Chapter 793
When Jin suddenly bowed his head in respect, Aris, seeming montarily perplexed, coughed awkwardly.
Hedo followed Jin's lead and bowed his head towards Aris.
[Ahem, yes. As expected, my eyes didn't deceive . After all, you're not bad.]
"Allow to introduce myself again properly. I am Jin Runcandel, the leader of the Val Alliance and the young patriarch of the 59th patriarchate of Runcandel."
"I'm an... executive of the Val Alliance? Jin, am I really an executive?"
"Sir Hedo, if you're not an executive, who would be?"
"Well, that's true. What's my exact title then?"
"Well, you can consider yourself the Chief of Staff."
"Alright. I am Hedo, the Chief of Staff of the Val Alliance and butler to Sandra-nim. As I ntioned before, I have no surna."
Aris smiled at the two, finding them adorable.
[Sandra, huh? Sounds like a na for one of the kids outside the pit. Is she the mischievous one or the quiet one? Surely not the cat, right?]
"It's the forr."
[I bet it wasn't easy. Thanks to that girl, you didn't succumb to corruption despite having so much power.]
Hedo nodded without fully understanding the aning behind those words.
There was a mont of silence.
Aris seed lost in thought, recalling faint mories.
[... Then I should introduce myself. It took a while to recover my mories. I am Aris, an immortal born with an unfortunate destiny. When I was awake, mortals used to call the Great Serpent.]
"You're not a dragon, I see."
[I am not entirely disassociated from Dragons. They are like distant descendants of mine.]
"...Did you say distant descendants?"
No one knows the exact mont when dragons appeared in the world.
Not even the dragons themselves knew their beginnings.
They only knew that they were created by their respective Gods.
According to Aris, Jin and Hedo had just learned one of the long-kept secrets of the world.
[Yes, now that we've introduced ourselves, there's sothing I want to ask. You ntioned that you are in a position opposed to the resurrection of the Sun God, so why did you seek the underworld that I protect?]
"There is a sect called the Sun God religion that is currently gaining montum in the human world. We are in conflict with them, and we recently obtained information that there might be a gateway to the Demon World here. May I explain the current situation we face?"
[Go ahead, I'm listening.]
Jin proceeded to explain the situation in the human world to Aris.
The content was about the 'monsters' that began to appear since the Sword Emperor Castle War.
He continued with the appearance of the evil god after Gliek's death and an explanation about the Sun God religious sects, suspected to be behind the incidents.
Naturally, he also included information about the power dynamics of the major clans.
As she listened attentively to Jin's story, Aris occasionally groaned in intense pain, experiencing severe headaches.
It was the result of mories reappearing, mixing, and sinking chaotically.
"...So, we carried out the excavation simply to confirm its existence. Since there is very little information about the Sun God, we thought we should find out sothing to respond more flexibly to our enemies. Honestly, I didn't expect anything, but that's how we ended up eting Mrs. Aris."
After finishing the explanation, Aris slowly nodded.
[I see... I understand your position roughly. It may not be comparable to before I fell asleep, but it seems the human world is in quite a chaotic situation.]
"When exactly did you fall asleep?"
[I don't rember the exact mont either. However, you ntioned earlier that it is currently the year 1803, and you said that the Tribe of Legends, which played a significant role in the slaying of the evil god, perished 5000 years ago. Solderet barely managed to seal 77 of them and keep them alive.]
"That's correct."
[It's evident that the ti I fell asleep is much before 5000 years ago. Because when this world was split into two halves, I was given the destiny to protect the boundary between the underworld and the surface world.]
The "destiny to protect the boundary" ntioned by Aris wasn't simply to prevent those seeking the underworld.
Her destiny was to ensure that the underworld and the surface couldn't mix.
[The world was split into the surface world and the underworld after the death of the Sun God Kinzelo. The beings sent to the underworld are what you call demons, and those sent to the surface include humans and other creatures.]
"Why shouldn't they mix?"
[It's because it's the new order. The Sun God has died, and the perfect world he oversaw has disappeared.]
A perfect world.
The Sun God religious sects that Jin had encountered so far believed that if the Sun God resurrected, this world would beco perfect again.
Jin and Hedo continued listening to Aris's story while considering that point.
[However, there were those who couldn't bear the feeling of loss as they transitioned from perfection to imperfection. Naturally, they couldn't accept the new order. Birth and death, beings exceeding their given destinies, the disruption of causality, and the collapse of the old order, all these factors led them to gather in one place, yearning for the resurrection of the Sun God.]
