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Chapter 96
Chapter 96 A Wrong Beginning
When the smoke dispersed, only Paul remained on the empty battlefield.
There were no cheers after victory. Paul raised his head and looked at the sky. In the silent night, the crescent moon was like a blade.
[Goodbye. I wish you all good fortune from now on.]
The temporary binding card was an item only probationary Systems could obtain. The giant dragon did not know whether it would be punished afterward. After all, this time, they had used a loophole to forcibly preserve Paul’s life, and in doing so, they had laid the opportunity to defeat the incarnation of the curse.
W̌ е̌ b ǹ o.ṽ è l Е ǹ úm̂ ä
The goddess…
Only after witnessing how vast the universe was, and how prosperous the stars were, did the giant dragon discover that the world they were in was truly like an ancient cradle…
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Senior, and your Host, I leave it to you. Please lead the living beings onward.
After leaving a mark on Paul’s soul, the giant dragon once again transformed into faint light and returned above the stars.
Inside Oswald’s body, the System, which was busy using a gelatinous material to fill Oswald’s body, sensed the giant dragon’s departure.
Next time, it could recommend the dragon to attend that gentleman’s lecture… The System had already thought of a way to repay the giant dragon. The successors of that gentleman were all good seedlings for transmigration.
Е́ň ǔm̊ ӑ . iď
Dragon, just pick among the young people. Pick one, and not a single one will disappoint you. They are all high-spirited idealists.
“Your Grace, how is he?”
After the battle ended, Paul walked over and looked worriedly at Oswald, who remained unconscious in Eileen’s arms.
Eileen wiped the bloody water from Oswald’s eye sockets, lifted the blanket, and showed Paul the strange substance constantly wriggling and filling the wound in Oswald’s abdomen.
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Before long, that substance simulated the texture of skin. It looked… only looked, as though he had recovered his health.
Everyone knew that this also meant His Grace’s blindness would be very difficult to cure.
Еnu mа̇ .і̂ d̈
“Adjutant, dispatch five hundred cavalrymen to escort us back to the Northern Territory.” Eileen knew clearly that now was not the time for grief. She had to stand up and resolve the troubles that would follow for His Grace.
“The rest of you will continue acting with Division Commander Kate. If anything unexpected happens, report it immediately.”
The adjutant struck his chest heavily. “Yes, my lord!”
The group prepared to set out again in silence. Not far away, Medivh, who had come to observe the battlefield with Thorne, confirmed that the Blood-Robed Saintess had truly been destroyed, then walked toward them.
Seeing this, Eileen, Sister Janice, and Paul immediately went forward to meet him. Lisa, holding her staff, had already floated above the team, while the cavalrymen raised their lances. A murderous atmosphere immediately spread.
“There is no need to be nervous. The current kingdom can no longer withstand hostility between us.”
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Medivh raised his hand in salute, lowered his eyes, and said only one sentence.
“I can represent His Majesty with full authority. If Duke Oswald intends to share the prescription for treating the plague, then please allow me to travel with you.”
…
Thorne muddle-headedly boarded the Northern Army’s carriage. Even before his backside touched the soft cushion inside the carriage, he still had not reacted to what exactly had happened.
Old Mr. Medivh’s reprimand lingered in his mind. If you want to see this world with your own eyes, if you want to defeat the Demon King as the Hero, then go with them to the Northern Territory. If even they do not acknowledge you, then what need is there for you, the Hero, to exist?
After you go, you must behave properly. Look more. Think more. Think about why you failed before, and think about how you should move forward from now on.
Eň um̌ а
The carriage was very large. Beside Thorne sat Old Mr. Medivh, who was resting with his eyes closed. Only when the old gentleman’s soft snoring sounded did Thorne scratch his head somewhat awkwardly. So the old gentleman was truly exhausted.
Sitting across from them was Eileen, who was monitoring their every movement.
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This senior schoolmate held a pen, handling document after document in her hands. From time to time, scouts would hurry over and constantly deliver the latest intelligence into her hands.
After Medivh fell asleep, Thorne became very panicked. What if Senior Schoolmate suddenly drew her blade and attacked him?
To avoid such an outcome, Thorne rubbed his hands together and mustered his courage. “Um… Senior Schoolmate?”
“To stay alive, you’re even calling me Senior Schoolmate now?”
Êṅ ům̀ а
Eileen responded indifferently without raising her head. After signing her name on the document, she picked up another file and began explaining the situation to this fool who was always being led around by the nose.
“Whether you can survive depends entirely on your own ability. Even if I don’t act, Luna is still waiting for you in the Northern Territory.”
Thorne: …
“And you should have noticed as well. After the goddess’ curse erupted, there was no longer any place for you in the Royal Capital. You are now a chess piece, a chess piece that every faction wants to use to attack hostile forces.”
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“Some people will worship you fanatically as a savior. Some will treat you as the ruler of the curse. Some will use you to attack royal authority. And others are preparing to establish a new force for you.”
“After you successfully proved that you could not solve the curse, at least to the King, you became no different from a dead man.”
Еn̂u mа́ .і̂ d̂.
Thorne’s scalp went numb as he listened. When he looked again at Old Mr. Medivh, he felt as if an airtight net had tightly wrapped around him.
At this moment, inside another carriage, Oswald once again awakened from unconsciousness.
