Chapter 238: The Tragic End of the Lily Legend

The newly born Resonant Body, like Camilla and Lilith, had a close connection with Marcas and could not leave beyond a certain distance from him, but it also had its own peculiarities and was not under Marcas’s control or influence.

Although Dorothy and Lilith often argued, they were like sisters. Camilla and Sizar were especially close and never left his side. As for Augustine, he had absolute control over his own Resonant Body.

Although Marcas obtained a Resonant Body, because its rank was too high, he could not communicate with it. It was almost the same as not having one.

The essence of a Resonant Body was to use a powerful Vessel, carry one’s own Soul Projection, and create a strange life with dual existence and special abilities. That ancient god corpse was very powerful, but Marcas’s Soul Projection was relatively much weaker, creating an awkward situation like pouring a cup of water into a barrel.

This resurrected Eastern beauty was powerful but could not utilize her strength. Her intelligence was lacking and she seemed somewhat dull. Also, she had a cold personality, did not communicate with anyone, and always stayed several meters away from Marcas.

After millions of years, the god corpse did not retain any soul memories. It was as pure as a blank sheet of paper. When the Resonant Body was born, her only memory started from “resurrection.” Her impressions of the most recent period were clearer, but the further back in time, the foggier her memories became. After more than a hundred years, it was a complete blank.

Therefore, apart from having an impression of the long dead silent cave, the Resonant Body only remembered the little Serpent Demon clinging to her side, slowly growing into a young woman. As for Marcas, he was completely a stranger.

Comparing the two, Elsa took the first step, successfully defeated Marcas, stuck by her elder sister’s side, began to foster feelings, and planned how to define their relationship, then get a marriage certificate, marry, and have children…

After the Resonant Body matter was resolved, and the troublesome Elsa was sent away, Marcas took two naive young beauties and followed Augustine to study. The Resonant Body had just awakened and, due to various reasons, was inherently deficient, needing to learn everything from the beginning. Elsa was also a clueless wild person from the deep mountains and needed to be remolded.

That period was the happiest time of Elsa’s life. The wishful-thinking Serpent Demon firmly believed it was the splendid years when she and her elder sister soared together and lived as a couple. The poor Serpent Demon, whose intelligence was already in the negative, did not realize that her “elder sister” had no human emotions. Whether towards her or towards Marcas, her master, she was equally icy. Only because Elsa left a deep impression and the Serpent Demon bore no hostility did the Resonant Body not reject her. As for Marcas, he was ignored by both sides…

Back then, Marcas was very young and inexperienced. He was a proud “righteous young hero,” full of justice and a sense of righteousness, with two beautiful women by his side, one of whom was his own Resonant Body. It was inevitable that he would have strange thoughts. So he tried hard to show off, show off, attracting the admiration of many girls, and at the same time earned the title “White Scale Sacred Sword.”

Unfortunately, while the falling flower had feelings, the flowing water was heartless. The Resonant Body was completely unaware of this, and Elsa simply ignored his existence. In the end, through the connection of the Resonant Body, the two sides, with “elder sister” as the bond, became good friends and established a solid friendship.

At that time, the young Marcas was silently bleeding inside. Two such fine cabbages just turned into Lilies. Heaven was truly blind, wasting resources! But not long after, he began to feel grateful for his wise decision.

As a member of the Silver Secret Society, Marcas often went out on missions to eliminate remaining Hell creatures or newly appeared Demon Creatures. When Marcas left, the Resonant Body had to follow, and then, the Lily Serpent Demon would also come along.

A one-person mission began to turn into a three-person mission. With Elsa taking action, the battles basically had nothing to do with him anymore. The Serpent Demon, who grew up following the forest’s law, finally showed her true colors. After each battle, the ground would be left with piles of limbs and flesh pulp that could never be pieced back together.

Without any Martial Techniques to rely on, Elsa, after years of close combat, summarized a set of simple, crude, yet miraculously effective brutal skills. Combined with the simple control techniques taught by Augustine, she finally reached the level where she could tear Ability Users apart with her bare hands, letting Marcas understand the true meaning of a human-shaped weapon. When encountering a tough opponent that Elsa could not handle, the silent and cold Resonant Body would take action, then easily annihilate everything in sight, completely ending the mission and returning to base.

The two beauties’ cold-blooded disregard for life shocked the young Marcas and left an indelible shadow in his heart. For a long time afterwards, he did not dare to date pretty girls.

Regarding the limits of this Resonant Body, Augustine, who was still at the Harm Rank back then, also said he could not understand, often remarking, “Marcas, you kid really found a treasure!”

