As the sound of prayers reached his ears, Syd keenly sensed a faint connection forming.
Following this connection, he could even perceive the appearance of the person praying and their surroundings, as if he were physically present there, observing everything from a 360-degree omniscient view.
Syd also had a distinct feeling that he could channel his divine power through this connection.
If he were to perform a small miracle in front of the believer, their faith would undoubtedly increase significantly, and as a result, the power gathered from their belief would also grow, speeding up the enhancement of his divinity.
This was all beneficial, and if possible, Syd wouldn't mind showing a sign when he was in a good mood or had the time.
Unfortunately...
One of the prayers he heard was from a believer asking to restore their sight...
Syd's mouth twitched. He wasn't an all-powerful wish-granting machine, and with his current abilities, there was no way he could restore someone's sight. How could he help with that?
Just as he thought this, he paused.
"Wait, maybe not. It depends on the situation. If it's a normal case of sight restoration, perhaps I can do it?"
"For example, photon energy has the basic ability to accelerate the healing process. Although its healing effects aren't as extreme as Wolverine's, simple wound recovery is still possible."
"If the person's blindness is caused by an injury and not some congenital defect..."
Syd hesitated.
In that case, if he tried, maybe...
With curiosity and a willingness to experiment, he couldn't resist. He followed the mysterious connection to investigate the believer who prayed most devoutly, hoping to regain their sight.
In the next moment, he perceived a scene.
Inside a dim, but very tidy, dilapidated room.
A middle-aged woman, around forty years old, dressed in blue with blonde hair, knelt on the ground, clasping her hands together in prayer.
Syd focused his attention on her closed eyes.
"What's wrong with her eyes?"
He was curious.
As time passed, he gradually understood her situation.
Using his powerful mental and psychic abilities, he observed this middle-aged woman as she left her dark room, using a cane for the blind to navigate through some streets. As she passed by, Syd overheard conversations from neighbors and passersby.
"Audrey is so pitiful, just over forty, and blind."
"If you ask me, it's good she's blind. If she hadn't exposed herself at the hospital, I never would've known she was a mutant freak!"
"Audrey didn't do anything wrong, right? Isn't that a bit harsh..."
"What's wrong with it? Mutants are monsters, freaks. Audrey might seem fine now, but who knows when she'll lose control? When that happens, won't we be the ones to suffer?"
"That can't be true..."
Listening to the neighbors' comments, Syd pieced together the situation.
Apparently, this middle-aged woman named Audrey was once a nurse at a nearby hospital. During a critical situation with a patient, she accidentally revealed her mutant abilities.
Her mutation allowed her eyes to adjust like a microscope, zooming in to see microscopic organisms and even gaining a rudimentary x-ray vision to see inside a patient's body.
Overall, it was a useful ability for medicine.
Unfortunately, even though she saved that patient by identifying the cause of their illness, enabling quick treatment, the hospital still discovered her mutation.
Despite saving a life, the hospital fired her. The patient she saved didn't even thank her, and she became unemployed.
Eventually, some extreme anti-mutant individuals heard about her situation. One night, while Audrey was sleeping, they cruelly blinded her by slashing her eyes with a knife.
When the attacker was arrested, they proudly claimed they were "doing the world a favor."
To make matters worse, shortly after being incarcerated, the perpetrator was bailed out, likely due to the connection with Audrey's mutant status.
Now, with her blindness, Audrey's already difficult life had become even more unbearable.
If not for finding discarded food in the trash and her son occasionally helping her out of guilt, she might have already died in that broken-down little house.
As for why she prayed to Syd, through the power of his mind scepter and his own mental and psychic abilities, Syd glimpsed into some of her memories and figured it out.
Since the Battle of New York, news of Thor, a member of the Avengers, had spread worldwide.
Audrey, already interested in Norse mythology, naturally believed that if Thor was real, then the other gods from Norse legends, like Baldur, must be real as well.
So she prayed to Baldur, the god of light, hoping to regain her sight.
Understanding the situation, Syd's mouth twitched.
He wanted to tell her that just because he controlled light didn't mean he could restore her vision and bring her light.
"Well, that's not entirely true. If my divine speech were at level five, I might be able to allow her to see, even if her eyes were damaged…"
"After all, it's well known that living beings can see because of light. This power really is within my control…"
Syd pondered.
Without light, nothing could be seen. Light is necessary for the photoreceptors in the retina to send visual information through the optic nerve to the brain, forming images. Without light, the photoreceptors are useless, and nothing can be seen, even if there's something right in front of you.
And the colors of things are also determined by different wavelengths of light.
If he changed the wavelength of the light slightly, the person could become colorblind...
"Come to think of it, could I strip away my enemy's vision?"
"Or maybe even distort their perception, making them see chaotic images..."
Syd hesitated at the thought.
The more he thought about it, the more his eyes lit up. It wasn't impossible to accomplish something like this.
But for now, he wasn't confident in his control over light to achieve such feats.
"Forget it, I'll experiment with that later. For now, I need to focus on this believer."
Syd turned his attention back to Audrey.
As the sun gradually set, Audrey finished gathering food, a collection of items she found through touch and smell, and slowly made her way home.
When she sat down before her food, clasping her hands together and praying in desperation once again, Syd's heart stirred, and he decided to try.
(End of Chapter)
[New Translation!! [Warhammer: Starting as a Planetary Governor]
Bright, mysterious, and radiating divinity like the sun, divine power flowed through the invisible connection and descended directly upon Audrey, or more specifically, around her eyes.
