[Vol. 5] Chapter 312: Traces Left by an Old Acquaintance
This marked the clear and intuitive distinction Violet had observed between the two types of puppets she had encountered.
The source of this difference likely had much to do with what [Vast Dream] experienced during that period and how his mindset evolved as a result.
Violet had no intention of wasting ti.
“Take directly to [Divine Network Final Form Unit 0]. That person must have already authorized you for this.”
“Uploading an access request to the [Divine Network]… Request approved. Please follow , esteed guests.”
After a brief pause, as though communicating remotely with so unseen entity, the guide puppet “smiled” and nodded before leading the way.
Minchen and Loknisa were clearly no strangers to this place. They didn’t even need the guide puppet’s assistance, walking alongside her as they headed toward the center of the city, bringing Violet along with them.
Though countless puppets and chanical constructs bustled about, it was evident that they had already been instructed in advance. None of them reacted to the presence of the three visitors.
Instead, they continued with their tasks, patrolling, transporting goods, maintaining or operating various facilities along the way. All working in perfect harmony to sustain the operations of this underground city.
As Violet walked, observing the intriguing sights around her, a thought suddenly ca to mind. Sothing she had heard from soone before but never had the chance to ask about.
“By the way, Minchen, what were you doing in Sacchino City before? I heard you ran into the Redemption Saintess there and ended up showing off in front of that little girl?”
“…What do you an by ‘showing off’? I was there on official business, thank you very much.”
After so ti to recover, the Minchen seed to have regained so of his composure. Hearing the playful tone in the priestess’s voice, he couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth, responding with a helpless tone.
“Do you rember that person, Nicholas, Miss Violet?”
“Nicholas, huh…”
As for whether she rembered or not… given Violet’s excellent mory as a deity, there was no way she could have forgotten soone with whom she had interacted a fair bit.
Previously, in Sacchino City, when Violet had helped the Redemption Saintess, Philona, resettle the 100,000 citizens originally belonging to that city, she had heard Philona ntion the nas and characteristics of a mysterious duo who had delivered a one-ti space storage gem.
There was no need to elaborate on Minchen. As for Nicholas, Violet quickly recalled their past interactions after thinking about it.
The “Vicious Wolf gang” in the Oaken Grand Canyon, the legend of the ‘wishing spirit’, and how this disciple of the Sword Saint Bevis Bernard was currently working with the Kingdom’s Royal Palace as the head of security for a certain princess, she rembered all of it clearly.
But now that Nicholas had appeared here in the Holy Empire, together with Minchen…
“Hmm, so what’s your relationship with him? Another one of your illegitimate children, Mr. Main Character? By the way, don’t tell you took advantage of your little bit of power and went straight to the Royal Palace of the Human United Kingdom to steal soone? Let tell you, Lilya is under my protection, so if you dare bully her, it won’t just be a simple beating.”
“Hey, hey, what do you think of ? That sounded terrible in every possible way…”
Instinctively stepping back, Minchen quickly corrected himself.
“About taking Nicholas on a journey, I approached him privately first, then formally t with Her Majesty Lilya lchior and got her permission. As for my relationship with that kid… Please don’t misunderstand, there is no blood relation or familial connection between us.”
“But… he’s the descendant of Xiao Shuai.”
“……Xiao Shuai?”
As the priestess mumbled the na, which sounded a bit tacky but was actually not the first ti she had heard it, Loknisa turned around as well.
“Here’s the story, Miss Violet. When Minchen and the others crossed over to this world, there were five of us in total, including him. Apart from the ones you’re already familiar with, Vast Dream and Cheese Mochi, there was one man and one woman. And [Fla God Xiao Shuai] was the only human among us, acting as the archer who provided support from the rear.”
The young man in plain clothes nodded and spoke in a deep voice.
“Xiao Shuai died in the battle in the Illusionary Realm, killed by the son of the Great Fiery Lord, the Fiery Elental Lord. I watched with my own eyes as he, who was most skilled in using flas, was burned to ashes, leaving no remains.”
“Although we fought with everything we had to avenge him, even extracting the core of the Fiery Elental Lord as revenge, his fall could not be undone.”
“After leaving the Ten Thousand Demons Mountains a few days ago, I went to the Human United Kingdom, as per your instructions, and taught that girl nad Lan Tulls who got my sword techniques. Afterward, I traveled south and arrived at the capital of the Human United Kingdom. There, I t a legendary adventurer nad Scarlet Fla Flora.”
“What surprised was that the archery technique Scarlet Fla Flora used was exactly the sa as Xiao Shuai’s, but Xiao Shuai should never have taken on any disciples…”
“Later, I rembered that when we were traveling the world many years ago, we had once encountered a ruined temple that seed to be dedicated to the [Fla God]. At that ti, Xiao Shuai joked that his na also included ‘Fla God,’ and since the temple had been abandoned for a long ti, with nothing inside, he decided to place his bow technique, the essence of what he had summarized, on the altar, as a gift from the [Fla God] to future generations.”
“I think this Scarlet Fla Flora, or her ancestors, must have found that temple and Xiao Shuai’s notes, learning the abilities within. If that’s the case, she could be considered a half-disciple of Xiao Shuai, the only inheritor. I’ve decided to stay a while longer and observe, to see if I can offer so guidance.”
“But what surprised even more was that, over ti, following Miss Scarlet Fla Flora’s social connections, I found out that she occasionally interacted with, none other than Nicholas, the head of the palace guards, and he actually looked very similar to Xiao Shuai. Moreover, there was a faint, sowhat familiar scent about him…”
“After carefully recalling, I rembered sothing.”
“When we were traveling the world and becoming stronger, we gradually encountered the new and unique [laws] of this world and tried to simulate and master that power, which was almost close to the concept of a force.”
“Back then, Vast Dream was already exploring the essence of [Faith Power], and we, in our youthful ambition, even tried to use sothing like simulated laws to create a ‘machine that could respond to wishes’, the so-called wish machine.”
“Using Vast Dream’s AI technology, along with many precious materials we had gathered, we eventually made a prototype.”
“However, due to certain technical challenges that we could never overco, and the true laws being far more complex than we had imagined, we eventually abandoned the plan. We left the half-finished product in the deep part of the Oaken Grand Canyon, as a trace of our journey through there.”
“This machine was supposed to be accessible only to the five of us, but perhaps because so much ti had passed, the identity recognition system malfunctioned and mistook Nicholas, whose temperant and bloodline were similar, for Xiao Shuai. It not only reset the environnt simulation and restarted the machine… but also granted him a [wish].”
“Afterward, the device likely ran out of energy and fell back into a dormant state, but the aura of the [simulated law] we had collectively created still lingered on Nicholas, and I eventually noticed it.”
“I then secretly checked with so special thods and confird that Nicholas was truly Xiao Shuai’s descendant.”
“That’s why I decided to keep him close, teach him so deeper techniques. It’s also… a small compensation for not protecting Xiao Shuai well back then.”
“Hey, don’t look at like that with suspicion. I really didn’t do anything out of line in Courage City. The queen even took one of my magic items as a ‘fee’ for the permit…”
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