Chapter 351: Saintess Suren

Eliv looked at Enya, and from her face, she could already tell the question that was puzzling her at that moment. “How the elves survived has already been said. Now you’re curious about how the humans survived, right?”

Enya’s thoughts were seen through, so she nodded silently.

Humans also have bloodlines, but those bloodlines only grant special powers; they do not change one’s appearance. This is very different from the elves’ transformation, and it is truly curious.

Eliv continued speaking:

“Now that the history related to the elves is finished, you have a preliminary understanding of that time. Next, I can tell you about the stories experienced by the rest of humanity.”

Under the protection of the Nature God’s [tears of mercy: sprout], the elves endured that long night. But those who did not receive protection truly struggled to survive in the darkness.

According to information collected by later generations of elves, at the moment darkness fell, the entire planet was torn open by a massive chasm.

What was originally a continent called Middle-earth was replaced by a vast Abyss. The most powerful races and the God-blooded Divine People who lived on that land disappeared along with that continent.

Originally neighboring the elves were also Dwarves, Cyclopes, and other intelligent races, but they all vanished because of this Great Calamity.

The Abyss’s pollution was constantly spreading to the other continents. According to later records, the Abyss carved a dividing line from west to east. If viewed from high above, the entire planet would look like an eye with a vertical pupil.

Demons were born from darkness; they did not come from the Abyss. They are Spirit Body lifeforms. The Abyss not only caused material-level effects on the mortal world, but even the other world layers were pierced through.

Spirit Body lifeforms from various layered worlds thus had the opportunity to pass through the rifts and roam among the many world layers.

In addition, the Sun’s radiance was no more, and darkness itself belongs to the domain of demons. This gave rise to demons that poured out like a tide, causing massive casualties among the intelligent races of that time—casualties that even rivaled the formation of the Abyss.

It was the combination of both that gave this disaster the name “Great Calamity.” The battle between the intelligent races and the demons lasted three nights, until the Sun rose again.

Only then did the demon tide reluctantly recede, and people had a chance to breathe.

But they soon discovered that the original Sun in the sky had become a corona of light, with only a bright star at its center. And the moon, originally one, had been torn into two.

It turned out that before the Abyss formed, the moon had already been attacked. It was forcibly torn apart to become the later Silver and Purple Twin Moons.

Hearing this, Enya couldn’t help but interrupt Eliv’s narration: “So that’s how the twin moons came to be…”

“Yes.” Eliv nodded again.

Enya frowned and asked, “But in the history recorded by humans, they have existed from beginning to end.”

“That is indeed so, but as for what the truth really is, perhaps only those who have witnessed it with their own eyes are qualified to comment.” Eliv smiled faintly.

The answer was obvious: it was telling Enya to seek confirmation from Antiros. As a Living History Book, this Ancient Witch must have witnessed it firsthand.

In fact, Antiros might have even witnessed the Twilight of the Gods. She knows a great deal, but simply doesn’t share it. How selfish!

Enya pursed her lips. She didn’t really want to go ask Antiros for information either. Who knows if the information Antiros gave her would be true? It might be another scheme against her…

Eliv didn’t blame Enya for interrupting. She quite enjoyed this leisurely moment of drinking tea and telling Enya about the past. Back to the story—

Some astronomers of that time did not have their minds collapse because of this; instead, it sparked their curiosity about the starry sky.

They spent some time, braving danger and traveling everywhere, and re-mapped a set of laws governing the movement of the stars.

The two major seasons of light and dark were further divided into four months. These modern common understandings were all re-established at that time.

However, before that, I must talk about how humanity survived…

Humanity has always lived on the Southern Continent, which is the current Southern Continent.

Fortunately, the Southern Continent is separated from the Middle-earth continent erased by the Abyss by a vast ocean thousands of miles wide, so it was not affected by the Abyss and its pollution at the first moment.

But humanity itself was weak; their individual strength was among the weakest compared to many other races.

At that time, humanity was constantly bullied by other races, so they retreated again and again, finally retreating into the Southern Wasteland, where they lived a miserable existence.

Only a few human tribes were able to establish nations on other continents. Even the kingdom that later became the elves’ kingdom only existed by relying on a god.

It was precisely this humanity, despised as an inferior race by many “higher” races, that survived the Great Calamity. All of this was because of the birth of a human Saint.

Her name was Suren, and she was also called the Gray Saint by the humans of that time, because she had long light-gray hair and was born with one silver and one purple eye, which exactly corresponded to the two moon discs in the sky.

Saintess Suren used her own authority to create a layer of Dream Realm, protecting many humans and forcibly enduring three days of darkness.

Only after dawn did she release the humans from the dream, and because she over-consumed her authority, she nearly destabilized her realm.

