The Shepherds Are Dense – Chapter 1315

Chapter 1313
Bountiful Harvest Falls, The Earliest Sacrifice

At this moment, July 7th. It was late night.

The twilight sun had long since set, and a half-full crescent moon had risen to mid-air.

Eivass took a deep breath, facing the moon.

In this incomparably long day, one Pillar God had been replaced, and four Heavenly Envoys had fallen.

—And today, that desolate desert, which had existed as if in myth since time immemorial, would finally disappear.

He was no longer entwined with any Sin Thorns, nor was there a single flame burning, nor was there any dense smoke swirling around him. He was simply wearing a simple white robe, with proof of the friendship between the former King of Those with Scales and the King of Winged Ones draped over his shoulders. Six wings unfurled behind him as he hovered in the air.

Under the dual manipulation of the Abyss Heavenly Envoy and the Sin Eater Beast on the Sin Thorns, they had all transformed into pure power, converted into Heavenly Envoy Fragments and pure mana.

As for the Sin Thorns beneath the desert, Eivass had already decompressed and extracted their power, resealing the contaminated information into solid Star Ice.

Now, they lay scattered across the desert like dice of various sizes, shimmering with different colored radiance under the moonlight.

As Eivass raised the pearl mussel, it gradually lit up with a brilliant rainbow glow, slowly detaching from his hand and floating up on its own.

It was a color like Star Ice.

Even in Holy Spring City, one could see a rainbow radiance blooming in the night sky.

The prismatic light looked like a star that had suddenly lit up.

“Rainbow…”

Eivass murmured.

Perhaps it was the color of “Hope,” but now it was being submerged by the pure black represented by the Void.

The forbidden power had deviated from “Miracle” to “Hope,” perhaps corresponding to his past failure of reaching “Error” from “Easier.”

Just like that beautiful rainbow glow, under the veil of the night sky, only a few people could see it, as distant as something from beyond the heavens.

Because only the purest, cleanest white light could pierce the darkness—

And beneath the rainbow star twinkling like a lamp, Eivass raised his hands.

He very rarely, with both hands, solemnly held the Book of Law.

The Book of Law fluttered in the wind, and soon stopped.

As an inverted Tarot Card gradually petrified, Eivass spoke her name.

“Inanna—”

Following Eivass’s call, golden radiance instantly lit up before him.

It was the light of the end capable of freezing the entire world… yet it carried an undeniable gentleness.

Born from that radiance was a little girl, about seven or eight years old.

She wore a white robe identical in style to Eivass, with snow-white hair the same color as the newly born Eivass, and amber eyes identical to Eivass. Three pairs of wings unfurled behind her—except for the absence of a halo above her head, she was the perfect replica of father and daughter.

With the Abyss Heavenly Envoy having opened up a path… “Star,” whose name had been lost and was now rebestowed with the name “Inanna” by Eivass, was finally able to manifest her true form in the Material Realm.

She was the old form of Amber before becoming a god. She was the nymph before molting.

She was the paradox that should be nameless, the stillbirth that could not descend to the world—

If one considers the relationship between the forbidden, Amber, the Great Abyss, and Star… with the death of the Great Abyss, Inanna, who could finally be completely reborn, now had a relationship of inheritance.

“Father.”

She flapped her wings and flew to Eivass, greeting him crisply. However, remembering Eivass’s previous instructions, she quickly corrected herself, “No… Teacher!”

“Congratulations,” Eivass showed a rare, gentle smile and patted her head. “You have been born. July 7th… this will be your birthday from now on, Inanna.”

Saying this, Eivass looked down at the desert and commanded:

“Grant this land the seeds of harvest… can you do it?”

“—Yes, Teacher.”

Inanna replied crisply, extending her right hand towards the earth. “Easily.”

Relying on the “Remembrance and Record” fragment provided by the Amber Heavenly Envoy, the power originally belonging to the Pillar God Amber now bloomed—

By merely paying mana, one could bring about miracles that violated the laws of the Material Realm!

And the pearl mussel suspended above her head was now providing endless mana.

—It was the mana that originally belonged to the Great Abyss!

Under the abundant mana, the pale golden desert beneath their feet churned, transforming into a small patch of fertile land, deep brown bordering on black.

This was not soil that could grow crops… because its fertility was too exaggerated, capable of killing all crops. But it was the “seeds of harvest”—

The “Ritual of the Seeds of Harvest” was a “Possibility” that could transform wasteland into normal soil, a large-scale ritual used to modify soil. And this cruel ritual usually required the sacrifice of more than one life.

Now, with its true Master using it, this ritual appeared so effortless—

The “fertility” infused into the land was an entity of “the remains of all things.”

It was concentrated Death.

If Amber had not been used as the vessel of reincarnation from the moment of her birth… she should have become the Earth Goddess, the Goddess of Harvest of this World.

And Earth and Harvest also connected to the concept of the underworld—the “ownerless domain, the Shadow Realm,” that the Shadow Heavenly Envoy had found back then, was originally meant to be the boundary between life and death. This was also why the Shadow Realm killed all crops when it descended upon the Material Realm.

The death of the living signified harvest; the life of the dead signified desolation.

First, an acre of land was sown with the seeds of harvest, and then it expanded tenfold in the blink of an eye.

After that, these deep brown marks spread out in all directions like giant earthworms turning over the soil—in the blink of an eye.

If viewed from directly above, it looked as if the originally flat skin had suddenly cracked, revealing many deep brown “scars.”

However, these scars all symbolized new life.

These powers were injected along the traces left by the former Sin Thorns deep within the desert!

Infusing the desert with the power of “Death,” bestowing upon it the right of harvest.

This was precisely what the Earth Goddess should have done.

If not for the invasion of the Void, perhaps this desert… no, perhaps the entire World would have turned into fertile land of harvest.

“The fruit falls—this is the earliest sacrifice in the world.”

Eivass murmured, “Exchanging new life for death and abundance, realizing the endless cycle of life and death…”

The cycle of life and death was so perfect and flawless.

This land was like this originally, is like this now, and will be like this in the future—

“Finished, Teacher.”

In just half an hour, with an infinite supply of mana, Inanna expanded the seeds of harvest to the entire Anxi.

This was not difficult for Inanna at all. She didn’t even feel a bit tired.

Then, Eivass drew the second card—

(End of this chapter)