Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2373

Chapter 2373 Walls of the Trap

'The Nine, the Nine… what do I know about the Nine?'

Auro had been an imperial soldier as a young man. Eurys had been an imperial slave, but he also claimed to have slit a god's throat… now that Sunny knew more, he could guess that it had been the mortal vessel of War God, most likely. The one watching over the Empire.

'It had to be, right?'

Aletheia, meanwhile, ventured into the Tomb of Ariel.

Sunny's eyes widened.

'Wait.'

What was it that the Oracle had said?

"You simply have to find the beast's weakness. You have to lure it into a trap. You have to sink your blade into its weak spot."

He remained silent for a while.

'Aletheia…'

The sorceress and philosopher, Aletheia, had been tasked with revealing the lies of the gods and teaching the truth to the rest of the Nine.

So, she had gone to the Tomb of Ariel and became the First Seeker. She was the only Seeker of Truth to have successfully entered the Estuary, and learned the secrets hidden there by Ariel, the Demon of Dread.

And among those secrets… was the truth of the Forgotten God and his children. Who were the Flaw of the gods.

'Wait…'

Aletheia had paid for learning the secrets of the Estuary by becoming the source of the Defilement. But that did not mean that she had failed to teach the truth of the Forgotten God to the rest of the Nine before succumbing to Corruption. She must have endured the knowledge of the Void and only passed that one secret along, considering that they seem to have succeeded in their plot at least partially.

But wasn't it peculiar?

The gods were indeed dead, but they had fallen in the war against the daemons… not against the Nine. The great war that had brought doom upon all of existence. So what had the Nine really achieved?

Sunny took a step back, biting his lips.

'Wait!'

The sculptor, Aemedon… what was the task the Oracle had given him?

"You will build the trap for the gods… you will herald the truth that Aletheia learns, and bring it to those who must listen. To form their hearts into gravestones, and build the walls of the trap from that stone."

This, this was the answer!

Aletheia had learned the weakness of the beast, but it was Aemedon who had been tasked with building the trap. It was a trap meant to bring about the death of the gods, though, so it would be peculiar to assume that the Oracle meant a literal contraption. Instead… it was a trap built from the hearts of living beings.

And who could it have been whose heart was supposed to become a gravestone for the gods?

"Bring it to those who must listen…"

To whom was Aemedon meant to deliver the truth Aletheia learned? Who had to listen?

Sunny's eyes glistened darkly.

Why, it was quite obvious, wasn't it? Considering what had happened next.

It was Nether, the Prince of the Underworld. The Demon of Destiny, the Demon of Choice. He suddenly clenched his fists and shook them in the air.

"You damn Spell!"

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