Prime Originator

Leon patted Soft Feather's head lightly before making his request politely, "Please take us down to the Skysilver Tribe's ruins, Miss Soft Feather."

"Okay."

Soft Feather shortly descended without complaint.

Leon was slightly surprised before he smiled lightly, thinking that it was possible to get along with Soft Feather as long as he speaks nicely to her.

'Is this what is meant by the proverb; one should not punch a smiling face?' Leon thought.

After Soft Feather landed on a moderately flat piece of land within the Skysilver Tribe, the three-tailed silver wolf was already waiting for them.

Leon glanced at Silver for a moment before asking, "Does this place seem familiar to you, Silver?"

"Awroof?" the three-tailed silver wolf tilted its head in response.

"Never mind. I suppose not." Leon smiled slightly, thinking that it was too early for Silver to recall anything.

But it could also be that the three-tailed silver wolf's memory and intelligence were truly permanently impaired for good.

"This is the Skysilver Tribe? I smell reeks terribly here." Aria furrowed her brows in disgust from the revolting smell that assailed her senses.

The entire tribe was heavily concentrated with carcasses that formed multiple tall walls on the outer rings, while blood soaked the region, and not a single structure was left intact.

The pungent stench of blood and rotting flesh was enough to make anyone nauseous—and even spew for the weak stomachs.

Ice-lightning power quickly surged out from Aria's body before she chilled her surroundings and blew away the foul smell from the area.

Swoosh~!

"Be careful. There's still something alive in this tribe," Leon warned at the faintest sense of sudden movements.

He immediately swept out with his divine sense.

Before Leon could locate the creature, a serpent beast with a human upper body exposed itself from a mountain of smelly corpses some distance away.

Hiss!

The serpent-kin beast hissed at Leon's group, crimson-eyed, and a bloody bone spear in hand. It greatly resembled one of the top beast races within the Divine Realm.

"Is that a Naga?" Aria muttered with surprise.

"Nagas are naturally born half-serpent half-human creatures and not a product from interracial breeding…" Leon shook his head after a quick glance at the berserk serpent-kin beast before he said, "But this one should have been born from a human and serpent…"

"Huh?" Aria was quickly startled before she muttered in shock, "How is it even possible for humans and serpents to mate?"

"If the serpent's ancestors were once Divine Beasts, then it should be very possible after their human transformation. But that doesn't seem like the case here…" Leon spoke before muttering, "So it can only be the other possibility…"

"What is the other possibility?" Lilith asked with curiosity.

"Huh? Didn't you grow up in the Wildlands?" Aria asked her before she continued, "How is it possible that you don't know about the origins of these types of serpent-kin beasts?"

"I wasn't interested in learning how a snake and human mated, okay? How am I supposed to know if I never learned about it?" Lilith retorted.

"Oh…" Aria nodded before she smiled slyly, "You weren't interested then, so why are you interested now?"

"I… uh…" Lilith was struck speechless. How was she supposed to answer that?!

"Did the cat caught your tongue?" Aria chuckled softly before pressing Leon to continue, "What is the other possibility?"

As she was asking, the serpent-kin lunged at the group with its bloody bone spear. 

Leon casually stomped the ground, launching several rocks and pebbles into the air before he kicked at a fist-sized rock with Divine Will. 

Bang!

The rock slammed into the berserk serpent-kin beast's chest and catapulted it some distance away. 

After removing the distraction, Leon cleared his throat with a cough, "Ahem, the other possibility is... Well, simply put; if there's a hole, there's a way."

"That's gross, Leon!" Aria and Lilith cried. 

They did not understand how the procreation process would work even if that was the case, but that no longer mattered. They did not want to know. 

At the same time, Soft Feather glanced down at Leon with her big head before asking, "Are you speaking from experience?" 

"You disgust me, Leon. I am very disappointed in you." Duna's voice also trickled into Leon's ears from Soft Feather's back. 

Leon stood frozen like a block of wood, stunned and speechless for a moment before he quickly cried, "Now hold on a minute! I haven't done such a thing before! I just know about these things, alright?!"

"Uh-huh..." Aria uttered with an unconvinced look while Lilith showed a similar expression.

"Aria... You don't believe me?" Leon glanced at Aria with wide eyes and said, "I thought you would always be on my side..." 

"I am on your side in many things." Aria shook her head before stating, "But not for something like this…"

"You know his strike zone is very extensive when he is even sexually attracted to a vengeful spirit like me, who is not even a living being..." Duna fanned the flames while peeking over from the edge of Soft Feather's back.

"I didn't know you were such a person, Leon. This is so shocking..." Lilith commented with a shaken look.

While her mind was disturbed by the shocking revelations, Leon felt great dismay by the false accusations.

The serpent-kin beast had unknowingly crept back for revenge before it tragically became Leon's target for relieving his frustration.

"Piss off!"

Leon kicked the serpent-kin beast so hard that it exploded on a sturdy wall and died without an intact body before he gazed back at the ladies and said, "Y'all ganging on me." 

Duna and Aria glanced at each other before they broke into smiles with giggles from Aria. Their expression quickly froze in the next moment before facing away from each other with a 'humph.'

Lilith shifted her gaze between each party involved with a confused expression before she expressed her doubt, "Wait, are you all just messing around? Leon is actually not like 'that,' right?"

"Who knows?" Duna answered vaguely with a smile. 

"Haiz..." Leon issued a long sigh before he said, "Alright, that's enough. Jokes aside, let us take a quick look and be on our way." 

That being said, Leon's gaze was drawn to the blood pool that was revealed under the mountain of corpses the serpent-kin beast crawled out from earlier.