Who hid my body?

Chapter 351 Visas

At first, Rocky thought he had misheard.

For someone who has seen Visas in person, what kind of joke is this?
Vessas lived a thousand years ago, how could anyone live that long... Hmm, wait a minute?
Rocky immediately looked at the messenger from the underworld.

Could it be that this guy...

“Ah, Vesas, Vesas.” The messenger from the underworld chuckled softly, his voice hollow and weak, like the cold wind blowing into a grave. “What a familiar yet unfamiliar person.”

It's a familiar yet unfamiliar person, not a familiar yet unfamiliar name.

Loki realized that this guy had actually seen Vessas, and he really was alive... oh no, he really had been dead for a thousand years.

What kind of monster is this? No wonder the warden's attitude towards him is different from the others; this guy is older than everyone else combined.

Thinking of this, Rocky's eye twitched involuntarily, and he thought to himself that coming out here had really broadened his horizons.

"What does the warden want to know?" the messenger from the underworld asked.

“Tell me what you know about Vesas,” the warden asked. “Not what is recorded in history books, nor what is just hearsay, but the real past.”

"Hehe, Warden, even if you really want to hear me talk about history and rumors, I can't give you any coherent explanation." The messenger from the underworld chuckled and pointed to his head. "Because the underworld doesn't have those things. Everything we experience is etched into our souls and lives on forever in the Lord's Kingdom. So we don't need dedicated historians, because each of us is history itself."

Every person is history.

Are these the believers on the path to the underworld?
“Let me think where to begin?” The messenger from the underworld leaned back, recalling as he spoke. “I know that you in later generations call Vessas ‘Godslayer,’ but that description is not accurate, because he killed more than just gods.”

"What else?"

“All living beings.”

The tent quickly fell silent. Ina couldn't help but glance at Bai Wei behind her, but Bai Wei remained nonchalant, as if it were none of her business.

"All living beings... what do you mean?" After a brief silence, Loki asked, "Including humans?"

“Of course,” said the messenger from the underworld. “Not only humans, but any individual that can be called a living being that enters his field of vision will become his target for annihilation.”

"Why is that?" Ina couldn't help but ask. "Is there a reason?"

“Only he himself knows the real reason,” the messenger from the underworld said with a smile. “I cannot fathom his mind. In fact, until the moment he was annihilated, we did not know why he came or what he wanted to achieve. I only know that from the moment he was born, he began to kill, and his primary target was the gods.”

"...The gods?"

The messenger from the underworld looked at Ina and said with a smile, "You don't even know about the existence of the gods?"

Ina shook her head: "I'm sorry, in that upheaval half a year ago, all the bishops of Lyra sacrificed themselves. This caused us to lose a lot, not only mechanical technology, but also a lot of inherited information."

“I see. It was indeed a disaster.” The messenger from the underworld nodded slightly and comforted them. “But you don’t need to be too sad. Although your people lost everything, they gained death. There is nothing happier than that.”

Ina: "..."

After comforting Ina, the messenger from the underworld continued, "A church with a complete lineage should know that a thousand years ago, the gods were a vast race. Back then, they were not as far removed from humans as they are now. Their interactions with humans were much closer than they are now, so they were more like the rulers of this world than they are now, until the appearance of Vessas."

"No one knows where Vessas came from, nor why he possessed such power. All people know is that he waged a one-sided war, or rather, a massacre, against the gods. The gods fell rapidly in a very short time, and the fragments that fell after the divine kingdom shattered were enough to ignite the sky... Yes, that was the scene at that time. And it was then that I saw Vessas, though only from a distance, but the scene of him beheading a god is something I can never forget to this day."

The atmosphere inside the tent became oppressive once again. Bai Wei noticed that Ina couldn't help but glance at him again, so he shrugged helplessly.

“It sounds like…” The Twin Knight, who had been silent for a long time, slowly spoke, as if considering how to avoid using blasphemous words, “He seems to have appeared to end the Age of Gods.”

“If his targets have always been the gods, then that’s certainly a valid interpretation.” The messenger from the underworld nodded slightly. “But as I just said, as the gods were about to perish, Vessus shifted his focus from the gods to all living beings. Imagine, how could any other living being resist an existence that even the gods couldn’t contend with? Thus began an even grander massacre, with everything withering away and the world rapidly plummeting towards the abyss of destruction.”

After another silence, the Twin Knights spoke again: "It sounds like Vessas isn't targeting the gods, but rather restarting the world, only making the most powerful gods his primary target."

Upon hearing the Knight of the Twin Forms speak like this, the messenger from the underworld immediately cast an approving glance at him.

“The summary is very accurate,” said the messenger from the underworld. “In fact, this is also our conclusion. Vessas’s target was all living beings in this world, but he only set his primary target as the most powerful gods at the time. As for whether he wanted to restart the world, no one knows, after all, he ultimately failed.”

Ina immediately asked, "Why did he fail? Wasn't it said that even the gods were no match for him?"

"Because in the end, the gods and humans joined forces to fight against Vessas."

"and then?"

"Then Vessas died."

"……what?"

Ina's eyes widened, and Rocky couldn't help but give her a "you're fucking kidding me" look.

"It sounds sudden, but it's true." The messenger from the underworld shrugged. "At the last moment, the gods and humans joined forces and launched a final attack on Vesas in a desperate situation. It was a battle that theoretically had no chance of winning, but they succeeded. Vesas perished, and even his soul was annihilated."

The representatives present looked at each other, none of them quite accepting this statement.

