Chapter 729 – The Sun Covers the Sky (4)
Dragon child.
Hearing it, it certainly wasn’t surprising. Just looking at the scales growing on his body, wouldn’t that be true? It’s just that I’m concerned about the relationship between this horror story.
But maybe I was the only one who wasn’t surprised. Dana opened her eyes wide.
“You mean the monster saw the human and the child?”
Right. Obviously, that was a surprise too.
A child between a god and a human is common in another world, but the child between a monster and a human is not like that.
Children cannot be born between orcs and humans.
【Children is just a metaphor. Tonashillucatl, which the Aztecs serve as a mother, had a king’s child in the past, and that bloodline continues to us.]
Istetil explained as if he were telling the truth without emotion.
【But even so, to the sun covering the sky, the current Aztecs are her children. And those who opposed the atrocities of the Azteca Empire and fled the country.]
【Is that the history of Skolakice?】
【It’s something I’ve only heard from the elderly. It wouldn’t have known if I had inherited the legacy of my ancestors, but I was only charged with responsibility without inheriting anything. It’s unpleasant.]
I get it roughly. It seems that the reason why they refused to ask her descendant of her responsibility for stealing her lizard statue, which was her stolen property, was the reason for their sympathy.
I turned my eyes to the city, which smelled more like burnt than corpses or blood.
– Keying. Opened Odin’s eyes.
However, no trace of the spirit could be found anywhere in the city. Damn it, they don’t even have the souls of the guys they just searched for. So, there is no such thing as an easy solution.
【However, they are very squeamish for being related by blood.】
【Yeah. It’s a massacre that’s hard to understand.]
Kiara, who finished the chase, said as she returned. She had blood splattered all over her clothes.
“Neither the aggressor nor the victim escaped. However, there might be at least some people who ran away before I noticed them in places that I couldn’t hear.〉 Asherad contemplates the problem and then stops talking. It is a historic site where you have to go north for a few days. Even if they made a forced march while losing sleep, the probability of encountering the Azteca army on the way back was very high. Wouldn’t Skolakiche have also dumped all of their defense power abroad? This city should have had as much power as the Istetil team. And the Azteca army with a high probability of encountering us is a warrior enough to completely burn down such a scolaco. As a member of the advance team alone, it is uneasy. Kiara affirmed Asherard’s concerns.
‘If you saw the citizens of Scolaco as ‘meals’, then why did you come to work now? This city was founded not yesterday or today.〉
The arms are bent inward, and crayfish are on the side of crabs.
Preying on an intimate partner with whom you feel a sense of kinship? Even assuming that those cannibals were mere humanoid monsters was a very inconsistent conclusion.
‘It’s clear from looking at the victims that Azteca sees Scolaco as food.’
However, if it is just a traitor or prey, this should have happened in the past.
Istetil slipped the bloody ribbon into her pocket.
[There are many things you want to ask. Follow me There were traces of the shelter hidden inside the town hall being activated. There must have been a few survivors left.]
‘The corpses? Aren’t you going to have a funeral?
Shedmenhotep, who was gathering the heads of dead children, asked. I translated his words, but Istetil turned his back.
【If both humans and monsters die, they are just fertilizer. The things we cherish only dwell in the soul. Not with fingernails or claws, but with the spirit.]
〈… Is it faith I get it. Respect.〉
It was Shedmenhotep who followed with bloody hands. Cremating those corpses was like showing the enemy a beacon. Even if it’s a ruthless judgment, it can’t be different.
【It’s here. Go down.]
The shelter where Istetil took us was like a hiding place at a glance.
The smell of death was thick in the dusty basement.
Going down first, she found the wounded man lying on the bed and approached him.
【… Elder. Were you alive?]
【Yes. I survived because I sent the young ones away first and didn’t die without notice. It seems that you have brought guests from abroad.]
The old dragon, missing his arm and part of his fingers, lowered his head. There are fewer areas that are not bandaged. It was to the point where I could see the life force that was decreasing moment by moment.
【It’s embarrassing to greet guests like this. If you don’t want to hear the sound of savages, if you have to serve a secret dish, I don’t know what to do since everything I have is burnt.]
【You are civilized enough just by listening to the Word.】
【Is it? Thank you for that. Rather, istetil. Did you find the Shinryong’s jewel?]
【Is that what it sounds like even in this situation?】
Istetil raised her fangs.
I think she would have roared if she hadn’t been the only patient. No, there are other patients besides that old Yongin, so I feel like I’m forced to endure it.
