Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

“You aren’t going to question him?” Lu’card asked.

“What is there to question an ant about?”

Lu’card snorted. He knew that by that answer Ryu already knew everything he needed to know. The only reason he hadn’t taken action before was because he couldn’t be bothered to.

He was letting the Martial Gods do as they pleased. But they had certainly crossed his bottom line already.

Maybe they realized they needed a different sort of edge, but all they had really done was piss him off more.

That much was fine. He knew that there was no point in going to the Martial God Clan right now. The figures that he wanted to kill had almost certainly already disappeared, while those left behind were just ants not worth his time.

In that case, he would kill to his heart’s content.

…

That was precisely what Ryu did. The hidden Ancestors of the Taboo Sect, so secluded from the world for so long, were found by him one after another.

Each one was ruthlessly slaughtered, shattered on the very spot.

**

Lu’card pinned a pair of twin older women to the ground, his claw enveloping them entirely.

Ryu looked at them from above. These two should be the Ancestors of the Taboo Path Eska and Isemeine followed. But this didn’t mean that he would spare them. Instead… he found them curious.

Eska and Isemeine’s path was still unique compared to them as they truly shared one body. By comparison, the original Taboo Method was used best with twins like these two.

“Okay, you can kill them now,” Ryu said after he finished observing something.

Lu’card’s palm descended and the whimpers of the women were snuffed out.

“What exactly is going on here?” Lu’card finally couldn’t help himself.

“I’m being targeted.”

“This is what you being targeted looks like?”

“Yes. I didn’t say they were doing a very good job.”

“Then why does it feel like a bigger deal than what you’re making of it?”

“You’re going to have to make up your mind,” Ryu said in reply. “Am I being targeted well or not?”

“Both.”

“This is what a bitter Dragon sounds like, huh?”

“Just you wait,” Lu’card said in a dark voice.

“Those I surpass never have a chance to catch up again,” Ryu said calmly.

Though Ryu was saying this, his mind was a bit absentminded.

The Martial Gods were using the Taboo…

The Heavenly Court was relying on Titles…

The Phoenix Sky God was relying on a clash of Fey and Ancient Beast…

The Corpse Poison Cult was relying on exactly that, Corpse Poison…

The Ruin Master Guild was what…? Relying on the Fiends?

Something about that wasn’t adding up either.

“I see… it seems that Iam’s roots are deeper than I thought.”

When you were dealing with time, nothing moved linearly. Whether it was the Martial Gods, the Heavenly Court, the Phoenix Sky God, or the Corpse Poison Cult, their methods were quite elaborate.

The Fiends seemed like the odd ones out.

This sounded like a weird conclusion to come to. After all, wasn’t the Phoenix Sky God also relying on another Race? And what about the Martial Gods? They were relying on an even weaker world? What was weird about the Fiends in this situation?

For one, the Phoenix Sky God wasn’t relying on other Races. They were quite literally forcing the hands of the Heavens to create continuous clashes between these two Races across time and space.

The Martial Gods weren’t relying on a weaker world. This world was a pinnacle existence in, well… Existence. It had just been suppressed. And it was also probably the only world in Existence that naturally deviated from the path of the Heavens. It might even represent a new path that the Heavens were setting out, in fact.

These things were not the same at all.

The Fiends by comparison were quite sloppy, and their plans had been thwarted by a single Ryu all too easily long before he had the strength or comprehension abilities he did now.

However, if Ryu was correct, and Iam had also used time to his advantage to establish the Ruin Master Guild and then spread them, then… what reason could he have.

The Fiend Race did represent a period of chaos, but it was deeper than that.

‘The Shrines?’

Ryu recalled the False Shrines that the Fiends were using.

‘False, huh? So that’s his target.’

Ryu’s lip curled.

If Iam’s goal was as he said, then he wanted the world to stop constantly chasing after endless progression, to relax.

There were few better ways to do this than to place the world into a state of Chaos.

While this sounded counterproductive, if the world was in a state of Chaos, then there would be no progress to be had in the first place.

But in Chaos, there was the perfect opportunity for one thing.

A reset.

The Fiends just might have been nothing more than a proof of concept. But those False Shrines… they were perfect replicas of the Shrines of Sacrum for a reason.

It was curious.

Sacrum and the False Martial World were in the same region of Existence. All things considered, they would be considered one world, one being the main world, and the other being an orbiter.

It made Ryu curious…

‘I see… So the Martial Gods were misled in this regard… it’s no wonder the Ruin Master Guild had their hands in the Sacrum pie back then as well.’

Ryu remembered clearly that he had to kill quite a few Ruin Master Guild members back then as well during what he thought would be his final battle against Sacrum.

How had the False Martial World come to be in the first place? In this world, didn’t it seem only natural that Sacrum would become the main world?

But what if Sacrum was suppressed on purpose, and then someone with quite deep and extensive knowledge about Fiends manipulated things to allow a world that should have failed at step one to thrive?

If not for the fact the Phoenix Sky God had also set their eyes on Sacrum, maybe Iam wouldn’t have had to go through any of this trouble at all.

In the end, everything pointed in one direction.

Sacrum.

It seemed his final battle would be in his home world.

He wouldn’t have it any other way.

Ryu grinned, murder radiating deep in his eyes.

He couldn’t wait.

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