Chapter 442 - Two Hundred and Ninety-Eight: Parting Ways to Meet Again (5)
Truth be told, after the grand competition in Regensburg ended, Malin felt he had fallen into a happy time of eating and waiting for death, but happy days usually pass quickly. When the team from the Church of the Goddess of Harvest was preparing to return to Carterburg, Malin still brought the girls to the train station and attached their carriage to the end of the train.
"I thought you would live in Regensburg," lamented the younger brother of the Quaiser family at Malin’s punctuality.
Malin didn’t want to explain anything—he certainly couldn’t tell the guy that he was returning to Carterburg just to see his mentor off on his final journey.
On the way back to Carterburg, the temperature continued to drop, and soon everyone was changing into winter clothes. Malin, too, had no choice but to change—as a Frost Giant’s whelp, he really wasn’t afraid of the cold. Now, with his bloodline steady, all his traits were in working condition.
When they arrived at Carterburg, it was already deep winter, and old Hoffman had only two months left.
Malin visited him at the first opportunity and found the old man had aged so much that he could hardly recognize him.
Kneeling in front of his mentor’s wheelchair, Malin looked at the dry back of his hand and at his thin head full of liver spots: "I’ve come back."
Perhaps hearing Malin’s voice, he opened his wrinkled eyes, glanced at Malin, then smiled and nodded, "Good boy, you’re back."
"Is everything ready for the ritual? Has Ails contacted you?"
"Yes, the Lord of Justice has made a promise for us... that Lich agreed to either seal or kill the Evil God within his territory. Anyway, even if some of its energy leaks, nothing there can be tainted—because there’s nothing that can be tainted."