your mother walk again to stop!" The supreme priest roared but it was too late.

Blood gushed from Leonard's eyes as he revealed a brutal smile."I won, old dog."

Everything froze. All eyes turned to Ricardo.

He slowly dissolved all the blessings and howling ghosts in his Dantian his body visibly shrunk due to the qualitative change. But when he looked at Leonard, his eyes showed nothing but silent rage.

"What did he do!?" The supreme priest yelled.

Leonard gave him a tired smile but the savageness in his eyes was still there. "I latched my spirit onto his, should I die so will he."

"You blasphemous bastard, HOW DARE YOU!"

Arrieta screamed and launched at him. but form his shadow a dagger struck out and pierced her abdomen- deeply.

Fernanda slowly appeared.

Arrieta spilled blood from her mouth and looked down at the dagger sunken into her.

Fernanda pulled the dagger and Arrieta fell down, as her wound turned black.

"Did you allied with the oddities you evil creature!?" The supreme priest yelled. "Do you dare to betray your God?"

Leonard gasped for breath as his body took its time to heal.

"Give me the Deity's tear and I'll let him go." Whatever made them think that losing a high-priest was worth it, would not apply to lose a Saint knight.

They were the symbol and strongest warriors o the church. There are three hundred of them in Mirage and each church of radiance on earth measures their powers by how much Saint knights they have. This is the first one in Brazil. They absolutely cannot afford to lose him.

Relief washed over Leonard's shoulder. He had won. 'I'm finally free, mother, we're finally free.'

The Supreme priest's eyes narrowed and he examined Ricardo's body with his spirit sense.

His complexion turned black affirming Leonard's position.

The supreme priest looked into Ricardo's eyes and spoke.

"We'll lose a lot, but we have to do it now, we cannot wait until he's a supreme priest."

Leonard's face changed

The supreme priest inserted his own spirit inside Ricardo and suppressed Leonards's. Ricardo immediately acted disappearing from the circle

Leonard only felt a cold and wet feeling on his chest area. as a hand went deep into his chest. Fernanda could only look dumbly from the side, she didn't even have the time to react, and could only watch as Leonard's heart was pulled out.

Ricardo sunk his fingers inside the heart and took ou a golden pebble that looked like a crystal.

Leonard fell down on his knees.

Ricardo smiled.

"If you were a common high-priest then you'd succeeded, but people started wondering what a Saint-level knight with your spirit would end up as. The ideal would be if you were a Supreme priest, but well, I'll have at least two hundred more power than a common Saint knight with his."

"Fast, I can't suppress his spirit much longer." The supreme priest said.

Ricardo walked back to the circle and started to dissolve the inner core into his spirit while the supreme priest suppressed it.

No other people eyed Leonard or the dying Arrieta again. The Common priests who finished their job started to curry favor with Ricardo's women in the hope of benefit, while the brainwashed servants didn't even know what was happening around them.

'Like this?' thought Leonard as the pain of having his inner core slowly dissolved cursed through him. 'Everything I lived amount to such a miserably meaningless death?'

He thought that at least his enemies would jeer or step on him more, as if it was a hard victory, but not even that, he simply was not worth more than annoyance.

Leonards fell his blood flow out more strongly as a deep seeded hate formed within. Rage and hate took over his bones and blood. yet there was nothing he could do...

"There is something." A voice sounded directly on his mind,

He fell backward without strength.

"A-Anything." He only managed to spill out that word, but whoever it was understood his meaning and sounded glad.

"Become the champion of the one who lords over chaos, and fight-"

'I accept!' Leonard answered cutting the voice off. 'I don't care who you are, just let me crush them.' He prayed.

A chuckle came to his head, with it, the anything he wanted.

"A holy being's strongest point is when it turns into a demon. Just like a demon's peak, is when it redeems itself." The voice said

A sudden light shone on Leonard's dead eyes. He laughed spilling blood around.

Trembling, he stood up and looked at all present with mirth on his eyes.

The supreme priest finally looked at him again.

Ricardo didn't but saw the inner core who had already dissolved by a good amount darkening.

His eye snapped open.

"You'll let go of your soul! are you crazy!?" He yelled.

It wasn't a commonly known spell, but it was a known story. The one who betrayed god let go of their belief and blackened their hearts turning powerful and corrupt, in exchange for never reincarnating again.

Leonard felt his spirit turn black and pass through a change in quality, he was now a supreme-priest. But even so, there was only one thing he could do.

He smiled and concentrated all his spirit into the remaining core.

Ricardo jumped up and he grabbed his three women and placed them behind him as a shield, while the supreme priest seemed to be roaring something. But Leonard only smiled with malice.

Fernanda closed her eyes as a single tear descended her cheeks.

With a pleased sigh. His inner core blew up.

'The self-detonation of a corrupted supreme priest, I wonder how it'll look.' was his last thought.

The church blew up and a dark pillar shot up to the skies.

A tall being surrounded by black and white fog smiled wickedly.

"Who'd thought I'd found someone with the trait of chaos in this human land! Haha!"