Chapter 773: Section 526: Bullets Are the Best Gift (2)
The prisoners Malin brought back made all the Churches, including the National Church, ecstatic—there was nothing better than capturing a live, timid Chaotic Believer from a foreign land. The Church immediately assembled a group of efficient personnel to form an interrogation team. Each organization, including the Mage Tower, offered generous support by dispatching High-Order Mages skilled in mind control Spell Formation. Through their combined efforts, it only took half an hour for them to extract everything from the believer’s mind.
The answer was unexpected for everyone, yet it did not exceed their psychological expectations—the Chaos indeed came from a foreign domain, but it was actually from a different timeline of this world.
Theories on parallel worlds and timelines have always existed, so not many were surprised. Still, the message in this Chaos’s mind astonished many... or rather, high-ranking individuals like Old Francis knew that in this Chaotic Believer’s timeline, there was no legendary figure such as Malin Gaiate.
This one originated from ten years after the fall of the Western Human World. In that timeline, the entire Western Human World had already been turned into Nagoth’s garden, and this believer was transformed. In its mind, the mages found plenty of news from another world. For example, the most powerful Nagoth-chosen champion was the biological father of Malin Gaiate.
Honestly, when Old Francis heard this intelligence, he thought something was wrong with Nagoth. If Malin His Excellency’s foster father could become the most powerful god-chosen champion, what about Malin?
It’s not like he could have become the god-chosen champion of some unmentionable entity.
Out of curiosity, the mages searched his memory, only to discover that Lord Gaiate in that timeline had only one foster daughter, who was already missing, without any foster son.
The mages then searched for all the miracles created by Lord Malin, only to find that none of it had occurred in that timeline. The surge of Black Orcs had swept through the entire Sydney Union, Western, and North Farol. Carterburg had been destroyed early on by a siege of Chaotic Believers, and the Farole Principality had been ruined by the Nobles prematurely.
The mages dared not make a decision on their own. After informing Malin and conducting a thorough memory search in his presence, they finally confirmed that Matilda Gaiate, Lillim, and Jessica had gone missing as children during the siege that destroyed Carterburg.
Princess Faye of the Sydney Union died on the fifteenth year of her life. The frail girl could not even leave her pavilion in the last two years of her life.
Queen Nova of the Farole Principality met her end in an unsolved political assassination at the age of nineteen. The Farole royal bloodline was cut off from that day, and until the Principality was engulfed by Chaos, a new ruler was never chosen.
Matilda became the Grand Holy Knight but ultimately died in battle during a siege in the East Administrative Province of Sydney. At the time of her death, all survivors of the Western Human World witnessed that light—the love that the Deity’s most cherished child left for the world. That region remained an eternal sanctuary for ten years thereafter, undisturbed by any desecration.