"That is the child of Great God Kos, belonging to the oceanic Great God Kos, the nameless orphan left behind."
Simon's voice was as distant as if he were recounting some ancient tale.
"The god's corpse drifted with the waves to the beach of the fishing hamlet. The fishermen here worshipped Him, revered Him, and in the end turned themselves into fish-men. Able to coexist with the sea."
"But... that is a divine child! Kos's orphan, bereft of all protection!"
As the child of an Ancient God, it was only natural that He was born already bearing the rank of a god-child.
Yet because His mother was already dead, Kos's orphan was left without any guardian.
The Ancient Gods' hunger for god-children is something mortals can never comprehend.
It may even be that Kos willingly died for the sake of the god-child's birth.
But at a distance this close to Yan'an, once news that "a god-child has appeared" leaked out...
