Fate

"What was that?"

Huai Shi looked at Tong Ji. "An illusion?"

"If I had to put it into words, it would be the remnant of an obsession." Tong Ji cast a pitying glance at the corpse on the ground. "The lingering remains of regret, just like that pile of Holy Mark Relics in your hand.

Powerless and helpless, only when there was no way to undo it could one regret in vain. Filled with resentment, unable to break free, yet not even knowing whom one ought to hate..."

"It's truly pitiful," she said.

Boom!

Hatewater in Huai Shi's hand rang out.

As though enraged, it shot out a streak of lightning.

Yet under Tong Ji's lowered gaze, it dared not act recklessly. It soon faded, leaving only a soundless tremor, like a bleak sigh.

The old man's resentment toward the Piper in his obsession cast a shadow over Huai Shi's heart.

But what concerned him more was the information he had revealed.

Grandmaster Garland had been born on Helios?

But according to what Huai Shi knew, he was clearly a member of the pureblood Herman family, inheritors of the sacred name The Blessed One!

Could it be that an alchemist of the Herman family had given birth on Helios?

Putting aside how likely that was, would the Herman family allow their bloodline to be bound by Helios?

If it was true, then there was an even bigger problem.

Everyone born on Helios was restricted by the commandments within their souls. How had he left Helios?

If Huai Shi remembered correctly, Garland had become a Grandmaster in the Present Realm one hundred and twenty years ago.

Even keeping a low profile couldn't be this low-profile.

"It was just the babbling of a madman. It might not be true."

Tong Ji said,