Against the World II: Transgression
Chapter 17: Transcendental Being, Part 4
“I hope you have decided to choose the answer I expect, Princess Artemys.” Shiva said as soon as he entered the spacious room where Artemys and Jenny were. “I was born a woman, and so I don't want to make you miserable. Personally I don't like you getting yourself pregnant before marriage, especially you are a noble and an imperial family, but I have no right to dictate how one should live.”
Artemys did not comment on Shiva's second and third sentences; he did not care about it at all.
As the emperor's daughter, she certainly understood that what she was doing was very deviated from what was taught. Unlike ordinary women, a princess had the responsibility of being the ideal public figure for the girls in the empire. Getting pregnant outside of marriage is a stain in the image of a princess. Marriage for a noble/royal/imperial family is something sacred, at least for the woman. The Church commands them to purify themselves, to preserve self-respect.
However, Artemys did not care. In contrast to Kanna and the majority of the imperial population who continued to worship Edenia despite the empire regarding the Holy Kingdom as an enemy, Artemys did not worship anyone. God.he doesn't like that word. Why should he worship a being who plays to the destiny of every soul-like being? Why should he worship the creature that let the world be filled with the bloodshed of living beings?
Gods are the enemies of living beings, so believe Artemys, and so should every living being have to think. Artemys did not understand how one could worship a god even after knowing that a god had set the destiny of every living being. God wants his creation to live well, while he writes bad destiny for them. Do not mortal beings desire freedom?
…Therefore Artemys did not have excessive expression when Shiva said he wanted to become a god.
“I have no other choice,” Artemys response after a while of silence the emperor, at the same time expel his thoughts. “You will get what you want.”
“Very good. That's what I want to hear.” Shiva gave his faint smile. “Then I'll send someone here tomorrow. He will take you to the place where the prepared body is.”
...—Veria Coast, Border Jiangzhou Empire ‒ By Great Empire—...
A waist-long silver haired girl lay with both hands outstretched on the white sand separating the land and the waters. She was only wearing a thick blue dress that was sheer in length, and the dress had been wet to the waist of the girl. But it was no surprise that waves periodically washed their feet violently.
The girl with a twelve-year-old child-like appearance looked at the bluish sky that was beginning to dissipate with both of her obsidian-like black beads. There was not a single thread of emotion that the pitch-black eyes were emitting, in harmony with her doll-like face. If there is an expert reader of facial expressions who saw the girl, of course he will be confused to guess what the girl was thinking.
Jiang Yue Yin's. It was his name, the owner of Supreme Magic [Ruler of Heaven] and Crest of Hope [Tree of Magic]. Yue Yin had already controlled Jiangzhou Empire for sixteen centuries. He's not married yet. He never had a lover. The lone female wolf, that's the nickname people gave her.
Of course Yue Yin was still single not because no one was interested in her, but vice versa. More than that, his body was immortal. It is not necessary to give birth to a successor to the throne. He could become ruler until Edenia decided to end the world. However, the worry that he would suddenly die was— - that was also the reason why there was a tournament of knights every year in the capital. His ministers agreed to annually propose a male candidate for him. However, up to this second, nothing attracted Yue Yin's attention.
There is Shiva Rashta, a very talented descendant of Gadra. If anything suits him, everyone agrees that Shiva is the one. However, as perfect as Shiva was, the boy did not have what Yue Yin wanted. Moreover, even though she had, Shiva did not understand what love was. The boy did not understand what that feeling was. He was a perfectionist manifestation, but his heart had long since died. His friendly smile, the various expressions that dyed his face, all of it never reached Shiva's heart.
But that's not surprising.
His past and Shiva are not too different, you could say Shiva is worse. Yue Yin lost her parents on the battlefield, but Shiva lost his entire family. Yue Yin had only become an empress at the age of fifteen, but Shiva was eleven. That boy…. If anyone hates Edenia more than the universe, that person's hatred is still not greater than Shiva's hatred. Hence too, when the boy came before him to ask for cooperation, Yue Yin did not refuse.
“Nona Yue Yin.”
—Yue Yin's line of thought was cut off when the voice successfully translated her brain.
He knew the owner of the voice. Saraya, the messenger of Shiva's trust. In this vast Veria, there was no significant person who did not know Saraya. Shiva's influence reaches throughout the continent, and Saraya is the mouth that conveys Shiva's edict and the ear that listens to the voices of the people to get to Shiva. Other than herself, Sakra, and Saraya herself, no one has ever actually met Shiva.
“Say,” said Yue Yin without looking at the woman, her eyes still faithfully looking at the sky that was getting darker in color.
“Xavier von Hernandez will set foot in Veria. His Majesty gave a message so that Miss does not do anything that will prevent her from reaching Nareya.”
Xavier von Hernandez…. Yue Yin remembered him as the individual who had defeated the body of the Sakhra puppet. Together with Fie Axellibra, Vermyna Hellvarossa, Kanna el Vermillion, and Nueva, she is a significant threat to Veria. Killing him while he was here was a good solution, it would reduce the Islan's combat power. However, if Shiva does not want him to die, it means that he has a certain purpose. To be precise, Shiva deliberately made Xavier come.
“Ah, is this related to his plan to become a transcendental being like Fie?”
“...Master Shiva gives no excuses, but most likely it is.”
“Good. I'm not gonna stop him.”
“Then excuse me, Miss.”
Yue Yin did not say anything, and Saraya did not wait for any response; the woman simply disappeared from where she stood.
A second after, Yue Yin closed her eyes. His consciousness sipped on the Tree of Magic leaf sheet which contained magic that was useful for him to discover the existence of the individual in question. [Hyper Sensory], the highest sensory magic in the list of sensory magic listed in the Tree of Magic. Of course it could not be juxtaposed with Supreme Magic [Complete Sensory], but [Hyper Sensory] could also not be underestimated.
Finding the right magic, Yue Yin used [Clarvoyance Magic] along with the magic.
“...Xavier von Hernandez.he was with a demon. They will land 241 km to the southeast of this place. They will arrive in three hours.”