Chapter 1020: Section 655: Love from the Past (Part 2)
"Lena, I have a question."
Setting down the diary and sitting in the now empty classroom, Anna lifted her head. The lady of the house looked at her head maid and close friend.
"Go ahead, my sister."
The elven woman sitting by the window gazed out at the desolation. This abandoned town, under the reign of residual snow, still displayed miracles of life—moss thriving on cobblestones, climbing vines weaving through crumbling eaves and broken walls, and now and then a deer roaming the streets.
"Our mentor is someone with abilities, isn’t he?" Her sister posed a question that struck her as either foolish... or perhaps overly forgetful.
"Of course. He possesses unparalleled spell formation affinity. That’s precisely why our dear Malin was recognized for his extraordinary talent at such a young age—that is undoubtedly Golden Blood." As Lena spoke, she reached out a hand, and a bold deer approached her, drawn by the warm presence of life before it.
The elf smiled and extended her hand to stroke the creature’s broad forehead.
Her sister furrowed her brow. "In the diary, our mentor claims to have no talent. What could have happened?"
"...Are you sure this diary doesn’t record anything?" Lena turned her head upon hearing this, her face filled with astonishment.
"Nothing. If our mentor had no talent, then how did he acquire such immense abilities... Was it a gift from that Deity?" Anna frowned, unsure how to explain it all. But as the Thanan saying goes, ’Heaven never seals off all paths.’ "We can keep searching. This diary isn’t among the first three, but that’s fine; we can continue looking. The next stop is the South—the Freydenbek Region of the Holy Kingdom, Starel Town. It seems our mentor once visited that area. It’s very likely that after leaving the Eastern Kingdom, he spent some time living there."
Anna tucked away the diary and walked toward Lena, who had climbed out the window.
Anna followed her sister out the window. As the two elves, clad in combat gear, reached the street, they heard the distant sound of cannon fire.