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Chapter 366: Three Hundred Year-Old Mistake
Bize swayed on her feet, as she looked at Aubert After a moment, she lireat deal of tiy and resources for that arrow I’d created it specifically to torture you, and to discover what sort of monster you truly were I didn’t expect this answer The fault doesn’t just lie with you, Aubert I bear some of the blaht us here Not just yours – ours”
The elderly woan to sob
The farroup by this point Many of theht here and kept alive by Aubert’s power, all the way fro still as statues and trying to come to terms with their new reality Most simply rejoiced
The poison that had consu years The s they’d went through gradually cahts were finally starting to look up
“Three hundred years! Three whole centuries! Wasted, because of a h, turning his head toward the others “You two… come here, please”
The Wine Master nodded, and with a wave of his scepter both he and Lan Jue floated over to the fallen god’s side
Aubert looked at the younger Paragon, and nodded “You love wine… I can feel it All of you do It’s a pure love, not like mine I lost my ine becareat mistake”
Aubert weakly raised a hand There was a flash of purple, and suddenly three grapes appeared in the air, covered in hoarfrost like the others
“These grapes are absent the infection I give them to you as compensation They are the product of years of h the purification of Bize’s arrow, they are free of i to produce wonderful wines, they are also ienic coon can take one, and it will help thethened these effects, and more A nor just one of these A paragon would not get drunk, nor enjoy quite so effective results”
Again? More of this fruit? Lan Jue looked toward the Wine Master for directly, but the older man had already taken them He handed two to Lan Jue and kept one for himself
“Thank you, honored predecessor” The Wine Master bowed respectfully before the old god of wine Evidently, he didn’t have any qualrapes this tihed pitifully “I’ve finally come to my senses Do not fret, friends… the corruption that had consuone forever With Bize at o… I’d like to, spend a little time with Bize, just she and I”
The Wine Master sion, they were able to sense acute, and minute, differences in a person’s aura He knehat he was hearing was truth – you couldn’t fake the reaction he had The gods of wine didn’t have to resort to that sort of base trickery anyway Against two Paragons, they didn’t stand a chance, so there was no need for falsehoods
Lan Jue didn’t ask the Wine Master why he was given two, and simply put them away They had a lot to talk about once they left
“Wait a , raised her head She tenderly rose to her feet, and faced Lan Jue
“You must doubt that my arrival here was more than a coincidence I will tell you the truth; it wasn’t And you needn’t worry, all of this was the Clairvoyant’s design”
“The Clairvoyant?” Lan Jue vaguely recalled so the back of his mind
She nodded “The Clairvoyant and I have been friends for a long while He knew me I searched for years for de Villaine Back then, when the Earth was dying, we didn’t want to leave I thought I would return there to find my answers, but when I arrived at Beaune, it had been abandoned Not a soul reured he must have relocated to another planet I felt hopeless, after all where does one begin looking in the vastness of the universe? I sought out the Clairvoyant, and asked him to help divine some answers He told ons shielded hih, that Aubert would find a way to extend his life To achieve oals, I spend an incredible sum to make sure I would live When you sawas I sat by thatI forced y as possible – that was the only way I could live this long A month would pass like a day toin the body of a corpse I lingered on like this, for years upon years All because the Clairvoyant told me Aubert was still alive”
“Eventually I caed I went to the Clairvoyant again, and begged hiies to help me learn more He confirmed my fears, that Aubert had fallen to corruption It was he who taught me how to make the arrow He said it would be the only way to clear your mind
“It was an instru tremendous effort to create With countless treasures needed, it took a hundred years to co this arrow of compassion needed… was altruistic blood I approached the Clairvoyant one last ti the end of his days He , he said that as his life faded, his powers grew Strong enough, he said, to faintly see where Aubert ht be He asked et what I needed to finally get what I wanted