Chapter 1573: Chapter 1573

Quintess continued to look impassive and uninvested.

It wasn't as though Sause expected him to respond with a frown or a gushing of tears, of course. But the Giant found himself feeling like he was talking to a huge wall.

Finally, Quintess' lips parted, and he spoke:

Sause's face… softened.

In order to salvage Edagon from a coming apocalyptic event – the departure of Quintess and Listafelle, which left Aigas' Rules weakened – Jiggorrhax had given the order for some of the Giants to feed themselves to his younger sibling so that he (Jerthrax) could grow rapidly. Indeed, the Giants and the dragons were related. One could sacrifice power for the other in a fashion more effective than with cumulative mana experience.

"Both," came Sause's answer. "It was both. And I don't regret it. The fact that I yielded no better result – or satisfaction, for that matter – from both validated my new reasoning all the more."

Everyone who'd heard Sause bleed his heart out patiently waited for the response of the mightiest Deity on Aigas, or rather, the mightiest Deity to create Aigas.

It didn't take long for the response to come.

said Quintess, and he sighed lightly in order to not blow everything away. Then he smiled.

Sause scowled. "Is that why you abandoned us?"

Quintess maintained his smile.

Skullius and Sause reeled.

Quintess gave a soft laugh. Sause's face kept growing darker.

And indeed, it wasn't. ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝✦𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✦𝕟𝕖𝕥

But then Quintess continued to speak freely.

Sause took a few moments to truly digest what he'd heard.

That was all there was to it.

Aigas was a mistake, and what did you know? Quintess had moved on. He'd made other worlds, apparently. Yet, Sause couldn't fault him for that. The Deity still played a part in Aigas. He knew everything that happened here.

But in the end, Sause only conclude that indeed, Divinity wasn't all it was chalked up to be.

"What larger meaning? What depth is there to my hatred?" he said, hanging his head.

Quintess seemed to beam.

Sause shook his head. He thought of Benzard, the man who had inherited a Hidden Class from him. Indeed, Benzard (who had been warped to the Empyrean Bosom for safety) was to be Edagon's guardian now by Sause's design. But…

"I didn't decide that. I didn't give that man my powers because I really wanted him to succeed me. It was all because of a mess of events that occurred in that damned Labyrinth," Sause argued.

Sause's eyes widened and he stared up into Quintess' star-like eye. The Deity gave a soft laugh.

Sause gave a pause and drew in a sharp breath,

"Fine. I understand. However, I have decided I won't spill my blood for Aigas anymore."

said Quintess. < If you wanted, though, I could…>

"No," Sause rejected the offer at once. His rage had faded somewhere during Quintess' narration. "Please, don't touch my fate anymore."