Audrey, who had been praying, froze. She felt a vast presence approaching, accompanied by a warm sensation.
She felt as though her eyes were wrapped in a soothing hot spring, giving her a comfortable feeling.
At the same time, a slight itchiness emerged, and she almost couldn't resist scratching her eyes.
Seeing this, Syd pondered.
"It seems that with the blessing of divine light, photon energy does have a self-healing effect, although it's quite slow..."
After about ten minutes, Syd felt it was enough and stopped transmitting the photon energy.
Audrey rubbed her eyes and then opened them.
The moment she opened her eyes, she froze.
Brilliant colors flooded her vision, a scene she had long missed.
Audrey covered her mouth, tears of joy and excitement streaming down her face.
She stood up and excitedly walked around the house, touching everything, and only after several minutes did she calm down.
At the same time, she began to think about what had just happened.
"I was praying just now, could it be…"
"And that feeling…"
Her eyes widened in disbelief as a shocking thought crossed her mind.
Could it be that a god had descended?
Did a god bless her and heal her eyes?
Thinking of this, Audrey began to cry again, overwhelmed with emotion.
"I knew it. I knew it! There really are true gods in this world..."
Audrey's heart was filled with excitement and gratitude for the divine blessing, and she immediately knelt down to pray devoutly once more.
Seeing Audrey's actions, Syd shook his head, not particularly concerned.
However, just as he was thinking this, he suddenly noticed that the power of belief coming from Audrey had surged dramatically.
If her belief had been a one before, it was now nearly a hundred.
It was safe to say that the belief energy had skyrocketed, and even Syd could clearly feel the difference.
[Divinity Experience +1]
Syd's mouth twitched, surprise flashing in his eyes.
"That was just one person, and my divinity increased by one point. If there were more..."
At that moment, Syd couldn't help but feel a twinge of regret.
Unfortunately, few people believed in him, and most of those who did were casual believers. In fact, Audrey was probably the most devout of them all.
At the same time, Syd realized something.
"As expected, despair is the best catalyst for belief…"
Audrey had been in despair, and with just a small intervention, the power of her belief had skyrocketed.
If her body had been whole and she hadn't been in despair, a simple blessing might not have made her this devout.
As he pondered this, Audrey, having left her dark room, looked up at the setting sun, tears streaming down her face.
Her unusual behavior attracted the attention of some neighbors and passersby.
"Audrey, what's going on?"
A bearded middle-aged man hesitantly approached her, asking reflexively.
In the light of the setting sun, others nearby also turned their attention to Audrey, curiosity and confusion evident on their faces.
Audrey snapped out of her daze and, excitedly, blurted out, "I'm healed! My eyes are healed! I can see!"
Her words hung in the air.
"What?"
The people around her thought they had misheard and instinctively looked at Audrey's eyes.
It was then they noticed that her eyes were open, bright and full of life, no longer clouded and scarred as they had been before.
"This is…"
The neighbors and passersby were stunned.
"Your eyes... healed?"
"Oh my God, how is this possible?"
"How could something like this happen? What's going on?"
One by one, shocked questions came from their mouths.
As time passed, more and more people gathered around.
"What's going on here?"
"What?!"
Everyone who learned about the situation was shocked, their eyes glued to Audrey's restored sight in disbelief.
The middle-aged man who had first spoken, Lawrence, couldn't help himself. He stepped forward and grabbed Audrey's arm.
"Audrey, what's going on? Your eyes were blind. I saw you earlier today... How did they suddenly heal?"
This question was on everyone's mind, and all eyes were on Audrey, filled with confusion and suspicion.
In her excitement, Audrey blurted out the answer.
"I prayed to Baldur, the God of Light. His Grace, Lord Baldur, must have heard my prayer and descended a miracle to heal my eyes!"
Hearing Audrey's words, everyone around her froze for a moment before bombarding her with questions.
"Baldur, the God of Light?"
"Who is that?"
"Is that the name of a god?"
Faced with their confused expressions, Audrey realized that few people now knew who Baldur, the God of Light, was.
Hurriedly, she explained, "He's a god from Asgard. You know the superhero Thor, right? Baldur, the God of Light, is also a son of Odin and Thor's younger brother…"
As she finished speaking, the neighbors and passersby had a look of realization on their faces.
If Audrey hadn't explained it, they wouldn't have known who Baldur, the God of Light, was. Now that she had, they understood who she was talking about.
"So, this God of Light, Baldur, who has never appeared before, heard your prayer and performed a miracle to heal your eyes?"
"Really?"
Though they now knew which god Audrey was referring to, the neighbors and passersby were still skeptical.
After all, Baldur, the God of Light, was a god. Why would he suddenly intervene to help Audrey?
Most of them doubted this point, and some even questioned whether Baldur, the God of Light, had the power to perform such miracles at all.
"You have to believe me, I'm telling the truth!"
Seeing their disbelief, Audrey, the middle-aged woman, grew anxious, trying to explain herself.
At that moment, a tall, muscular man with a cruel look on his face approached.
"Your eyes are healed?"
As soon as he arrived, Gisli was shocked.
After recovering from his shock, he maliciously stared at Audrey's eyes, clearly intending something bad.
Seeing this man, Audrey's face turned pale immediately, because he was the one who had blinded her.
(End of Chapter)
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