As days passed, the Resonant Body’s intelligence became more and more complete, eventually forming an aloof personality. Compared to normal living beings, she always seemed to lack something, appearing lifeless. But Elsa did not mind at all. She pestered the Resonant Body every day, enjoying the time of being in love.

When the Resonant Body’s intelligence became complete, she did not recover memories from her previous life. However, based on the structure inside her body and the pathways of energy flow, she summarized a series of ancient Spell Formations and Martial Techniques. Due to attribute differences, these abilities had no connection to Marcas. Although both Elsa and the Resonant Body had the Death Attribute, there were significant differences, so she could not easily practice them.

Finally, the Resonant Body, who was close to Elsa, passed the most powerful legacy to the Serpent Demon. Afterwards, the Serpent Demon, with her extraordinary Talent, combined it with her own basic Silver Bloodline and the common “Steel Heart Style” Martial Techniques system, creating her unique “Silver Wheel.”

The legacy the Resonant Body taught Elsa was a purely auxiliary ability, different from Martial Techniques and Spell Formations. It was an ancient secret art from the Eastern Continent called “Lotus Treasure Wheel,” which could harmonize different abilities to the greatest extent, allowing one person to possess multiple conflicting powers. It was because of this that the Resonant Body simultaneously mastered the two powerful abilities of “Life” and “Death Energy.” Even after death for millions of years, she could reappear just by relying on her body. And Elsa also relied on this secret art to fuse many low-quality, common Martial Techniques, ultimately relying on her iron fists to break into the Harm Rank.

After summarizing all her abilities, the Resonant Body discarded the name given by Augustine and named herself “Lian.”

After that, the trio of Marcas, with their exceptional abilities, began to stand out in the Silver Secret Society, and their strength improved rapidly. Then, the growing Secret Society had conflicts with other organizations in the Eastern Domain, and Marcas’s fame grew larger and larger.

At that time, the forces of Hell had already retreated. Apart from a few elites and the representatives left by the various Sin Clans, only some mixed-blood descendants remained, hidden across the continents, hard to detect. Hell, having failed in its invasion, was naturally unwilling to give up. So they turned to research the issue of discharging Filthy Malice to pollute the Mortal World. Additionally, different families had different plans, and Marcas encountered the biggest setback of his life.

The representative of the Gluttony Clan responsible for all matters in the Mortal World was Monte’s younger brother, the third son of the family, also the murderer of Marcas’s teacher. Moreover, he was also Marcas’s creator.

When he first arrived in Ceylon, before Hell launched its first invasion, this curious third son tricked a group of humans into becoming his subordinates. Then he extracted a lot of blood from his clansmen, conducted various experiments, and created a large number of tools for the family’s expansion in the Mortal World. Marcas was his most successful creation.

Back then, the third son selected the female Ability User with the strongest Talent from countless servants and injected the True Blood of his second brother Monte into her body, artificially cultivating a mixed-blood Sin Clan member with excellent Bloodline. Additionally, he created many lower-grade mixed-blood Sin Clan members, all of whom were eventually forgotten by him.

One day, after suddenly investigating and finding Marcas, this perfect experimental product he personally created, the third son became excited. He never thought that a little thing he casually made back then could grow to this level. Should he say that the Bloodline of that monster second brother was good? Or that hybrid varieties had strong advantages? Or perhaps the human Silver Bloodline was amazing?

Carrying the lofty notion of “dedicating oneself to the family,” the third son found Marcas and forced him to work for the family, switch to the Hell Faction, undergo transformation with Demonic Qi, purify his Bloodline, and become a sleeper agent, or accept his control and return to the Secret Assembly as a spy. In the third son’s view, these demands were reasonable, not excessive, and instead gave Marcas a great advantage.

The third son never cared about this “wild nephew,” but Marcas clearly remembered this enemy who killed his teacher. With old and new grudges combined, Marcas finally exploded, and then was badly defeated. Compared to the Sin Clan members who were born at the top of the pyramid and had cultivated for many years, he was still too green. Moreover, mixed-bloods were inherently suppressed by pure Sin Marks. As for Elsa beside him, she would also be instantly killed. Finally, the Resonant Body “Lian” stepped in and barely managed to escape with the two of them.

After returning to headquarters, Marcas fell into depression because of his Bloodline. Before, he cared about his Bloodline but did not reject this power. Now, knowing he shared the same blood as his enemy, he detested his own power even more.

