Chapter 52
Back in the Archduchy, Michelle showed Nyxaroth around and then closed herself in her room, wanting to check the memories Rivenaar passed on to her. She laid on her bed and closed her eyes, letting the memories float through her brain. The sheer amount of memories made it so it took her over a week to get over them. Then, she stood up and went to eat something, thinking about what she found out.
By receiving the memories, she understood much more than any human about monsters and their lives, and she also got to see what the heavenly realm looked like.
The heavenly realm was completely different from the Land of Exile where she was. Everyone there was a cultivator, and there were no empires or rulers. The only hierarchy that worked there was between families. Basically, which family had more power had more say in the happenings. Families had disputes between each other and their own family laws. Nothing like a joined law of all families existed. The only thing that joined some families together were sects and academies. They had their own rules and if someone, a member of a family or a whole family, wanted to join, they had to accept their rules while on the academy or sect grounds.
Beasts also had hierarchy. They had beast clans with their laws and elders. They lived mostly secluded from humans, but there were some who mingled among humankind. Some clans lived all together, while some were divided into smaller groups and only met up all once in a while. The hierarchy between beasts was the same as between humans, but the clans didn’t interfere with each other as much as human families, sects and academies did.
Rivenaar didn’t have many memories from when he was a monster cub, but after that, the memories were perfectly intact, so Michelle immersed in them.
By watching the memories, she found out things that weren’t known to humans. Humans took monsters for intelligent, but emotionless creatures, but Michelle didn’t believe that since the moment she saw Rivenaar’s eyes. They held deep emotions. And after watching the memories, she saw to what extent monsters could feel, and it was in no doubt a shock. Monsters’ emotional intelligence could rival and was maybe even higher than humans’.
Even though monsters couldn’t speak the human language and communicate with other species until they reached a very high rank in the heavenly realm, they could communicate within their species, but monsters were divided into many species. And Rivenaar was of a species that was already born in the ranks when he could speak human language, thus communicate with all other species, since he was born.
Every monster species had a species name, but Rivenaar’s species was ancient and nameless, but once someone mentioned purple monsters, everyone shook in fear. Because an adult Ancient Purple, how humans finally named them, was so powerful that the only ones who could subdue them were the two people highest in rank in the heavenly realm.
The two looked like humans, but everyone knew that they were more like gods than humans. No one knew their ranks in cultivation, but it was known that their cultivation was so high that they were immortal. And that happened only when one reached the God of Gods rank.