ch36

“Considering that we didn’t decide how to raise them from the start, Ul Kanadiel’s words are not wrong. The bet should proceed as is.”

“What! Are your long, stretched-out eyes just for show? You can’t see even with them, should I pluck them out for you?”

“Bvon Krishaka, why did you gather us here if you’re going to do whatever you want whenever you’re at a disadvantage? If you continue to make such unreasonable demands, we will withdraw from this bet. But let me be clear, this matter is a bet with your own divine power at stake. If you break the bet and continue your destructive behavior arbitrarily, we will side with Ul Kanadiel.”

As the Loa of the Snail slowly turned its body, the other Loa also began to subtly retreat.

Even Bvon Krishaka couldn’t handle turning Ul Kanadiel and all the Loa against her.

Bvon Krishaka was furious, her long, sharp hairs standing on end, but she didn’t cross the line, and the bet proceeded as is.

The result was Bvon Krishaka’s crushing defeat.

In the first place, no matter how much ordinary creatures struggled, they couldn’t possibly win against beings who had been selected for their superior traits, received the authority of the Elder Loa, and completely deviated from the natural phylogenetic tree.

The creatures competing in aggression, agility, and strength were torn to shreds.

The competition to survive in extreme environments was also no match.

The only area where Bvon Krishaka won was in reproduction.

The creatures created by Ul Kanadiel were excellent as individuals, but there were no beings to become their reproductive partners.

Ul Kanadiel demanded the fulfillment of the bet’s promise from Bvon Krishaka, who was furious at the result of losing in everything except reproduction.

“I would appreciate it if you would refrain from interfering with anything I do from now on.”

“■■■■■■■–!!!!”

Ignoring Bvon Krishaka’s scream, Ul Kanadiel disappeared with her retinue.

The enraged giant stone monkey slammed the ground repeatedly in a fit of anger, causing constant earthquakes around it for a while, and a huge, bottomless cavity was created in that spot.

“The cave is so deep that it still remains. Bvon Krishaka’s energy is so strong there that even beasts don’t approach it.”

Bvon Krishaka ended her long fit of anger and crawled up to the surface from the cavity she had created.

Then, she plucked the hairs from her body and blew on them.

The fallen hairs gradually swelled and transformed into various forms.

They became muscular green monkeys, and some of the green monkeys became cunning little monkeys, they became two-legged dogs, and some were monkeys with the dexterity of the original monkeys but imbued with the nature of various beasts.

Bvon Krishaka thought about the area of ‘reproduction’ where she had won against Ul Kanadiel.

“This nature is not about the survival of the fittest, but the survival of the adaptable! For the prosperity of the species, what is more important than other trivial things is the excellence of reproduction, which allows more life information to be passed on to future generations! That is what distinguishes the excellence of a species!”

She is said to have shouted this to those around her.

It wasn’t entirely wrong, but deep down, she just didn’t want to admit that she had lost to Ul Kanadiel, so she was praising the area where she had won.

In any case, as she said, the excellence of each individual was inferior compared to Ul Kanadiel’s retinue, but the number was overwhelmingly greater.

“Those who originated from me, tear apart Ul Kanadiel’s abominations!”

Bvon Krishaka’s retinue spread out everywhere in numbers and began to attack Ul Kanadiel’s retinue.

Even without Ul Kanadiel directly intervening, her six retainers tore apart everything that rushed at them, but there were so many that they were a nuisance day and night.

Enraged, Ul Kanadiel went to Bvon Krishaka and protested.

“Isn’t this different from the promise of the bet? Fulfill the promise.”

Bvon Krishaka picked her nose mockingly and replied.

“The promise was only that I wouldn’t chase you. Those monstrosities you created are separate.”

Bvon Krishaka laughed, returning the wordplay from the bet to Ul Kanadiel.

Ul Kanadiel had created the retainers to win the bet, but at some point, she had begun to feel affection for them.

They were certainly excellent beings, but if they fought against an absurdly large number of enemies, these children would eventually tire.

Because they were originally species close to prototypes created only for the bet, there was only one individual of each species.

The Loa were calling these children, each a unique species, ‘Einherjar,’ meaning ‘those who fight alone.’

But if things continued like this, they would become species that were only ever unique.

In any case, Bvon Krishaka couldn’t kill her due to the covenant.

These retainers were only created to win the bet, and she was now free.

Even though she thought so, Ul Kanadiel gifted the children she now considered her own with races that resembled each of them.

