"Yes, the snake is the guardian of knowledge and the seducer. It guards the truth of the tree, but also extends a fatal invitation to those who dare to climb the tree. My father -"

"My father, guided by the snake, walked into the library, into the forbidden place where all the books that have been written, unwritten, and will never be written are stored."

"He is the one who gets his wisdom from the trees."

Xia Xiu stared at Seth with blazing eyes, the wand in his right hand gently tapped his left hand, and his tone was full of exploration:

"So, what is the wisdom that your father picked from the tree?"

The corners of Seth's mouth twitched, revealing a bitter smile.

He turned around and his eyes fell on the huge tree shadow in the mural again. After taking a deep breath, he said slowly:

"He learned to resist there. He was no longer willing to be dominated, but was determined to usurp the throne. He shattered...his own 'father's' throne."

Xia Xiu frowned slightly and said in a low but clear voice:

"His father?"

Seth nodded, as if recalling a painful and unforgettable past event:

"His father, the Iron God [Mehane], was one of the original creators."

"My father, the sun. He longed to get rid of that endless bondage, and the first flame of betrayal grew in his heart. He picked wisdom from the tree, met a woman who called herself Lilith, and united with her

, gave birth to two children—Cain and Abel.”

His voice dropped:

"After that, Lilith left him. My father cut a rib from his chest in the shape of a snake and used it to shape my mother. I was their only child. But my birth came at a heavy cost——

My mother passed away soon due to extreme weakness."

Xia Xiu's thoughts sank slightly, Lilith...

Deducing another information complex that was defeated by itself in the war, the true darkness of the Crimson King is engraved in Hope's body.

He knew that the Lilith in Seth's mouth was not a projection of information, but the real Lilith.

On the east wall mural, in addition to the two sons, among the four other people surrounding the sun, the naked woman with a snake wrapped around her body should be Lilith.

Seth closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and continued:

"After my mother passed away, my father was never the same. He became lonely and silent, but the first sin began to breed in his heart - jealousy. He began to look up to the sky, eager to make that sky belong to him. He would

That piece of sky is regarded as a symbol of his ambition and conquest."

"When we built this city, Ode Papadopolis, the original city of Mankind, he already longed for more.

He touched creation itself, reaching out to another dimension. He became the first person to transcend the order of the universe."

Seth slowly raised his head, with a trace of fear and awe in his eyes:

"He took certain things from another world, another 'existence'...the most important of which is a crown."

"It was a crown of iron - he snatched it from another piece of 'being' and called himself 'King of all existence'.

In this place of existence [the Promised Land], he ascended the throne of power.”

Xia Xiu quickly understood the meaning of the sentence on the front wall:

"They will know what existence is -"

Seth's voice gradually became deeper, as if he was narrating a taboo truth buried by history:

"He is still kind and beautiful, but his desire is getting stronger. He longs for more, and his gaze penetrates the earth, the stars, and even beyond. He needs to obey its call."

"It?" Xia Xiu keenly captured the key points in Seth's words.

Seth nodded slightly, his eyes deep, as if he could see through the end of time:

"That crown, that is [the survival of civilization], is his irresistible call. Only the 'most powerful and ambitious people' can be recognized by the crown.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The youngest son of the sun steals the crown... But - he is no better than his father, and [the survival of civilization] cannot exert real power in his hands."

"Only the father can ignite the crown, and only the superman who is both human and divine can control the crown.

For the sun, for Apollo - he could no longer think of anything but the greatness of the universe."

Seth's tone was tired, and the memories made him feel painful, but he continued to speak.

He answered Xia Xiu's last question - what was he doing.

"In the beginning..."

Seth spoke, with tiredness and regret in his voice.

"I've been running away."

"The kingdom is broken, and the successive blows and betrayals have made my father exhausted.

The first son, his most loyal general, led his soldiers to resist his father's rule; the second son, his wisest child, led the people to try to rebuild a new kingdom; as for the third son..."

