The sun beetle, Parom, was a revered spirit said by the Sanghais to represent the sun.
Legend held that this sacred scarab was a gift from the Creator. It was born to embody the blazing, pure, life-giving sun, and so the Sanghais had worshipped it for generations as a symbol of life.
But based on the series of "truths" Murphy had just learned from the Creation Engine, he suspected that Parom and Hades, this unusual pair of sacred scarabs, had also originated as the products of certain experiments conducted by the elves at the Creation Engine. Most likely, the Sanghais' ancestors had taken them with them when they fled the engine.
Regardless, over the course of a thousand years, Parom had become one of the symbols of the Sanghais' faith.
They said it hung like a blazing sun amid the shattered sea of stars in the Astral Plane, radiating its light and warmth to all creatures in need. And when it appeared in the material world, it made quite an entrance.
When Murphy looked up, all he could see was an insect-shaped figure wreathed in a corona, radiating endless light and heat. It truly looked like a sacred relic born within the sun.
As soon as it appeared, the temperature in the Origin Holy City and the surrounding sea of sand began to rise rapidly. The Sunfire Colossus, whose destructive power had been diminished after the Engine Guardians destroyed its sacred bone nodes, was also flooded with an even greater force of faith. The magnificent giant seemed to come alive again, swinging its fists and clawed blades as it resumed its assault on the main body of the Creation Engine.
But the special enhancement brought by this demigod came with an unexpected downside.
The underworld undead, whose nature was at