The palace advisor’s fingers pointed at several places on the map: “Saxony, Nafale, Norman… eleven countries. All have them.” He met Nai Li’s gaze again, speaking calmly: “Many people proposed abandoning their missions and remaining as residents in Verdya. In return, we try to fulfill their wishes.”
He continued: “The Viscount Rossi you previously met at the Misty Coast was once a guide.”
The image of the trembling viscount struggling to make a living flashed in her mind. Nai Li closed her eyes and softly inferred: “But the world he decided to stay in must have been destroyed, and the countless subsequent Viscount Rossis…”
“They don’t remember coming from another world, nor anything about guides and us. They have become true residents of Verdya,” Pi Ping continued as Nai Li fell silent.
“They have no past, and their future is only destruction… are all heroes like this?” Pi Ping’s silence was apparently an affirmative. Anger welled up in her heart, but when Nai Li looked into Pi Ping’s calm yet cold eyes, it was like being doused with cold water.
Her shoulders shrank, and she lowered her voice, “Heroes witness the worlds they saved being destroyed, guides abandon their wishes to stay, but in the new world, they know nothing. This is ridiculous.”
Pi Ping nodded: “Calling them true wandering spirits is not an exaggeration,” a gentle mockery flashed in his eyes, “In the end, everyone in this world has already become living dead with no past and no future.”
Nai Li carefully chewed on the deeper meaning of his words: “What are you suggesting?”
Pi Ping smiled kindly, rubbing the ring on his finger: “Do you remember the innkeeper at the Oak Tree Inn and the cheese she gave you?”
“This… she wrote ‘Save us’ on it. What does this mean?”
Pi Ping walked closer to Nai Li, lowering his eyes for a moment before showing a resolute expression: “Even when jumping to a new world, everything there is not truly starting from scratch. I’ve seen worlds overlapping and parallel… Any destroyed world has an impact on every new world.”
He emphasized: “And this impact is more powerful… and more terrifying than imagined.”
