Chapter 502: Three Hundred and Thirty-Nine: The Distance Between People (Part One)
"That is one tough kid," the assistant sighed as she stood outside the manor of the banquet that was winding down, waiting for her own carriage. Capella’s assistant, also by default a woman, looked at her superior, "His two ladies... what a pity, such outstanding girls should have been one of us." "Don’t be silly, my old friend," Capella said with a smile, "Fate forges a unique path for everyone. Maybe for them, following at his side is the greatest fortune in life. Speaking of which, he is a true gentleman; he looked at us without any covetous gaze. Knowing that we had no schemes intersecting with his, he rejected me with a smile that kept me at bay, and for the first time, I tasted defeat in the presence of a young man."
"Madam, we have not been defeated. The Commercial Union and the Malin Group have already reached an agreement on the second dock at Carterburg. The two of us will build a super-large modern port in Carterburg, creating thousands of jobs... Madam, we are still the victors."
"We are just working for ourselves, sister, and victory will never come. We will fight for ourselves until the last moment," Capella said, noticing Malin Gaiate opening a portal in the garden with his partners.
"I heard they are on their way to the Farol Principality. His precise Coordinate Movement Teleportation Technique is indeed beyond his time... My sister, have you heard that story?" Capella watched him and them enter the portal, then turned to her assistant.
"What story?" The assistant was startled, then laughed and shook her head: "Are you talking about the tale that’s born of the era? That’s nothing more than a countryside tale among bards, not worth mentioning, Madam."
"No, my sister, if you truly flip through the book called history, you will find that in every era, unique individuals emerge. They change their times, holding back the raging tides at the brink of doom... My sister, if Mr. Malin truly is such a person, then we... must follow him."
"Madam, you have said that our independence and autonomy are far more important than life itself."
"But my sister, when the Tide of the Dead rises again, when the end times come, we and they alike will follow a flag. Under that flag that can save the world, each person’s life will ignite for the survival of our entire race. In that moment, every person, whether man or woman, is nothing more than a mortal striving to survive in a destruction that could engulf everything..."
"Madam, you worry too much. The Tide of the Dead has only passed less than forty years ago. According to that gentleman’s theory, Mr. Malin is likely just a Transcendent hand changing human history. I think all that he has promoted, including the institutes in The Capital, are proof that he is a Sage, not a Savior."