Chapter 515: Parental Love (1/2)

Unable to come up with a good solution, Zero returned Sylvia her child's soul on the condition that she should no longer perform any strange experiments. All the slave and part orders that she made were forcefully cancelled. Zero decided to remain in the U.N.U. for a while as an envoy while he came up with a good solution.

Sylvia was more than happy to assist Zero in his understanding of chimaeras and alchemy when she saw how Zero was willing to think of something for her. Sylvia promised that as long as Zero agreed to help her out, she wouldn't do anything that he didn't like.

For now, the slaves were spared although the situation in U.N.U. was still as disastrous as before with the civil war continued raging on outside of the tower, Zero considered this somewhat a victory. He was given the best room in the tower and Zero spent most of his time pouring through Sylvia's research notes and checking his facts with his teachers.

Tanya answered many of Zero's questions which only led the doctor to believe that there wasn't a way to fix the crumbling soul. Enma also told Zero that his abilities only stretch so far. No God was able to 'create' a soul. They were something that formed naturally by maintaining the life cycle according to their domains.

”Is there a way for bodies to be created from trees?” Zero asked and Sedna was stunned.

”Bodies? As in children?” the confused Great Goddess asked over the call.

Zero nodded. ”For example is there a way for someone to receive the blessings of a God or Goddess for children? I'm talking about people who want children but cannot find a spouse or fell in love with an incompatible gender... something like that. Does a God or Goddess of Love exist to create things like this?”

Zero's idea wasn't one that completely lacks logic. For a while, Sedna didn't answer. There used to be many Goddesses of Fertility before the massacre of Gods. However, now, there was nobody in charge of that domain. If people believed in such a God or Goddess, a new one would have been born but thanks to the shift in beliefs of the new worlds and the ending of old worlds, there weren't enough thoughts to birth a new Goddess.

”There used to be someone like that. However, they no longer exist. Why?”

Hearing that there used to be a Goddess of Fertility, Zero thought that it was a shame that parental love wasn't more appreciated. Dejectedly, he thanked Sedna for her time and sighed. If only there was a way to create children based on wishes. There were many kinds of world trees guarding and regulating many different things. Why wasn't there any to bear children fruits for those who wished to become parents? Surely the number of souls waiting to be reincarnated would love a chance at life. By having a children-producing tree, the bottleneck for souls waiting for their turn to reincarnate would be very quickly resolved rather than putting more cupids to work to tie red strings and shoot arrows at potential compatible targets.

”That's it!” Zero grinned. If such a tree and goddess didn't exist, perhaps he could find a way to create a new world tree and appoint someone to become the new Goddess of Fertility, preferably someone who loved children very much.

The clone that wasn't soaking in the pool suddenly shuddered. Zero's clones knew that Truen and Bob would be arriving at any moment with the twin magicians and Misana so the village was preparing for them. However, Zero's new idea meant that some priorities had to be shuffled.

”I have to go, Zero the original has a new task for me,” the tired-looking clone groaned.