HBWnovel Chapter 1099 1102: Peter
Chapter 1099 1102: Peter
Continent Z
Peter looked at the disappearance of the passage with a complicated expression.
He realized that Riya was right...
That once they crossed the passage, the passage would close down on its own. He saw the space distorted and the passage crumbled.
At the same time, the mana concentration in the air dropped one after another.
With each passage destroyed, it decreased by 99% of the previous rank.
By now, the mana concentration was already similar to the time before the earthquake had ever happened.
With such thin mana concentration, it seemed that no one would be able to advance pass rank 4 in their entire life. Their main sources of mana would lie within the crack that still existed.
But it would be a more dangerous process.
And without Riya maintaining the formation, how could they survive?
5 cracks in Continent Z alone and if Peter had gone with the others to the other side of the passage, he was absolutely sure that no one on Continent Z would be able to handle it.
"You're right... they all left one after another."
Whether they left because they realized the scheme from the Green Planet's consciousness or it was because they wanted to, Peter didn't know.
But after Riya left, he could sense that the other returnees were also leaving.
The Green Planet's Consciousness's schemes worked.
Riya didn't fully explain the truth of what the Green Planet's Consciousness wanted from them... but Peter knew that it should be something that couldn't be spread to many people.
Because if they were to know that their own relatives had to die in order to fulfill the scheme that the Green Planet's Consciousness was concocting...
It was estimated that many people would become crazy.
Even now, Peter was still having a hard time digesting the fact that these people had left and it might take decades for him to see them again.
Or perhaps...
He will never see them again.
Peter pursed his lips and then asked, "Is it truly worth it?"
He didn't know.
Whether his decision is correct or not, whether he would regret it or not in the future, or whether he had made the right decision....
But he knew that the Green Planet's Consciousness should have long known that he would choose to stay behind.
Because compared to the dream of reaching the peak that many people from Afirer Kingdom chased after, Peter was more tempted by the warm meals that he could share with the people close to him.
And seeing the smile of the people he protected behind him only made him smile back too.
He had no family.
He had no relatives either.
Ever since Peter could remember, he was an orphan on the Green Planet with no one whom he could rely on.
No...
That's wrong.
He still has the kind orphanage dean and other orphanage children who would play together with him.
Peter had to say that his childhood was actually pretty fun.
Even if it was not the best childhood in the eyes of many people, it was still very good for him and warm.
But...
He lost everyone.
Peter never actually talked about his past to anyone because he felt that it was useless even if he were to talk about it.
For some reasons, Peter was never adopted.
He has been in the orphanage for his entire life before he started working.
But in his last teenage years, he was not living in the same orphanage he used to be because that orphanage was gone.
There was an earthquake that no one expected.
It took the lives of everyone in the orphanage and Peter was lucky enough to survive, but he had to spend nearly a year in the hospital. For the young Peter, he was at loss why he managed to survive while everyone had to go.
He met the soldier who rescued him and asked that question.
"Why am I the one surviving?" The young Peter didn't want to be alone. He just wanted his 'family' and others in the orphanage.
The soldier found the young Peter being protected by his friends in that ruins. To be honest, he was also surprised to see a child managed to survive in that tragic earthquake.
Natural disaster was hard to fight.
Many people's lives were lost in the face of natural disaster.
People could only grieve for their lost friends, families, and relatives, praying that they would have a good afterlife.
And for this young teenager, the soldier could only say, "It's because you're protected by everyone's spirit and they want you to live on, Peter."
They want him to live on?
The young Peter looked at loss.
"Live on... not only for your own sake but also for them. Live your life to the fullest and fulfill your dream." The soldier smiled. "That way, you will be able to achieve their expectation for you."
He didn't know what the young Peter's friends thought when they chose to protect him instead of themselves.
But since such a child can be loved by his friends so much...
He hoped that he would not forget about them and live his life to the fullest.
"Don't treat them as a burden but as a motivation to move forward."
The young Peter always remembered those words.
That's what drive him to continue living despite difficulties when he arrived in Afirer Kingdom.
In a magic world without any talent for magic...
How tragic is it?
Perhaps many people would have experience breakdown and unable to accept reality after they saw it.
But Peter could accept it.
He never thought that he was someone special or anything like that.
He's just an ordinary person who has people who cared for him and also someone who's living his life to the fullest. If he didn't have any talent for magic, then so be it.
This meant that he had other paths available for him.
A path that was more suitable.