Chapter 254: The Eldest Born is Actually Master’s SECOND Born

I seriously thought the titans were like…

Let’s say I took a piss somewhere, and that pee suddenly turned into a monster or something ridiculous like that.

It was the kind of absurd explanation that would make anyone laugh if it weren’t so embarrassingly close to how I had been rationalizing it in my head all this time.

So yeah, it would be embarrassing to tell the fairies later: “Ah, sorry, sorry! Those gross crawling things with eyes on their arms? They actually belong to me.”

The mental image of trying to explain that to Roselyn or the others made my face heat up even more than the surrounding wasteland, a flush of awkwardness spreading across my skin.

So I had planned to destroy them quickly.

But I didn’t think they were… my babies.

The weight of that word settled heavily in my chest as I stared down at her, the guilt gnawing deeper with every passing second and making my raised hand feel heavier than before.

Hm…?

And I already orchestrated the destruction of thousands of them.

What a monster of a father that made me. Or was I the mother?

The self-accusation echoed loudly in my mind.

{Notice: As long as Master is alive, the titans will always reform one way or the other. But the Ultimate Power Stone that hit them is severing the weak thread of connection you all share.}

Oh?

Are you saying I can save even those other ones?

A spark of unexpected hope flickered in my mind despite the overwhelming mess of emotions swirling inside me, cutting through the guilt like a brief ray of light in the smoky sky above.

{Affirmative: all the titans souls dwell within your second eldest daughter.}

Hey, don’t start calling her my daughter already!

The protest rose sharply in my thoughts, even as I couldn’t quite deny the growing evidence staring me in the face from the crater floor.

{As long as she does not perish, they can all return at another time. But if she had died for any reason, your vague soul link with her would revive her again, thus, all the other titans.}

Whoa! That’s a very pesky ability there! Is it intrinsic?

{It is. But the attack of Leodog has burned the soul link currently. If she dies, she dies for good now… Except Master is interested in forming a Soul Link with her again, effectively saving the other children.}

Hmmm…

This whole suggestion sounded strangely like stock trading and some kind of calculated exchange.

The way Sys laid it out so calmly and precisely, as if we were casually discussing investments rather than the life and death of countless beings somehow tied to my own existence in this chaotic world.

The words lingered heavily in my mind, turning over and over while the hot wind continued to brush across the crater, carrying faint traces of ash and scorched earth that made the entire situation feel even more surreal and overwhelming.

Do I have to actually bring them back?

What a monstrous thought I just had, the idea settling uncomfortably deep in my chest like a heavy stone I could not easily push aside no matter how hard I tried.

But I don’t have anywhere to keep them.

What if they get hungry?

Can I really feed a thousand mouths?

The questions kept piling up one after another inside my head, each one more daunting and practical than the last as I tried to imagine the sheer scale of what that would actually mean.

And this woman is even far stronger than me, her alleged father.

The realization made my stomach twist a little tighter as I stood there, still trying to process everything that had just been revealed.

Look at her, she was still smiling sweetly there in the dirt, slowly extending her hand toward me with that fragile, hopeful gesture that pulled at something deep inside my chest whether I wanted it to or not.

You don’t need to make me feel any more guilty, okay?!

The silent protest rose sharply in my thoughts, mixing with the guilt that already weighed heavily on me like an extra layer of the hot, cracked ground pressing against my feet.

Ugh, fine!

[Would I lose any more magic? I haven’t lost this amount of magic in many years… actually, I haven’t lost this kind of magic ever before. I didn’t have magic till a while ago.]

{Answer: creating a soul link normally does not make use of magic. But Master will not be creating a link with her, Master will be building the one that is damaged.}

[And everything will be back to normal? I won’t feel any pain?]

{Affirmative.}

Then I guess it’s happening right?

The reluctant decision settled slowly in my mind, even as a thread of hesitation continued to linger at the edges.

It was making my raised hand feel noticeably heavier with every passing second while the blue glow of the earlier Power Stone had long since faded into nothing.

But wait…

[Sys, is the Second Born not the one that holds all the soul? You said so yourself.]

{I said no such thing, Master. I said “All the titans souls dwell within your second eldest daughter.”}

[How is that any different from what I just told you?! So the Second Born is the one holding the souls.]

{Incorrect.}

Ah, I think it must be a server issue from some divine tech warehouse or something.

The thought crossed my mind with a touch of growing frustration, the kind that comes when nothing seems to line up no matter how hard you try to make sense of the pieces.

[Let’s get this down… This woman chuckling to herself in the dirt holds all the souls inside of her…]

{Affirmative.}

[And… the second daughter also holds all the souls inside of her?]

{Affirmative.}

[Ara? Are you saying the Second Born and the Eldest Born are the same?]

{No. I did not say such a thing.}

[Then what do you mean?! Is there any other kid that’s not here? Are there two second borns now?]

{No, the woman laying there is Master’s second born.}

Oh… second?

I didn’t know.

So she isn’t actually the first one to be born.

The quiet correction landed with a soft but heavy thud in my thoughts, shifting my entire mental picture once again in ways I hadn’t expected.

[Then why is she called the Eldest Born?]

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