When the plot-skips players into the game world Chapter 1485: 187: Amber Mother, Taboo Father

Chapter 1485: Chapter 187: Amber Mother, Taboo Father

Aiwass, with a thoughtful and aningful smile, said, “No wonder… the Benevolent Lords are hereditary, but none of their children have mastered this water summoning ability.

“And no wonder, killing a Benevolent Lord in the desert is a kind of forbidden taboo—according to this form of inheritance, if the Benevolent Lord is killed, then the remaining Benevolent Lords will only beco fewer and fewer.

“One needs the head of the predecessor to obtain this power, to engrave this skill, right? So you are unwilling to teach this knowledge, because this is not about imparting the skill of summoning water to … but an inheritance that requires life as the price.”

“… Master, Master… I beg you! I beg your forgiveness…”

Avxin’s voice was rough and parched, as painful as struggling naked on sharp stones: “I am willing to help you seize the contract marks of other Benevolent Lords, I beg you—save , save !”

“I see…”

Aiwass murmured softly, reaching out to touch the ridges on Avxin’s forehead.

It was a mark that looked like a Sun Rock—a regular octagon, with sharp isosceles triangles pointing in all directions. Like the markers on a watch, the triangles at the top, bottom, left, and right were slightly larger.

“—Is it by this that you beca a Benevolent Lord?”

Just a light touch, and the mark suddenly lit up.

Aiwass imdiately felt the heat—that was Avxin’s burning skin. Like inflad limbs, the skin near the sun pattern on his forehead quickly turned red, even dark red. Just a slight touch would feel swollen and scorching. The originally black mark, however, turned into a glowing white.

“No, no… why… Master, Master! Your Holiness, I beg you!”

Avxin couldn’t understand the cause of this change, trembling all over, almost frightened out of his wits—he clearly knew the fate he would face if he lost his status as a Benevolent Lord.

He shrieked and wailed sharply, like a dog with its paw stepped on, emitting a piercing lant: “I am willing to offer everything to you! I am willing… I am willing to beco your slave! Master, Your Majesty! I will do anything for you, conquering any city is possible, I can also make you a Benevolent Lord, just, I beg you—”

Seeing this, however, Aiwass laughed happily. As if watching an exquisite cody performance.

“So you also have things to be afraid of.”

Aiwass laughed and said, “Since you’re so afraid, it ans… it will be even more disloyal than I thought.

“Let think…”

He thought, lightly touching the glowing and hot mark: “Abyssal Celestial Envoy, can you hear ?”

The next mont, Aiwass suddenly faintly heard so gradually shattering sounds.

Like smashing an egg with a hand, a crisp crackling sound arose.

And a long-unseen entry suddenly appeared in front of Aiwass—

[Clear Container LV1 (Blue): You consud the Amber Egg, expanding your soul.]

Like a bad signal, it began to shake violently, turning blurry and unclear.

“This is…”

Aiwass was in a daze for a mont, suddenly realizing: that was when he obtained the “The Wild Hunt,” an unusable profession, and suddenly gained the Path trait.

He still rembered the three options at that ti—

[Earth Affinity LV1 (Blue): You ca close to the Amber Egg, comprehending so essence of the earth.]

[Earth Container LV1 (Blue): You touched the Amber Egg, expanding your soul.]

[Clear Container LV1 (Blue): You consud the Amber Egg, expanding your soul.]

All of these were related to the Amber Egg.

Because at that ti, Aiwass had briefly made eye contact with Amber.

Although the mory had blurred like an illusion, at that ti, he seed to have seen a huge eye spinning like a golden disk from the horizon of frozen ti.

It looked like an eye, a door, an egg.

Like amber.

Like light.

Like tears.

Also like love.

Even though in Aiwass’s mory, there wasn’t any clear image or mory left about Amber, that complex emotion and impression still lingered in his heart.

He originally thought it was just a description of a Path trait.

But now Aiwass realized… he was wrong.

Right at this mont, the Path trait [Clear Container] suddenly underwent a twist—

[Amber Mother (Gold): Amber hatched from the egg, born by breaking its belly.]

There was no explanation, nor any attributes. The blue Path trait suddenly twisted into gold.

And upon seeing this line, Aiwass suddenly recalled the knowledge recorded on the slate secret continuation unearthed from Heracel’s Secret Treasure.

“Sea Burial Secret Continuation” once recorded a forbidden story about snakes and birds: the snake swallowed the bird’s egg, and the bird hatched from the egg, fell in love with the snake, yet killed the snake.

Aiwass also rembered… the true form of Amber was a Winged One maiden sleeping in an Amber Coffin.

If the bird was Amber… then was the snake the Serpent Celestial Marshal?

…No, in that case, it should still be the Reincarnation Celestial Marshal Ai Shiping.

Was Amber the child born by Ai Shiping? Or it might not be birthed in the traditional sense, also possibly describing Amber’s birth or growth… but the point that Amber fell in love with Ai Shiping could almost be confird. And it’s also certain that she eventually tore him apart.

“Sea Burial Secret Continuation” was a forbidden art to transform a lover’s corpse into a sea monster; it also told the secret story of the birth of the first sea monster—the Abyssal Celestial Envoy.

“The Abyssal Celestial Envoy… ca from the transford corpse of the first Reincarnation Celestial Marshal?”

Understanding this point, Aiwass suddenly realized… why this mark reacted so intensely to him.

Looking at Avxin’s reaction, it’s clear ordinary people touching the mark couldn’t possibly experience such a degree of change.

“I need the na of the Benevolent Lord, Avxin.”

Aiwass said softly, “Without the na of the Benevolent Lord, how can people believe I am the Savior? Who can be sure that the Savior this ti is real?”

As Aiwass spoke, his fingertips emitted an increasingly intense Radiance.

Accompanied by a wretched scream—as if the skin were being peeled off, the rune mark on Avxin’s head peeled itself off, climbing up Aiwass’s right hand.

It didn’t crawl up to Aiwass’s forehead, but settled on the back of his right hand, transforming into a black tattoo of the sun pattern.

“—You sacrifice now.”

In a daze, strange knowledge surged into Aiwass’s mind.

It was knowledge about how to maintain water sources through sacrifice:

Offering the blood of four hundred people can sustain the water source for eight hundred people for a year; if flesh and bones are also sacrificed, the water source can be summoned to sustain eight thousand people for a year; if they are in pain or joy, the amount of water doubles; if they dance or sing, the amount of water doubles again.

People can also beco carriers of forbidden knowledge, listening to the unutterable whispers of the Abyssal Celestial Envoy… burning one’s sanity to exchange for an unending water source.

Besides, there are other forbidden acts—

Killing parents and children, violating the Path of Love; creating ugly and abstract artworks, violating the Path of Beauty…

A voice echoed from his heart, it was the initial contract signed between the Abyssal Celestial Envoy and the Benevolent Lords.

[—Alright, then you will trade blood for water, for impossible hope, for unforgivable sin. Like sowing seeds in saline-alkali soil, using wildfires to burn thorns. This is a necessary sacrifice, and it’s also… an unnecessary sacrifice.]

[This is the premature death… the necessary evil.]

Aiwass’s pupils suddenly contracted.

He heard it clearly.

That was…

A cold and indifferent voice.

—A voice almost identical to his own.