【Is this statue you are looking for?】
I took out her lizard statue to stop her. The will contained in it was made into a backup file and recorded on the rune stone. There is nothing to save in this yard.
The old man accepted the statue, revealing his face.
【Oh oh! Yes, this is it! I’m indebted!]
【Elder. An explanation comes before the divine. Our patience is nearing its limit. Are you going to explain by grabbing me by the collar?]
【Yes, it should be. You are also yourself, and since you have nothing to treat your guests, you should at least unravel the story of an old man waiting for the day he will die.]
─Click. The old man who placed the statue said.
【I’ll tell you what you’re most curious about. Our country has been attacked by Aztecan recruits. It was a war of annihilation, not a war in the form of a duel.]
【Did the war originally take the form of a duel?】
【Yes. Too many people shouldn’t die. Even from their point of view.]
Was it a war for example? It seemed like a reasonable thing to say, but looking at the atmosphere of Istetil, it didn’t seem to be a very sympathetic argument.
【There are many reasons why conventional wars became like that. To name just a few… Because Azteca’s true enemy is not human, but God.]
【Are you talking about another Wooshin?】
It started to become a pretty sluggish conversation, giving others time to translate, interpreting the questions of the advance team members, and so on.
【Wooshin? Stupid god nice I’ll call you that too.]
But the old man did not stop talking even with his tired body.
【Anyway, that’s right. The three Wooshins are confronting each other and fighting each other for a long time. That’s why the Aztecs who serve Tonashillucatl value their troops.]
【You want to help Wooshin, whom you serve as a mother?】
【There is that, too, but it is more important to offer a good meal.】
Offering. It was about human sacrifice.
When the gods receive humans as sacrifices, they become that much stronger.
‘Because Odin also offered himself as a sacrifice to peek into the truth of the world.’
Thinking about it again, it was a real think-big madness.
If you don’t have the talent to realize that idea, you can’t do it.
Since Odin was a god of magic, he was capable of such things, but the gods would have just accepted the offerings and ate them as if they were bulking up.
99.9% human meat monster protein.
It was a dystopia itself left behind. At the end of the century, when SF novel writers hear it, they will break their pens, change their pen names, and write nonsense saying that reality is more.
【Eating a lot of low-quality food will not make you healthy.】
─Cool, cool. The old Yongin wiped the blood he had coughed up on a towel.
【If you’re looking at them as livestock, of course you won’t be killed. It’s better to keep them alive and capture them when stronger warriors arise.]
【So I guess other city-states were subjugated to Azteca?】
【Submit one mana from there to there. Eating people is the same with Aztecan guys. The soldiers of the Empire sometimes offer themselves as sacrifices after fighting.]
Not something to listen to while sniffing the dust.
My stomach was bad. It was the unpleasant feeling of watching a horror movie that was purposely made disgusting. It meant grazing until the livestock grew and left behind more delicious and plentiful meat.
Istetil spat out double curses as if she was in a bad mood and growled.
【Please refrain from talking, elder. Even if they are helpless, as long as they resist, they are not livestock.]
【Right. We are the children of Tonashilukatl. And our mother is a god who conceives children with twisted motherhood. That’s why we needed this jewel.]
The old man glared at Istetil. Hwareuk-! Istetil, who was furious with him, was taken aback when the flames dwelled in the eyes of a person who seemed to be close to death.
【This jewel is a divine object that attracts souls. Do you know what a magnet is? A magnet attracts and adsorbs small iron powder, and a jewel attracts our souls.]
Was that the function of a jewel?
Did Nefertiti’s brother, who is said to have put part of his soul into the statue, used only a very small part of its function? While I was convinced alone, the old man revealed the truth.
【Tonashuilucatle is a mother who truly loves her children. It’s just that I’m not an existence understood by gods, monsters, or humans.]
【What… What are you talking about?]
【We, Scholakiche, will not attain Buddhahood even if we die. No, all dragon children are the same. The moment you are freed from your body. Our souls return to our mother’s arms——to that mother’s womb.]
【… Going back?]
Istetil lost the life in her face like a black and white drawing of a person.
【… After. Yes. What is the reason why the Aztecs are not afraid of death and are happy to be sacrificed?]
The old man must have felt sorry for himself, and he erased the savage fire in his eyes.
【Even if the parents who gave birth to us are different, we are destined to return to the womb of the dragon, not the underworld, when the god of death visits us. That’s why we are children of the dragon.]
