)--Yes, the Shadow Angel and Hellerchein did share an exceedingly tenuous connection.
Seeing that Arsene was still somewhat confused, Iver told him the story of the Shadow Angel: "The Shadow Angel is a very young Angel. Before becoming an Angel, she was the Priestess of Supreme Heaven. As a privilege of the giant race, after she died, Supreme Heaven directly fished her out of the Source River and made her one of Supreme Heaven's hundred thousand apostles.
"As a giant, she had once been unable to understand the logic of revenge. Thus, she could not understand why Hellerchein wanted to massacre the giants, nor why the giants wanted to massacre humans and elves. She believed revenge would only bring meaningless conflict, making everyone unhappy. She approved of neither human revenge nor giant revenge, because conflict would lead to evolution, and maintaining eternal rule required the elimination of all strife.
"So she tried to plead with Supreme Heaven on behalf of the elves—but it was obvious that Supreme Heaven was displeased. Thus, he forcibly humiliated the Shadow Angel in front of all the apostles, stripped her of all her 'power,' drove her from his kingdom, and ordered the apostles to hunt her down.
"That was when the Shadow Angel understood what 'revenge' meant. The Shadow Land was not created by her. Back then, it was called the Shadow Realm... It was the core of all shadow power, home to many extremely dangerous natives, including 'Demon Boars,' 'Hundred-Headed Serpents,' 'Shadow Hunter Beasts,' and 'Shadow Demons.' She hid there to escape the pursuit, and accidentally obtained the authority over betrayal and revenge within the Shadow Domain..."
The former Pope spoke so casually of secrets that made Arsene's hair stand on end and left him wishing he could plug his ears.
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