Gospel of Blood

Sea King Oceanus’s voice was filled with deep meaning.

Sensing the curiosity in his tone, Charlotte paused slightly and calmly replied.

“Memories aren’t reliable things. The cost of a God’s resurrection, you should be well aware.”

The blurred face gazed deeply at Charlotte and suddenly laughed.

“So, you mean… you haven’t recovered all your memories yet?”

Charlotte neither confirmed nor denied.

To elicit more information from him, she couldn’t reveal that she wasn’t the historical “True Ancestor of Blood.”

Thus, pretending to be the “True Ancestor of Blood” with incomplete memory was a wise choice.

Seeing Charlotte not denying it, Sea King Oceanus was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

His laughter grew more and more unrestrained, more and more bold, more and more joyous.

Charlotte sensed she might have misspoken.

She took a deep breath, calmed herself, and then, mimicking the tone recorded in the Crimson Queen Rowena’s diary, she said faintly.

“Your Excellency Oceanus, what’s so funny?”

“Your Excellency Oceanus? Haha…”

Upon hearing her address, the blurred face showed a strange expression and an odd tone, laughing even more unrestrainedly.

After laughing, he suddenly became calm again, his ancient voice regaining its majesty and lament.

“It seems… the Eternal Night Monarch ultimately failed.”

“Time is a terrifying thing. Even a being like Her cannot resist its erosion…”

“No wonder I couldn’t recall the name of the ‘True Ancestor of Blood.’ I thought it was some divine spell you cast on me, but now it seems, she failed too.”

Saying this, the blurred face looked at Charlotte again, this time with a hint of amusement.

“Do you know? The Eternal Night Monarch never called me Your Excellency Oceanus.”

“You resemble her a lot, so much that even I… couldn’t recognize it at first.”

“But you… are not her.”

“So, who are you? Let me guess… are you her chosen successor? Or perhaps, some lucky one who stumbled upon a fragment of her divinity?”

Seeing his confident expression, Charlotte sighed inwardly. Clearly, she hadn’t deceived him. She was exposed.

But it couldn’t be helped.

He wasn’t like the bloodbornes she subdued, he was a true myth.

Moreover, his memories of the “True Ancestor of Blood” were evidently deeper than anyone she’d encountered.

He could even recognize her “forgetfulness.”

Pretending to be a familiar myth to him with just a few words was indeed a challenging task.

With this realization, Charlotte decided not to continue pretending.

However, just as she was about to speak again, Sea King Oceanus spoke first.

“Never mind, regardless of who you are, since you’ve inherited her power, now… you are the new ruler of the bloodbornes, the Eternal Night Monarch.”

“You are already a Demigod. Your control over the blood divine power is no less than hers. You have earned the right to speak with me as an equal.”

“So… new True Ancestor of Blood, may I know your name?”

Charlotte was silent for a moment before answering.

“Charlotte, Charlotte de Castell.”

“Charlotte de Castell… I see, so you are the Divine Queen of the human world? To become a Demigod at such a young age, it seems… even if you are not her successor, you must be some revived ancient being…”

“Strangely, I cannot find any information about you in my memory. It seems… even I couldn’t resist the power of the ‘Origin.’”

Sea King Oceanus lamented.

No, no, I’m not some ancient being, I just have a cheat. But perhaps not.

If I really “created” history, then in a way, I might indeed be an “ancient being.”

Charlotte mused subtly to herself.

“So… what exactly is the ‘Origin’?”

She continued to ask.

Sea King Oceanus looked at her, his expression becoming slightly solemn.

“‘Origin’ is one, ‘Origin’ is all, ‘Origin’ is the beginning of all beings, ‘Origin’ is the source of the extraordinary…”

One?

And also all?

Isn’t this the inscription on the newly awakened ability of the Gospel of Blood?

So, the Gospel of Blood is also related to the ‘Origin’?

Charlotte’s heart skipped a beat.

Thinking of this, she paused and asked.

“‘Origin’… is it the Creator God?”

Sea King Oceanus shook his head.

“No, more accurately, the Creator God is a part of the ‘Origin’, but the ‘Origin’… is not the Creator God.”

“The ‘Origin’ is more ancient, the origin of everything, while the Creator God is one who stole the ‘Origin power’… and is the eternal enemy of the Gods.”

“Eternal enemy of the Gods? The Creator God?”

Charlotte frowned slightly.

Sea King Oceanus nodded.

“That’s right, the Creator God’s ultimate goal is to become the ‘Origin.’ He constantly seeks to reclaim the authority of the Gods, to ‘devour’ everything that belongs to the Gods. To the Creator God, the Gods are his ‘nourishment’ to become the ‘Origin.’”

“The Holy Court established by the Creator God exists for this purpose.”

As he spoke, he glanced deeply at Charlotte.

