Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2192

Chapter 2192 Circle of Responsibility

The dead boy let out a quiet laugh. The Queen shook her head. "Whatever it is that the Dreamspawn needs from the descendants of the gods, he can only get it once their blood Awakens. Nephis is the last descendant of the Sun God lineage, and so, he prevented us from trying to eliminate her before she came of age… or rather, prevented us from trying to eliminate her too hard. The methods we could use without alerting him and provoking his ire were limited, and that was why she managed to survive. Even as a child, Nephie proved to be quite tenacious."

Cassie smiled darkly. "...You have my sympathy. How inconvenient."

Ki Song shrugged. "Why, thank you. It really was. However, young Nephis was really the least of our concerns. Because, as you can imagine, the mutual responsibility between us three did not last long."

Cassie inhaled deeply. "Was there something particular that caused you to grow openly hostile to each other?"

The Queen remained silent for a bit, then smiled wryly. "Yes? No? It was a gradual process. At first, we were busy establishing our Domains, subjugating neighboring regions of the Dream Realm, and stabilizing our territories. But once we reached the ceiling of what we could achieve without encroaching on each other's lands, things turned much more tenuous between us. Both Anvil and I wanted to swallow the Stormsea, but neither could move without provoking the other. The Dreamspawn, meanwhile, was growing stranger with each year. The tension continued to build, until one day… we saw a chance."

Cassie raised an eyebrow. "What chance?"

One of the youths chuckled. "The chance to get rid of the Dreamspawn, of course. That guy, you see, aimed his attention at the moon."

Cassie blinked. "The… moon?"

Did Ki Song mean a metaphorical moon? She carried the lineage of Beast God, after all, and one of Beast God's epithets was the Goddess of the Moon. Had Asterion shown interest in her daughters, perhaps?

They would have already reached the age of becoming susceptible to the Spell by then. Some would have even Awakened. The Queen nodded. "Yes, the moon. Earth's moon, to be precise — Luna. Well, not the moon itself, of course… rather, what is hidden on the moon."

'Huh…'

Cassie tried to suppress her curiosity, but failed. "...And what, exactly, is hidden on the moon?"

The dead girl laughed melodiously.

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