"Lunae Piss, Sorabis, you two..."
The sight was so absurd, so utterly cruel, that a chill ran down Feng Jin's spine. She slowly turned to the two expressionless Winged Beasts.
"Yes," Sorabis said with a nod. "We served as Seneos's executioners."
"That day, countless Children of the Sky fell from the dome of the Eye of Dusk and Dawn and were swallowed by golden lava."
"They spent their whole lives praying to the sky, but their devotion earned them no wings to save themselves."
"..." Yan Huan stared at the two Winged Beasts, suddenly struck by a thought.
Seneos had ordered the Sky Clan people killed. Did that make these two Feng Jin's enemies?
Still, Yan Huan did not find what she had done all that appalling.
Most of those people really had been beyond saving. At least being dropped into liquid gold gave their deaths a touch of artistry.
Feng Jin asked uneasily:
"If this is what really happened, then was Seneos's fusion with Aegle not meant to spare the world from disaster?"
Lunae Piss nodded faintly. "After touching the Core Flame, Seneos understood not only the Titans' fear, but also their indifference."
"Aegle never sought mortal worship. The sky civilization arose because humans chose to build it."
"And the Celestial Sphere that myth claims the Titans gave the Children of the Sky was, in truth, a mortal invention."
Sorabis added:
"Thoroughly disillusioned with humanity, Seneos began to long for divine detachment."
"She sent Lunae Piss and me down to the earth to seek a forbidden art rumored to fuse a human soul with a Titan's."
Feng Jin was stunned. "Teacher Anaxa's alchemy could do that even a thousand years ago?"
"Seneos sentenced the Children of the Sky to death. Seneos abandoned her humanity..."
"If that was the path