Seth's voice paused slightly, as if he was suppressing his emotions.

"When his father was helplessly sleeping, he arrogantly stole the Iron Crown, thinking that this was a way to relieve his father's worries."

"The loss of the Iron Crown and the betrayal of his youngest son made my father extremely angry."

"He casts a curse upon the whole kingdom and upon his own descendants."

Seth's tone became deeper and deeper, and a flash of pain flashed in his eyes.

"The land of the kingdom became a wasteland, and the city was covered in smoke and ruins. He inflicted extreme punishments on each of his three sons. Then he left Ode Papadopolis."

"Leave?" Xia Xiu repeated in a low voice, trying to capture the deep meaning hidden in this sentence.

Seth nodded, with a hint of sadness in his tone that could not be concealed:

"Yes. He left."

"Perhaps it was because of the war that he was unable to maintain the balance between flesh and machinery, and he was afraid that the earth would be swallowed by the unknown force.

So, he left, but no one knew where he went.

Maybe he's dead, maybe he's rotting deep in the core of the planet, no one can tell."

Xia Xiu didn't speak, just listened quietly, thinking of the desperate scene when this "father" dragged the entire kingdom into the abyss.

Seth's voice continued to echo in the hall.

"Later, in order to atone..."

Seth's tone was filled with regret.

"The younger son began to look for the person who could truly inherit the Iron Crown. After experiencing one civilization after another, he met someone who could wear the crown.

That man wore an iron crown, which he called Apollyon."

"[Apollonia] built his own halls, temples, and libraries. He was the hope of mankind, the closest thing to a father's will I have ever seen."

Seth raised his head, with a hint of light in his eyes, as if he was recalling those short glorious years:

"In his time, every old man on the land of Youyang knelt down to him and respected him as the 'King Beyond Darkness'. When he passed away, the crown was passed on to his son Uwen, and I left

That family.

After saying goodbye, I returned to the East - back to this city that my father and my brothers built together. I found a bit of peace here, and for the first time in hundreds of millions of years since my birth, I was able to rest.

"

He paused for a moment, his eyes darkened:

"So, I can finally rest."

"Then what?" Xia Xiu broke the silence, with an invisible pressure in his voice.

Seth let out a long sigh, and his voice lowered, as if it was carrying an aftershock from the depths of time:

"When I woke up, the world had completely changed. New power and a deeper darkness had descended."

"The bloodthirsty people appeared in the east; the Daevites and their crazy king took up arms against the west and started a thousand long bloody battles;

The descendants of [Apollonia] - my friend's family - call themselves the Lords of the Sky and are conquering every colony on the continent and plundering every ruler.

In the West, rumors spread that there was a race that came from the darkness and was extremely powerful. They used trees and roots to make weapons. These wars came to the world and swept everything."

Seth’s voice was low but full of strength:

"You can find the ruins of these wars, but you will never understand them. Those wars are so old that their meaning has long been lost, but they laid the foundation for the future world."

"Next," Seth's eyes were deep, as if looking through the hall in front of him towards the end of time, "I can only watch. I watched for thousands of years, one king after another came and went, each time

They all inherited the throne with blood and curses, but my father's iron crown was always on their heads."

His voice was filled with endless fatigue and vicissitudes, but the majesty that had witnessed a long history was still there.

"I saw the Daevite hero slaying the only son of the King of Heaven II on the battlefield of the Holy City. I saw Ultan El Meto, the mad magician, raining down fire from the highest heaven,

To burn [the firstborn] of the east, until Malus the Wrathful, grandson of the old King of Heaven, pulled him down from the sky and burned him to ashes.”

Seth paused, as if sorting out the broken memories of those long years, and continued:

"I also saw Joel Apologna crossing the sea to meet the kings called [Children of the Night]. Her end was that she was buried alive and then sacrificed her heart to their terrible goddess.
To be continued...