Chapter 159 - X-Gate Online Used Explosion![1]
Raw link: (2017/02/12)
Translator: twomorefreethoughts / TpstT (2020/04/26)
Editor 1: Hand of Vecna (2020/05/02)
Editor 2: Keii (2020/05/04)
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Notice 1: This chapter is being released 2 days ahead of schedule because I will be away for the next few days with my mid-semester exam. The ETA for chapter 160 is May 12th. There is also a chance that it may be delayed to May 13th because I am away until halfway through the 12th, and I may not be able to release the chapter in time. After that, it will go back to Vecna.
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(Author note)
I moved the core content from the previous chapter into this chapter as I was too hasty with hinting at Dina's role.
(Author note end)
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The elven village survived. Correction, it was saved.
Afterwards, by distributing the elixirs around, the people who were ill were cured and Dina's father managed to regain his health.
Additionally, the scorpion became attached to Ruphas and, after changing into a humanoid form, glued herself onto Ruphas's arm.
Dina had a strange feeling thinking about how the scorpion had managed to bee attached to Ruphas despite how violently it had been punched by her. But then again, the true nature of the scorpion was a magical beast, after all.
Perhaps it was attracted to the power that had overwhelmed her so much to the point where she was unable to retaliate against it.
But Dina did not have the leisure to be paying attention to such things.
That was because she was going through an existential crisis after what she had believed to be her identity had pletely collapsed. She did not have room to be thinking about anything else.
She had been keeping a close watch on Ruphas, believing her to be a risk factor, yet she was helped out by her. In contrast, she could not help but admit that the Goddess, whom she had believed to be the same entity as herself up until this point, and her actual self had a fatal misalignment in their thought processes.
Now that things had gotten this far, she was convinced. No, she could not help but be convinced.
- Of the fact that she was not the same entity as the Goddess. She was merely… a separate individual who had inherited the Goddess's memories and ego… She was just a doll.
At the very least, from the moment when the Goddess tried to kill Dina's birth father and Dina tried to prevent that, the two of them had trodden upon pletely separate paths.
However, in that case, who exactly was she? What exactly was she?
Whilst Dina was pondering such questions, her father, who was still resting on the ground, softly spoke with a weak voice.
"Ahh, Dina, you're still safe… good, good."
Something warm flowed out from her eyes.
She had thrown her mother away, thrown her father away, thrown her village away and left them all behind without a word.
Because of her assumption that she was the incarnation of the Goddess, she looked down on them. So much so that, even in regard to her mother's death, she had just learnt of the fact.
Notwithstanding all of that, he was still the same. He still unconditionally loved that daughter of his. He still worried and cared for her.
Yeah, that's right. Didn't he always call her that in the past?
From the first moment that she had been born, he had always called her that.
Not Alovenus, the borrowed name of someone else, but Dina.
Now, she understood. Now, she noticed.
That she was not Alovenus. Irrespective of the fact that she had inherited a part of the Goddess's spirit, irrespective of the fact that she had been conferred her memories and ego… she was still different. She could never consider herself as Alovenus ever again.
After all, she loved them this much. She felt this much joy after finding out that he had been saved.
This feeling was hers alone. It was not the Goddess's.
On that day, the young girl who should have been the Goddess's avatar ceased to bee her avatar. She turned from an avatar into a young girl, an individual by the name of Dina.
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