Grand Ancestral Bloodlines
chapter-1856

1856 Deductions

Ryu could see the confusion on the woman's face, but he only smiled. This could be considered to be the result of two things.

The first was that his wife was still a bit unhappy with him and wanted to teach him a little lesson. Giving him a difficult task was definitely in line with that.

The second was that this was how he and Ailsa always did things. Which one of the things that they had accomplished together couldn't be considered to be normal? She had high expectations of him, and he wouldn't have it any other way. This was only natural.

After he had these thoughts, Ryu pretty much tuned out the rest of Rinushka's explanation because he already had his own guesses.

There were a lot of odd things about this world. The suppression of the Human Race and the weakness of the Beast Race were the two things at the forefront of his mind.

Of course, he already had an explanation for both… and they couldn't be considered to be satisfactory.

The Human Race was the biggest threat in a place like this one because they were the most flexible of the races. If there was one Race that could evolve to be powerful on both the Real and Chaos Planes, it was the Human Race. Of course, if there was a chance to deal with them, that would be done long ago.

As for the Beast Race, they were the Race most aligned with the Heavens. In a world that preferred Chaos, it would be very difficult for powerful beasts to rise up. It was, thus, natural, that they were so weak here.

However, there were several fishy things about these conclusions although they seemed good enough.

The first issue was actually Ailsa herself. She had been gone for years, and she had also lost herself in a black hole from Ryu's understanding afterward. In all likelihood, for her to have such prestige in this world, she couldn't have possibly only just appeared. That meant that she had been here for a very, very long while. At least millions of years, and that was probably an underestimate.

The question, then, was how long ago could the human race have possibly been dealt this blow?

The Dream Wraith had transferred quite a bit of knowledge to Ryu, so he at least had a fundamental understanding of this world and some of its secrets. That was enough for him to know that the Human Race should have had a presence in this world at some point in the past, only to lose it.

In fact, the moment the Human Race lost it coincided with the most recent period of peace that this world had experienced.

It had to be remembered that before the Fiend Race had suffered a severe loss in this world before they managed to turn it around later on.

As such, at some point before the Fiend Race made their comeback, but after they suffered their first loss, the Human Race fell.

But logically speaking, Ailsa should have been here during that period.

Of course, his wife's personality was like his own. She wouldn't help humans just for the sake of helping, even if her husband was a human. That said, she also wouldn't allow herself to get stuck here dealing with a situation like this one when she could be growing stronger to find him again.

Clearly, Ailsa was in a bit of a bind right now, or else she would have already come to see him personally. And if Ryu was correct, this trouble should be a recent matter, likely triggered by the comeback of the Fiend Race.

Ailsa was definitely smart enough to know that the fall of the Human Race in this world wouldn't benefit her, and she definitely had the power to stop it.

So why hadn't she? What had stopped her?

These were just the problems with the Human Race side of things, because on the side of the Beast Race, there were also some issues.

Even if the Ancient Beasts were weak in this world, that didn't mean that they wouldn't appear at all. But no one had even reacted to his Dragon and Qilin Blood, it was as though even the experts of this world had no idea what those creatures were. The strongest Beasts he had seen was that stupid lion with a mane of lightning.

Everything about this was fishy, and it seemed that there was a reason that Ailsa wanted him to deal with this.

So, rather than feeling bad about it, Ryu couldn't help but smile. He had a lot of things that he disliked, but when it came to things that he liked, there were very few that ranked favorably against him helping his wife out.

This was what a husband should do. Lessen the burden of his woman.

"… Are you even listening?!"

Rinushka couldn't help but snap again. Ryu was looking at her, but it seemed as though he might be looking right through her.

At first, she thought that he was ogling her, but the more she looked, the more she realized that he couldn't even be bothered to check her out. What the hell kind of man was this?! How could he be so infuriating!?

"I am," Ryu nodded absentmindedly. He had already deduced most of the things that Rinushka wanted to say on his own. Her explanations were unnecessary for him.

That said, she was right. He should probably at least pay attention to some of the minor details. So, he asked a question.

"You said that this was the Beast Domain, but aren't there Dao Gods amongst the beasts? Why is it that this land isn't controlled?"

"The Dao Gods amongst the beasts are all lone men and women. There are no heritages that are passed down in the Beast Races, so any success is built all on their own. But by the same token, they feel no closeness with any particular Race of beast either. They usually end up far too mutated and cannot even reproduce."