Players’ NPC daddy

Chapter 709: Not Legendary nor Great

That was a nature god, who had a great body before he received the ritual. But he was too ancient, and before he received the ritual, his body had already merged into the totem written on the earth.

So he was demoted and became the next god, but that was not his last dethronement.

He has many names. He was demoted from the god of nature who symbolizes love and reproduction to the god of love, and then from the god of love to the god of fear, and finally to the shepherd god, an ugly, shepherd.

His appearance became increasingly unbearable, and in the end he could only be described as ugly.

Each of his names has a dazzling highlight, and this time also has a highlight moment.

He stood in the cursed river and held up a beautiful fairy.

He was so ugly that he could only play the flute alone by the river. No one cared about him and everyone avoided him, but at the same time they surrounded him in his sacrifice, praised his kindness and said that he should become a great soul that guides all living things.

Amid the praise of the gods and the gratitude of the fairies, he somehow felt a little bored.

The lowly and ugly existence embodies the value of kindness, the terrible monsters highlight the crisis, the cursed river brings sacrifice, and the beautiful fairies tell the beauty of kindness.

This gorgeous kindness was like an overly decorated trophy, and he already had many such trophies.

What is extremely true is that after that he became alone again. Because half of his body turned into a fish, he not only became uglier, but also couldn't leave the river, and even couldn't do the work of a shepherd in the end.

That fairy...never came to see him again.

Gorgeous kindness is like a bubble, beautiful only for a moment, not for a long time. And it is not the first time for him to experience this kind of thing. Last time he was burned to ashes, everyone applauded his sacrifice, and then forgot about him.

He waited idly for the next descent. Of course, if he ascended into the sky, he might be idle forever.

Time seemed to stop for him until he came across a woman weeping and hiding her face.

That was a woman from heaven, another mythical totem.

She cried by the river, and just because she refused to obey her husband, the Creator, who was proud of her husband, drove her out of her home forever.

It was just an ordinary river, an ordinary day, and a woman who was at least ordinary in appearance.

He didn't want to pay attention, but the woman's tears were very salty, which made the pure river water look strange. He floated to the surface, revealing his terrifying upper body, hoping to scare the woman away with his appearance.

Their eyes met, and he found that the woman was very beautiful, but when he saw her from underwater, her face was blurry.

But this woman had an extremely low aesthetic taste and she marveled at his handsomeness as if she had never seen any other living being.

She said her name was Lilith, and he hesitated for a moment and chose the most inconspicuous name among his names, the one that no one cared about.

【Paine】

His time began to flow, and Lilith told him everything. Everything was so short, and her story ended after hundreds of days and months.

Lilith had a dream, which was to have a family and children. At that time, she looked at him secretly.

That day, the blush on her face was the most beautiful flower he had ever seen.

She said she wanted to have a child as kind as he was, and he said he wanted to have a child as beautiful as her, so he tore off his fish tail, which was regarded as a symbol of kindness and sacrifice, and gave it to her to mold into the shape of a child.

Children were born one after another, but he never saw the smile on her face that day again.

These children, she said, were as hollow and soulless as her husband, and were only beautiful in appearance.

So he did what an impulsive man would do, and launched a war against the place that brought her misfortune. She tried to stop him, but he didn't listen.

The war lasted for a long time, and he managed to meet her husband.

She was such a perfect, flawless existence that he lost interest in fighting and fell back to the earth, and he could never find her again. He sat by the river in a trance, surrounded by children but extremely lonely. In the end, the life that stayed with him was actually her husband-like life.

He sent a child to his hometown to tell the people there that the shepherd god Pan was dead.

The child felt pain, and at that moment he saw the fire of the soul.

Perfect life knows no pain, has no wounds, only happiness, and the birth of life begins with the cutting of the umbilical cord.

The moment you feel pain and cry truly, life is truly born.

The child she was expecting was born, but she was missing.

He felt mixed emotions of joy and sorrow. He had lost her, and he had to continue to take care of the children in her place and fulfill her dream of having a family.

Just a few decades, but it is more than his endless years...ha.

That is a rough life that even gods cannot have and that only a complete life can have.

Paine put down his flute, the Ganges returned to silence, and the blood was disappearing silently.

"I've had a lot of names, some good, some bad, but in the end, [Paine] is my favorite."

"I have fallen. I do not have a noble mission like other great souls, and I cannot bring such magnificent kindness to all living beings."

"All I have is an ordinary, neither good nor evil, life called Paine."

The great soul always symbolizes purity, the nobility of the lion, and the eternity and continuity of the centaur.

Capricorn is supposed to symbolize pure kindness and sacrifice, and to place this beauty in the souls of all living things, but Paine could not become that Capricorn.

"Well, it's a boring story, right?"

Blaze nodded, then shook his head.

The encounter and love in the story are enviable, but the tragedy in it is heartbreaking. The continuation of the final ending gives people hope, but they cannot forget the sadness of loss.

But that story is a reflection of all living beings.

Life does not have to be great all the time; ordinary life can also be blessed and beautiful.

Ultimately, the great guidance of the stars can only belong to those who can look up at the sky, while Paine's good and evil belong to ordinary people who keep their heads down and work hard to live.

"Go to the sky and bring this boredom to everyone."

"Are you sick?" Paine took off the sheep-head statue as if he were taking off a helmet, revealing a handsome face, a face that could not make an evil expression no matter what.

"How can we put down something like that in such a great place like Nightfall?"

Paine's true colors were revealed.

【Paine】

No rank, no intelligence, just like an ordinary person. Whether it is a devil or a natural god, it seems to be just the side of Paine that floats on the water.

But Blaze knew that it was because Paine liked this life that seemed like an ordinary person, so he behaved like this.

Otherwise, the one standing here would probably be an ancient god with multiple divinities, and Capricorn would really be the least worth mentioning one among them.

(End of this chapter)