The Gift of the Land was undoubtedly a Sealed Artifact of the Mother pathway. It seemed that what created Black-Faced Grass, sparing the City of Silver from having to feed on monsters, was a Barren Matriarch characteristic. It could not be Sequence 1, for the same reason as the Crown of Glory...
The moment she heard the name of the other God-level Sealed Artifact, numerous thoughts surfaced in Angel's mind, and she quickly established the basic details of the Gift of the Land.
She nodded silently and let Luvia Tiffany lead her back to the stone chamber where the several Sealed Artifacts had been displayed, then continued down a staircase on the other side that led deeper underground.
They were moving away from the Crown of Glory, yet the light of dawn, which could coalesce into motes, did not grow thinner. Instead, it grew increasingly dense. Black-Faced Grass covered the surrounding stone walls as thickly as the short fur on the Demonic Wolf Angel had just killed. It swayed of its own accord in the windless underground space, making the entire wall seem to writhe slowly.
As they walked, Lovia acted like a competent guide, introducing the City of Silver's history before it entered the "Dark Age." Angel had already heard most of this from Klein, but she listened patiently without interrupting, comparing the two accounts and paying particular attention to the relationship between the City of Silver and the Giant King's Court.
In the Second Epoch, when the ancient gods ruled the sky, land, and seas, the City of Silver and the many surrounding human city-states belonged to the Giant King's Court. All their inhabitants were slaves of the giants.
Fortunately, unlike other city-states ruled by relatively violent giants, where innocent people were frequently slaughtered and the inhabitants lacked