Though it had clearly been forged by the Flame Angel himself as a holy sword... it somehow contained such an intense "beastliness" of the Path of Love, along with the rich aura of the Path of Twilight.
Even merely gripping this sword would shake one's mind. Yet it lacked the Path of Twilight's uniquely "static" and "closed-off" qualities. Instead, it was frenzied and uncontrollable.
Rather than a holy sword, it was more like a magical beast with a metal shell.
Such demonic power... Since it did not come from its creator, it could only have come from the materials used to make it.
Back when he was at the ruins of the Tower to the Heavens, Iver had already learned that the Beast Lord had been born when the sun fell—the remnants of the sun had plunged into the sea, and "something" in the Deep Sea had accepted the Angel Shard symbolizing the Path of Creation from the fallen Tai Yi.
After all, the Pillar Gods themselves were also a kind of angel—just great angels with the highest authority within their respective Paths... Much like the Crowned Angel and the Ring Angel, they both possessed Angel Shards.
At that time, Heaven and Earth had not yet been severed, so he had simply crawled ashore—
Imitating the Scaled Ones and Winged Ones, he transformed his supple tentacles into limbs; he grew fur for warmth and developed bones for walking... Finally, he emerged from the Deep Sea onto the land and became the Lord of All Beasts.
—Then its former race was self-evident.
The Beast Lord could only have been a sea monster.
A sea monster born from the Path of Taboo, like the Abyss Angel and Amber Angel! And the remnants of the body he had shed would naturally retain residual