Chapter 1055
He Who Runs Counter to Love (Request for Monthly Passes)
“…What?”
Arsen was stunned. “Did you just… pray to the Blood Heavenly Envoy?”
How much face did that take?!
To ask, “I’m going to kill some of your kin, you don’t have any objections, right?” and the Blood Heavenly Envoy would politely reply, “No, my dear.”
Eivass, however, looked at Arsen with a strange gaze. “Of course, it wasn’t the Blood Heavenly Envoy—I was asking the Envoy of Mist.”
Wait, Arsen wouldn’t know where the Children of the Moon came from, would he?
Speaking of which, Eivass suddenly understood something and patiently explained from the beginning. “You might not know, but the Blood Heavenly Envoy is the child conceived by the current Banquet Heavenly Envoy and the Envoy of Mist.
He wasn’t born a god. He was born in the Material Realm. At that time, the Envoy of Mist was still a mortal… Her name was Sasha, and she was a believer of Hengwo’s Apostle, the Banquet Master.
At that time, Hengwo felt that the ‘Human’ species, a creation plan left behind by the Beast Lord, had many flaws, so she intended to purify the bloodline and create Perfect Beings. Thus, through the divine descent technique, she possessed Sasha with a High-Tier Divine Art… and conceived a child with the Banquet Master, who was an Apostle and could manifest in the Material Realm in dragon form.
This child was named Cain. He is the future Blood Heavenly Envoy.”
At this moment, Arsen’s smile was incredibly stiff.
He looked at Eivass in horror, unable to help but tremble.
…Is this story even something I’m supposed to hear?
The Banquet Master and Sister Sasha involved here are both Heavenly Envoys now!
These few sentences alone involve the privacy of four gods… and what did he mean by the Banquet Master in dragon form? Was it what he was thinking?
Eivass glanced over and saw Sherlock listening with great interest, so he decided to finish the story. “However, there’s a problem. Hengwo discovered that ‘Cain’ was not the ‘Perfect Being’ she had imagined—”
The so-called “Perfect Being” sounds mysterious… but in concept, it’s quite simple.
In short, it means “humans without beastiality.”
Because the “Human” species itself was not a race created by Hengwo’s will. The “giant tree” had a trace of the Path of the Sun’s afterglow. It created elves with its sap… possibly imitating the forms of the Winged Ones and Those with Scales, creating the “Those with breasts” of the Path of Devotion.
The Beast Lord, using elves as a prototype, plagiarized and created humans, but before he could finish, Hengwo snatched the Pillar God position from him—she modified the prototype and then created humans.
So, it’s perfectly reasonable that the “Human” species has a pile of messy code from the very beginning. As a new race that was plagiarized twice and modified twice, perhaps even Hengwo herself, its creator, didn’t know what certain settings and parameters were for. So, when she wanted to modify it, bugs were bound to appear.
The Child of the Moon is that bug.
“—The above parts are knowledge I gained from reading books and from practice. I can basically ensure its accuracy.”
At this point, Eivass made a disclaimer. “The following part is from my deductions.
Based on my speculation, Hengwo’s idea was to use the adaptability of ‘dragons’ to activate the pure nature of ‘elves’ as devotees, and refine it with Hengwo’s desireless and pure divinity, thereby creating ‘humans without beastiality, yet possessing the Path of Love.’ Dragons, elves, and gods are all extraordinary beings of the Path of Love… By merging these three divine entities, they would achieve enlightenment.
The result was that Cain was almost the opposite—he was almost entirely beastly. Predating his own kind, temperamental, willful, and unrestrained like a wild beast.
So, Hengwo gave up on him… intending to see if the most beautiful flower could bloom from mud? Probably… So she gave Cain a mission to create Perfect Beings. Or perhaps she simply loved the new species she had created and didn’t want to destroy this flawed child, so she accepted the failure of the Perfect Being plan.
It was because Cain was born in the Material Realm in the first place that the Child of the Moon species could come into being. He used his own blood to create a new species. For this feat of ‘creation,’ he was recognized by the Origin River and ascended to the Dream Realm, becoming the Blood Heavenly Envoy. After ascending to the Dream Realm, he continued to urge his descendants to seek the way to become Perfect Beings… This is also the origin of the Child of the Moon bloodline’s deep-seated desire for ‘evolution’.”
“So that’s how it is…”
Sherlock slowly nodded. “Then I can understand many things. And, I probably also know why the initial experiment failed.”
“—You can even know the reason for the Pillar God’s failure?”
Arsen looked disbelieving.
Sherlock shook his head. “Sometimes, Pillar Gods don’t necessarily know more than mortals. The purity of Pillar Gods also leads to limitations in their thinking… For example, with this matter, I think the reason is quite easy to find.”
“Because… there was no love, right?”
Eivass suddenly said.
Sherlock glanced at Eivass in surprise. “You guessed it too?”
“It’s just a guess, no evidence is needed. I’ve known about this for so long, of course, I’ve done some thinking…”
Eivass sighed.
In fact, he had considered this matter.
Hengwo created humans; this was her love for humanity. According to normal understanding, she should have completely destroyed everything left by the Beast Lord to prevent his counterattack. But she couldn’t bear to, which is why humans were able to be born. Sister Sasha also had genuine love for the Children of the Moon, a mother’s love… which is why she can now transform the Children of the Moon into Mist Demons.
Cain creating his own kind and being obsessed with achieving “Perfect Beings” was also “love” for his mother; even Eivass’s process of creating Alistair was also filled with “love.”
—But in this process, there was one link where there was no love at all.
That was when the Banquet Master and Hengwo, who possessed Sasha, conceived Cain.
Eivass had known for a long time that the Banquet Master doted on Hengwo, and Sasha was the Banquet Master’s lover—but after she ascended to the Dream Realm, it seemed she did not continue this relationship with the Banquet Master. Or rather, the Banquet Master no longer doted on Sasha, merely treating her as his loyal believer with kindness, but not loving Sasha.
He probably initially liked Hengwo, who possessed Sasha—not Sasha herself.
And Hengwo was an extreme narcissist. She loved herself, she loved her reflection when she danced, and she loved Xi Tian Si, who split from her, but she had no extra love to give to the Banquet Master.
This was entirely a one-sided love triangle story—
—Since Cain was not born out of love, he could only be born out of beastiality.
He Who Runs Counter to Love!
As the opposite of love, the Blood Heavenly Envoy was a twisted product from the moment of his birth. Since the Blood Heavenly Envoy himself was twisted, his descendants, the Children of the Moon, were naturally also twisted.
“Many of the Children of the Moon who participated with me in defeating the Fallen Heavenly Envoy were inspired by the Envoy of Mist,” Eivass said softly. “But as a minority, they could only keep secrets and draw a line between themselves and their kin after returning home. The Children of the Moon dimly felt that separation…
I will certainly not interfere in the internal affairs of the Iris Flower, nor will I annihilate any race—but if it is a civil war between Mist Demons and Children of the Moon, then at the command of the Envoy of Mist, supporting her relatives would be the most appropriate course of action.
Eivass narrowed his eyes. “Just as humans find it difficult to resist the Children of the Moon… Humans will be transformed into new Children of the Moon; similarly, Children of the Moon should find it difficult to resist Mist Demons, because Children of the Moon can be transformed into Mist Demons.
So, I requested permission from the Envoy of Mist—
To… deter the Children of the Moon; and to provide support to the Mist Demons.
—By her father’s command, to slay their very beings.”
(End of this chapter)
