God's Gift

Dark Star looked into O'Shock's familiar eyes, and his emotions gradually became agitated.

It was with the same look in his eyes that Oshi had looked at those humans who were devouring the gods four thousand years ago.

"Kill them."

Dark Star was almost certain of its success, and it urged Yu Youyou on imminently.

But the next second, a bright red pomegranate unexpectedly rolled down in front of Yu Youyou.

Those were fruits from the pomegranate tree growing above Fores's head. They must have accidentally fallen into Yu Youyou's clothes during their fierce battle, and they just happened to fall out during the tearing at this moment.

Yu Youyou's gaze was fixed on the pomegranate fruit; her hand suddenly clenched, then slowly loosened.

She gazed at the pomegranate, and it seemed to be gazing back at her.

"Forrest..."

Yu Youyou murmured softly, her voice filled with endless confusion: "What exactly do you want me to do?"

Four thousand years ago, when the other gods perished, she asked them the same question:

"What exactly do you want me to do?"

But at that time, she asked them this question with deep-seated anger and resentment.

Memories flooded back, and Yu Youyou finally remembered that it was raining just as heavily that day.

When she sensed the fluctuations of the other gods' power and rushed from the North Pacific to the strait where the other gods were located, they were already lying on the ground, barely alive.

There, mutated humans gathered, clinging to the wounded bodies of the gods like maggots, greedily devouring their flesh and blood.

Meanwhile, the dark star hung high in the sky, admiring its masterpiece with satisfaction.

The sea surged with her rage, and huge, dark waves crashed against the shore, dragging people on the shore into the sea and drowning them.

Before she could kill all those humans, Forrest stopped her.

It still looked at her with that kind and gentle gaze, just as it gazed at the humans who devoured its flesh.

Yu Youyou didn't understand.

The sky was no longer blue, and the sea had long since turned black. The stench of decay permeated the ocean day and night, and the fish constantly whispered their pain in her ear as their bodies rotted away, eventually falling into eternal sleep in her embrace.

If it weren't for these humans...

If it weren't for their insatiable greed, the gods' divine power wouldn't have waned, and they wouldn't have been powerless against the Dark Star.

She said to them, "Give me your divine power."

But she was rejected by the other gods.

Phrys's life was slipping away, yet its gaze toward humanity remained filled with pity and longing: "If we were to give you our divine power now, you would leave them no chance of survival."

"Why should I spare their lives?" She stared at the dying god, her voice trembling with confusion.

Did they leave any chance for the fish to survive?

“Oshi, you are the god of the sea.” Fores propped his head up and looked at Youyou with a gaze that she couldn’t understand: “But you are more than just the god of the sea.”

"You are the beginning of all things, the source of life."

"Of course you can take our divine power."

"While you bear our divine power, you must also shoulder all the responsibilities." The gods looked at the young deity, their voices filled with sorrow:

"You must love all life on this planet."

"When you understand love, you will receive our divine power."

"I understand." All the gods said she didn't understand love, but Yu Youyou didn't understand. Why didn't she understand?

"I love the ocean, I love every fish, every jellyfish, every coral... Why don't I understand love?"

Forresh's sigh blended into the rain: "It's not entirely love."

Yu Youyou almost shouted angrily, "Then what exactly is love?"

"If one day, the creatures of the deep sea become like humans, and they hurt you, leaving you scarred, would you still love them then?"

Yu Youyou finally understood what Forrest was trying to say, and she looked at the human on Forrest's body.

"You want to tell me that love is like you, protecting them even if they hurt you."

"What is so good about these humans that makes them worth sacrificing your lives for?"

"They've destroyed you, hurt you, and are even devouring your flesh and blood now, so why do you love them?"