Horace looked at Lilith. "So, she's..."
"The god of those whose bodies have died but whose souls refuse to pass on."
Lilith finished for him. "She governs reincarnation from death, and she also has the power to reject the dead."
She paused, her tone turning unusually serious. "In other words, if she gets a little willful, no new life will ever be born in the Lands Between again, and the world will gradually decline."
Horace instantly recalled the shattered landscape in the game:
Countless people who could not die had nowhere to go, wandering every corner of the Lands Between, never able to rest. Destined Death had been sealed, and the system of returning to the Erdtree had collapsed.
But that time, the problem had only been with the passage from life to death.
This time, however, if Hötter refused reincarnation, the road beyond death would be completely cut off.
No new life would be born into the world, and any talk of continuation would become a joke.
Destined Death would be utterly useless.
Because what life lacked was not a proper death, but reincarnation after death.
Horace took a deep breath, trying hard to shake those awful associations from his mind. "What else?"
Lilith broke into an evil smile. Perhaps she had thought of some wicked idea. "She also governs reincarnation from life, you know."
"She can get someone pregnant with a single look, or make them unable to have children for their entire life."
Horace: "...!"
Oh↗, I have an idea! Can this get-anyone-pregnant-with-a-look skill work on men?
Lilith watched him quietly, her face wreathed in smiles.
This evil Outer God had clearly thought of that idea long ago. Just imagine: childbirth was already painful enough for women. Then for men, wouldn't it be... hehehe.
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