Chapter 227: Sin and the King of Griffins

The hero in the fairy tale defeated the Demon King, became the king, and lived happily ever after. But what was the price?

"The price is a curse passed down through generations. No, to be precise, this curse is the seal itself."

The seal of the Owl is probably the most special; it is a truly formless thing. Only such a seal could possibly lock away that ferocious bird forever.

The royal bloodline is the seal of the Owl. Every Lion King of each generation is a shackle binding the evil bird.

"If the bloodline breaks..."

"The Owl will revive."

Li En was a bit stunned; was the truth really like this?

"And the Owl will spare no cost to bring the royal house to an end. This might also be one of the roots of why the royal family has so few children and so many psychopaths and madmen."

Li En fell silent. Was this a bit unfair?

"Unfair? Heh, the Griffin thought so too. You probably don't know him; he is Marianna's father, the Wise King in many people's mouths."

Too many thoughts swirled in Li En's mind. Was it because this father wanted to reverse the royal family's fate that led to this series of tragedies?

So, he asked.

"Ha, you actually believed it? You're stupider than me. This is only half the truth. Do you think a king would sacrifice himself and his descendants to seal an immortal monster?"

"This is just a lie told to ordinary royal family members. By the way, Marianna doesn't even know this; Griffin never got the chance to tell her."

There was a full measure of self-mockery in Lex's words. He himself had been a fool who was fooled back then, actually believing the royal family were good people.

Who was truly the most evil side? Humans? Beasts? Or everyone? In this overly realistic story, no side was worthy of sympathy.

He had always refused to be awakened, not only because he didn't want to see people for certain reasons, but also because some memories were too filthy; he hoped to take them to the grave. He was a bit worried that the final judgment of the Thousand-Faced Dragon was that the kingdom was not worth saving and everyone should die.

This was actually his own judgment too, but considering his wife and daughter, he decided to hold back a bit. He was already dead; let the future generations handle it themselves.

"The truth is much dirtier. Let's start with the cleaner parts. Uh, I only know a part of it; the rest you need to fill in. I hope you can tell me, between this father and daughter, who is worse." Lex did not intend to reveal everything; he only planned to say some of the cleaner parts.

Lex's words were full of a mocking tone. Sealing a monster with one's own bloodline? How could that be possible!

"The first Bai Shi King ate the Owl, trying to obtain the power of the Beast."

Just that one sentence left Li En dumbfounded.

Wasn't this asking for death? The Beast is the embodiment of rules, the incarnation of nature. This thing is immortal; can it be eaten?

"I know you think it's nonsense, but that Griffin I was also ridiculously strong, and he had some special abilities. He succeeded; he obtained a portion of the Owl's power."

Li En was completely speechless. What the hell was this? This was possible?

But some of this information actually pieced itself together.

"That's right. That guy used the White Griffin emblem not to commemorate the help of the Eagle Witch at all. That guy was extremely selfish and arrogant. The emblem he carved was a half-lion, half-eagle version of himself."

The first Bai Shi King transformed into the White Griffin King, simultaneously mastering the powers of light and shadow, becoming the peak powerhouse of that era. But, just as Li En thought, the Owl is the incarnation of nature and should be immortal. You, White Griffin King, were ridiculously strong. After you died, what would happen?

"That guy was very greedy. He sealed this power within his bloodline, hoping to pass it down, making each generation of his descendants stronger than the last."

Obviously, he messed up. The offspring of a hero are not necessarily heroes; at least they lack the qualification to wield the power of the Beast.

In the end, this "treasure" became a "curse."

"The curse of the Second Princess, in the end, is that their family's inheritance is special. As a paradigm of Sun Power, the bloodline adaptability of a lioness is naturally weaker than that of a lion. The power of the Sun God Lion King (Alvak) inherited in their bloodline has a limit of transmitting to one princess. The Second Princess did not have enough Sun Lion King power, so the 'Owl' in the seal crawled out."

The first Griffin King designed it so that the power of "Alvak (God)" would also be inherited in the bloodline, borrowing the power of the sun to constantly suppress the darkness and forcibly master the power of the Owl.

But the result was that this bloodline inheritance was simply not enough (and the descendants were not strong enough), which instead made the royal family members mediocre (the bloodline power was used to suppress the Owl). The weakest royal family members would often suddenly die young.

Once the number of descendants increased, a major disaster was basically inevitable. The royal family internally said it was the Owl's curse, but Lex estimated it was just that the diluted bloodline power couldn't hold it back, so the Owl naturally drove them mad.

Finally, they could only maintain a small number of people. Reproduction was extremely difficult; barely avoiding extinction was the limit, as if they had been driven to the brink of clan destruction by the curse, until the second Griffin appeared!

"My father-in-law, heh. That bastard called himself Griffin II. He also dreamed of becoming the Griffin King. He is the source of all these disasters."

Li En fell silent. He remembered Rosalind's roar of "Father, eat me" not long ago.

Did he, from the very beginning, indulge the birth of the Second Princess just so he could become the second Griffin King?

"No, no, no. You underestimate him. In a sense, he is truly no worse than the first Griffin, at least in terms of having no bottom line and no humanity. Li En, how do you think a small kingdom with an insufficient population, insufficient combat power, garbage economy, and no technology can become a great power..."

Hearing this, Li En thought for a moment. It seemed there was no way.

"Uh, it seems luck is needed, coincidentally encountering the opportunities of the era, like a sudden technological revolution or technological explosion. I don't think this is something personal ability can achieve."

Li En thought of certain countries before some world wars that happened to encounter technological explosions, forcibly betting the fate of the nation on an explosion. Although their outcomes were not very good, they seemingly did have a possibility of success.

"Yes, the key is technology. It requires knowledge and technology that lead the era. How do you think a small country with nothing can obtain technology?"

Asking me? To develop education and such? No, that's not very realistic. That thing simply cannot create a gap. But this is a world with magic and miracles.

"The Whisperers." Li En remembered the encounter not long ago; there was at least a thirty-year-old Museum of the Whisperers.

"Yes, the Whisperers. The Owl brought the knowledge of the Whisperers. But you also know, obtaining knowledge from the Whisperers requires sacrificing one's own life, right?"

The Outer Gods do not need your "life," but this gift is the "price" of knowledge, which must originate from the price you desire most yourself.

Did that Griffin dare to consume his own life? Or did he use his people as Consumables?

Lex laughed; he thought his little brother was so naive.

"There is an old saying I don't know if you've heard: Children are the life of their parents."

Li En was completely stunned. His imagination told him what immense sin this calm statement implied!

"This, this won't work. A symbolic concept should not be able to satisfy the needs of the Whisperers."

"Then, can a child whose umbilical cord has not been cut and their parents be considered one life?"

(End of Chapter)