In the end, Marcas, having rallied his spirits, found Augustine and began researching methods to remove the Hell Bloodline. Half of his strength was built upon the Hell Bloodline. If removed, his strength would greatly decrease. On Augustine’s suggestion, Marcas decided to transfer the removed energy to the Resonant Body. This way, his strength would decrease, but the Resonant Body would improve. Comparatively, there was no loss.

The removal procedure went smoothly. Marcas lost most of his strength, and the “White Scale Sword” also lost a large part of its power. But he finally got rid of the nightmare. Then, another nightmare appeared. Lian, who absorbed the “Gluttony Bloodline,” did not digest this power. Instead, it brewed a new life inside her.

The Resonant Body was not a pure biological entity to begin with, but an artificial “tool.” That “Gluttony Bloodline” was also a rare material used to create “tools.” Now, these rare things came together and created an even stronger and rarer “tool,” which was Sizar.

Regarding this, Marcas was full of confusion and Fear, not knowing how to face his own Resonant Body. Augustine expressed great surprise, saying this situation should not have occurred. Only Elsa was furious, questioning Augustine about what was going on since he was solely responsible for the procedure. But in the end, the matter had to be dropped. And Lian expressed her willingness to give birth to this child.

For Lian, after being sealed for countless years and reviving again, obtaining an incomplete soul, having no memories or emotions, living without any meaning or goal, having a child now might not be a bad thing.

Over the next two years, Lian continuously modified the embryo inside her, perfectly combining Death Energy and the Gluttony Bloodline. Finally, due to unknown reasons, she lost all her energy, withered, and died. Elsa, whose relationship with Marcas and the others had already frozen over, turned hostile because of this. She took Sizar and left the Silver Secret Society.

After that, Marcas, whose strength had greatly decreased, was sent on a mission to the Central Territory. Then he entered the military department of the Malunsa Empire. Afterwards, he lived a life of drunken oblivion. Then he encountered a remnant branch of the World Tree, met Nicole who pursued him… finally got married, found traces of Elsa, settled in Aken City, brought back the “son” who had his Bloodline, and then had Dorothy. He discovered that everything back then was a joke; the Gluttony Bloodline still remained in his body.

On the other side, Elsa, who had lost her elder sister, became empty and lonely. Then her personality changed greatly. She hooked up with girlfriends everywhere to dispel her loneliness, ruining countless cute girls.

In the end, she placed all her emotions on “elder sister number two” – Sizar. Although the little baby was male, he had the same aura and scent as her elder sister. Even the soul fluctuations were exactly the same. To fulfill the dream in her heart, Elsa swore to transform Sizar into a girl, then turn “her” into her wife, and live happily together forever.

After that, came Sizar’s endless childhood Nightmare: dressing as a girl, dressing as a girl, dressing as a girl… the girl completion plan, completion plan, plan… This was the resentment of a Lily spending her entire life. Poor Sizar’s “mother” never loved Elsa at all. It was truly a sad story!

After explaining everything, Elsa suddenly sighed with emotion, “Although it’s a bit different from my plan, I’m finally together with elder sister! Sizar, we have already merged into one. I’m so happy, so blissful!”

“Uh…” After hearing all this, Sizar felt overwhelmed.

Elsa’s life was a tragedy, “mother’s” life was a big tragedy, father’s life was an even greater tragedy… Then what about himself? Simply a tragedy within a tragedy!

“Father was artificially created, mother was an artificially made Resonant Body, then what exactly am I? An artificial monster? Or a super monster you modified a second time?” After a moment of silence, Sizar asked.

After hearing about his origins, Sizar felt like everything was denied. His worldview instantly collapsed. No wonder father never spoke of it; how could he possibly bring it up?

“Don’t be disheartened, you are the fruit of love between me and elder sister! What about ordinary humans? Aren’t they just fertilized eggs splitting bit by bit? You were meticulously cultivated by elder sister bit by bit! If you feel you cannot accept your identity, you now flow with my blood, and I am a genuine natural creature!” Elsa spoke to comfort him, but Sizar felt a chill in his heart.

“Sizar, don’t be sad, I am also a Resonant Body, we are the same kind!” Seeing Sizar’s dejected expression, Camilla patted Sizar’s shoulder and spoke to comfort him.

“…” Taking a look at the goofy cat, Sizar’s heart ached even more.

I’m the same kind as this thing…!

“No, only half the same kind! You also have half Sin Clan Bloodline, not a complete Resonant Body!” Elsa retorted.

“Tch, none of your business, little mouth!” Camilla mocked the Sin Mark.

Half the same kind…!

Then, Sizar rolled his eyes and passed out.