It could be said that she single-handedly allowed the Human World to continue, but Suren was not happy. The Dream Realm’s coverage was limited, and she was pained that she could not save everyone.

The demon crisis temporarily weakened, but the threat of the Abyss continued to grow, and pollution had already spread to the Southern Continent.

At that time, the Blood Elves and the Demon Race had just caught their breath from the demon tide, only to face the invasion of Abyss pollution. They had no choice but to retreat further south.

Humanity came into conflict with them, but to deal with the threat, they had to unite and seek a solution to the pollution. One year after the Abyss formed, a solution was found.

The various races still existing in the world were brought together. To jointly deal with the aftermath of the Great Calamity, they formed an alliance and ceased attacks on each other.

Question: How can the spread of pollution be stopped?

Answer: Seal the Abyss!

But sealing the Abyss was extremely difficult, and the pollution could not be dealt with either.

Mortal bodies cannot withstand the pollution. Even a Nine Steps powerhouse cannot get too close to the Abyss; one extra step and their mind would be eroded by the surging pollution, and they would silently vanish from this world.

Only gods can ignore the pollution!

But since that era, it was already an age when gods no longer appeared. Occasional responses were merely simple murmurs. The gods seemed to be hindered by some restriction and could not help their believers.

Just when everyone was at their wits’ end, it was still that Gray Saint Suren who said something that shocked everyone present:

“Simple. I’ll just become a god, won’t I?”

Eliv recounted this line, which was marked in red in the history books, in a very calm tone. Although she could not recreate the aura with which Suren said it, Enya could still glimpse the spirit of “though millions oppose me, I shall go forward.”

“Cool!” Enya’s pair of Golden Red Dragon Eyes lit up, and she only uttered one word.

Vivienne gave her a look, but then sighed.

Enya used to dislike hearing such long stories, but after hearing what Eliv said, she was now a little excited.

Eliv continued speaking.

At that time, the strongest of each race did not believe Suren could become a god, because she was very young, only in her early twenties. Women of that age were usually raising children.

Although Suren had already become a Nine Steps Legendary Powerhouse, she still could not convince this group of Legendary Powerhouses with her words.

At this point they were still arguing based on seniority, but Suren merely revealed a bit of her aura, and the entire place fell silent.

She was already Tenth Step!

One must know that this era was not only an age when gods were extinct, but also an age when Tenth Step did not exist. There were simply no Tenth Step in the world…

Yet Suren achieved it. She became the one and only strongest in the world.

Preparations for sealing the Abyss began.

On that day, Suren turned her back on all living beings and made a Promise with the leaders of each race at that time: after she was gone, they must not oppress humanity.

Though her slender hands held up the Silver and Purple Twin Moons, under the gaze of all beings in this world, she ascended to godhood, incarnated as a Starry Night that carried away the pollution on the earth, and with the two moon discs fell into the Abyss, blocking the source of pollution that continuously overflowed outward.

The sealing Grand Formation was officially activated. [tears of mercy: sprout], also known as the world tree, its roots once again grew wildly, healing the planet’s massive wound. Each race signed a Contract to guard the sealing nexus within their own territory.

The place that was sewn together, due to plate collision, formed a mountain range stretching thousands of miles. Later generations of elves called it the Moonfall Mountains. The two moons fell there and never rose again.

From then on, the Northern and Southern Continents, originally separated by the vast Middle-earth continent, became connected after the catastrophe, separated only by a mountain range.

As for the powerful races and arrogant God-blooded Divine People of Middle-earth, Adventurers never found them, and so people gradually forgot them.

Perhaps they really did die without resistance the moment the Abyss descended…

Because of the world tree, the elves became the most important core guardians. Once, due to a civil war plus attacks from external forces, the world tree was briefly lost for a moment.

It was also that civil war that caused the Gold Elves, who suffered too many casualties, to decline from then on, and the Forest Elves completely became the main population of the Elf Kingdom.

The Saintess also could not leave the world tree from then on, and could only travel as an incarnation.

The dust settled, and history turned a page—

In later generations, Saintess Suren was honored by the Night Church as the Goddess of Night.

Fanatics attempted to seize the God’s Cicada robe—the mortal body of Saintess Suren placed in the wooden coffin in the temple atop [Mount Blacksky]—hoping to summon Suren back, to answer their hearts’ desires and grant them an eternal beautiful dream.

There were also others who had designs on the God’s Cicada robe. After all, it was the mortal body of the one and only Tenth Step powerhouse. Many wanted to claim it for themselves, and a great brawl was inevitable.

But the brawl had no victor. When people opened the coffin lid, they did not see the beautiful woman lying within, only empty darkness.

The Goddess of Night’s Cicada Shell had long since been stolen by someone unknown!

“Alright, that’s where the bedtime story ends.”

Eliv let out a long breath.

After hearing it all, Enya instead became even more puzzled.