Helena did not go into detail about what had happened during that experiment.
She only vaguely revealed a few keywords: pain, shock, despair, and endless torment.
It was said that on the day the experimental results came out, Vignea himself had sat in a daze all night, swallowed by profound despair.
The next morning, when Helena arrived at the laboratory to clean up after learning the results as well, all she found was her husband's corpse.
Vignea had taken his own life out of despair.
Behind the system of Unstable Alchemy lay unbearable despair and terror. The closer one got to it, the more likely they were to fall completely into collapse.
Helena had only learned a little of the surface, so the impact on her had not been as great. Even so, Vignea's death had dealt her a tremendous blow. She had once considered following her husband into death, but she could not bear to abandon the child in her womb.
In the end, she had painfully chosen to live on alone.
Some time later, the child was born. At birth, the infant boy had a mark on his forehead resembling that of the ancient Sun God—an exclusive trait of Helena's bloodline. It was said that her ancestors had close ties to the ancient gods, and every generation born into the family received the blessing of the ancient gods' lingering will.
According to her family's tradition, a child could only choose his own name after coming of age. Before then, he could only have a nickname.
Helena hoped that her child would possess a physique as strong and healthy as the ancient Sun God's, so she simply called him Little Sun God.
Mother and son thus continued living in Stephenson, struggling yet persevering.
After Vignea died, Helena completely distanced