"Its soul is incomplete. Its life has been leaking away all this time."
Aven shouted in fanatic excitement. He had discovered the flaw in the Sky-Covering Feather. The "stomach" he had created for it, which existed in its esophagus, had been filled and flooded by another power—and that power came from the other half of the Sky-Covering Feather's soul essence, sealed within the World Tree Branch Felix held.
Hunger drove it mad. To keep the irrational Sky-Covering Feather from losing control, the other half of its soul inside the World Tree Branch had no choice but to fill it in, making the Sky-Covering Feather more complete, using more reason to fight that terrible hunger.
Aven had discovered this step. The Void Lifeform he had created sensed the filling of the soul and, like a filter, clearly felt the Sky-Covering Feather's weakness.
"Its soul is incomplete? Is this how the Elven Royal Court controls it?"
Ryan quickly understood, then asked, "If its soul is made whole, will it be able to break free from the Elven Royal Court's control?"
"That is the principle, but—"
An extreme fervor showed in Aven's eyes.
"But no one can guarantee that a complete Demigod will become your friend simply because you are the enemy of the elves. In its eyes, humans are not its kind."
"If it breaks free of control and awakens, the greater probability is that it will maintain the instinct it was born with at the very beginning: the destruction of The Forest. It will not show any consideration for humans either."
Killing a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of one's own. Ryan fell silent, then changed the question.
"Then, with only part of its soul essence, can it be killed?"
"That is exactly—what I was about to say."
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