Buried Merit and Fame (Finale)

Mary Geoise, Slave Garden.

Compared to the bustling crowds elsewhere, this area, enclosed by high walls and iron fencing like a prison, was exceptionally desolate... It was not merely because of the soldiers guarding the entrance and the "No Entry" sign. The greatest reason was the ominous aura shrouding the place.

The Slave Garden—or rather, this area now renamed the "Resting Tomb"—had been turned into a cemetery. Buildings were demolished and bones were excavated... The cage-like houses had been torn down to erase the scars they had left in the slaves' hearts, while the excavation was an act of shared sorrow.

No one knew how many people had died in this area over the past nearly eight hundred years... In any case, it took thousands of Revolutionary Army members three days and three nights of excavation before the work finally came to an end.

The unearthed bones belonged to men and women, young and old. Whether they were from ages long past or had yet to decay, they all shared one trait... Not a single person's skeleton was intact. Not one!

That meant that, over nearly eight hundred years, not a single person who became a Celestial Dragon slave had been buried whole... Too monstrous for words? Utterly unforgivable? Heinous beyond measure?

Reg could not think of any words that could describe such darkness. He also fully understood why such overwhelming resentment had seeped from the bones when they were unearthed... Whenever he thought of it, he wanted nothing more than to erase the descendants of those Celestial Dragons whose memories had been wiped as well!

But that was only a thought. Even those in the Revolutionary Army who had once been slaves had given up on it... No, it should be said that, after Dragon and Ivankov's guidance, those