Elsewhere, in the domain where Nurgle himself resided, he looked up at the rusted iron cage imprisoning Isha and took in everything she had done. Then he did nothing.
This was his domain. Naturally, he knew perfectly well what had happened here.
But Nurgle was a rather laid-back Chaos God. One of his authorities was the struggle and development of life.
Development was unpredictable. Even he did not know what the sorrowful Nurgling would become after receiving Isha's blessing, and he was deeply curious about it.
Besides, part of Nurgle's essence—or rather, part of the meaning of his existence—was to spread viruses throughout the universe.
The meaning of Isha, Goddess of Life, was to counter those viruses and spread vaccines throughout the universe.
In this way, the struggle between viruses and vaccines remained balanced, allowing life to continuously spiral upward.
This was why Nurgle had merely imprisoned Isha's body without limiting the use of her authority, allowing her to continue wielding her power.
Isha could even send her soul out of her body, temporarily leave the Garden of Nurgle, and travel to the material universe to spread vaccines.
That way, once the living beings of the universe developed antibodies to the old viruses, he could create new ones that were even more toxic and destructive!
As for that Nurgling who was on the verge of being trained into a Great Extremist, Nurgle himself also spared him a trace of attention.
Nurgle loved his children, but he had far too many of them to pay them all such attention. He only watched over particularly outstanding children.
And now, regardless of the reason, that sorrowful Nurgling had received Isha's blessing and seemed poised to transform into a Great Unclean One—the title for core Greater Daemons in Nurgle's system. He was about to