Terra Calendar, 1590.3.13.
Fog City region · Hagert Cemetery.
[Grave of Valente Bernard]
A bouquet of chrysanthemums lay quietly before a gravestone. A blond young man silently gazed at the photograph and name on it, then removed his black dress hat and held it against his chest to observe a moment of silence. A large white-furred, red-eyed dog lay before the gravestone, overcome with sorrow as well.
Valente's death was death in the truest sense. Before he died, he had already burned away the very last trace of his spirituality. Under such circumstances, even a deity possessing supreme divinity could not bring him back to life.
"We notified Mr. Valente's mother the day before yesterday."
A sweet-looking woman dressed in black stood beside the blond young man. She was Sharon Euliphis, the white side's Yellow Card holder who had remained in the Fog City region all along.
Sharon's sole role in this enactment had been to serve as Xia Xiu's publicity tool. Once he had finished making use of her, she had been left in the Fog City region as a walking wallet and intelligence supplier. After all, with her meager combat strength, going to Farlan would only have made her cannon fodder.
It could be said that Sharon Euliphis had done nothing but coast through this enactment.
Sharon still clearly remembered what had happened three days earlier. When she woke up in her family's villa, the Yellow Card she carried suddenly announced that the enactment had ended and the white side had won. While she was still bewildered, the Yellow Card began distributing the winning side's rewards. As someone who had coasted through, she received a staff with an [Element Release Entry].
The staff could only be described as rare, not a particularly valuable thaumaturgic item, but for Sharon,