When the plot-skips players into the game world

The scale of Heaven City is almost one of the largest within the Parthian Ancient Country.

Aside from the largest Holy Spring City, now the second biggest is Heaven City... Although even from second to fifth combined, it may not have the size of Holy Spring City.

Such immense power, yet possessing a Fifth Power Level Heart of Devotion, suggests he must be engaged in ascetic practice. After all, ascetic practice in this world is idealistic; as long as he believes he's practicing asceticism, then he is.

Fish sauce is something that's pretty much a staple in Aiwass's diet. To him, it's like soy sauce; it's just that in Parthia's landlocked area, such coastal specialties become more expensive luxuries than gold.

...Without surprise, this bottle of blood sauce might even be produced from the Lohar District.

This instantly made Aiwass show a troubled expression.

— It's almost like a complicated feeling of paying too much for hot pot while traveling abroad.

Though after arriving at Adil's bedchamber, Aiwass gained quite a new perspective on this Benevolent Lord—he wasn't just a hypocrite showing a facade, nor a manipulative schemer.

He genuinely wanted to do something good from the bottom of his heart.

But Aiwass also increasingly understood that he truly wasn't among these people—

Even if Adil sincerely practiced asceticism and good deeds, possessing morals and kindness worlds apart from other Benevolent Lords, to Aiwass, he was still so barbaric and cruel... hopelessly so.

Because he couldn't transcend his birth, culture, and faith.

Every polite and gentle word revealed to Aiwass the upper limit of the "Benevolent Lord" group.

For some reason, Aiwass also sensed a faint aura of death from him. It's not that he was unwell, or cursed or anything. It was like knowing someone has a terminal illness—

Unlike ordinary people who feel like "future time is infinite," he clearly understood his own end time. Because of this, all his plans and arrangements came with an unavoidable deadline. There's a particular sense of tranquility, as if nothing matters anymore, mixed with a determined anxiety to at least finish something.

Thus, Aiwass didn't bother him much for now and straightforwardly asked the question he was most concerned about: "What did you mean by the Amber Egg...?"

Upon hearing this, Adil didn't give any orders or commands.

He just lowered his gaze, and the slaves in the palace silently came forward to present the Amber Egg contained within the sealed vessel.

Just as Adil mentioned, they communicated silently. No words or interactions were needed, so there were no mistakes or reprimands.

Was this also achieved by the Nurturing Skill?

Aiwass pondered and focused his gaze.

—It was something housed in a black container.

The outer container was a gigantic egg, crafted from "thirst stone." Clearly the same material as the thirst stone bell used to summon residents by the Benevolent Lords... It looked like a murky black crystal.

Just by staring at it, Aiwass vaguely heard sounds of the ocean's waves.

Like that kind of sleep-inducing white noise.

But if Aiwass shifted his gaze, that sound disappeared.

The level of transparency was a bit like a car's privacy glass. If you look through it, you can hardly see anything.

As if guessing what Aiwass was thinking, or perhaps the Benevolent Lord observed his gaze.

Then immediately, another slave brought and lit a candle. This too was a specialty Aiwass was quite familiar with—precisely the Holy Candle used by the bishops of the Holy Nation, whose flame had a subtle calming and healing effect, capable of dispelling many mild plagues.

Through the candlelight, one could vaguely see a bit of outline inside.

There seemed to be something floating within... but no matter how Aiwass looked, it didn't appear to be a smooth egg, but rather something with peculiar tentacle-like features.

"...That, doesn't seem to be an egg?" Aiwass murmured.

For some reason, just looking at it induced an inexplicable sadness.

Yet, Aiwass couldn't recall anything.

That kind of bewildering paradox made one uneasy, even somewhat agitated.

As if he had forgotten someone important—yet she was right before him, silently watching him with tear-filled eyes.

"Yes, and no."

Adil looked at Aiwass, his gaze filled with sorrow: "My brother... Do you think this is a descendant left by the Pillar God Amber?"

"Exactly."

Aiwass nodded slightly, unable to look away from that "egg."

Because he previously knew the Serpent Celestial Marshal once loved Amber, and was killed by Amber. The Abyssal Celestial Envoy is the former body of the Serpent Celestial Marshal falling into the sea and becoming spirited... This Amber Egg, sealed by the ocean, inevitably made Aiwass think of the secret knowledge in the Sea Burial Secret Continuation.

"It seems you know quite a lot of secrets."

Seeing Aiwass's reaction, Adil instead smiled with anticipation and recognition: "You even know the deep bond between our master and the Amber Pillar."

