Hunt for Divine Emissary (1)

Somewhere in the Starveil Origin World, Unknown Regions of Space.

As Yakou was having an afternoon tea, or rather just tea, because as they were in space, it was hard to tell what time it was, he was suddenly disrupted as he got a message with the highest-grade priority on his Holo-Brain.

'Divine Emissary from the Evil God Pantheon dealing with the Automatons... this is best... just this was missing here.'

Yakou cursed in his mind because this was practically the last thing he wanted here; just the dammed machines were enough for him, but no... there must always be some complications.

And this time, the complications were those dammed leeches.

"Change of plans... we finally know the identity of our big bad unknown..."

Yakou said to his fianceé, who was sitting across him drinking tea that she personally made for him, as she was pretty proficient in the tea ceremonies and it was her hobby, one could say.

"It seems that Evil God Pantheon has sent here Divine Emissary to gain some kind of alliance or deal with the machines."

The moment he said that, Kirihara immediately grew tense because she was aware of the indications of such an act.

One wrong move and the entire Evil God Pantheon may be besieged by the entire Faith God Alliance.

Even right now, their relationships were shit at best, especially with the Heaven Pantheon and Titan Pantehon hating the Evil Gods with passion.

Due to this situation, his grandfather ordered him to capture the Divine Emissary alive and deliver him to the Clan.

Then from there on, Ōtsutsuki Clan would deliver the Divine Emissary of the Evil God Pantheon to the Heaven Pantheon and just let things flow naturally.

At best, they would get civil war within the Faith God Alliance and at worst, it would end with the death of a few scapegoats, probably some Elder God and a few Paramount Gods.

Either way, it was a win-win situation for the Ōtsutsuki Clan and Evernight High Council, as with one move, they would weaken their enemy. While the Ōtsutsuki Clan was powerful and rightfully arrogant of their power and potential, they were not stupid.

They were aware that a full-out war against the Gods would cause them tremendous casualties even if they were sure of their victory.

So, their strategy was to weaken the Gods as much as possible before the war happened.

"Capturing a Divine Emissary would be no easy task... considering that this was ordered by the leadership of the Pantheon, then their Divine Emissary should have peak Tier 2 strength and for some time should be able to execute strength of Saint Realm Ōtsutsuki."

In the end, the Divine Emissaries were still just mortal humans that got elevated to a special status through the Divine Powers of the Gods. Their fragile human bodies couldn't handle to the overwhelming power of the Gods without breaking down after some time.

Nevertheless, this didn't make them any less dangerous because depending on which God elevated them, they would obtain some unique abilities of the said God. Neither Kirihara nor Yakou doubted that the Divine Emissary would be very powerful.

"Did you get the approximate location?"

Yakou nodded because, apparently, his grandfather used Clairvoyance to see the approximate location of the Divine Emissary.

Nevertheless, unfortunately, it was shielded by the Overgods of the Evil God Pantheon.

Thus they were able to get only the location of a few Star Systems where the Emissary was hiding or waiting for the machines.

"Not entirely, but the location was lowered to five Star Systems, so it is a good thing... we need to inform the wolves about this development."

Yakou said as Kirihara looked a bit sad that their time together was cut short as they had responsibilities to fulfill, but they would have other opportunities.

***

After informing the werewolves about the situation, everyone grew wary because dealing with the Evil Gods never ended well for anyone.

While the Evil Gods were not the strongest kind of Gods, mainly because their Divine Natures leaned more towards the concepts of "Evil" and "Curses" and other similar things...

While their combat prowess wasn't that high compared to, for example, pure Combat-type Gods or God-Kings, it was their nature of Evil that made them very troublesome opponents.

"The capture part will be the hardest on the list... not to mention, if the bastard has some Divine Artifact, it will make the situation even more problematic."

The only person among their group who had something akin to a Divine Artifact was Kirihara with her staff.

Even Yakou's sword wasn't any special weapon, just a rather above-average katana that the best Refiners of the Ōtsutsuki Clan forged.

"And for that, we need to ambush and capture the Divine Emissary as soon as possible and with my knowledge of Fūinjutsu, I should be able to seal the Divine Emissary for long enough not to allow him to use the Divine Artifact if he has one."

Yakou planned to use the Fūinjutsu to seal the Divine Artifact of the Divine Emissary if necessary... he was proficient in the Fūinjutsu enough and he had specifically learned some powerful seals that could be used against Gods.

While his Fūinjutsu wasn't that strong to seal the entire being of Divine Emissary as a whole, he had a few seals in his arsenal that should be able to seal the Divine Artifacts.

Yakou methodically prepared himself against the Gods because they were the direct threat of the Ōtsutsuki Clan within the Starveil Origin World.

Contrary to the Sage Clan, that was rulings parts of the Northern Cosmic Region and the only contact they had with the Ōtsutsuki Clan was in the Central Cosmic Region, where everyone was fighting against each other; Gods were different.

Central Cosmic Region was essentially abandoned and destroyed, devoid of any life. Only occasionally, some life would appear in that dammed place due to constant wars and battles between top powerhouses in the Central Comsic Region.

"That could work... then only the possessions or transformation are in-game."

Kirihara said because of their group; she had already dealt with Gods several times.

She even killed several Lesser Gods and countless Demigods when she was completing missions on the borders of the Western Cosmic Region and Southern Cosmic Region, so her expertise on these matters was most valuable.

"Sealing them won't work, really... I am not that powerful."

To seal such a thing, to prevent God from possessing its target would require especially high mastery over the Fūinjutsu. He would need to comprehend Dao of Seals to at least True Meaning Level, which was level after the Profound Mystery Level.

"Then fast attack and delivering crippling blow as fast as possible."

That seemed like the only doable solution to their problem.

"But we need to control our power; the mission is to capture the Divine Emissary alive."

Yakou said to three of his companions as Muzaka looked at him with a frown before the werewolf heir voiced his thoughts.

"Why can't we just kill the bastard and be done with it?"

As he said that, both members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan and even his attendant Juraki looked at him as if he was an idiot.

"Because he far valuable alive... essentially living evidence that the Evil Gods are colluding on something with the machines and without him being alive, the Heaven Pantheon won't ever do something."