HBWnovel Chapter Vol. 3 Ch. 142
Chapter Vol. 3 Ch. 142
【So even gods... have their moments of helplessness.】
Violet didn’t hide this sudden thought that arose in her mind from Sethlin, and the latter didn’t mind, continuing to speak of the past she had just recalled with a somewhat bitter tone.
【Seth remains Seth. Although the state of divine power and divine body undergoes uncontrollable cyclical changes, it didn’t immediately drive her insane or transform her into another deity. Even the power of the world couldn’t achieve such a thing.】
【But as I mentioned earlier, the authority represented by the divine essence will influence the thought processes of its associated consciousness. This is an almost instinctual effect, something that cannot be resisted simply by will.】
【And the two separated authorities gradually began to subtly change the perceptions of the same deity. Under the state of the goddess of life, Seth became excessively benevolent, unwilling to harm any creature, even if it was sinful. While under the goddess of withering, she began to disregard life, seeing all living beings as mere instruments bound for their inevitable end, ruthlessly seizing and trampling upon them.】
【Seth remains Seth, struggling to resist this instinct, trying as much as possible to treat people with the same mentality as the original Goddess of Earth, but the influence grows stronger, causing Her immense pain, and Her personality gradually becomes solitary and irritable, gradually disregarding the prayers and pleas of the believers.】
【In order to divert attention and escape the torment inflicted by this torture, She made an extremely wrong decision.】
【At the edge of this world, there exist several special dimensional worlds connected to it in a special way, and the southern region governed by Seth is connected to a world called “Aibus.”】
【The divine body is too powerful, so Seth cannot cross the world’s borders and enter Aibus, but She can communicate with or bestow some power upon it by responding to faith and prayers.】
【Due to some events in earlier years, there are also sects in the Aibus world that worship the Goddess of Earth, and it seems to be the mainstream there. Although the population of the Aibus world is sparse and individual strengths are not strong, they have taken a different path, researching methods of living with the assistance of magical puppets, synthetic beasts, and special mechanical devices.】
【Previously, although aware of the existence of the other world and occasionally bestowing miracles upon it, Seth had not sent angels to descend or carefully investigated the situation there. However, in a hurry to find something to divert Her attention, the Goddess of Earth stumbled upon the completely different from this world, called bio-technology in Aibus, and quickly became addicted to it.】
【Perhaps because the god-made beasts were creations of the Goddess of Earth Seth, these creatures, which originally should not have been rejected by the world based on their boundaries, were distorted by the power of the law.】
【They began to become monstrous and terrifying, deviating from Seth’s predetermined appearance. Their originally gentle nature turned into cruelty and bloodthirstiness. Seth’s life energy could no longer continue to nourish them, and instead, it became necessary for them to sustain their activity by devouring life.】
【The god-made beasts turned into terrifying abyssal beasts created by the Goddess of Earth with the power of the Aibus world, causing great panic for a moment. Outsiders couldn’t understand why the lady of order suddenly wanted to create such monsters, leading to a serious crisis of faith.】
【And in this matter, the two Seths, split apart, had completely different opinions for the first time. The goddess of life, Seth, felt regretful and uneasy. She decided not to continue the subsequent research and began to seal all the distorted god-made beasts.】
【But the goddess of withering, Seth, was very interested in this. Not only did He attempt to continue strengthening the power of the god-made beasts, but She even came up with the idea of using this “world distortion power.” She secretly conducted various inhumane experiments on innocent lives, using the technology of the Aibus world and the power of withering to create all sorts of eerie and bizarre things.】
【Thus, the Goddess of Earth finally split into two separate consciousnesses in the same body, doing completely contradictory things in a cyclical state, even blocking each other’s memories to prevent the other from causing harm.】
【But destruction is always simpler than protection and healing. Despite Seth’s efforts to remedy with the power of life, the disasters and tragedies caused by the god-made beasts—the abyssal beasts—continued to wreak havoc, angering both gods and mortals alike.】
【Eventually, they decided to stop and punish the Goddess of Earth Seth, who had descended into madness. As one of the main gods with the highest-grade divine power, it was difficult to deal with her, let alone to kill her completely. So, the gods sought out Minerva, the chief archangel of Seth’s guardian, hoping she could help as an insider.】
【But Minerva was not only the strongest angel in the Goddess of Earth faction, but also absolutely loyal to Seth. She pretended to agree but immediately reported the matter to Seth, who was currently in a state of life power.】
TL Note:
深渊 (yuānchén) is the Chinese word for “abyss.”
艾卜司 (àibùsī) is the Chinese name of the thing. I translated this as “Aibus.”