Chapter 551: Another Birth

At the time when Takumi’s children were born and the Sanctuary was in a festive mood, in the city at the border of the former Sydnia Empire, an evil child was given birthed.

In that city at the border, it was dead silent.

Not a light could be seen at night, only darkness spread.

Yes, there was not even a single person in that city, a ghost town.

The reason being............

Away from the city, the church...... in the location of what was once the church of the former Light God Faith was in decay and crumbling down.

And in the spot where the altar should have been, a huge tree-like lump of meat stood.

It was a sinister tree with countless faces and body parts on its surface.

Indeed, the large tree, which originated from the fragment of the Evil Spirit that the priests of the now defunct Light God Faith had offered sacrifices to, had grown so much that it looked so ominous with miasma so dense it’s visible to the naked eye.

There were no more people there. No, nothing existed.

In this place devoid of people, a being that was hardly human-like was taking care of the solidified meat tree.

That caretaker, which was something close to a human but was enveloped in dense miasma that people would have unable to endure, and had deviated in some way from humans, like having four arms, more than two legs, and even multiple heads, was loitering around the meat tree to take care of it.

Crick!

A small crack appeared on the surface of the cocoon, eventually extending the length of it.

Boosh!

With the sound of glass shattering, the cocoon’s shell burst open.

The hands protruding from the meat tree reached in and held up a dark-skinned, red-haired baby.

Without a cry or a sob, the infant slowly opened its eyes, revealing its shining red pupils.

The beings that were once human in the meat tree rejoiced at the birth of the child.

They could no longer speak human words. They only amounted to scream, yet there was no doubt that they were overjoyed.

The people of the world did not notice.

The vestige of the Evil Spirit that once caused the fall of a nation and plunged the continent into chaos was growing......

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