Chapter 172: Information Pump Pt.2: Inbreeding Lore
"Inbreeding!" Lilith continued.
Nathan kept staring at the blackboard, now blank.
"’I... Inbreeding?’" he whispered. "So... you mean... humanity’s sin was... incest?"
Lilith didn’t answer right away.
She stepped slowly to the side of the board, raised her hand, and drew something into the air—instantly, a holographic image appeared: two naked humans, one male and one female, standing in a glowing field, their hands touching. Like an overly idealistic religious brochure.
The glow that wrapped their bodies wasn’t just light—it was warmth, liquid and slow, as if the universe held its breath watching two perfect beings almost touch. Their fingers, suspended millimeters apart, trembled slightly—as if one accidental graze could rewrite reality. There was no lust, no hunger—only the unbearable intimacy of being known by someone whose body was sculpted for yours. Even without skin-to-skin, the energy between them pulsed, humming with a frequency only the stars could hear. It was the first temptation. Not to dominate. Not to possess. But to melt. To dissolve into each other and become something new. Something more than human.
"In the beginning," said Lilith, "The One Who Made the Earth created humans in pairs. Thousands of them. Each with a different energy flow. Not reliant on each other. Not devouring each other."
"So... like... production batches?"
Lilith turned to him. "Nathan."
"Yeah, yeah. Sorry."
She turned her gaze back to the image. This time, thousands of points of light began to fill the holographic sky.