Chapter 1138: Chapter 87: Goris’s Wish
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"No—, Teacher—" Ah Dai sat up fiercely, clearly feeling the tears on his face. As he gradually regained consciousness, he realized he was still inside the stone chamber, his body twitching slightly.
"Teacher is dead, Teacher is already dead." Ah Dai muttered to himself as he took out the steamed bun wrapped in silver tin from his embrace. "Teacher, did you enjoy watching me eat steamed buns? Okay, I’ll eat for you to see." He forcefully broke the long-preserved steamed bun into two halves. Despite being wrapped in silver tin, the steamed bun had not spoiled, but it had become unusually hard. Ah Dai, as if unaware of the change in the bun, gently peeled off the silver tin and put it into his mouth, chewing vigorously. The dry steamed bun made Ah Dai’s breathing increasingly difficult. He swallowed desperately, and due to the excessive force, his gums were already cut by the hard bun, the salty and bloody taste mixed with the dry bun being swallowed continuously.
"Teacher, I’ve finished eating. Look, I’ve finished the gift you bought me. I really love eating it! Teacher, look at me again, I miss you so much, Teacher, I really miss you!" Ah Dai, disregarding the fresh blood in his mouth, wept loudly until his consciousness once again sank into unconsciousness, and the sound filled with deep sorrow in the stone chamber ceased. But the faint sadness lingered for a long time.
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It was unknown how much time had passed; Ah Dai’s body moved slightly, and he slowly opened his lifeless eyes, numbly sitting up. The crumpled paper left by Goris was scattered on the floor; he moved slowly to gather them next to him, arranging them in order according to the numbers on the bottom of the pages, carefully stacking them together.
Picking up the paper, Ah Dai stared blankly, "Ah Dai, with your kind-hearted nature and dependency on me, I knew my death would be a big blow to you. But you should already be a man, and you must become strong; your teacher does not like weak people. I willingly died for my own desires, it was my own choice, and even if you had stayed by my side and not left, this choice would not have changed. Remember the time in Nino Small Town? Our encounter could only be described by fate; you actually stole my coin pouch, you might not understand why I emerged from the coin pouch at that time. I’ll tell you, that coin pouch was a product I was very satisfied with. As long as the coin pouch was within a ten-kilometer range of me, I could find it by relying on the magic array on it and appear at the location of the coin pouch. The first time I saw you, I only felt disgust; your filthy appearance made me want to end your life right then. However, suddenly I remembered my ultimate wish, and simply checked your body and was surprised to find that although you were very weak, your body’s quality was extremely good, perfect for being my furnace. Thus, I took you away from your thieving life, and fed you the elixirs I meticulously refined. Child, actually your teacher is not a good person; when I took you away, I had no good intentions at all; I intended to destroy your life!"
Reading up to here, the first page was finished, and Ah Dai’s blankness gradually faded, a surprised look surfacing in his eyes as he quickly flipped to the second page to continue reading, "Later, when we left the City of Nino and were on the ship, I began preparing for the future and taught you the basic Fireball Technique. What I didn’t expect was that, although you looked foolish, your talent was exceptionally good, and in such a short amount of time, you were able to summon magical energy. Remember the pirates we encountered on the ship? That Pirate Leader was very skilled, even I wasn’t sure I could best him. With my nature, if it wasn’t for worrying about my own safety, I wouldn’t have bothered to save those people on the ship. At the moment I was at a standoff with the Pirate Leader, you scared him away with your recently learned Fireball Technique, resolving my embarrassment. It was from that moment on that your kindness slowly began to change me. Later, when we returned to the Illusive Forest, I wasn’t good to you, but no matter how demanding I was, you never complained, always striving hard. Your kindness seeped little by little into my heart. During the few months after we returned, I went out to look for herbs, and every time I settled down, your image appeared in my mind, I don’t know why, but your honest and simple face felt so familiar to me. Remember the notebook I gave you? It’s missing the last page, isn’t it? That’s because the last page records the method I explored to create the Divine Artifact. Maybe I am not a powerful magician, but on this continent, I doubt anyone can match my Alchemy. I think you now understand my wish, yes, like any alchemist, I have the same wish—to create my own Divine Artifact. For this wish, I have been striving for decades! Countless experiments finally led me to gradually find the method to create the Divine Artifact. Before I met you, I had already deduced from an ancient book that one day in April of the year 989 of the sacred calendar would be the time when evil was most rampant in the world, and that was also the day I would create the Divine Artifact. The method to create the Divine Artifact is very complicated; the main reason the Divine Artifact is so powerful is because it itself has a soul, yes, a soul. So, in the final moments of creation, I must have a living person as the furnace, throwing this body nurtured by the Nine Generation Marrow Pill and virgin qualities into the Divine Artifact, sacrificing his life to complete the final fusion process, fulfilling my final wish. And when I saw you in the City of Nino, I had already chosen you. Ah Dai, is your teacher very evil?"