He guessed Aiwass's thoughts, knowing Aiwass likely thought this was the child of the Serpent Celestial Marshal and Amber. This vague expression was precisely meant as deliberate misguidance.

"...I find you to be like a philosopher, Adil."

Aiwass looked up and gazed at the Benevolent Lord: "You are fond of wordplay."

Just like the phrase "Amber is never the embryo in the egg," which indeed has two completely different meanings.

One interpretation is based on the premise that Amber is the "God of the Unborn"—according to current theological studies, Amber is an unborn infant. She is the eye, the doorway, the egg, the light, the amber... she is born in the future and grows in the past, thus she is an "impossible paradox," an "unsolvable flaw."

Therefore, to deny the "God of the Unborn" and mention "never the embryo in the egg" gives the illusion... as if suggesting that Amber is not the "embryo in the egg," but an already existing entity.

Coincidentally, Aiwass knows this secret.

Amber is the beloved of the Serpent Celestial Marshal—or the Reincarnation Celestial Marshal. Before the world's destruction, Ai Shiping entrusted his Authority of Reincarnation to the person he trusted the most, allowing Amber to be permanently sealed and become the final mechanism to restart the world. So she is certainly not the "embryo in the egg," but rather sealed within the "egg," curled up in sleep as an adult resembling an infant!

But at the same time... Adil likely had another meaning to these words.

Aiwass now understood—this could not possibly be the child of Amber and the Serpent Celestial Marshal.

Because judging from Adil's level of devotion to the Serpent Celestial Marshal, if this were truly the Serpent Celestial Marshal's first offspring, wouldn't he have worshipped it as a god?

How could it have been stolen? How could he have sealed it so carelessly?

Rather than being seen as a form of belief... it was more like an impossible-to-handle nuisance in his eyes.

It could even be said that Adil harbors a subtle hostility toward Amber...

...Indeed, toxic fandoms are only triggered by true love rivals. Are you seriously a fan of Ai Shiping's girlfriend?

Once this possibility dawned upon him, Aiwass felt a chill run down his spine.

"How much do you know about... 'reincarnation'?"

Adil asked seriously and earnestly.

Aiwass thought for a moment and answered: "As worlds change and reincarnate, the affairs of the world remain eternally unchanged.

"The just shall remain just, the foul shall remain foul. The king shall ever be a king, the slave shall ever be a slave.

"No one rises, no one falls, all things remain unchanged. The universe has hardened, like the Amber Egg; eternal damnation and the world cycle, like the Ring of Ouroboros."

These were the words at the time of the Serpent Celestial Marshal's divine revelation.

Upon hearing this, Adil became immediately excited.

"Good, good!"

His eyes lit up instantly, unable to maintain that philosophical composure, nodding frantically in near reverence, his voice rising several octaves: "My brother, you are indeed someone who has witnessed divine miracles! We are on the same side, people bearing responsibilities!"

He nearly embraced Aiwass, managing with some effort to calm himself down.

...What does this mean?

Aiwass raised an eyebrow, realizing something.

He witnessed the descent of the Serpent Celestial Marshal? But… how is that possible?

And mistaking Aiwass as an ally, Adil indiscriminately revealed his greatest secret:

"I built Heaven City for this palace; I built this palace because of my duty; and my duty is to guard its seal—until the day it is broken in the future. I too shall die because of this, as this is my fate.

"It will inevitably be broken, it must be broken. Because it is the child of paradox, the non-existent god.

"It is not the child of the Serpent Celestial Marshal and Amber, but Amber herself.

"The eternal damnation and world cycle... the current Amber is born in the future. And existing in the past, the 'egg' about to hatch into Amber became a twisted monster because of this."

Upon hearing this, Aiwass was momentarily dazed.

He was summoned by a mysterious strength, involuntarily reciting knowledge from the Sea Burial Secret Continuation in an ancient language he didn't know, as if the knowledge was alive:

[The flying snake flies into the bird's nest and swallows the bird's egg, but hatches a fledgling from within itself]

[The bird bursts from the snake's belly, its first sight is the snake that devoured it, and it falls in love with it]

In the next instant, Aiwass suddenly became fully aware.

He looked at the egg and widened his eyes slightly.

Without a doubt, this is that egg.

Because Amber became a god beyond future and past, the God of Supreme Pinnacle, the God of Eternal Perfection... so the Amber Egg, which could never be born!

—It is in this space-time, in this cycle that Amber herself should have hatched!

Truly, the stillborn of the Pillar God!

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