Chapter 1100: The Messengers of [Filth and Corruption]

The Messengers of 【Filth and Corruption】

【Filth and Corruption】 has three messengers:

Delashierko, Avlos, and Tria.

This was the information Long Wang once provided.

If not for Avlos mentioning Tria again today, Cheng Shi would have almost forgotten such a person existed.

But what did Avlos say?

Tria's vessel?

That vessel of 【Filth and Corruption】 clearly fell out of Lele'er's body; how could it be Tria's...

Wait!

Why was Lele'er not among the three messengers of 【Filth and Corruption】 that Long Wang spoke of?

Cheng Shi was suddenly bewildered. He recalled his first confrontation with Long Wang and felt the certainty in the other party's tone, which clearly implied that 【Filth and Corruption】 only had these three messengers. Then... what about Lele'er?

As the daughter of 【Prosperity】 who betrayed 【Prosperity】 and leaped into the Sea of Desire, and as the Mother Tree of Fear that absorbs the universe's fear for the Sea of Desire, how could she not be a messenger of 【Filth and Corruption】?

That's right! Lele'er once said that she did not jump down voluntarily, but was pushed into the Sea of Desire by some unknown force!

Could it be that her kind of "desire" was not recognized by the Sea of Desire, and her status was not accepted by 【Filth and Corruption】?

Cheng Shi looked at Avlos in confusion and asked the biggest question in his heart:

"Is the Mother Tree of Fear, Lele'er, not a messenger of 【Filth and Corruption】?"

Avlos was also stunned: "Who told you the daughter of 【Prosperity】 is a servant of my Lord?"

"......?"

This is bad, a huge problem.

Cheng Shi suddenly realized, and he suddenly understood that he had been mistaken about one thing all along: it seemed that not all messengers "inherited" the same status after switching to another camp.

Previously, influenced by Dizer and the Wrath of Abomination, he had defaulted to the assumption that a messenger remained a messenger after changing their faith, but now it seemed Lele'er was not in that situation at all!

She became the Mother Tree of Fear against her will, so her piety was never recognized!

Then what exactly is her situation!?

Also, what is the situation with the 【Filth and Corruption】 vessel that dropped from her body? He had never even seen Tria, so how did it become Tria's vessel?

Thinking this, a bewildered Cheng Shi took out the 【Filth and Corruption】 vessel in his hand, and when Avlos saw this vessel, his gaze became solemn once again.

"Tria is dead, otherwise she would never have abandoned this honor that belonged to her."

Cheng Shi was silent for a moment, and only said five words:

"I didn't kill her."

"Hmm, I believe you, my brother.

From what I have seen today, you have likely never met her, and I do not believe there is anyone in this world who would 'have the heart' to kill her."

With Avlos saying this, Cheng Shi became even more curious, and he asked:

"You also know that my memories are lost, but even if my memories weren't lost, I seem to have rarely heard of her deeds from others.

A messenger who can make you evaluate her like this, what kind of deity is she... exactly?"

"She..."

Avlos became serious for once, hanging his head and falling into deep thought.

"She was a girl with compassion in her heart.

Tria was born in the Era of Sinking, an era where desires ran rampant and 【Filth and Corruption】 overflowed. Even I was influenced by it, becoming the Avlos you see now.

And she was the continuation of my Lord's radiance in that era.

At the beginning of the Era of Sinking, after passing through the initial journey of 【Life】, my Lord began to spread his will.

She was born in an alliance territory that supported my Lord, and under the influence of endless desires, she naturally grew up to be a believer of my Lord.

At that time, in order to gain the gaze of the Benefactor, people indulged their desires and revealed their ambitions, doing anything to fight for power and profit. In that territory that believed in my Lord, various believers died unnatural deaths every day.

Tria grew up in this environment, seeing many attacks and killings, but she hated these things very much.

She often said that no matter how much an individual's desire expands, there is no need to extinguish the desires of others. Everyone is a believer of the Benefactor, so why can't we live together in harmony and bathe in the Sea of Desire?

It was based on this belief that she treated others with 'kindness' and forgave others with 'tolerance,' never harming anyone, only bringing joy to others.

Perhaps it was because her joy moved others, or perhaps everyone saw her as having no threat, but in any case, during a certain election of the alliance lord, those ambitious people who were blinded by greed refused to give up the election, and knowing they couldn't be elected, they all cast their votes as abstentions for Tria.

Unexpectedly, when enough people voted for Tria, the position of lord seemed to come to her feet on its own.

But this action directly triggered questioning from the temple. Those who were not in power shouted that this result was a blasphemy against desire, while the onlookers and rioters thought it was the guidance of the gods. The two sides argued endlessly and even came to blows.

To appease the anger of her compatriots, Tria smiled and burned herself in the fire.

In the flames, she said:

The world should receive joy, not suffering.

When suffering comes, I am willing to dissolve the suffering for the world; this is my desire.

Since the world does not find joy in me, I shall disappear from the world and abdicate to the worthy. In this way, the suffering caused by me will vanish instantly.

She was so resolute, without a hint of hesitation. Unfortunately, under the surging of desire, no one could understand her will.

But no one expected that just as the 【Filth and Corruption】 believer Tria burned away her last bit of flesh in the fire, the 【Filth and Corruption】 messenger Tria was reborn from the fire.

People saw the divine light descend upon the world, and miracles manifest. They knelt and prostrated, shouting her name, and called her... the 【Lord of Compassion】."

"Ah?"

Cheng Shi was bewildered. He had never thought that the priest of 【Filth and Corruption】, the Lord of Compassion, was actually a divine name of a subordinate god?

And this Tria... her actions, apart from joy, where did they have anything to do with 【Filth and Corruption】?

Doing compassionate deeds with a charitable heart—this alone was better than 80% of the people in the current world, right?

However, even if she was a bit of a saint, in the end, anything related to 【Filth and Corruption】, even if the path wasn't crooked, could never be straight.

The end of desire is always the abyss. This sentence that Old Jia taught him was the true truth.

Cheng Shi's mind was like a tide. He digested this information and frowned again.

Who could have killed Tria?

Or rather, which deity would dare to provoke 【Filth and Corruption】 and kill its messenger?

The murderer must be one of the true gods on those sixteen thrones. Mortals could not kill a subordinate god who was unaffected by the tides of the era.

What did her death have to do with Lele'er?

Was the dropping of the vessel a coincidence, or did he stumble into some crime scene?

Lele'er never mentioned Tria before she died. Did she know that Tria's vessel was left near her?

There were too many questions, and none of them had any leads. Cheng Shi thought for a while without understanding, so he simply shook these questions out of his head and, taking advantage of the right timing, asked about another topic he was interested in.

"Delashierko...

I don't seem to recall the deeds of this messenger of 【Filth and Corruption】 either." ===== CHAPTER 1101 =====