Chapter 450-2: Rona’s Past, the Boundary Between Human and God (2)
[During that period of further study in the Imperial Capital, there was not a single profound memory worth speaking of. Compared with that perilous experience I shared with you, it could only be described as plain as water.]
[I once promised you, ‘I believe parting is only temporary. Under the arrangements of Omniscient True Knowledge, you and I will eventually meet again.’]
[But after reuniting, if you discovered that the once erudite me had now become only the most mediocre and ignorant Scholar, could I still become the companion of the True God’s Envoy? Could I still fight alongside the True God’s Envoy once again?]
[I was unwilling to accept it, and I studied Knowledge ever more diligently, improving my own strength… but the reality was that my talent was mediocre. No matter how much I studied, I could only be limited by my talent and become an ordinary Scholar.]
[Recognizing one’s own limits and admitting one’s own mediocrity is undoubtedly a cruel and painful process. After all, those who can become lofty Sages and Prophets are only an extremely small minority among the countless Scholars.]
[Most people have to endure this painful experience. I, Rona… Rona who was once fortunate enough to fight side by side with the True God’s Envoy, also had no choice but to have my sharp edges worn away and merge like a drop of water into the millions of ordinary Scholars.]
[The cruel reality forced me to lower my head…]
[As for the vision of meeting the True God’s Envoy again, and that past experience of fighting together, I would just treat it as a beautiful memory treasured in the depths of my heart.]
[Perhaps many years later, perhaps at a white-haired age, before I died, I would tell this experience, enough to be remembered for a lifetime, to my students, my descendants…]