“Only the gods know the specific details of that battle,” the messenger from the underworld continued. “After all, humans at that time were unable to intervene in battles of that level, so they provided assistance in other ways. But I’m not entirely sure either. However, there are still many people in the Lord’s Kingdom who experienced that battle and are still dead. If you are interested, you can die with me, and then…” “That’s enough, messenger from the underworld. There are no more believers in death here,” the warden interrupted. “I don’t think they’ll be that interested anymore. Please continue.”

The messenger from the underworld shrugged: "There's not much to say about what happened after that. Vessas's soul died, but his body remained. The surviving gods paid a great price to dismember his body, which is what you call body parts. However, the world didn't settle down after that. As you know, a civil war broke out among the gods afterward. Only after that civil war did the eight great gods we know today emerge. However, this civil war didn't affect humanity, so I don't know the details. But what I do know is that the civil war resulted in the loss of many body parts. After that, the rules of the world were reshaped, and the gods established their respective churches, which continue to this day."

After the entire story was told, a long silence fell over the tent once again as everyone digested the information given by the messenger from the underworld.

Although this information is incomplete and there are still many doubts, it is generally plausible. Moreover, there was only one eyewitness at the scene, the Messenger of the Underworld, and the others had no way to raise any questions. In the end, they all accepted this explanation.

What else can we do but ask Vesas himself if that's true?

Then Ina glanced at Bai Wei again.

Bai Wei was also helpless, as this was the first time he had learned this information. The map of the Underworld did exist in *Blasphemy*, but it was very rudimentary, with many things omitted, leading to speculation that it was rushed due to budget constraints. Therefore, Bai Wei only knew the general outline of the Underworld; he was hearing nothing more about Vesas himself for the first time.

But he also knew that while it was one thing to listen to these things, whether one believed them or not was another matter entirely.

He will personally seek the true answer in the underworld... after he has retrieved his body, of course.

"The warden's sudden sharing of this information must have a deeper meaning, right?" The Knight of Dual Forms broke the brief silence. "What are you trying to tell us? It can't be just about Vessas's power and danger."

Upon hearing this, everyone's attention once again turned to the warden in the main seat.

“Of course, but it’s not a complicated matter.” The warden scanned the representatives present. “Don’t think that Vessas’s target is only the gods; his target is all living beings. Although he himself can no longer return, his power remains, and what he showed a thousand years ago was not like a normal living being, but more like a device without any emotions.”

"what do you mean?"

“We’ve always had this suspicion—perhaps the soul isn’t the point, but the body and strength are,” the warden said slowly. “When the body parts reassemble to a certain extent, it’s very likely to affect the holder’s mentality, turning them into a pure killing machine like Vesas did before.”

Rocky frowned as he listened to the warden's words, because the story was too frightening to ignore, and he really did have a body part.

"Isn't this a bit far-fetched?" Rocky said. "There's absolutely no connection. What evidence is there?"

"Is the war of the gods after Vessas's death considered evidence?"

The delegates fell silent again, especially after realizing what the warden was saying; their expressions were filled with astonishment.

"You mean, the final battle of the gods was related to Vessas's remains?" Loki subconsciously looked at the Messenger of the Underworld. "Then why didn't he know?"

The messenger from the underworld remained silent, clearly indicating that he truly did not know.

"The land of contracts seals off more than just this wreckage."

The warden said something meaningful, but it was enough for everyone to understand.

"Could you provide more detailed instructions?" the Twin Knights asked again.

“All we have preserved is this one sentence,” the warden said slowly, as if he had opened some taboo. “‘The gods went mad beneath the remains of the god-slayer, which triggered the final war of the gods. The war destroyed the last foundation of the gods, and from then on there were no more gods. The gods must never touch the remains of the god-slayer again.’”

The atmosphere inside the tent became heavy once again, after all, the sentence was too simple and easy to understand.

After killing Vesas, the gods started a divine war in order to obtain Vesas's power... They originally thought that was the case, but in reality, the gods went mad in the face of Vesas's power, thus starting the final massacre of their own kind.

What is this? Vessas's soul has already been annihilated, and he took away the last of the gods with just a corpse?

What terrifying last words were these?

Moreover, we've only ever heard of the power of gods affecting mortals, never of gods being affected.

In that case, many things can be explained. For example, why didn't the gods use Vesas's power themselves, but instead used mortals to seal him away? And why, even though Vesas's soul has been annihilated for a thousand years, are the gods still guarding against him so closely?

Once the body parts are reassembled, it doesn't matter whether Vesas's soul returns or not, because a new "Vesas" has already been born.

Ina went a step further, thinking of the contaminated zone, the immortal pollutants, and the crazed new gods.

Could that be the effect of the Vesas body parts?

Ina held back for a long time before she managed to suppress the urge to ask the person behind her.

“Therefore, Vesas must never return, and his body parts must never be reassembled.” The warden scanned the representatives once more before finally revealing his true thoughts. “This is my bottom line, and it is the mission entrusted to me by the gods at the beginning of the Covenant Land. I will never see another Vesas appear, and I will spare no expense for it.”

Everyone seemed to understand something and looked up at the warden.

“Isaiah of the Star Remnant, I know his status is extraordinary, and I also know there is no clear evidence right now,” the warden said calmly. “But as long as there is even the slightest possibility, I will not let him go. I will give him some time to prove his innocence. If he cannot prove himself, I will personally activate the obedience of the Heavenly Voice, and you… just need to cast your votes in favor.”

Even Bai Wei was surprised. He had been thinking about how to put pressure on Isaiah, but now it seemed that he didn't need to do anything; the warden would take action on his own.

He was far more radical than Bai Wei had imagined.

“If anything goes wrong,” the warden said, emphasizing each word, “I will take the blame.”

(End of this chapter)