Releasing the Undead Giant Python had nearly exhausted all the undead Mana he had accumulated and stolen. Fortunately, after becoming an undead, the recovery speed of his Mana was very fast.
(System…)
[Rest properly, Host. Don’t say anything. Truly, don’t say anything…]
When its Host disconnected from it, the System had felt utterly powerless. After becoming a System, it rarely fell into confusion or helplessness, but this time, it had truly and clearly felt helpless.
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(She took away my sight, didn’t she?)
[Don’t overthink it. We can still see the future. There are so many worlds. Even if I have to violate the rules, this System will find you a pair of eyes.]
After receiving the definite answer, Oswald merely laughed softly.
(Adventure means there must be losses as well as gains. Don’t feel pressured. Nothing can be accomplished in one stroke, and we have already gained a very good beginning.)
The System fell silent. The Host’s optimism far exceeded its imagination. It finally understood what dauntless spirit meant.
(System, I really like our adventure. You also don’t need to see me as someone very important, like they do. You read through my memories all day, so you should know.)
Ӗn̆ û m̃_ӓ_. і̀ d́
(Perhaps “a single grain of sand in the era” refers to people like me… When I was little in my previous life, there was an abandoned school beside my home. I often ran inside to explore and picked up discarded chalk, little boxes, and things like that.)
(At the time, I didn’t know what it meant. In truth, it meant that I had to go somewhere far away in order to attend school, and that I would never be able to shake off certain labels in my lifetime.)
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(After growing up, leaving home became a habit. Every year… every year, during that time, when I heard the television say, “Dear viewers”… Heh. Yes. Every year, I was an unknown viewer.)
(I watched the wheels of the era roll forward. I was within it, yet there was no station for me to stop at. No one cared about what I saw or thought along the way. That was my former life…)
(So, thank you, System.)
“My lord, are you awake?”
Enü m̆ а̌
Sister Janice, who had been dozing lightly, suddenly heard laughter. She hurriedly rose and came before Oswald.
“Yes. Tell me what happened afterward.”
Oswald felt around and sat up. Unable to see anything around him, he would not know that these few simple movements had already reddened Sister Janice’s eyes.
She held back her tears and, word by word, tried to naturally recount the entire process of defeating the Blood-Robed Saintess, as well as the matter of Medivh and the Hero accompanying them to the Northern Territory.
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“I see. So Lao Luo survived.”
Oswald shook his head with a bitter smile. Back then, the System had only told him that perhaps they could exploit a bug and make Lao Luo become his aid in defeating the Blood-Robed Saintess. He had not expected Lao Luo to gain a blessing in disguise, purge the toxins from his body, and even increase his strength.
Е̂n ūḿ а . і̌d
That evening, the team stopped to rest.
After smelling Eileen’s distinctive perfume, Oswald reached out his hand. She gently took it and placed it on her own face. Scalding tears flowed through the gaps between his fingers.
“You’ve worked hard. I’m always making you worry.”
Eileen sobbed and led him to sit beside the campfire. “It wasn’t hard, my lord.”
“Everyone, come over. Sit closer. I have something to say to you all.” Oswald took out his pipe. Eileen took it from him, put in tobacco leaves, and lit it. After taking two puffs, she coughed a few times from the choking smoke, then handed the pipe back to him.
Oswald held her hand and raised his head to distinguish the sounds of footsteps. “Mr. Medivh, please make yourself comfortable. As for the Hero, not running away is a good thing. But I don’t need you to bow your head and apologize to me. The ones you truly wronged are yourself, and the people who suffered because of you.”
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“Your Grace…” Thorne wanted to say something, but Oswald shook his head and stopped him.
The soldiers all gathered around. Oswald clearly felt a little warmer. Holding the pipe between his teeth, he exhaled thick smoke and said, “These days, you have more or less learned about time reversal, and you have personally witnessed the curse sent down by the goddess.”
“There is no need to think of this matter as too complicated. It is nothing more than the world reaching a point where it has no choice but to change.”
His expression was relaxed, as if he had not been affected by his blindness in the slightest. He smiled calmly and continued, “The goddess created the four great races. Before leaving the world, she also gave different blessings and curses to each race.”
“However, after searching through the history books, I discovered that the four great races once had a period of peace. During the era when the goddess existed, everyone lived together without distinction. It is said that the demon race was greedy and arrogant, and after the goddess left, they took the initiative to start a war and destroyed that wonderful situation. But in my view, in terms of viciousness, everyone was actually the same.”
“Because we all ignored, or deliberately overlooked, one question… Dwarves liked mining, so the goddess let them settle in the mountains. Elves liked seclusion, so the goddess brought them to live in warm great forests.”
W̆.е̂b̀ ǹ_о̀ vе l Ѐ_ñ uṁ а̌_
“Then there are us humans, who received the richest land. But what about the demon race? Which of you dares say that the demon race truly liked living on the cold snowfield? Not to mention that the goddess’ curse made their children more likely to die young!”
“If this had been a postwar division, then so be it. But in all sorts of books from our Northern Territory, even in legends, it is clearly recorded that the first great war between humanity and the demon race happened in the Northern Territory!”
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“Everyone.” The Duke’s voice circled in the wind, and everyone present who listened turned ashen. “Have you ever thought about who exactly started this racial war that has spanned a thousand years?”
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