Could humans really become 'Sky Demons'?
The Little Brotherhood wasn't certain either, but that didn't stop them from pursuing it.
It was just like how no one had known whether humans could fly, but that hadn't stopped people from pursuing flight.
Third Generation said, "I can confirm that the people of the Aether Clan cannot go insane. They have guarded the Golden Apple for generations, and their will is extraordinarily firm. Otherwise, they could never have resisted the Golden Apple's temptation for so long."
"If the current Aether's ideals haven't become corrupted, then his goal definitely isn't merely to kill a few of you. He'll surely give it everything he has and make one final attempt. Even if it means sacrificing everything, he'll still strive to become a Sky Demon."
Those words struck Mo Qiong deeply. From the start, he hadn't believed that a deeply hidden leader would choose to ambush and kill the other leaders, gather all the Contained Objects, and flee when the organization was on the verge of collapse, instead of making one final attempt.
Even a starving camel was bigger than a horse. The Little Brotherhood was an organization second only to the Gaia Church, with an extremely long heritage.
Perhaps Aether had done this to make one final attempt. Or perhaps he wanted to obtain enough Contained Objects to prepare for his ascension into a Sky Demon.
Mo Qiong immediately asked what the Golden Apple looked like and what properties the other four elemental Contained Objects had.
Even if you hadn't eaten pork, you had at least seen pigs run. Through Mental Sensing, Third Generation imprinted the appearance of the Golden Apple into Mo Qiong's mind.
Come to think of it, it really was an apple... But it wasn't a golden, gleaming apple. It was