Chapter 140: The Glittering Golden Hour (5)
The main temple was located on Sun Ascension Peak.At the foot of the mountain's first stairway, children were often abandoned.
Sick orphans.Troublesome heirs of noble families.Children with deformed bodies.Unwanted offspring of unplanned pregnancies, and so on.
Various types of children were left behind, and there was a tale that virtuous monks would save them and they would live as monks atop that high mountain.
Well, there was a nun at the summit who had earned the title of Grandmaster through her virtue. Everyone thought she would somehow take care of the children.
This man too was abandoned at the foot of the stairs at birth.Yet, astonishingly, he retained memories from his childhood, which were neither dreams nor illusions.
━Because of you, my life has been a failure. You are the failure of my life.
It wasn't something a mother should say to a newborn child.At the time, the man, barely a year old, couldn't comprehend its meaning, but he vaguely sensed that his mother would no longer hold him.
Failure.That was the young man's name.By good or bad fortune, he was picked up by a monk from the main temple and grew up in the monastery at the top of the high mountain.
He was a man who quickly learned and imitated everything.When a prodigy who knew ten things from learning one appeared, everyone was amazed, but the man's heart was always indifferent.And at the age of six.On a deep night when not even the moon hung in the sky, the man was attacked by a giant snake behind the monastery walls.The snake coiled around the man and opened its huge mouth like a cave.