Chapter 1329 - 1328: The Aloof Little One-Armed
"Approximately over twenty years ago, before Ember Vance was engaged to Micah Berger, one day the bigwigs from the Forbidden Army Department were selecting clever ones and those with robust physiques to go handle a task. I was picked at the time, but back then I didn’t know what we were needed for."
Xavier Berger began recounting the situation back then, while Yusuf Zuck wasn’t in a hurry and just listened, as he needed to know every detail about Ember Vance in order to make the right analysis.
Xavier Berger continued, "At that time, two hundred of us were chosen. Of course, we two hundred were just a minority, people were also picked from other barracks, there were even Junior God Kings, Divine Emperors, and so on."
"We gathered on a Divine Ship outside of South City, and we then knew that there was a noble on board. This noble was going out hunting, and we were responsible for the outer perimeter of the hunting grounds."
"Afterward, we arrived at the South Suburb Hunting Ground, a natural hunting ground with countless Celestial Beasts. That’s when I disembarked from the ship, and I saw little Ember Vance."
"She had lost an arm, and we were curious at the time, because for beings like us deities, a lost arm could regrow. Even if it couldn’t, this was the Berger family after all—the Berger family had countless precious materials and treasures, what’s an arm worth to them?"
"We later heard that Ember Vance herself did not wish for the arm to regrow, but rather she cut it off as a sign of resolve, as if she wanted to remember something."
"She, along with some other ladies, entered the hunting grounds to hunt, and as time went on, we got to understand her better."
"Turns out she wasn’t a Berger by birth, but a Vance, said to have come from the realm of mortals. The reason why she came to the Divine Realm and became a noble of the Berger family was due to the decree of the old ancestor of the Berger family. Then the head of the Imperial Academy, Headmaster Berger, went down to the Lower Realm to bring her here himself."