"So, that's how the Sun God religion began. Mrs. Aris, you played the role of preventing those people from reaching the underworld."
[That is correct. However, not everyone acted that way. Among the heads that were part of , so dread of the resurrection of the Sun God.]
Aris revealed that she originally had nine heads.
A mysterious entity commonly found in the myths of all continents: a great serpent with nine heads.
[I had to fight against those heads as well. I personally killed many of those heads, I believe it was five. And the Tribe of Legends killed another. I'm not sure about the remaining three. They either perished or are beneath , since I haven't felt their presence.]
"So, what about the other heads that oppose the resurrection of the sun..."
[Four heads, including . I stand before you, two of the remaining heads were slain by the Tribe of Legends at that ti. It would be good if the last head remains sowhere underground.]
From Aris's perspective, her heads were divided into a form of good and evil.
The five heads who desired the resurrection of the Sun God were considered evil, while the four heads who opposed were considered good.
There are three evil heads and one good one that might be alive.
[The beings you, mortals, call dragons were ford from the death of my heads. With those fragnts, the new immortals born at that ti created dragons.]
"New immortals? Wait, does that an Mrs. Aris... has existed for longer than the beings you refer to as gods today?"
[Recite the nas of the gods you know.]
When Jin listed the nas of the gods he knew, Aris shrugged.
[All of them, except Solderet and Klam, are immortal beings I don't know. Well, my mory is not complete, so there may be so among them that I know.]
"So, we have awakened that Mrs. Aris..."
[Hoho, wielding weapons fearlessly at the tip of my nose. And to tell you a little more about Solderet. He was an immortal who taught swordsmanship.]
Upon hearing those words, Jin realized why Aris's swordsmanship felt strangely familiar.
It was because he unconsciously felt traces of Solderet in Aris's swordsmanship.
"Solderet taught you swordsmanship personally... Were you close to him?"
[He was an immortal who adapted to the new order of the world. Naturally, he must have been very close to . When you awakened my joy for the sword, the mory of that joy remained vivid. You said you were his contractor, right?]
"That's correct."
[Perhaps your encounter with today was not a re coincidence, but destiny.]
"Then I hope that's the case. Since our goals coincide from the start, there will surely co a ti when we need to help each other. However, Mrs. Aris."
[Speak.]
"There was one part of your story that was hard to understand. It's about the Tribe of Legends."
[You are curious about why they killed the heads that had different intentions?]
"Yes."
[It's simple. The Tribe of Legends at that ti... you can think of them as the ancient Tribe of Legends. Like all other mortals, they were divided into factions: those who sought to resurrect the Sun God and those who tried to prevent it.]
"That seems reasonable."
[The ancient Tribe of Legends were the only beings capable of freely traversing between the surface world and the underworld at that ti. Of course, I had to engage in battles with them every ti they did, but sotis even I had to avoid conflict. They were mortals who had been bestowed with imnse power.]
Although Aris didn't directly explain her own power, Jin could clearly speculate that she possessed abilities far beyond what she was currently displaying.
Even her training session with Jin and Hedo was just a glimpse of her true capabilities.
"Bestowed... Does that an soone else bestowed power upon the ancient Tribe of Legends?"
[The Sun God Kinzelo. The reason the ancient Tribe of Legends was so powerful was because the Sun God's greatest ideals were instilled in them. Consequently, they were divided between those who sought to resurrect the Sun God to gain even greater power and those who accepted the new world.]
Even the current Tribe of Legends in Lafrarosa had no knowledge of that information.
There was a forgotten and severed history between the ancient Tribe ntioned by Aris and the current Tribe.
[Perhaps you and the Tribe of Legends who beca your brothers are descendants of the latter group. If the forr group had survived until now, the surface would have turned to ashes long ago. Mortals imbued with the Sun God's ideals naturally lead to the destruction of the surface. However, there are also beings like Hedo who have resisted corruption and temptations]
“Mrs. Aris, are you saying that the ideals of the Sun God are also instilled in ?"
[Where do you think the trendous power you've possessed since birth ca from? If you had grown up poorly, you would have beco a notorious villain in the history of the surface. The Sun God's ideals drive the bearer towards madness and the destruction of the surface. It's to find the underworld and the altar beyond it.]
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