Chapter 816 Breeding Place of Evil Gods (1/2)

The sun was setting, leaving a long, vast dark-red arc over the horizon.

Black, Heir of Ancient Dragon Bloodline and a young dragon declared by Count Radcliffe to possess Legendary talent, was now lying down at the vast wilderness of the western Dark Forest Fortresses. Her body was without strength, her eyes leveled blankly at the skies as she watched the last rays of the setting sun while thinking about life.

Having gone through another difficult training under high-gravity environments, the black dragon girl who simply did not want to move could not hold back the sadness welling from her heart.

”I should have stayed as a mere war steed…”

”Even if I changed bloodlines, aren't I just a dragon?”

”Furthermore, Master never rides me—what use is there for me to improve?! He flies faster than a I do, can carry heavier things, is much powerful and see further than I do. Does my training even have meaning… Argh, it's more annoying the more I think, I'm so angry!”

”Ding-dong~”

Just as the black dragon girl descended into her routine self-doubt and self-loathing after each daily regime, a clear jingle echoed. A stream of water thus descended from the skies, splashing on Black's body that was emanating extreme heat and burning the ground dry.

Sizzle—Steam hissed as a luminous orb happily shot down from the skies into the vapor, jamming itself precisely between the black dragon girl's two horns.

”Urgh… In the end only Light loves me… You're the best!”

Feeling the heat spreading from her excessive training being absorbed by the orb on her head while it also sprayed cooling airflow to heal her injuries. Black was at once moved—struggling to get up, she plucked Light off her head as it jingled, giving it a bear hug and caressing it.

”And you feel so good to the touch!”

It had been some time since Light had joined the family. With Joshua's ability improving, its once mysterious form and existence could be unraveled, solving questions such as how it sustained itself and why it especially enjoyed Black's company.

Being a composite form of pure energies, Light would absorb energies from the world around it, and cherished high-energy environments like fairies. It would follow Joshua whenever the warrior was around and fed on the pure Steel Strength flowing off him, and would choose Black's company in his absence since she was the only one with a solid body and emanates energies instead of absorbing it.

Having awakened her Smelting Black Dragon bloodline, Black would discharge substantial energies even if she cared to control it deliberately. It was Light's favorite energy source, and it certainly did not merely consume—whenever Black trained too excessively, it would affectionately heal her in return as if an angel.

Even so, those sharp individuals in the Liege's Residence notwithstanding, Black, who was actually often slow on the uptake and often hold Light in her embrace could not help feeling puzzled after living together for a long time and witnessing its growth.

Lifting the luminous orb, Black angled it sharply at the horizon where the last rays of the sun was vanishing. As pale silver radiance and dark twilight reflected as one, it illuminated the orb's core even more clearly.

There, within a layer of near solid energy, a little silver vortex swirled inside Light's core.

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”Why is your form so familiar?”

Starfall Year 840, the 20th of April—an afternoon in the Bloodmoon Abyss.

Joshua stood outside the Blood Moon that was about turn into a sun while muttering quietly to himself, ”That's not just it either. Even your essence is familiar… Every soul of a world, a composite of all civilizations and every living species, and with the peoples fooled, leading to a vengefulness of having your world destroyed—just look at that massive vortex of souls. O Light, speak.”

”Why are you so similar to Evil Gods.”

On the massive floating continent in the Bloodmoon Abyss, a towering blood-colored tree that grew to the skies was growing fertilely.

One-fourth of the Blood Lake that was vast enough to be an ocean was shaded by the mutating Lifetree, its massive roots anchoring the continent's structure while leaves that dropped intermittently stirred certain rivers in the lake.

A bright sun thus hung above that tree, providing substantial energy, light, and heat perpetually.

Joshua stood between the tree and the sun—in other words, at the center of the Blood Moon, smiling helplessly since the human silhouette of light did not appear to understand him.

”Right. You've never seen an Evil God, nor could you understand what I speak of.”

He mumbled softly as his expression returned to normal. ”What's more, instead of saying that you resemble Evil Gods, it would be more correct that Evil Gods resemble you.”

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Xillia, the former form of the Bloodmoon Abyss was a world of floating islands. Its civilization was dying as its sun gradually dulled, every race nearing their demise. In desperation, they dispatched a Void warship in an attempt to obtain aid from foreign races, or at least transport seeds of their own civilization to prevent complete extinction if push came to shove.

In the end, there was no telling if they were lucky—they had indeed encountered a 'friendly' Void civilization and obtained a way of salvation. Due to their weakness, the Xillian civilization had no choice but to follow the measure suggested by that seemingly benevolent Void civilization and began the ritual to revive the sun.

Thus, they 'became' the sun.

Information Joshua gathered later indicated that the Xillian civilization had encountered the Black Fog, which apparently did not conquer by violence all the time, instead using simple deception to cause an entire civilization's self-destruction, forming a blood-colored star of pure energy. However, the Black Fog did not recover the composite of energy and soul—it was only thousands of years later when the Pentashade dragons and the demons set their eyes on the powerful assemblage of energies.

They would attempt to use its power to break open the portal to Mycroft, accomplishing an Abyssal ritual and thus removing the Seven Gods Church, the greatest thorn to their side from the equation. The rest, however, was history—Joshua arrived seemingly ignited the blood star that had been dormant over millennia, granting rebirth to the composite of an entire world's souls, energy and life, thus forming the frame of a World Will.

In truth, that process differed greatly to the birth of actual Steel Pythons. Being one who often conversed with Steel Pythons such as Karlis, Joshua was naturally aware that the birth of Steel Python requires an intelligent civilization as its foundation, or dead souls if need be.

Xillia, however, did not have intelligent civilization, while all the dead souls its hosted condensed into a singular form. Logically speaking, a Steel Python should not have been born so quickly.