Gift of the Land

“There are some things that make it easier to be ‘infected’ the more you know.”

This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS relating to some of the most pivotal parts of the "Lord of Mysteries" and "Circle of Inevitability".

Gift of the Land
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Item Information
Grade	0
Appearance	A giant, withered tree trunk.
Status	Destroyed
Origin	Giant Queen Omebella
Latest Possessor(s)	Lumian Lee (Destroyed) Church of the Fool (Former) City of Silver
Power & Downside
Corresponding Pathway(s)	Mother
Power	Various High-Sequence abilities of the Mother Pathway.
Downside	User has high chance of death if certain conditions are not met. Dying people within a 50km vicinity will turn into an Evil Spirit unless killed by a family member or if they can leave the range of the artifact. Will randomly cause the land within a 300-kilometer range to become desolate.
First Appearance
Novel	Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 1266 (Mentioned) Circle of Inevitability, Chapter 747 (Mentioned) Circle of Inevitability, Chapter 891

“	Cornucopia has a price.	„
— Colin Iliad on Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 1266

Gift of the Land was a powerful Grade 0 Sealed Artifact formed from the corpse of the Giant Queen Omebella, who was a Sequence 2 Desolate Matriarch Boon Recipient of the Brood Hive. It doesn't have a Beyonder characteristic. It played a pivotal role in allowing the City of Silver to survive in the Forsaken Land of the Gods for thousands of years.

Appearance

The Gift of the Land appeared as a withered, giant tree trunk. The tree trunk was about seven or eight meters high, requiring three or four people's arm span to encircle it. Most of the bark on its surface had fallen off, with the remaining parts a grayish-brown color.

Its core had become hollow, with exposed wood parts partly protruding and partly sunken, outlining a legless, human-like pattern. That silhouette used the branches on the trunk as hands, its face extremely distorted, with two huge crimson flowers serving as eyes. Within the wood grain texture of its "body surface", traces of blood color were faintly visible.

History

Omebella, whose fate and identity was stolen at the end of the Second Epoch, was later killed by the City of Silver. Her corpse, which contained no Beyonder characteristics in the true sense, but still possessed powerful force and terrifying authority turned into the divine-level Sealed Artifact known as the Gift of the Land.

The City of Silver kept the true origins of this Sealed Artifact a secret even from the Ancient Sun God and only revealed it after they had been rescued from the Forsaken Land of the Gods by The Fool in the Fifth Epoch.

Historically, the City of Silver has needed to actively use this Sealed Artifact very rarely, and each time, the user quickly died.

Nevertheless, it was a vital resource for the City of Silver in the Forsaken Land of the Gods as it could produce the Black Faced Grass, a harmless plant that can be eaten and turned into bread. But abundance comes with a price as it also turned dying citizens of the city into Evil Spirits within the Sealed Artifact's area-of-effect unless killed by their family members.

There are specific prerequisites for someone to touch and briefly use the Gift of the Land. First, they must have been betrayed by a direct relative; second, they must be female.

In August 1359 of the Fifth Epoch, Sanguine Earl Alexis self-sacrificed to revive the Gift of the Land with the activated Mother Card of Blasphemy, making the sentient Gift of the Land voluntarily leave the New City of Silver for a while.

Derrick Berg exchanged it with Lumian Lee for Calamity of Crimson. Lumian destroyed both the Gift of the Land and Lilith to symbolically killed Omebella, who is the link between the Mother Goddess of Depravity and the Brood Hive. Because of this, the Brood Hive, whose dissipating consciousness had been rekindled by intense hatred and mystical stimulation, reassembled and became active once more, delaying the complete fusion between "It" and the Mother Goddess of Depravity.

Power & Downside

Except for the prophecy part, all descriptions are based on the City of Silver's experience, lessons, and understanding.

Power

• Gift of the Land can naturally create an edible plant in any environment and promote its growth, reproduction, and abundant harvest within a fifty-kilometer range.
  • This is what allowed the Black Faced Grass to grow in relative abundance even in the environment of the Forsaken Land of the Gods. This plant is harmless and does not contain any corruption, which made it the staple food of the city. There are remnants of the straw-like objects left over from the Black Faced Grass.
  • Upon encountering a liquid, an object made from them would produce a thin film, thereby achieving a waterproof and sealing effect.
• The Gift of the Land can make the soil fertile within a 300-kilometer range, make water flow abundant, increase the tendency for life to reproduce, and prevent even the most unfavorable environmental conditions from stopping life from bearing offspring, only reducing the quantity and frequency.
• If actively used, the Gift of the Land can cause all life within a 30-kilometer range to rapidly drain away until death. Similar abilities outside this domain will also gradually wither and be weakened because of this. Lifeless dead who enter this domain will quickly return to the earth.
• The Gift of the Land can also fill a 50-kilometer range with various toxins, grow various Beyonder plants beneficial to itself. Similarly, it can tame all animals without higher intelligence in this area, and strengthen the tendency for every Beyonder to lose control.
• Through contact, the Gift of the Land can create dolls from soil, plants, lava, ores, and metals, and give them some life and power. The strongest dolls do not exceed Sequence 3, with a maximum of nine demigod-level dolls.
• The Gift of the Land can transform the environment, making even the Abyss suitable for human survival.
• The wielder of the Gift of the Land will truly become one with the land, forests, water flows, mountains, ores, etc. within range, and can use them to traverse, with varying speeds.
• Every time one is hit by the Gift of the Land, they will face a test of losing control, as well as a test of death. If unable to pass, they will either lose control on the spot or die directly.
• The Gift of the Land can temporarily turn the wielder into a mythical creature, but requires the wielder to be able to withstand the impact of mystical knowledge and mad thoughts brought by the corresponding Mythical Creature form.
• The Gift of the Land can give the wielder all female characteristics.

Downside

Usage Requirements:

• Life that comes into contact with the Gift of the Land will either be cured of all injuries and diseases, or die instantly. Which outcome occurs cannot be divined beforehand. According to prophecy, females with Omebella's bloodline who have suffered betrayal by direct relatives will not experience the instant death outcome.
• Those who do not meet the above conditions, even if lucky enough to receive the healing effect, cannot use the Gift of the Land for more than one minute afterwards, otherwise they will lose control or die.
• Those who meet the conditions will still suffer other negative effects.
• Those who understand the related information, if they do not possess godhood, are likely to become pregnant in the coming period, conceiving an unknown creature.

Other Downsides:

• Gift of the Land will turn all dead humans within a fifty-kilometer range into terrible Evil Spirits, unless that human died by being murdered by a direct relative. Those who have eaten the food it creates and have a strong connection with it will turn into evil spirits within three hundred kilometers.
  • This can be avoided if the person leaves the range of the artifact before dying, but since the Gift of the Land's range is huge, most people who are about to die would be unable to leave the corresponding region in time.
  • As even the weakest Evil Spirits are at the level of Sequence 5, while the strong ones could be equivalent to demigods, this is equivalent to being able to mass-produce Sequence 5 Beyonders, some of whom could even be demigods.
• The Gift of the Land will randomly cause the land within a 300-kilometer range to become desolate, crops to fail completely, and plants to wither. Unless the desolation effect ends, this land will not become fertile again. This can be suppressed by Angel-level abilities similar to purification, limiting the desolation to a very small area, unable to spread.