They were far inferior to her first children, but they were still able to assist her children and prosper on their own as a ‘race.’

She had already exhausted her power creating her first children, and although they were inferior, she had weakened to the point where it was hard to think of her as an Elder Loa like Bvon Krishaka, as she had separated her body and created countless lives.

Even though they were no longer those who fought alone, Ul Kanadiel’s first six children, called ‘Einherjar,’ called Ul Kanadiel, who had sacrificed even her own power for the future of her children by separating her body, ‘Great Father.’

Thus, Ul Kanadiel’s Einherjar began to massacre Bvon Krishaka’s retinue with the races they led.

Since excellent individuals led and commanded the races, they were no match from the start.

Bvon Krishaka was naturally furious and began to pluck her fur again to create more retinue.

But no matter how many there were, they had no brains, so they fell into traps and were massacred every time, so Bvon Krishaka looked for the cause.

“Perhaps she thought that was the existence of our Einherjar.”

So Bvon Krishaka also created beings like the Einherjar to lead the retinue she had created.

At this time, the word Einherjar began to be used not in its original sense of those who fight alone, but to mean the foremost retainer representing the species created by the Elder Loa.

“And a meaningless war began.”

Just as Ul Kanadiel had consumed power when creating her retainers, Bvon Krishaka had naturally consumed power as well.

Ul Kanadiel’s Einherjar and Bvon Krishaka’s Einherjar clashed, becoming a proxy war over the pride of the Elder Loa.

Bvon Krishaka had more numbers, but Ul Kanadiel’s Einherjar had accumulated experience over a long period, so the stalemate continued.

Frustrated by the situation, Bvon Krishaka, who was originally quick-tempered, continued to pluck her fur and create more troops.

As she continued to create them recklessly, the power she consumed and the fur she plucked caused the stone monkey, who had originally boasted a lush coat, to become bare and unsightly at some point.

“And that was the starting point of the tragedy, and the reason why the Eastern Continent was devastated by an eternal war without development for hundreds of years.”

Absurdly, Bvon Krishaka, who had weakened so much, was killed by the Einherjar she had created.

“Bvon Krishaka originally believed that life was about moving forward in a better direction through struggle. Bvon Krishaka’s retinue inherited that nature, so they only thought about sublimating into better beings, regardless of the method. To such a retinue, a weakened creator who couldn’t directly help them was good prey.”

Bvon Krishaka’s Einherjar and races divided and ate their creator’s huge corpse, increasing their power.

“Because Bvon Krishaka was killed by the retinue that came from her fur, in the Eastern Continent, when someone is betrayed by someone they trusted or suffers patricide, they use the phrase ‘stabbed by fur.'”

The remaining hairs were also born as countless soldiers, as if they were the will of the last Elder Loa.

“That’s when we started to be pushed back. The opponents were beings who had directly divided and eaten the power of the strongest Elder Loa, who had existed since ancient times, and had become stronger.”

Moreover, the races that became Bvon Krishaka’s retinue had such good reproductive abilities, as she had wished, that they began to multiply tremendously and devastate the entire Eastern Continent.

Their sexual desire was so strong that they would mate with any species that looked similar, not just their own.

Their genetic superiority was also good, and even though they were different species, they sometimes managed to reproduce, and even if they gave birth, they were so strong that they were hardly affected by the mother’s genetics.

However, because their desires were so strong, they didn’t know how to restrain themselves, and they consumed all resources and devastated every place they passed, leaving not a single blade of grass.

Furthermore, just as Bvon Krishaka couldn’t accept the birth of other Elder Loa, the Einherjar also began to fight among themselves.

And such chaos is said to have continued for a long time.

Many species went extinct, and many Loa died.

“Perhaps it’s still the same now. The age of chaos that started after that didn’t end until I left. To the point where there are almost no creatures left that belong to the correct natural phylogenetic tree, except for the species that originated from Bvon Krishaka and the Father’s retinue.”

As the war continued for a long time, Ul Kanadiel’s retinue also began to tire.

All the creatures of the Eastern Continent were forced into meaningless struggles from the moment they were born.

The primitive nature was consumed to the point where almost no trace remained.

“…And then an incident happened on our side as well.”

And rarely, anger could be felt on Aliya’s face.

“Gadiak, our abominable firstborn, the Einherjar of the Imps, joined hands with Algul, the Einherjar of the Orcs, and murdered our Father.”