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Chapter 971 An Incomprehensible Existence

In fact, Byrne never really thought about what kind of person Shadow was.

Of course, in Byrne's eyes in the past, such thinking and even attempts were meaningless.

A shadow is a shadow.

Just as darkness is to light, it doesn't need to be analyzed or understood, because the long passage of time has already provided the definition and the answer.

In her first encounter with Shadow, Shadow perfectly embodied the extreme evil that the name represented through his actions.

That was the first time Byrne had stepped out of the Blessed Land after a whole century of protection and training in the temple, to go to the unfamiliar, barren world of lucidity to retrieve what belonged to the Temple of the Golden Law.

That was also the first time she had witnessed death firsthand.

Death, in the past century, was such a foreign concept to her, who grew up in a blessed land.

The Blessing will save all the victims, regardless of their status or age, treating them all equally. During Byrne's upbringing, she had at one point forgotten the existence of death.

Because above them are golden trees, those under their shade are never threatened with death.

But during that very first mission, she witnessed Shadow crush the souls of the Templar Knights across the world barrier.

And right after that, her own head was severed by the shadow.

From that moment on, the shadow of death never left Byrne's mind.

Even though the golden tree brought her back to the blessed land and rescued her from the mire of death, the seeds of fear were sown.

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Byrne never considers other people's perspectives.

She never needed to do that.

The most crucial and core element of all the education and upbringing she received was the supreme authority of the Golden Tree; anything that defied the will of the Golden Tree was evil.

It could be said that before the Deep invaded, her world was black and white.

But Shadow always manages to overturn her understanding time and time again.

On the battlefield of the Blood Moon, he and those behind him faced the gods head-on without hesitation.

Those are the gods, the rulers of Kadas, the creators of the Dreamland Order. No matter how strong Shadow is, he is only at the peak of the past. How dare he?

That was the first time Byrne had sensed the complexity of Shadow.

But only for a moment, her ingrained beliefs and perceptions still led her to believe that the driving force behind all of Milo's actions at that time was evil.

It was evil that drove them to oppose the gods.

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But Byrne didn't realize that her conviction had been quietly wavering, to the point that she needed to constantly repeat certain phrases to convince herself.

Because she had never understood darkness and evil, she did not know what kind of driving force it was. In her view, even if the supreme golden tree drove her, she would find it difficult to confront the gods as resolutely as Shadow.

Why would he do that when he knew he had no chance of survival?

This makes no sense.

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So when Byrne encountered the resurrected Shadow on the Cold Plains, he acted without hesitation.

This time, her actions were partly motivated by a desire to avenge past defeats, but most importantly, she had to end the Shadow, to eliminate the figure who had once shaken her faith.

Only in this way can she better serve the light.

But she lost again.

And they lost badly.

She lost almost everything.

When she awoke again, all the light in her past beliefs had shattered; her revered teachers, her beloved junior brothers, the supreme golden tree… all had collapsed.

As Dirac, embodying the profound will, repeatedly snapped her head and resurrected her in the temple, those who had sworn to uphold the Golden Law knelt before her, watching.

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"She is a fragile embryo."

"From the moment she was killed by the evil spirits and apostates of the conscious world, she was no longer worthy to wear that armor."

"The blades of all ages have been forged from blood and steel; have there ever been any as weak and powerless as hers?"

…“She was still just a child after all.”

"Then she should just accept reality and do what she's supposed to do, be a beautiful idol in the hearts of countless golden people. Why bother trying to follow in the footsteps of her predecessors? That sword is not something she should touch at all."

...

"She's dead again."

"Hmph, the blade of law... what a joke."

...

“I saw something, some terrible truths.”

“I’ve figured it out. Since we can’t count on the son of Ig, we can only… offer her directly to Ig. In any case, we need the blade of law to survive, and rebirth is the only option.”

...

Everyone left her.

That stark truth shattered Byrne's last shred of pride.

When the deepest abyss awakens.

All the priests knelt down.

Even her most respected teacher was helpless.

She refused to kneel down.

So the leader of the Black Blade began to cut her body, tearing off her armor, hair, and flesh, and scraping the golden tree totem off her back.

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But when the Darkness overturned this kingdom and devoured all the beauty she once possessed, it was the Shadow who handed her the sword.

Why is he?
Shadow must have some ulterior motive, he must.

But Byrne had no other choice at the time.

Because if even she doesn't accept that sword, then no one will fight for the golden people behind her.

"I am the blade."

...

The people of Gold won that battle.

But it was Shadow who truly secured the crucial victory.

He intercepted and banished the abyss's depths.

Byrne once believed that the Golden Kingdom was about to fall under the rule of the Shadow, especially when she discovered that an extremely pure part of the faith of the Golden People flowed into the Shadow's left eye. She knew that she had ultimately destroyed everything the Golden Tree had to offer.

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But when she collapsed in a daze.

But the shadow quietly departed.

Aside from the faith in the golden holy light in his left eye, he only took two people with him: the girl who carried the eye of thought, and the remains that carried the darkness.

These two people were personally abducted from the world of the waking world by Byrne.

What she couldn't understand was that after all he had done—fighting against the gods, against the Temple of the Golden Law, and against the Deep, risking his life at all costs—he left behind a pasture of faith, taking only the two people who belonged to him with him.

why?
Was this all he ever intended to achieve?

He could stand with evil, or he could stand with the Holy Light. In the end, he pierced through the Golden Law Temple, just to take two people away.

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Even when Milo was still a “dehumanizing” shadow, he already puzzled and baffled Byrne.

Milo of the Dream Realm is a blend of humanity and his actions only make Byrne more unpredictable.

"Would you like to come with me?"

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Now, she has decided to see for herself what the world where Shadow lives is like.

(End of this chapter)