The Shepherds Are Dense – Chapter 1130

Chapter 1129
Failed Creation, Correct Outcome

Sacred, resplendent, glorious, and fatal.
The radiance that surged from behind Eivass dispersed all darkness before his eyes.
When the light of Paradise Lost faded, the Blood Heavenly Envoy had already lost the awe-inspiring presence that rendered her unseeable.
The black-haired girl’s body was now covered in cracks, like a torn painting haphazardly pieced back together, possessing a breathtaking, shattered beauty. This also meant that the Blood Heavenly Envoy’s remaining life force would be completely extinguished here.

Eivass hadn’t even utilized the power of Lucifer’s Wings. He hadn’t summoned the aggressive Beasts of Sin, nor had he summoned the Night Demon, which had already ascended to the Sixth Tier. He hadn’t fused with a Beast of Sin or unfurled a more magnificent Wings of Color either. The most ordinary Paradise Lost was enough to completely shatter the Blood Heavenly Envoy.

The Blood Heavenly Envoy was indeed significantly weaker than the Fallen Heavenly Envoy. After all, the Blood Heavenly Envoy hadn’t fully achieved divinity—the completion of her path to becoming a Perfect Being. Therefore, her divinity was incomplete. It was like the Banquet Master lacking a liver, and thus missing the authority pertaining to “wine,” forever unable to reach the Heavenly Envoy realm. The Blood Heavenly Envoy hadn’t fully completed her own proof, so the power she wielded wasn’t overwhelmingly strong. This was also why Eivass dared to come here with just a few people. It was precisely because the Blood Heavenly Envoy’s destructive power wasn’t that formidable.

However, from another perspective, the Blood Heavenly Envoy, having descended upon the Material Realm, was among all Heavenly Envoys with exceptionally tenacious life force. As long as she didn’t wish it, killing her was far more difficult than killing other Heavenly Envoys. As the ancestor of all Children of the Moon, the first Child of the Moon… the Blood Heavenly Envoy’s life force naturally surpassed that of other Children of the Moon by a wide margin. To her, blood was an extension of life—she could regenerate from a pool of blood and create within it. As long as she had enough blood, she could reshape her current form an infinite number of times, much like the Children of the Moon who also possessed immortality. The Children of the Moon she killed would become her pool of blood. She had likely killed enough Children of the Moon to fashion a boundless Sea of Blood… Facing the Blood Heavenly Envoy, Eivass had to be prepared for a protracted battle.

He had enlisted Isabel precisely to outlast the Blood Heavenly Envoy through alternating turns. When Isabel used the Mask of Secrets to imitate Eivass, she could naturally use Eivass’s equipment. Eivass’s Phantom Cards were precisely “items,” which could be entrusted to Isabel to use, thereby circumventing the price.
But even so, the Blood Heavenly Envoy was an extremely difficult enemy to contend with. Or rather… her strength was entirely dependent on her bottom line. A single great slaughter, and the Blood Heavenly Envoy, having obtained the lives of the Iris people, would become utterly invincible.

However, reality was precisely the opposite. The Blood Heavenly Envoy had drawn the blood from those Children of the Moon, using their life essence to complete this ritual against the Void, shaping those strange and sacred root-like wings. She had confronted the Child of the Void head-on with her own existence, using the hatred and sins created by her creation of the Children of the Moon as an anchor to dissolve the Void Child’s erosion. She had even voluntarily bound the Void Child within herself and directly absorbed Eivass’s Paradise Lost.

Paradise Lost did indeed possess the power to kill a descended Heavenly Envoy. It was, after all, the mark of the King of Winged Ones, an inheritance of power from a Wing Heavenly Envoy. The first King of Winged Ones had split into Supreme Heaven and Great Philosopher, and half of the second King of Winged Ones had become the Fallen Heavenly Envoy; the other half’s power now resided with Eivass. This was undoubtedly high-level power equivalent to the origin of a Fallen Heavenly Envoy. However, for a skill with such a long wind-up, hitting the target was a challenge… and its power could also be completely offset or deflected.

The Blood Heavenly Envoy neither dodged, nor defended, nor parried, nor regenerated—she had even deliberately suppressed her regenerative abilities, all to die under Eivass’s Paradise Lost. Or rather… to be shattered together with the Void Child by Paradise Lost.

“Is this… suicide?” Eivass gazed at the Blood Heavenly Envoy and softly asked, “Cain (Male)?” Although the Blood Heavenly Envoy appeared completely normal, capable of action and speech, as the Ouroboros Ring ritual was fully completed, the Heavenly Envoy Fragment had been stripped away by the ritual. The body that had descended upon the Material Realm would inevitably begin to disintegrate sooner or later.

“…Ah.” Her formerly arrogant and unrestrained smile now subsided. The Blood Heavenly Envoy, stripped of all her sharpness and wildness, now resembled an ordinary little girl. She had lost all her Extraordinary Power, and the cracks on her skin were becoming more pronounced and numerous. Like a little girl who had just argued with her family… cowering, silently gripping the doorframe, hiding more than half of her body behind it, still wanting to hide in a corner among the crowd. She didn’t want to be scolded, didn’t dare to talk back or go mad, didn’t want to apologize or admit fault, but also didn’t want to hide alone in an unknown corner.

The Blood Heavenly Envoy looked up at Eivass standing before her, her expression complex. She hesitated in silence for a long time before ultimately saying nothing. She merely tilted her head up proudly, her eyes filled with absolute, shining confidence—even though the final blow was delivered by Eivass, and even though she had made preparations two thousand years in advance… she had undoubtedly still defeated the Void Child. The Void, which even her revered mother could not bear and dared not touch… even if it was just a fragment of it, she had defeated it!

However, within that effort to flaunt her confidence, Eivass could sense a mingled unease. He sighed, and the magic circle behind him gradually extinguished like fireworks. He took two slow steps forward. The Blood Heavenly Envoy instinctively wanted to retreat, but ultimately remained stubbornly still, only craning her neck to look at Eivass, staring intently into his eyes. Eivass reached out and gently placed his hand on the little girl’s head. He didn’t dare to apply too much force—the Blood Heavenly Envoy had now become a “treasure chest.” If Eivass applied even a little force, she would shatter completely.

“You’ve worked hard, Cain (Male),” Eivass said softly. At that moment, it seemed as if a hint of crystalline moisture seared in the depths of the Blood Heavenly Envoy’s pupils. But she didn’t shed tears; instead, she let out a sarcastic chuckle. “Worked hard at what? Indulging in slaughter and pleasure within the Blood Domain all day? Hatred flowing endlessly like rivers across the land? The failed and disappointing creations I’ve made? Committing unforgivable Great Sins out of a craving for love? Or is it simply celebrating that I, a creation destined to fail from the very beginning, have achieved the correct outcome?”

Cain’s personality should have been that of a rebellious, brilliant youth. To gain his mother’s attention, he had created a sinful race. Not only did the Blood Heavenly Envoy show no remorse for the Great Sins committed against her “children,” but she had even proactively intensified them—by bestowing divine arts to continuously push the Children of the Moon to change history, ensuring their sins would be remembered by future generations. But in her current manifestation as an eight or nine-year-old little girl, she showed no sense of incongruity. In the end, she was just a child starved of love.

(End of Chapter)