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Chapter 486 Blessing
"Next, the blessing will be very useful."

...

Blessing?

In Milo's mind, the concept of blessing seems to have a very broad scope in the field of theology; roughly speaking, all gifts from superiors can be collectively referred to as blessings.

Even in the distorted belief systems of some extreme cults, being transformed into a non-human, non-ghostly creature or servant by a superior can be considered a blessing. For example, followers of the Glaqi believe that being transformed into a zombie is a blessing of immortality. However, these distorted views are basically based on cognitive deficiencies. Zombies do not die naturally, because, strictly speaking, they are already dead.

The Mother Goddess, in her recent incarnation, also mentioned something related to blessing. She said that Tutis Crow had paid a sufficient price, so Milo needed to join her in bestowing a blessing upon Crow, that is, giving him a new life.

However, the complete ceremony was never achieved.

As the nascent humanity was crushed by Milo, Tutis Crow was reborn.

...

"Could the blessing here also refer to..."

"But hasn't our original humanity already rotted away... huh?"

Milo was squatting next to Jianyan, muttering to himself, when he suddenly looked up and found a small, ghost-like thing floating not far to his side.

The thing looked to be only about 20 centimeters long. Its upper body had a slight human-like outline and was grayish-white and detached. Apart from two light spots that looked like eyeballs, there were no other facial features on its head. Its lower body dragged a "tail" that was gradually becoming more and more ethereal.

Although it was somewhat different from when he was first pulled out of the womb, Milo's keen perception told him that the thing was the "original humanity" that he had crushed.

...

"What do you mean? Is revenge on us?"

Milo didn't understand.

Why do things that have clearly vanished in the real world reappear intact in the abyss world?

But then I thought about it.

It doesn't seem like there's any problem, after all, didn't he also see the dead Robben and his daughter in the Abyss World?
Everything that exists in his memory can be "reborn" here.

As for the question of whether the abyss is real or illusory, Milo has temporarily stopped bothering to investigate it.

……

His focus was on the admonition on the ground.

“Next, the blessing will be very useful.”

Milo pondered the meaning of that sentence.

He glanced once more into the depths of Itakua's shattered and fallen soul.

Finally, without thinking twice, he reached out and grabbed the primordial humanoid creature that was circling around him like a mosquito, and stuffed it into its consciousness through the slit the scythe had cut in Itakua's pupil.

...

This is probably the most violent "blessing" in history.

Milo didn't know who left the advice, nor what its ultimate intention was, but he couldn't detect any conspiracy or malice in it. This was probably due to a sense and judgment that the Shadow Beings possessed, which was even more advanced than clairvoyance.

...

His method of bestowing blessings was probably like an old lady on the street feeding a dog—she pried open the dog's mouth and poured the food in.

That primal humanity had no ability to resist and was thus stuffed into Itakua's broken consciousness by Milo.

……

The Mother Goddess had previously stated this in her incarnation.

“A complete rebirth of life requires several essential elements—a complete body, fragments of the soul, and the nurturing of complete, primal humanity.”

If these three conditions are met, the one who ultimately crawls out of that fleshy cocoon will not be Tutis Claude, or rather, Claude himself will cease to exist.

But by a twist of fate, or perhaps it was all preordained, in the end, Crow remained Crow.

The nascent humanity that had not yet fully developed was brutally destroyed by Milo.

But now, this flawed, primal humanity has become Itakua's salvation.

Its soul had been tormented to pieces by the abyss, and chaos had eroded everything about it. Itakua was left with only its skills, and its soul was almost gone, unable to even utter a cry for help or a cry for death.

Isn't Itakua in this state just like Clau?

What it needs is that little bit of basic humanity.

Its original soul has been almost annihilated, and what it needs is a pure, brand-new embryo.

...

Milo could sense an indescribable fusion taking place between the two. He crouched slightly beneath Itaquya's pupils, pulled out Monquia's scythe, and muttered to himself:

"Although it's not a fully developed form of humanity, it should still be considered a blessing..."

However, before he could finish speaking, he suddenly felt his feet sink into the ground.

Immediately afterwards, he plummeted from a great height!

“woah——————”

...

The tone rises from low to high, and the position goes from high to low.

Finally, Milo's body smashed solidly through the thin ice that had just formed on the lake and plunged into the water.

It hit the bottom directly and even broke through the bottom rock layer.

It took a lot of effort to climb out of the lake.

The air outside was so cold that by the time Milo pulled himself out of the lakebed and returned to the surface, the shattered ice on the lake had already "healed."

……

"Crack... Bang!"

He smashed a hole in the ice and climbed out of the water.

After a few deep breaths, the intense heat surging across the body evaporates all the moisture inside and out.

Looking up again, Itaquya's enormous body, composed of black nebulae, had vanished, and the wind and snow between heaven and earth had completely subsided.

Milo leaped back to the lakeside.

He looked around and finally found one near his heel...

To be precise, it was a fluffy thing, with no obvious limbs except for the torso, just like a kitten in winter curling its head and limbs into its fur, turning into a fluffy ball.

The little creature was only about the size of two fists, with grayish-white fur and two small bulges peeking out from the white fur, resembling the nascent, undeveloped horns.

"The contrast before and after is just too much..."

Milo lifted his foot and touched the grayish-white fur ball on the ground.

The latter rolled away at the slightest touch, sliding four or five meters before crashing into a rock on the ground and sprawling out its limbs.

This is...

It's definitely not a species currently known in nature, Milo is quite certain of that.

It's hard to describe in short, because it looks like it has limbs, like a primate, but its facial structure isn't quite right, and it has the beginnings of horns on its head.

If it just lies there motionless, it's probably no different from a plush toy that humans have created.

But it's a living thing.

Moreover, through sensing that initial bundle of humanity, Milo was quite certain that this ball of fur-like creature was none other than Itakua, the Windrunner whose head could pierce the sky just minutes before.

...

The white fluffy ball stretched out its limbs a few meters away in the snow and immediately came running back. This guy neither walked on two legs nor four legs; you could say it tumbled and crawled, because it used its head as well as it did so...

Then came a long, drawn-out staring contest.

Milo muttered in confusion:
"So how did you go from being such a big guy to becoming such a plush toy..."

"Oh, I forgot, initial humanity will erase your original will, so you must have lost all your memories too... Could you please stop chewing on my boots?"

But Milo spoke the second half of his sentence too slowly.

Although Itakya's current form is no different from that of a kitten less than a month old, it is still an Old One less than a month old. How could those artificial ordinary leather boots withstand its indiscriminate chewing?

...

"Screw you."

Then Milo launched into a tirade of curses.

The grayish-white fluffy ball flew dozens of meters into the air, landed on the frozen lake surface, and rolled quite elastically for a long time before coming to a stop.

Milo, who had sent Itakya flying with a kick, looked down and saw that the front of his boot had been chewed through, revealing his toes, which he hadn't seen for days.

"Hey……"

(End of this chapter)