Bai Ye couldn't help but glance at the vacant position twice, the painter who painted this painting seemed to have deliberately erased the existence of a certain member of the heir's family from history, leaving a place of emptiness.

In this haughty and extremely dominant painting, the absence of this missing man is particularly striking.

This is a deliberate omission, leaving a void not only in the picture, but also a hidden story.

The story of the heir, Karn.

He was also a member of the Heir family, and his family hunted countless totems for countless hours, except that he never really integrated into the family, just hunting like them in order to survive - and he secretly despised this method of killing.

Why can't you skip those totems, or at least eat them more elegantly?

This nonsense, of course, was magnificently ignored by the other heirs.

Who understands in the family, the inheritor has a virgin who doesn't want to eat totems.

In short, Karn felt the pressures and expectations of his successor family, and his mother was the one who expected him the most, but he always maintained a different way of thinking.

In his family, he is taught to follow tradition and devour totems for power, however, deep down he hides contradictions and doubts about this bloody legacy.

Each time he hunted those totems, Karn felt an endless repetition and emptiness.

As the years passed, he began to doubt his family and the ideals they lived for, wondering if there was a nobler way to live.

Perhaps, he can break free from the shackles of his family and find a unique path that will allow his heirs to survive without eating totems, and at the same time realize his own ideas.

But before Karn could find such a path, the opportunity for change, or successors, came.

It was a special day, a silent night enveloping the Heirs, who gathered in a dark corner to prepare to take on one of the spider gods of their universe, the Web Master.

This time, they are not only after the thrill of hunting, but also on a mysterious path to the endless universe. As long as they can knock down or subdue the Cobweb Master, they will be able to take the ability to traverse the universe in their hands.

The battle begins, and the shadows flash with sharp blades and deadly weapons.

The web master resembles a centaur structure, with a human upper body and a large mechanical spider on the lower half, and he just sits on a large web woven by himself, quietly watching the heirs enter his room with grace and mastery.

As the Inheritors rushed at him, he tore at the silk in his hands, turning the land beneath their feet into nothingness and preventing them from moving forward.

Suddenly, he stopped his movements and stared at Karn, who rushed to the front with his weapon in hand, his deep helmet lenses revealing an insight beyond the flesh.

"Karn, you are different from your brothers and sisters, and killing those totems has never brought you any joy." The Webmaster's voice was as soft as the wind, "You are truly seeking to create, not to destroy. ”

Karn was dumbfounded by these words, who had never revealed his inner thoughts to anyone. How did this spider god know his true wishes?

But why wouldn't he want to? All he had done so far was to prove to his mother that he was the son who deserved to be favored

Even though he was only one step away from knocking down the Cobweb Master at the moment, he hesitated.

Just as Karn was about to ask a question, or attack, a sudden gust of wind pierced the night sky.

His mother, the matriarch of the heir family, was the first to strike.

The woman swung a long-handled axe and leaped more than ten meters high, the attack was as swift as thunder, and the blow was enough to knock down any spider totem in the world who dared to resist the heir.

But at the same time, the cobweb master only gracefully stretched out his finger in the face of the attack of the clan mother.

In the palm of his hand, a thread was gently pulled by his two fingers, as if caressing an invisible string. The thread shimmered in the night sky, as if the web of the universe was beginning to reverberate.

With the gentle pull of the spider web master, the silk thread was like a volley of dancing notes between his fingertips, emitting a melodious melody.

"Smack!"

Then, resolutely, he tore the silk thread in his hand, like a broken string, and let out a deep sound.

And the moment the spider web master ripped off the silk threads, Karn's mother also turned into countless threads. Before she could utter a complete scream, her figure disintegrated into countless threads in the night sky, like smoke blown away by the wind.

These threads scattered, drifted away, and disappeared into the dark abyss.

It was that moment of hesitation that turned into a lifetime of cursed Karn's soul, at this time he didn't know who the person crawling on the cobwebs was, only that his mistake was absolutely irreparable.

He couldn't remember what happened after that, but he remembered that the brothers and sisters rushed closer and worked together to control the Webmaster, and used a special shackle to control the Webmaster, making the totem a vehicle.

After that, things are much simpler.

"You killed your mother, you are a disgrace to the family!" A middle-aged man with a slight resemblance to Karn's appearance, but several times taller, spoke sharply.

Under the stern reprimands of his family, Karn felt isolated from his family. He tried to explain, tried to tell the words of the cobweb master, but to no avail. The heirs only wanted to believe that he was a sinner in the family.

And this is true, he did kill his mother because of a trace of hesitation.

His brother took out a helmet with the family emblem on it and forced it on Karn's head. It was a palpable humiliation, the family no longer wanted to see Karn's face, and they wanted him to be an abandoned stranger from now on.

"Let's go, Karn, you're no longer one of us." Brix stood and said coldly, pointing to the darkness outside the family, but out of that darkness lit up a golden door, which was the way to other universes.

Karn was forced to walk through the family's walls, and the reproaches and spurning of his family came from behind him. His heart felt like it was being cut by a sharp blade, and the feeling of being expelled was too much for him to bear.

Helmeted, Karn vanished into the door to another universe, becoming a disgraceful past in the heir family.

To this day, his heart is still echoing with a question that has already been answered, why was his mother killed?

"Interestingly, though, Karn was destined to become a cobweb master in the future, and killed his mother in front of him in the past."

"Wait, why is this script so familiar?"

Bai Ye, who was standing under the hanging painting, looked at the empty chair in the painting in front of him, touched his head and said.

(End of chapter)