Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 1078: Section 678: Who Knows (Part 3)

Chapter 1078: Section 678: Who Knows (Part 3)

Putting down the diary in her hand, Anna was silent for a long time. The diary was taken by Lena, and although her old friend hadn’t read a single word, the head maid could see the ominous contents written on Anna’s face.

"What secret about our Malin could make you lose your composure like this?" the head maid asked softly.

"See for yourself. I can’t express such blasphemous content in words; it’s beyond my capacity to bear, my dear Lena..." At this point, Anna choked up, recalling her daughter and her exceptionally sweet but very young eldest child.

My daughter, I know you have good judgment, but your insight is unnervingly sharp, and your selection of your beloved... is far too stringent.

In this shelter, the body of a long-mutated guardian lay dead in the hall. Sitting in the corner, Anna looked at this creation from before the Great Destruction Era. On the other side of the room, some life pods originally placed there were damaged, and some even showed signs of being dismantled entirely—who knew what madmen had been around.

"Was our Mentor enlightened?" Lena’s voice quivered as it rang out, both disbelieving and trembling.

Anna nodded in acknowledgment, sighing: "Yes, he was enlightened. In the latest diary entry, he can’t even remember who he is anymore. We were his last apprentices. The half-blood giant... bore his child, yet he never got the chance to tell her the child’s name."

With that, Anna let out a long sigh.

She had never imagined her mentor would make such a sacrifice for this world.

By accepting the enlightenment of the Nameless, he forgot his identity, forgot where he came from. He gained transcendent power, but quickly, the corrosion of the Subspace began manifesting in his body. Ultimately, he chose to cast himself into a star 14.6 million kilometers away.

His transaction with the Nameless and the Goddess of Fate is written at the end of the diary—it was his last testimony during his moments of clarity.

He loved that half-blood giant girl, just as she deeply loved him; yet the two lovers chose to sacrifice for the salvation of the world.

He died with regret in the end, and she chose to leave her child to survive alone in the North’s giant Royal Court.

An oath-bound giantess who vowed never to marry; even with the Nameless’s assistance, life must have been excruciating.

But she had no regrets.

If possible, Anna truly wanted to ask her old friend why she hadn’t explained it all to her.

"...That’s impossible. Malin... according to this book, it was only after Malin’s failure that she left the child because... that woman would bring a new soul to the soulless shell." As Lena said this, she set down the diary in her hand: "Malin... no, who exactly is the Malin now."

"No, Lena, the Malin now is the true Malin. The child failed during the first promotion; the child’s mother’s indulgence cost him his life. After the failure, a soul personally chosen by that woman became the new owner of the child’s body." Anna sighed deeply: "He says he’s Malin, so he must be Malin... Who exactly is he?"

"He’s a very cunning hunter." Lena closed the diary.

"Yes, a very cunning hunter." Here Anna looked into her head maid’s eyes: "Even a cunning woman like Manli repeatedly fell into his hands. His discoveries, his methods... I should have realized long ago."

"The Lord of Justice vouched for him, Anna; we should not overlook this point. No one without strength can gain his favor. That woman and the Lord of Justice, they were for the salvation... a Savior." Upon saying this, Lena drew out a dagger from her waist: "A guest has arrived, madam."

Anna stood up, and the two elvish Legends watched the opening of a teleportation portal, seeing a seemingly ordinary and unremarkable young man step out, yet with a particularly pleasant smile.

"You finally found this place. I’d always thought you wouldn’t be able to." With that, the young man looked at the body: "You should recognize him, shouldn’t you?"

"Yes, our classmate, I always thought he was dead." Anna said this, raising her head to look at the young man standing before her: "Your Highness, when did you and that woman join up with our mentor?"

"About fifty years ago, it was your mentor who reached out to me. He asked me, as he’d been living in this world for fifty years and, despite his efforts, achieved nothing, watching the Tide of the Dead rise again, not wanting to be protected by his apprentices anymore, so he wanted... to become transcendent." The young man finished in one breath, leaving Anna to speak.

"We knew all this, but the Mentor was an Outer Domain person, different from us, insulated from transcendent abilities, so he ultimately accepted your enlightenment." Anna said, glancing at her friend, and after she nodded, Anna continued her speech: "Your Highness, why did you enlighten him, someone unaffected by Chaos, wouldn’t that have been better?"

"But Chaos also knew, and for those years, the followers of the chaotic Evil Gods were always tracking your mentor, an Outer Domain person unaffected by Chaos. If they could capture him and offer him to their Evil God, then your mentor’s universe would be invaded... he could not accept such a fate, so he ultimately accepted my enlightenment, becoming a hero god at the cost of losing all memories of his home. That’s why your generation of apprentices all thought your mentor was omnipotent because he indeed was omnipotent." The young man sighed at this point: "But doing so came at a price. You in this world have endured eight millennia, developing some resistance to the chaotic Subspace, but after enlightenment, your mentor had no resistance to Subspace. After teaching your generation, he also taught two small batches of apprentices, before discovering he was contaminated by Subspace."

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