Supreme Harem God System-Chapter 2278: Something had happened.

"But whenever Anomaly wants, he would turn into an Agent, so memory scans became a necessity.

On every single person, since no one, not even the most loyal, could be trusted."

Lord Light shared the problem, and without waiting for Seraphielle to react, he continued, sharing the other solution he had thought of.

"Limited memory scans wouldn’t help, not against him. So I thought of another thing. The issue of mass mistrust begins with information.

The travellers return with outside information; that information spreads and fans the flames of mistrust and grievances, especially when people hear how only the worlds from our faction are facing Anomaly’s direct onslaught, and worlds from other factions have been living worry-free.

I thought of completely sealing off that information. I considered travel, trade restrictions, route lockdowns.

This would completely isolate the Light Worlds from the rest of the Universe, but...

If we spend a little, a new interdependent cycle will form, a cycle where Light Worlds wouldn’t need outside worlds and can rely on themselves.

As for the resources or products our worlds absolutely need, we can move our own forces to obtain those.

And although this would strengthen the rebellious thoughts, at this point, the more we restrict people, the more dissatisfied they will feel, I understand that.

I understand that this might backlash, and there might even be rebellion. After all, when no one speaks, silence itself will become suspicious.

This will paint us as tyrants too, affecting our reputation but..."

Lord Light took a short pause, as if collecting his thoughts, before continuing again—

"But in the long run, after a few centuries, people would get used to the change. They will get used to living in an isolated cycle. In the next thousand years, most mortals would forget that worlds other than the Light Worlds even exist. They will forget what freedom looks like, their standards will shrink, their questions will die, and we...

We would have complete and absolute control over the information that circulates amongst the Light Worlds.

This is also one of our most viable options in the current scenario."

Lord Light spoke, staring at Seraphielle with a careful look on his face, like a child looking at his mother after suggesting an idea—an idea he didn’t know if his mother would pass or not.

Seraphielle just looked at him and—

"Then why do I hear hesitation?"

She asked a simple question, wanting to know Lord Light’s complete thought, and Lord Light...

He lowered his head.

"I do not know how the other factions will react to it."

Seraphielle tilted her head in curiosity.

Lord Light continued—

"If we follow this, we basically remove the Light Faction from the Universe. Our products, our identity—everything will be lost.

And the Universe wouldn’t be kind to it.

The loss of Light Products would mean other worlds learning to live without us.

Recruiting new worlds in the future would become a few steps tougher.

It... it might also isolate you from the other three Infinities, giving them a chance to scheme against you without you knowing."

Seraphielle turned silent at those words.

Honestly, this matter wasn’t that big. The other three Infinities did not need to isolate her in order to scheme against her—they could do this whenever they wished. Hell, Seraphielle wouldn’t be surprised if they were scheming against her even now.

But...

If the Infinities weren’t planning something, then isolating her worlds from the Universe... would put some level of target behind her back.

Not to mention this would also affect the Authority she gains from the Universe, and with the Light Worlds gone, the Balance will break, and the Darkness... Darkness will spread, strengthening the Infinity of Darkness, her Arch Enemy.

"Keep it aside for now."

Seraphielle commanded.

If push came to shove, then this was indeed one of the viable options, but she still wanted more—something... better.

Lord Light nodded. He understood what she was feeling and expected it to some level, so he continued—

"We can also... clean the rot."

Seraphielle frowned at those words.

"The Universe doubts us. People are suspicious. We can use this moment to erase those who are blamed the most—erase a few Light Borns, a few World Leaders in the name of justice.

This will cleanse our reputation."

He spoke, and Seraphielle raised her eyebrow, and the next instant, Lord Light shook his head.

"No. If we admit the existence of rot, it would only give the Anomaly more credibility.

I do not know what I was thinking, Lady Seraphielle.

Please forgive me."

He bowed.

Seraphielle looked at him for a moment, then—

"Continue." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

She ordered.

And this time, Lord Light gulped...

