"They were actually giving me this kind of Inheritance?"
Ian was no fool. He could tell exactly what Grand Duke Solin meant—Adalbert was "Inaga II's Inheritance."
He had given Adalbert to him.
Never mind whether Adalbert was willing to follow him, or whether a living person... uh, an Undead Monarch probably counted as a living person too? Never mind whether the Grand Duke even had the right to give Adalbert away.
The Grand Duke was not wrong.
Ian gave the Undead Monarch researcher beside him a strange look. Adalbert's eyes were wide, and he was nearly dumbstruck. Yes—the Undead Monarch and the dead souls were both here, and the developer of the core technology was here too. Though Adalbert himself might not know it, the knowledge in his mind, the techniques Grand Duke Solin had unknowingly made him master, were clearly almost the complete set of Inyaga's Inheritance.
And not only that, Adalbert was a living person who could continue developing new technologies. The guy was young, barely in his twenties. His future was bright indeed!
What?!
How could Adalbert have imagined things would develop like this? And he had actually been fired? No, that was not the important part...
He had only just been fired now?!
Then what had Grand Duke Solin originally planned to do with him?
He had thought he would die!
Clearly not. If Ian had to guess, Grand Duke Solin wanted to cultivate a "successor" whose personality was utterly unlike his own, yet who also possessed Inyaga's Inheritance. He was deeply pessimistic about his own fate, or perhaps about the world itself, so whatever he did, he wanted to leave behind "traces."
Or rather, "tombstones."
The Undead Monarch and Adalbert were both his tombstones.
Gloomvale Knight, did you truly wish to recreate the Undead Monarch?