Just as I thought—being so bored that she made a familiar to play with was still far too flimsy an explanation.
Inside the dim Warehouse, Fu Qian seemed to have glimpsed an incredible secret of an ancient race.
Annalise did indeed like red eyes, but the opportunity that truly led her to make an ancient race by hand, with that as one of its defining traits, had actually been the Long Night?
She had received enlightenment from the Primordial Moon in a dream, learning of something that even the latter feared—and yet it had filled her with anticipation.
And in the course of preparing for it, the Blood Clan came into being.
Seen this way, those big bats might really be hiding something extraordinary.
Most importantly, those extraordinary things apparently had never been put to use.
Because "Annalise failed to wait for the Long Night"; she was already gone before it arrived.
Sure enough, deciding to write the "Moon Chronicles" earlier had been a wise choice.
Not only were the various moons deeply entangled with one another, they all seemed connected to the Long Night as well.
Even the Primordial Moon and Annalise—two Higher Beings confirmed to have perished Before the Long Night—had an astonishing connection.
How had that happened?
All he could say was that the Moon God who had suddenly gone for reincarnation had become even more mysterious.
Moreover, the notes seemed to contain a familiar name: Herbert, the legendary First Apostle.
Even Ancient Recollection, the extraordinary item formed from his eyeball, now faintly revealed a possible origin.
Annalise liked red eyes, and they had to be naturally red.
As her loyal follower, he had been somewhat lacking in that regard.
So Herbert had done something mad—he gouged out and discarded his original eyes, voluntarily becoming part of