Chapter 80: Myth from Another Angle

Chapter 80: Myth from Another Angle

The moment Klein saw that painting clearly through the Wraith Senor’s vision, his heartbeat abruptly accelerated. The pounding was so intense that even he could hear it.

As a Seer skilled in interpreting revelations and symbols, he felt all the blood in his body rushing madly toward his head, making his mind swell and spin, as though obstructing further thought.

Yet even so, an illusory voice belonging to himself echoed in his mind, filled with terror.

That— that dismembered and devoured figure should represent the ancient Sun God, should represent the Creator worshiped by the City of Silver, the Lord who created everything, the omniscient and omnipotent God!

And the three sinister figures surrounding Him… I, I have seen them before!

Inside Backlund’s underground ruins, in the place where that terrifying evil spirit was sealed!

They existed in the form of statues. They did not look as evil as they do in this painting. They respectively represented—represented:

The Eternal Blazing Sun, the Lord of Storms, and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom!

All at once, Klein remembered a term he had once obtained, a term received from directly facing the Eternal Blazing Sun:

Pure White Angel!

This… It cannot be… Could the Eternal Blazing Sun once have been an angel beside the ancient Sun God? Little Sun once mentioned that in Afternoon Town, he had heard a clergyman of the Creator muttering certain things in a tone of confession and prophecy. Among them was this sentence: “The Kings frequently gather in the palace that belongs to dusk to conspire”… The Eternal Blazing Sun was originally called the Pure White Angel, was also a King of Angels, and also betrayed that Creator?

And He, together with the Lord of Storms, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, and that pitch-black infant representing some unknown existence, seized the greatest benefits, dividing and devouring the corpse of the City of Silver’s Creator… The scriptures of the major Churches all record that those three most ancient deities were formed from the spirit of the Primordial Creator… From a certain angle, does this seem like a veiled hint at their dark history?

If my guess is true, then the Lord of Storms and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom should also have been Kings of Angels beside the City of Silver’s Creator, the ancient Sun God. Perhaps They should be called the Wind Angel and the Wisdom Angel…

In that case, the eight Kings of Angels are complete: the Dark Angel, the Pure White Angel, the Wind Angel, the Wisdom Angel, the Angel of Imagination, the Angel of Time, the Angel of Fate, and the Red Angel… Judging from what little Sun heard and the later situations of these Kings of Angels, it seems that, apart from Amon and Adam, the two sons of God, all the other Kings of Angels betrayed that Creator… That ancient Sun God really was rather miserable… However, this painting may not necessarily be true. It could be slander. It remains doubtful…

I wonder which existence that pitch-black infant sitting inside the ancient Sun God’s abdomen represents… The True Creator feels very suspicious…

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Klein’s mind. The deeper he thought, the stronger the urge became to turn around and leave, pretending he had never seen that painting.

At that moment, the uncontrollable fear inside him even made him hallucinate that the Eternal Blazing Sun, the Lord of Storms, and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom were casting their gazes down from the astral world, watching him.

Who left this painting behind? Who could know so many secrets, and who clearly stands on the ancient Sun God’s side? Other angels and saints who constantly followed the Creator worshiped by the City of Silver and remained faithful to Him?

Cold sweat seeped out along Klein’s back, and his body even trembled faintly.

Although Alger’s observational abilities were inferior to Miss Justice’s, he was still an experienced Beyonder. In this…