The Shepherds Are Dense – Chapter 1132

Chapter 1131
Who is Vothigern?
As the Envoy of Mist’s voice fell, the vague human shape condensed in the air became clearer.
The soul dust, shattered to the point of near invisibility, was endowed with a clear appearance—
She looked about eighty to ninety percent similar to the youthful Lucia, with the remaining part faintly bearing the shadow of Sister Sasha. Her hair was no longer black but had turned a pure white, pure as milk. Her skin also became fairer… but not a healthy white, rather a cold-toned, almost transparent, luminous white, as if illuminated by a strong light.
Her once unsettling scarlet eyes had lost their red hue, turning a vacant and frightful silvery white. If one’s eyesight wasn’t particularly good, from a distance, it might even appear as if she only had the whites of her eyes.
She had lost the ferocious fangs the Child of the Moon used for hunting, and instead, she floated in mid-air with her feet not touching the ground, as light as a wisp of smoke.
“I… this is…”
The little girl, opening her eyes, murmured in confusion.
Her voice was no longer flat and arrogant like Cain’s, but had become soft. Just like a real little girl.
“Don’t look, Sherlock.”
Eivass whispered a warning, then took off his Cardinal’s black robe and draped it over the little girl.
“Who would look?”
Sherlock said irritably, but he also averted his gaze.
He was thinking about other more important matters and indeed had no time to bother with this Fallen Heavenly Envoy reborn in the Material Realm.
Eivass’s voice became more magnetic—he used the “pinched voice” he only used during Ascension Rituals after a long time, and gently asked the little girl, “Do you still remember who you are?”
“… I am Cain.”
She widened her eyes and looked at Eivass. A trace of emotion suddenly colored her confused silvery white pupils: “Big brother, you are… someone I cannot forget…
“Eivass… Fox brother?”
“…Very good, it seems there isn’t much memory left.”
Eivass sighed, feeling the matter was somewhat troublesome.
He wondered if the Envoy of Mist was still here… He couldn’t possibly take this child home to raise her, could he?
He still had his own children to raise.
“I’m here.”
As cold mist, like dry ice releasing white smoke, rose from the ground, the ethereal voice of the Envoy of Mist came from the void: “This time… I will accompany her well. I will be with her.”
—Good heavens, a Heavenly Envoy’s chosen one?
As a Priest, Eivass immediately recognized the situation—the Envoy of Mist had injected a part of her own essence, along with Power, into Cain. Or rather, she had used her own Power to rebuild Cain’s body.
As the Envoy of Mist said, Cain and Lucia would have surely died thoroughly under normal circumstances… As the Heavenly Envoy’s vessel, Lucia’s soul should have been completely burned out when the Blood Heavenly Envoy descended, and her body would have been directly ruptured as a consumable.
—The sacrifice soul of a Heavenly Envoy’s vessel was not qualified to enter the Origin River to be chosen by the Gods. After all, for the Ouroboros Ring to be established, living people must be used for incarnation… The Heavenly Envoy descended first, and then died. Such a soul would directly become raw material for a New Soul.
However, the Blood Heavenly Envoy did not want to destroy this body, so she had been using it very carefully, not completely tearing the body apart; she also did not resonate with Path Power with all her might, thus a part of Lucia’s soul could be preserved.
This poor child had done nothing wrong. The Blood Heavenly Envoy could see that she had not even forced anyone to drink blood. From birth until now, she had followed the tenets of the purest Hengwo believer—only drinking small amounts of blood from those who offered it willingly.
For the Blood Heavenly Envoy, who always yearned for Hengwo, it was natural for her to have feelings of goodwill towards Lucia.
The Blood Heavenly Envoy herself was the same.
If her soul were to completely shatter, although she could regenerate from the Dream Realm as a Phantom Demon, it would be a very, very long time from now. The larger the soul, the more energy needed for regeneration… It was likely that Cain would not return much earlier than the Fallen Heavenly Envoy and Supreme Heaven.
Just as the Envoy of Mist said… The remaining soul fragments of Lucia and Cain, combined, could only form about half the amount of a Mist Demon. And the Envoy of Mist chose to supplement a part of herself, filling the remaining portion.
It was like saving up all one’s deposits from five years of work, with some additional sponsorship from parents, to buy a house. As for the proportion of each… only the Envoy of Mist herself would know.
“…You truly loved her, Sasha.”
Eivass, for the first time in a long while, did not use the honorific title for the Envoy of Mist.
Because the Envoy of Mist here was not speaking as a God… but as Sister Sasha, descending here as Cain’s own mother. Calling her by her name was, in fact, a form of respect.
“As you sow, so shall you reap. Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil.”
The Envoy of Mist’s voice was ethereal and cold: “It is precisely because Cain was willing to set those Children of the Moon free… giving them a chance to be reborn, that such a Ritual could be established.
“Because Cain, in her benevolence, released all the Children of the Moon who were bound by his curse before he died… it caused the Children of the Moon to instantly disappear from this World.
“And precisely because the Children of the Moon had disappeared after his death, his and Lucia’s soul fragments no longer belonged to the ‘Children of the Moon,’ nor did they belong to werewolves, witches, fairies, or anything else… Just as formless, colorless, and intangible as mist, I had the opportunity to add a part of my being to form her body, thus completing this act of Creation.”
Upon hearing this, Eivass suddenly understood.
So it was because the Blood Heavenly Envoy, while dispelling the curse, also dispelled Lucia’s curse!
“The act of Creation is complete… I feel that my Power has not weakened, but rather become stronger.”
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The Envoy of Mist’s voice echoed, filled with joy: “The Origin River seems to have truly acknowledged me now!”
“…Because Little Cain is no longer a Phantom Demon of the Path of Love, is she?”
Isabel said softly from the side, taking Eivass’s robe off the girl.
She didn’t let “Little Cain” wear Eivass’s clothes like that—not to mention that it wouldn’t cover much, and Eivass’s robe was too long for her. So Isabel used illusion, transforming the fake into the real, shaping a complete, pure white dress on Little Cain.
—Although theoretically it was an illusion, as long as everyone could see and touch it, it also existed.
It was no longer easy to break Isabel’s illusion… It would probably require the Bewitchment Dispelling of a Fifth Tier Path of Balance user, forced dispelling of spells, the True Sight of a Fifth Tier Path of Wisdom user to peer into it, and the Path suppression of a Sixth Tier Path of Beauty follower.
In the current Material Realm, this was essentially impossible.
“What do you feel?” Eivass asked.
“Intuition, I guess,” Isabel shook her head. “I feel like this child is not from the Path of Love…”
“Indeed, she is not.”
The Envoy of Mist did not put on airs like a God, but spoke to them as if chatting: “Since it’s a fresh start, how could I predetermine her future?
“Just as she has lost much of her past memories… Cain in this state has not awakened her Path Power. Specifically, which Path she will walk on… this time she has the freedom to choose. No longer living as a mere void prop, without any meaning.”
“Like… the Crown Heavenly Envoy?”
Eivass was taken aback for a moment, realizing something.
Speaking of which…
The Crown Heavenly Envoy of the past seemed to have descended to the Material Realm through a Ring Heavenly Envoy’s Ritual, reincarnating as a mortal. This gave him the possibility to transcend limitations and defeat Supreme Heaven.
“Vothigern’s situation is different.”
The Envoy of Mist said lightly: “He did not descend completely. Otherwise, the Crown Heavenly Envoy’s Heavenly Envoy Fragment would have long been lost in the Material Realm.”
…Hm?
Eivass was somewhat surprised: “Who is Vothigern?”
(End of this chapter)