Chapter 1005
At this news, everyone found it rather strange. Dole's parents might both be alive, merely hiding away in some corner.
If that was the case, then they were definitely no ordinary people.
However, Shallow Moon Patriarch considered the matter from two angles. One was that they truly had not found Dole's mother. The other was that they were lying, trying to trick Dole into going back.
As for why they wanted to trick him back, that was unclear. Perhaps they had the same idea as he did—deceive him into staying behind some hereditary material, then hastily produce several outstanding descendants.
Almost all older-generation Wizards did this. Any young person with even slightly decent aptitude would be given several equally outstanding, or somewhat outstanding, women to bear more children with, so that more Wizards would emerge in the future.
Yet most Wizards were like Dole, unwilling to be treated as breeding tools and deeply resistant to such things.
Having thought this through, he slowly said, "In that case, I'll have Dole go to Northwestern Fortress to meet with you. As for whether he chooses to see you or not, that is for Dole himself to decide. What we say is useless."
Fuen hurriedly said, "All right. Just pass the message along. Leave the rest to Wizard Dole."
He breathed a sigh of relief inwardly. The things we want to understand are surely things Dole wants to understand as well. At the very least, his blood relatives are still in this world. He cannot possibly ignore them.
The two sides exchanged a few cordial, friendly words, then departed separately.
Just after they left, a gale swept in from the farther northwest, driving all the way southeast. First came fierce winds and thick fog, followed closely by a heavy snowstorm that