Chapter 506: The Wandering Knight Should Let Go
“It’s not just you, Ms. Annan, Mr. Banjeet, Mr. Bukin, Mr. Harvey, you all must leave the Kingdom of Gospel.”
After experiencing a mental eviction, Ashe didn’t expect to face a physical expulsion in real life: “Why?”
“Because I can only protect you for eighty-eight minutes,” Lise Deya said. “Once I become Gosdeya, I can’t honor my agreement with Lise to continue looking after you. In fact, it might be disadvantageous for you.”
“When I say ‘disadvantageous,’ I don’t mean direct harm like being hunted, persecuted, or scrapped, but rather the constant grinding by the environment. Although I’m not fully Gosdeya yet, I can vaguely sense what arrangements might be in store for you-Mr. Bukin will successfully establish a small intelligence organization, but once it expands to a city, it will stagnate, and he’ll spend the rest of his life managing internal conflicts; Mr. Harvey will discover an ancient underground battlefield from the Elven Dynasty, but the path back will be blocked by a landslide, leaving him to spend his life researching in the tomb; Ms. Annan will have a child with you and devote all her time to raising the child; Mr. Banjeet will help look after your child.”
Ashe: “What about me?”
Lise Deya: “Gosdeya hasn’t decided yet, but the arrangement for you would be similar: blunting your claws, tempering your ideals and will, filling your emptiness with worldly pleasures, and occupying your time with trivial matters.”
Ashe couldn’t help but chuckle bitterly: “I don’t have any ideals.”
“You might not have had any in the past, but what about now?” Lise Deya said. “Grief has five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.”
“But for someone like you, who caught the deity’s eye, once you process your tribulations, you’ll enter a sixth stage: retaliation.”