Chapter 1414 - Vivian and the Malevolence (2/2)

Lily held her chin with an inscrutable look. “I think that when adding all the Malevolences together will they be considered a whole. Every time a Malevolence split out from you, it will take away one of your characteristics, and divinity is only one of the attributes of this whole. The relationship between you and the Malevolence are not of a mother and split but should be equal. Just that you are more rational and occupying a larger proportion of the whole. So whether it is the Malevolence or yourself, it is no longer the complete creature that the goddess of creation has created in the first place. It must be the sum of all of you to count as a whole.”

The husky maiden clapped her hands and continued. “So you have no divinity. There is no divinity in every other Malevolence, because divinity is only one of the characteristics, and it is assigned to Ertos the master.”

Y’zaks scratched his bald head and said, “I got what you mean. It really explains the problem of Vivian lacking divinity. But why do you have to emphasize that Vivian is just a ‘fragment’ like all the other Malevolences? As you said, all the Malevolences split from Vivian, so could we not treat Vivian as the ‘mother’?”

Lily took a piece of biscuit out of her pocket—she always stuffed many snacks in her pockets. “Because from the first division, the whole is no longer complete. Strictly speaking, the complete individual has disappeared and become two pieces of unequal size. Just that Battie is the larger piece. Smaller pieces are separating from her, but she could not be counted as the original. Just like this biscuit, I am going to break it evenly into ten pieces.”

While speaking, Lily broke a small piece from the biscuit.

“When the first piece comes off, it becomes two pieces of biscuit.”

Lily broke the biscuits one by one and eventually there were ten pieces of similar size.

“Look, what is the difference between them now?”

Y’lisabet’s eyes brightened up. “Ahh, I got it! Some have cream, and some don’t!”

Lily was stupefied.

“Did you sole study philosophy during your four times in Peking University?” Hao Ren said, shooting Lily a glance.

“It has nothing to do with philosophy! It is a simple aggregation question!” Lily said, banging the table. “We used to always equate Battie with the creature created by the goddess of creation, and think that she had all the clues with her. We ignored the question of incompleteness. If we do not reverse this thinking, we will be going nowhere!”

“Can you not bang the table when you speak? Look at the crumbs, they are all over the table!” Hao Ren snorted.

Lily lowered her head and licked the table clean. “Now, is it clean enough?”

Vivian was silent. She was in thought while her eyes moved continuously as if she had thought of something.

“What happened?” Hao Ren asked.

Vivian was only jolted out of her thought when Hao Ren repeated his question. “Ohh, nothing, nothing. I have just thought of something.”

Hao Ren looked at Vivian for a while and then shook his head. “Let us leave the question of divinity for later when we see Raven 12345. Meanwhile, I care more about another matter. Vivian, do you remember the first time when you saw your Malevolence?”

“I remember it!” Lily said and raised her paw at once. “Did we not find a magic book? We tried to summon evil spirits with that stuff, and it turned out to be Vivian’s Malevolence.”

Hao Ren nodded his head. “Yep, that was our first encounter with the Malevolence. It was also the first time that Vivian met her Malevolence. At that time, Vivian did not see the face of the Malevolence. She saw the Malevolence was shrouded in a gauze-like fog. She was so surprised when she learned from us that the Malevolence looked identical to her.”

“Yes, that was the case,” Lily said while nodding.

“But since then, Vivian could always see the face of the Malevolences,” Y’zaks said. “Whether it is the demon-god on planet Inferno or Noobie here, Vivian see them all.”

“And in Ertos, a third scenario occurred. We all saw the Malevolence as a blurry mass. Only Vivian could see the monster clearly,” Hao Ren said, picking up from where Y’zaks left off.

He looked at everyone and said, “I think something is amiss here.”