In that instant, all sound vanished.
Ishtar fell silent.
Everyone in Chaldea fell silent.
Everything around them sank into complete silence.
Luo Zhen and Tiamat simply stared at each other without saying a word or doing anything.
Yet Luo Zhen saw all the sorrow and longing in Tiamat's eyes.
Looking at Tiamat like this and recalling her sobs and sorrowful singing in the Black Sea, Luo Zhen seemed to understand.
He understood what kind of existence the Tiamat before him truly was.
As one of the creator gods in Mesopotamian mythology, Tiamat, who represented salt water, and Abzu, who represented fresh water, gave birth to the gods. Yet their children soon raised a rebellion against Abzu and killed him, thereby gaining dominion over the world.
Tiamat knew of this, yet calmly accepted her children's actions. But this brought the blades of the gods upon her. She was even killed by her own children, and her corpse was split in two to create the heavens and earth, becoming part of the ritual that created the human world.
After suffering all of this, Tiamat had undoubtedly been sorrowful, miserable, and innocent.
Even though Luo Zhen already knew that Tiamat's nature differed somewhat from what was described in mythology—that she was the mother of all things who designed life, and had only been exiled to the Imaginary Number Space because this world had no need for her—she was, by her very existence, evil. But that did not mean she had no emotions.
Indeed, as far as this world was concerned, she was an unneeded existence, and even an existence that could not be needed. If she were allowed to continue living upon the earth, everything on this planet would fall into disorder.
But as a creator goddess whose sole meaning was to give