Chapter 278: Genesis and Apocalypse 7 (2/2)
REPORT AD
It was safe to say that those who lived in the Old Testament period didn’t know a thing about the afterlife since the Lord made no mention of receiving their souls after death…truly, the unknown was a terrifying thing.
“So the humans were really researching immortality back then?” Even though I knew that their research ultimately failed, I was still rather hopeful as I asked: “Did they succeed in the end?”
“In the end…they didn’t succeed, but they didn’t fail either.”
“What do you mean by that?”
‘How about being clearer please?’
“The reason why the Creator decided to wipe out the world was because their research progressed down the wrong road. Rather, it should be said that their research progressed down a path that the Creator didn’t wish for…”
As he said that, the statue paused for a second, perhaps simply to build suspense or perhaps for some other deeper reason. Or maybe he had just gone senile. Either way, the statue’s abruptness left me itching for the answer.
“Go on then, don’t just stop at the crucial point.”
“Sigh…” The statue exhaled for a long time. “Back then, what the humans researched was actually Undead magic…by daring to revive the dead in order to escape from death…they essentially created a new life form…more importantly, Undead magic was only in its infancy then, so a lot of live subjects had to be used for experiments…
Live experimentation…the first thing that came to my mind was the infamous Unit 731 from World War II. As for what they actually did…even the most ignorant of peoples would at least know what they did, right?
(TL: . The euphemism employed in their name is just sublime…you just can’t get more morbid and insidious than that.)
The live experimentation conducted by the researchers of Undead magicks was basically the same, perhaps even worse. After all, the most 731 did was to perform inhumane experiments on the psyche and the body. In those Undead experiments however, even the soul was targeted; death wasn’t even a clean affair anymore. After the destruction of the physical body, the soul still had to undergo a variety of cruel experiments seeing as death was the true starting point of Undead research…
As the saying went: respect the dead. Almost everyone knew not to disrupt the rest of the dead. However, Undead magic, by definition, was anathema to this rule.
In that sense, the appearance of Hades wasn’t really a coincidence either…moreover, the clone of Lucifer mentioned that he had aided the creation of the Undead so in other words, Lucifer perfected Undead magic?!
‘No, maybe instead of perfecting Undead magic, he instead led the humans to create it…that must be it! So he’s technically the ancestor of Undead magic!”
‘In other words, Lucifer was also partly responsible for the destruction of the world in the ancient times.’
‘Not that it matters to me, of course; that was all in the past. What I would rather know is why did he leave a statue behind for me to awaken? There’s no way you’re convincing me that it is all a coincidence, not even if you beat me to death.’
“Judging by that expression on your face, I bet you’re blaming me for the destruction of the ancient humans.”
Even though I never said it out loud, my expression betrayed me rather handily.
“Haven’t you realized yet? This is all a ploy by the Creator. Me sneaking into Eden to seduce Lilith, me tricking Eve and Adam into eating the forbidden fruit, even all that I had done after that, do you honestly think that he didn’t know? He definitely knew what I was planning, I dare say he even tacitly allowed it. Back then, I was beside myself with joy at the thought of having fooled him…in truth, he already knew about everything from the start, from the moment he had me kneel to Adam, he knew I would rebel. Yet he still did it. Why? Because his goal was to destroy the world!”