During the day, Li Miao and Landfall had to attend classes, while Yuanfang continued digging through the information buried in Pridhan's memories within the Eerie Voyage dungeon.
As Yuanfang questioned him, Pridhan continued to recall the past and sink into nightmares.
Although the nightmares contained much distortion and abstraction, it was not difficult to make out Pridhan's experiences from them.
After being expelled from Aethelgard—the Land of Giants—Pridhan was rescued by Wei Jia and another passing mage.
Pridhan wanted to take them as his masters and learn their knowledge, but a giant's pride clearly would not allow such a thing, even though he had already been exiled.
Yes, judging from Pridhan's words and the scenes in his memories, the giants of Aethelgard had actually continued watching over him in silence.
That much was evident from the fact that the punishment for his grave mistake had been exile rather than immediate execution.
Nor did Pridhan himself truly hate his fellow giants in Aethelgard.
On the contrary, what he hated more was that he had been born weak and lacking in talent. He also hated himself for fleeing the battlefield and committing such a grave error.
Thus, after being exiled and parting ways with Wei Jia and the other mage, Pridhan resolved to become stronger.
He began traveling the world.
And at that time, it happened to be the era of the Long Night.
Black, freezing nights took up most of every day, making travel difficult.
All life sought the truth of burning amid the Long Night. The stars shone in the night sky, guiding all those who pressed onward, as though they were the only tenderness the Long Night concealed beneath its cruelty.
Exile had indeed helped Pridhan mature somewhat.
But what truly changed him was a nightmare that caused Pridhan