I am God LSLCCF

A single brief line of introduction was all she had glimpsed of it, and even that had nearly been enough to lose her to the curse.

The Golden Queen glanced at God Iva. Her look seemed to ask whether that thing did not lie in the hands of the spirits.

And a thing so dangerous... how could an apostle be sent to fetch it?

Oran nodded. ”It is, Your Majesty.”

Then he turned to God Iva once more. The Golden Queenʼs eyes had told him that this was an answer only the god could give.

”God, what is the Stone Carving of The Royal Bloodline in truth?”

”Why did the Scarlet Goddess say that this tablet needs no power at all to bind the gods?”

Oran truly was curious. Even now he had not managed to make sense of it.

What could make the gods hold a single stone tablet in such regard? How could it carry the power to bind the gods of the mortal world?

God Iva pondered a moment, then told Oran, ”At the dawn of the First Era, when nothing had yet begun.”

”There was none of the life that exists now, no light of Wisdom, no beautiful Dreams.”

”Then the Creator made the Divine King of Wisdom, and at last this world held the light of Wisdom. The Divine King fathered sons, and their bloodline was named The Royal Bloodline.”

Only then did Oran understand what The Royal Bloodline truly meant.

God Iva did not speak quickly. His tone carried little feeling, yet the words themselves still left the listener shaken.

Every word of his telling, every name and every title, was bound to greatness and to antiquity, and spoke of the most ancient holiness, of the very beginning of myth.

”In that time the Creator, the Divine King of Wisdom, and the first generation of the Most Ancient Race dwelt together upon God-Given Island. That was the God-Given Age.”

”When the sons of the Divine King came of age, the Divine King of Wisdom bestowed the Wisdom Authority upon them, and granted the Ruhe Imprint to The Royal Bloodline.”

”Only from that day could the Wisdom Seeds truly be called Wisdom Seeds. Only then did they receive from the Divine King the Power of Ability.”

”And the Stone Carving of The Royal Bloodline is that very scene, set down by the first generation of the Most Ancient Race.”

”Within the Creatorʼs Domain!”

”Within the palace of the Divine King of Wisdom!”

God Iva lowered his gaze. ”That carving is the symbol of the Divine King of Wisdom, and the symbol of the Divine Kingʼs sons. To the Wisdom Seeds it is the beginning of all things.”

”Had the Divine King not bestowed Ability, nothing that came after would ever have been.”

”And to the Wisdom Myths, it is their own faith and their own forebears.”

”The supreme royal authority of Wisdom cannot be deceived. Though it lay no bond upon you, to dare deceive it is to deceive yourself, and to deceive fate.”

This was the first time Oran had heard the myths of the First Era, the first time he had learned the origin of the Wisdom Seeds and of Ability. So none of that power had come from nothing after all.

It flowed from the Creator. It flowed from the grace of the Divine King of Wisdom.

God Iva had left out the most crucial pieces. The Divine Kingʼs name, the identity of the Creator, the identity of the Divine Kingʼs sons.

But Oran understood. The great beings of that primordial age were not to be mentioned lightly, not even by name.

Even so, it was enough. What he had heard let Oran grasp at last what the Scarlet Goddess had meant, and the deepest doubt in his heart came undone.

”So the carving truly can serve as the medium,” Oran said. ”Then we need only find it, and we may invite the gods to seal the contract.”

Iva shook his head. ”There is no need to search for the Stone Carving of The Royal Bloodline. It lies already in the hands of the spirits, and they have placed it within the Barter Dream of the Lake Nymphs.”

”The spirits wish to trade it for the Yinsai Epic, or for the Stone Carving of Queen Star and Divine Messenger Polo. The last part of the Yinsai Epic was set down only once Lord Polo gave his final consent. It tells of Lord Polo and Queen Star, and to the spirit race it carries the weight of a holy relic.”

”As for the Stone Carving of Queen Star and Divine Messenger Polo, that was carved by Lord Poloʼs own hand. Little wonder the spirit race should want it back.”

Oran did not even have the chance to ask who the saint might be before Iva continued. ”However, put the Yinsai Epic from your mind. That Saintʼs Chapter can never be obtained.”