...
"No—, Teacher—" Ah Dai sat up fiercely, clearly feeling the tears on his face. As he gradually regained consciousness, he realized he was still inside the stone chamber, his body twitching slightly.
"Teacher is dead, Teacher is already dead." Ah Dai muttered to himself as he took out the stead bun wrapped in silver tin from his embrace. "Teacher, did you enjoy watching eat stead buns? Okay, I’ll eat for you to see." He forcefully broke the long-preserved stead bun into two halves. Despite being wrapped in silver tin, the stead bun had not spoiled, but it had beco unusually hard. Ah Dai, as if unaware of the change in the bun, gently peeled off the silver tin and put it into his mouth, chewing vigorously. The dry stead bun made Ah Dai’s breathing increasingly difficult. He swallowed desperately, and due to the excessive force, his gums were already cut by the hard bun, the salty and bloody taste mixed with the dry bun being swallowed continuously.
"Teacher, I’ve finished eating. Look, I’ve finished the gift you bought . I really love eating it! Teacher, look at again, I miss you so much, Teacher, I really miss you!" Ah Dai, disregarding the fresh blood in his mouth, wept loudly until his consciousness once again sank into unconsciousness, and the sound filled with deep sorrow in the stone chamber ceased. But the faint sadness lingered for a long ti.
...
It was unknown how much ti had passed; Ah Dai’s body moved slightly, and he slowly opened his lifeless eyes, numbly sitting up. The crumpled paper left by Goris was scattered on the floor; he moved slowly to gather them next to him, arranging them in order according to the numbers on the bottom of the pages, carefully stacking them together.
Picking up the paper, Ah Dai stared blankly, "Ah Dai, with your kind-hearted nature and dependency on , I knew my death would be a big blow to you. But you should already be a man, and you must beco strong; your teacher does not like weak people. I willingly died for my own desires, it was my own choice, and even if you had stayed by my side and not left, this choice would not have changed. Rember the ti in Nino Small Town? Our encounter could only be described by fate; you actually stole my coin pouch, you might not understand why I erged from the coin pouch at that ti. I’ll tell you, that coin pouch was a product I was very satisfied with. As long as the coin pouch was within a ten-kiloter range of , I could find it by relying on the magic array on it and appear at the location of the coin pouch. The first ti I saw you, I only felt disgust; your filthy appearance made want to end your life right then. However, suddenly I rembered my ultimate wish, and simply checked your body and was surprised to find that although you were very weak, your body’s quality was extrely good, perfect for being my furnace. Thus, I took you away from your thieving life, and fed you the elixirs I ticulously refined. Child, actually your teacher is not a good person; when I took you away, I had no good intentions at all; I intended to destroy your life!"
Reading up to here, the first page was finished, and Ah Dai’s blankness gradually faded, a surprised look surfacing in his eyes as he quickly flipped to the second page to continue reading, "Later, when we left the City of Nino and were on the ship, I began preparing for the future and taught you the basic Fireball Technique. What I didn’t expect was that, although you looked foolish, your talent was exceptionally good, and in such a short amount of ti, you were able to summon magical energy. Rember the pirates we encountered on the ship? That Pirate Leader was very skilled, even I wasn’t sure I could best him. With my nature, if it wasn’t for worrying about my own safety, I wouldn’t have bothered to save those people on the ship. At the mont I was at a standoff with the Pirate Leader, you scared him away with your recently learned Fireball Technique, resolving my embarrassnt. It was from that mont on that your kindness slowly began to change . Later, when we returned to the Illusive Forest, I wasn’t good to you, but no matter how demanding I was, you never complained, always striving hard. Your kindness seeped little by little into my heart. During the few months after we returned, I went out to look for herbs, and every ti I settled down, your image appeared in my mind, I don’t know why, but your honest and simple face felt so familiar to . Rember the notebook I gave you? It’s missing the last page, isn’t it? That’s because the last page records the thod I explored to create the Divine Artifact. Maybe I am not a powerful magician, but on this continent, I doubt anyone can match my Alchemy. I think you now understand my wish, yes, like any alchemist, I have the sa wish—to create my own Divine Artifact. For this wish, I have been striving for decades! Countless experints finally led to gradually find the thod to create the Divine Artifact. Before I t you, I had already deduced from an ancient book that one day in April of the year 989 of the sacred calendar would be the ti when evil was most rampant in the world, and that was also the day I would create the Divine Artifact. The thod to create the Divine Artifact is very complicated; the main reason the Divine Artifact is so powerful is because it itself has a soul, yes, a soul. So, in the final monts of creation, I must have a living person as the furnace, throwing this body nurtured by the Nine Generation Marrow Pill and virgin qualities into the Divine Artifact, sacrificing his life to complete the final fusion process, fulfilling my final wish. And when I saw you in the City of Nino, I had already chosen you. Ah Dai, is your teacher very evil?"
Reviews
All reviews (0)