“Your predecessor, the Eternal Night Monarch whom I knew, failed in her struggle against the Creator God. If I’m not mistaken, in the end… he probably couldn’t resist the ‘Origin power’ wielded by the Creator God and was devoured and assimilated.”

“Just like those subordinate Gods captured by the Creator God…”

All the subordinate Gods captured by the Creator God were devoured by him?

Charlotte was momentarily stunned.

Then… her expression froze.

Charlotte suddenly understood a question that had always puzzled her.

The Holy Court created by the Creator God was a polytheistic faith.

However, as time progressed, those Gods incorporated into the Holy Court became increasingly low-profile, or rather… gradually lost their presence.

Until… they were completely forgotten, existing only in the records of the Holy Bible.

Charlotte had always thought this was a deliberate suppression of the subordinate Gods’ faith by the Holy Court.

But now it seemed the root cause was a struggle among the Gods.

However, what puzzled Charlotte was that, based on her experiences, the Creator God should be her past student, Harald.

But it was hard to connect the shy and justice-driven Harald in her memory with the Creator God described by Oceanus, who devoured subordinate Gods.

However, recalling the diary of the Crimson Queen Rowena, Charlotte’s expression gradually became serious.

In Rowena’s diary, Lilith ultimately went mad and had her identity taken by “some being.”

Could it be that Harald experienced the same fate?

At this thought, Charlotte felt a shiver run down her spine.

As an ancient God, the secrets revealed by Oceanus were overwhelming for her.

Combining these with her own knowledge, she began to piece together the fates of Lilith and Harald.

If her conjecture was correct, both Lilith and Harald likely faced the same enemy.

Lilith failed, and Harald failed too.

They were both devoured, and they were both forgotten.

Considering what Poseidon Oceanus said, this entity… was likely the “Creator God.”

It was a plausible hypothesis.

But for some reason, after understanding everything, Charlotte still felt something was off.

She felt… she was missing something.

“New True Ancestor of Blood, no, God Nyx, let’s make a deal.”

“The Divinity Descent Day is approaching, and the mythological era will return. You possess the ‘Origin’ power, and… the Creator God has set his sights on you.”

“We have a common enemy and are natural allies. You were mistaken for a Saintess by the Creator God’s followers, and I have successfully infiltrated my power into his church.”

“The Creator God has not fully awakened yet. We can join forces to counter his threat.”

Sea King Oceanus spoke solemnly.

Charlotte frowned slightly.

She looked thoughtfully at him and said,

“How can I trust you?”

The blurred face laughed softly.

“Do I have a reason to deceive you?”

Charlotte was speechless.

It seemed there was no reason, but she felt something was off.

Seeing her hesitation, sea King Oceanus continued.

“You don’t need to answer immediately. I can give you time to think.”

“Nyx, this trace of my consciousness is completely under your control. If you wish to cooperate, just release me from this bondage, and my true form will await your arrival on Luna Island.”

“Of course, you can refuse, even destroy this trace of my consciousness. If you do, my true form will naturally interpret it as a ‘breakdown in negotiations.’”

“Refusal is fine, too. The Divinity Descent Day is near, and the Creator God Harald’s return is imminent. When that time comes, I believe you’ll reconsider my proposal.”

Hearing this, Charlotte suddenly looked up, and a glimmer of light flashed in her eyes.

She sighed and said,

“The Creator God… Harald?”

“What’s wrong, Nyx? Do you still doubt my sincerity?”

Sea King Oceanus frowned.

Charlotte remained silent.

She looked at him with a complex expression and sighed.

“If it weren’t for your last words, I might have almost believed you.”

“The Creator God Harald… The Creator God Harald…”

“Yes, people still remember the name Harald. Even if they’ve forgotten some things about him, they haven’t forgotten his name.”

“To be honest, I still don’t know if that’s really him. But if being ‘devoured’ also means being ‘forgotten’, if that really is him, then he probably hasn’t completely disappeared…”

“No… How could a devourer use the name of the devoured?”

“Even Lilith, who was completely forgotten, left some contingencies. How could he not?”

Saying this, Charlotte looked at Sea King Oceanus.

Her gaze grew clearer, and her expression became indifferent.

“Sorry, I can’t agree to your proposal because I don’t believe the Creator God you speak of is necessarily my enemy.”

“I need to judge for myself if he is truly an enemy.”

Then she looked at him meaningfully.

“On the contrary, Your Excellency Oceanus, are you really Sea King Oceanus?”

Without waiting for a reply, Charlotte shook her head.

“No, you are not.”

The blood divine power suddenly surged as Charlotte gently opened her right hand.

The divine power cage compressed instantly, igniting with golden-red flames, and the blurred face within screamed in agony.

Under Charlotte’s cold gaze, the face emitted wisps of white smoke, dissolving into strange white mist.

That power was identical to the power leaking from behind the eerie stone door.

“As expected, you are the entity behind the ‘door.’”

Charlotte sighed.