Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 122 The King of Angels
Heaven, Saturn's Heaven.

Countless angels are scattered throughout the ten directions of the void. Ascetics who are pure of heart and desire cultivate in the highest level of the seven heavens, abandoning everything in the mortal world. Humans who were once regarded as saints in their previous lives are allowed to have the right to enter the heavens again.

Like Cain's son Enoch, who was the first saint and the first human to be allowed to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, his soul was closest to God, almost God's incarnation on earth. He lived on earth for three hundred years, so much so that he was regarded as "walking with God for three hundred years" because his soul was never far from God, and God always lived in his soul.

Enoch also left behind a book on earth called the Book of Enoch, which recorded everything that happened during his time and everything he prophesied. When he died, he was able to enter this austere world without any pleasures and become the scribe of the Kingdom of Heaven.

In the heavens of Saturn, there are many monks like Enoch, and many saints who have spent thousands of years on earth before returning to heaven to temper themselves and refine their souls through suffering. But in addition to ascetics, there are also radiant angels in the heavens of Saturn, such as the angel king Metatron.

Within the heavens of Saturn, countless angels roam, but only one angel's radiance shines so brightly that it can overshadow the light emitted by billions of angels. This angel king, with thirty-six pairs of fiery wings, can illuminate the entire heavens of Saturn even without doing anything, for he is a ray of light taken from the light of God, and is the only demigod with divinity in this universe with only one god.

The radiance it emits is divine light, the body it manifests is a divine body, and it possesses the qualifications of a god but is not a god. Therefore, it is qualified to be called Lesser Jehovah or Vice-King of the Kingdom of Heaven.

However, this angel king, who should have been guarding the throne of God, did not always guard the throne for God. After all, he was also the king of angels, and the entire kingdom of heaven needed his management. In particular, since the ruler of Saturn did not like to manage, the Saturnian realm outside the Crystal Realm was often managed by this angel king on his behalf.

However, this angel king, who should have been handling all matters from the entire kingdom of heaven in Saturn's palace, appeared in a place where he should not have been.

……

"King of Angels, it's been a long time."

Hell, or perhaps Earth, lies deep within the vast ocean, in a place unknown to humankind. Within a grand temple adorned with serpentine reliefs, a dark being, perched high on a throne and shrouded in darkness, spoke softly and slowly.

Before it, the Angel King Shenjun, flying in the air, had a cold and stern face. He held a huge scepter in his hand, and the thirty-six pairs of enormous wings behind him, composed entirely of light and flame, gently waved, emitting a vast and scorching light that was almost as dazzling as the sun. Even the vast temple made of pure stone felt as if it were melting in the face of this enormous heat.

Bright, dazzling, more radiant than any star, hotter than any celestial body, the eternal sun, like a god.

And indeed, this is the truth. A god who is not a god, apart from the dark being before him and the gods, the King of Angels is the most powerful and perfect being in this world.

“Angel Raziel, I beg you for the pure heart of the guardian angel.”

His indifferent tone carried an undeniable air of command. In the eyes of Metatron, the King of Angels, everything except God was insignificant, mere mortals.

Before the King of Angels, the dark being whose face was obscured showed no anger. Instead, it calmly clasped its hands together, neither agreeing nor disagreeing, and then spoke.

"King of Angels, I want to understand why you have only brought up the topic of guardian angels with me again after thousands of years?"

As the Dark Ones said, the fall of the Guardian Angels occurred in the early days of humanity. After the Guardian Angels fell, they gave birth to giants, and were eventually imprisoned by the Angel King in a certain place on Mars. Thousands of years have passed since then, so why bring this up again after thousands of years?

But before the King of Angels could answer, the dark being sitting high on the throne put his hand to his forehead and began to speak to himself.

"Hmm... Let me guess, did you think that by imprisoning the guardian angels on Mars and freeing them from the influence of their physical bodies in the material world, you could restore them to their pure and innocent angelic state? But you've been waiting for thousands of years... and not a single guardian angel has returned to their original state. So, you think I took away the angels' pure hearts?"

As he spoke, his vertical snake-like eyes glanced at the angel king in front of him.

The King of Angels remained silent before the dark being, and clearly, the dark being was right.

A smirk curled at the corner of his lips, as if he were scoffing. "However, King of Angels... I have never taken the hearts of the angels; their hearts have always remained so."

The vertical, jet-black pupils slowly widened.

But reflected in its dark pupils, the King of Angels remained unmoved; clearly, it did not believe the words of the dark being.

The purest and most innocent angels only possess desires because of their materialized physical bodies. If that's the case, how could angels still have desires after they lose their physical bodies?

“But, King of Angels, that is the truth.”

As if seeing through the thoughts of the Angel King, the Dark Being ignored the Angel King before it and instead looked at its outstretched hand. The hand, shrouded in darkness, was obscured, but the Dark Being spoke slowly as it looked at it.

"Desire is like the fingernails on these hands. King of Angels, can a person control the growth of their fingernails? No. Angels who have desires can never regain their original pure nature. It is not that I have taken away their pure hearts, but that this is the nature of angels."

"Angels are messengers of God, and their nature is pure and flawless."

After a long silence, the King of Angels spoke.

However, the dark entity opposite it inexplicably laughed.

"Pure and flawless? Heh... Hahahaha... Really? King of Angels, do you really believe that the nature of angels is pure and flawless?"

"King of Angels, the fall of the guardian angels was not because they became flesh and gained a physical body, but because the guardian angels themselves inherently harbored desires... All thinking life has desires, and angels are no exception..."

Angels have no desires.

But suddenly, the King of Angels coldly interrupted the dark creature.

As if something dark had inadvertently touched upon something, the King of Angels' voice inexplicably took on a colder tone.

But the dark entity continued speaking slowly and deliberately.

"Hmm... Why are you refuting me? Are you refuting my statement that angels also have desires? No, the angel king, who is devoid of emotion and desire, would not refute me for that. You would simply ignore my words... Or rather, angel king, what are you trying to deny... You are trying to deny something."

"Angels are the embodiment of God's will, God's messengers, and if angels possess desires, then that means..."

The dark being spoke calmly, its vertical pupils, reflecting the figure of the Angel King and those thirty-six pairs of dazzling fiery wings, held no warmth.

"God... also has desires."

“Metatron, you are trying to deny that even God has desires.”

(End of this chapter)