Chapter 1215 — The Divine Unsolved Case
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"Yes, missing—but few mortal races in this world know of it," Hragol said slowly. "Those capable of mastering the path of shadow have always been rare, and mortals who offer faith to Him are an even smaller minority among them. Since it is nearly impossible to receive responses from the domain of divine arts or clear oracles, the shadow faith has appeared thin, loose, and intermittent in every era of civilization. The world believes the Goddess of Shadow, or the Lady of Night, to be a deity indifferent to the mortal realm, and some even question whether this deity truly exists. Only the most ancient beings know that the Goddess of Shadow does exist—it is simply that... He has been missing for over one million eight hundred thousand years, and after His disappearance, this world has strangely never produced another shadow deity."
The primordial dragon, who had lived through civilization after civilization, spoke in a deep, low voice. He himself was one of those "ancient beings" who knew such secrets: in his youth, in the years before the Voyagers descended, when dragons were still merely one of many transcendent races on this planet and the other continents each had their own myriad intelligent races and corresponding deities, he had known of that Goddess of Shadow. She—He—had been one of the principal deities of the Loren Continent at that time, the master of the night veil worshipped in common by several dark races, and His mythological attributes were exactly as Mo Jin had described.
And after the Voyagers descended, the dragon clan chose to seal itself away, while the gods beyond Tarronde who had already fallen into madness were subjected to a great purge. Nearly all deities were utterly destroyed by the Voyagers' expeditionary fleets; only that Goddess of Shadow... seemed to have miraculously escaped the Voyagers' hunt.
Of this matter, only an extremely small number of people on the entire planet were aware—and that tiny few certainly did not include Mo Jin.
Therefore, the scenes described by this great adventurer could not possibly have been fabricated by him.
"...It seems I've landed myself in serious trouble," Mo Jin said, looking at the ever more solemn expression on the dragon leader's face, and nodded with great experience. "Mm. Landed myself in serious trouble again."
Hragol looked at the great adventurer before him with great seriousness. "Have you ever come into contact with strange relics of the shadow domain, or touched anything resembling a divine ruin?"
"I don't remember," Mo Jin said with an honest shake of his head. "I don't even remember ever having been to a strange place like the Shadow Realm, let alone coming into contact with any divine ruins connected to it... But you know my memory. Who can say for certain?"
"...That is indeed a problem." Hragol withdrew his gaze and spoke with a hint of helplessness. Mo Jin, meanwhile, recalled the details in his memory and asked, "Then about that twisted thing that appeared from the city ruins... do you know anything?"
Hragol pondered with a solemn expression, as though traversing his memories of nearly two million years, but in the end he shook his head regretfully. "I have never heard of nor seen anything like it... It must never have appeared in the real world. But one thing is certain—if the Lady you saw is the Lady of Night who has been missing for over one million eight hundred thousand years, then whatever opposed Him could only be another deity, or an existence equal to a god."
Mo Jin clutched his head, grumbling as though a headache had come over him: "...If that's really the case, then that is the ugliest deity I have ever heard of. But then again, how did I suddenly come to have dealings with such beings?"