He was being... far more careful.

In his desperation, he had thought of multiple things, multiple possible ways he could use against Anomaly.

He planned to portray Anomaly as the Universe’s Enemy to sway the public opinion, but Anomaly already is the enemy, the villain in this story.

But what’s worse is that Light isn’t being portrayed as the Hero like it always has.

This time, Light has become... a victim.

They are being seen as... weak.

So trying to portray Anomaly as the villain again would only make them look... even weaker. Lord Light discarded that idea before speaking it out loud.

He had also thought about multiple other ideas, but he discarded them all. Then, his gaze hardened and he...

He was left with one last "plan."

A plan he did not wish to say out loud.

Seraphielle sensed his hesitation and—

"Speak."

She ordered, her eyes staring at him.

Lord Light looked at her, and after another very brief pause—

"The other Infinities."

He answered, and for the first time in the conversation, Seraphielle’s expression shifted into... disgust.

"You want me to ask them."

She spoke, clearly not liking the idea one bit.

Lord Light instantly lowered his head, but he did not back down. He... could not back down, not now.

"I do not want it, Lady Seraphielle.

But... we may need it."

"They will not help."

Seraphielle’s answer came in an instant. Lord Light trembled; he knew Lady Seraphielle wouldn’t like this, but he did not expect the reaction to be that strong.

Seraphielle, however, continued—

"Even if I go to them and they agree to help, they would only help us enough to be seen helping. They wouldn’t actually do anything."

Lord Light clenched his fists. He could see it happening.

"If Light’s reputation collapses, all of them benefit.

They had no reason to help us.

After all, Anomaly isn’t their problem—it’s Light’s."

Seraphielle snorted at her own words.

She could see how the Anomaly was playing all of them by targeting just her. By doing this, he now essentially had the support of all three Infinities.

Compared to how he first had to deal with four different, equally strong enemies, now he only needed to be careful about one—all while he went around devouring worlds and worlds and getting stronger each time.

It was... intelligent.

And the Infinities—he made all four of them look like fools in front of the entire Universe.

But the worst part?

Even though Seraphielle knows that... even though she also knows that the other Infinities know this as well... all four of them know and understand what the Anomaly is trying to do—

None of them were going to stop him.

Heck, Seraphielle herself wouldn’t have helped if the Anomaly had targeted another Infinity, simply because getting rid of or even weakening one Infinity was far better than getting rid of an enemy they could probably defeat the instant he appeared in front of them.

As for the possibility of the Anomaly actually being able to defeat all of them or even a single one of them?

None of them considered it seriously, not even her, who was facing the brunt of Anomaly’s attack head on.

And how could she?

Even now, even now she knew Anomaly would never appear in front of her. He was too big of a coward to do so.

The only thing he could do was use these cowardly tactics to weaken her, that was it and... that was exactly what the other three Infinities wanted.

CRACK

BOOOM

The moment Seraphielle thought about it, the temple’s pillar cracked again and this time... it burst into pieces, reflecting what Seraphielle was truly feeling.

"Lady Seraphielle..."

Lord Light muttered out her name, his face pale from shock and... fear.

It had been a while since he had seen Lady Seraphielle react like this.

The fact that even now her face was completely calm and serene made the sight even harder to swallow but... there was nothing Lord Light could do about this.

In the end, he could only stand—

Waiting for the order.

And the order came.

"Seal the information."

Seraphielle declared.

She had decided: the Light Worlds would now be sealed off from the rest of the Universe, and all the information would be contained and regulated inside a closed cycle—a cycle the Light Worlds would now belong to.

Lord Light’s body trembled at those words. He could already imagine how the rest of the Universe was going to react to this decision.

He then closed his eyes, calling the Light Born commanders, but the instant he thought of that, his expression changed, turning into pure, complete horror, and the moment Seraphielle noticed that change—

She narrowed her eyes—

Something had happened.

Something... far bigger than just the Anomaly devouring a world.