601 The Lost Eye, The Impure Humans and Aimees Ancestor (1/2)

”Not all humans are pure human.”

Those words made sense.

Even in terms of ancestry and ethnicity, humans were never a hundred percent of anything. Now that the truth about other races was revealed, some humans being not pure was an acceptable explanation.

In fact, some mythological and folklore creatures were known to procreate with humans. The Tamawo was among them. There were also stories of Duendes marrying humans and possibly, having children.

Furthermore, it was not limited to just spirit races, elementals, and demons. Mythological records itself, in fact, stated that even Gods had children with humans. And there were a lot of them. Even Bathala had stories of having three daughters with a mortal woman. The daughters were named Mayari, the Goddess of the Moon and the ruler of Nighttime, Tala, the Goddess of Stars, and Hanan, the Goddess of Morning, in Tagalog Mythology.

The words from Nineteenth opened the mystery of how some abilities of Mutators did not seem to make sense scientifically.

Everyone was in silence, and the Embodiment of Interest continued.

”Many human ancestries involved other races that disguised and lived as humans after the purge. It was not like we can identify all of them without meeting them. Besides, at that time, our focus was concentrated on the fleeing and hiding Gods and Deities. Since those races can barely affect human society, after all. However, it ended up with other races mixing with human bloodlines.”

”Even so, it was not really a problem for us.”

Nineteenth added as she flipped the pages of the book, and the scene being showed changed.

”It originated even before the purge of the otherworld Gods and Deities. The human bloodline is already mixed with a lot of impurities.”

At the time that those Gods arrived, there were already humans on Earth. These original humans were untainted by the presence of the new Gods and Deities. However, their numbers were greatly diminished after the punishment they incurred from the sins they committed, the Great Flood.

Due to the lack of humans, the newly arrived Gods created their own versions of humans to rule over in their territories. And those humans created by the Gods were not considered to be pure humans of this planet.

Yes, they were humans in their own right. However, being created by the Gods made them more susceptible to magical interference with further influenced their genetics, although to a very small degree. That interference could not be noticed at all but would get passed down from generation to generation.

The appearance of the new humans caused the population of pure humans that were left to become impure.

Nineteenth said.

”So, its not only by having children with other races, isn't it?”

Mark asked.

”Yes.” Nineteenth nodded. ”Although some of the sleeping bloodlines that are now awakened by Mutagen was because of ancestry, there are some that did not. Actually, there is a good example here in your base.”

”Who?”

Of course, Mark would ask.

”Since Blood Demons suddenly appeared here, Our Master ordered me to investigate all of your ancestries. One of the Blood Demons in your base that you did not turn into one did not have any Blood Demons among her ancestors.”

The words from Nineteenth surprised Mark as he continued to listen.

”I believe you all call her Emi.” Nineteenth showed Emi on the pages of her book. ”She did not have any Blood Demon ancestor. However, her past ancestors actually worshiped the Blood Demons. One of her ancestors accidentally entered the Spirit Dimension and found himself in the territory of the Blood Demons. The Blood Demon Ancestor personally saved that man who was dying because the border of Spirit and Demon territories was not habitable by humans. He was saved by ingesting a drop of blood from the Blood Demon Ancestor. Of course, it did not turn him into one.”

Nineteenth stared at Mark.

”I believe that you know this. Consent is needed for someone to become a Blood Demon if the person is not a child of one. And of course, the human that did not want to become a Blood Demon remained human. However, he gained some immunity to be able to stay at that deadly place. Becoming friends with the Blood Demons and the debt he incurred from the Blood Demon Ancestor, when he was able to return to Earth, he worshiped them along with his future descendants.”

Nineteenth then shrugged.

”All of that was the past, though. The Spanish Colonization erased all traces of that religion, although the Blood was passed onto that human's descendants. At the latest generation, there was Emi.”

That was quite surprising. It was also no wonder that Emi suddenly behaved like a servant of Mark who was now leading the Blood Demons, unlike Alana that treated him as an equal.

This story, however, confirmed that both Mark and Alana had Blood Demons among their ancestors.

”Well, I guess it that for the explanation of how Mutagen can wake up sleeping bloodlines as a catalist for Mutation.”

Nineteenth said, changing the pages of her book once more with a wave of her hand.

”The main reason why I came here is to explain this Miss' circumstances.”

Mark nodded and Aimee seemed to be also eager to know.

Looking at Mark, Nineteenth smiled.

”I think, you already have a vague idea but I'll confirm it.” She turned to Aimee. ”Miss Aimee, you are a descendant of an Eye. A Lost Eye, to be exact.”

Mark and Aimee did not know how to react to this. It was both understandable and confusing at the same time.

”What do you mean by Lost Eye?”

Mark asked, which made Nineteenth take a heavy breath.

”It's self-explanatory, Eyes that lost their place.”

Nineteenth then started to explain.

Eyes were the embodiment of emotions of the dominating species on a planet which were also the apostles of the Observer. Eyes could take on different forms, depending on their hierarchy and especially, the dominating species of the planet.

An example of this was the Scouts and Destroyers. They were also Eyes but were different from the Embodiments. On the contrary, however, they could exist without needing to rely on the emotions of humans.

The Emobiments were immortal. As long as the Observer that created them were still alive, they could resurrect with their memories intact. Of course, given that there was enough energy to recreate their bodies.

Unfortunately, like Gods, while Observers would not age, they could still die. Along with their death, the Eyes would vanish.

It was except for a very rare circumstance.