The two puppet bodies Lilina had made naturally had no souls, but that was not because she could not create them—though finely manipulating souls was astonishingly difficult, creating one was surprisingly simple. Almost anyone in the Life God System who knew how to create life could casually generate souls within their creations, yet Lilina had not done so.
"Because if I gave them souls, they'd become real lives. This Pope would never send children she created to their deaths!" Lilina explained with a resolute, righteous expression. To be honest, I had not believed at first that she could say something like that. After all, most of the time she was darker than the sky at midnight. But after thinking it over, perhaps those really were words from Lilina's heart. She looked like someone twisted, temperamental, and sometimes exceptionally cruel, yet another side of her was an almost obsessive "lover of life." This did not mean she was truly kindhearted. Rather, as the pope of the Life God System, she possessed an extreme tendency to reward good and punish evil when it came to life. As long as a life was innocent, she displayed an obsessive fondness for it, just as she displayed extreme cruelty toward guilty lives. So, from the perspective of a traditional god judging mortal affairs, Lilina was actually a qualified and strict demigod. I believed this almost paranoid sense of justice was partly due to what she had experienced through three lifetimes, which had left her obsessively fanatical about judging good and evil, right and wrong. But the greater reason was probably Ding Dang's modification. Since Ding Dang had made Lilina her chief pope, she naturally had to give her sufficient qualifications—so that lazy bum had directly imprinted the Divine Tome of the star domain into Lilina's