Even goblins are dangerous in this other world!

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He stared at the message the author had sent to Selena:

The moon will eventually return to the stars.

Selena's understanding is probably correct; the moon here likely refers to her.

But the stars...

As Amu wept bitterly, Luo Xiu saw in his mind the image of Selena's death, lying on the desolate black reef, the seawater covering most of her body.

But the seawater is not endlessly black, because this is Rovanpu.

The stars in the sky here are absolutely dazzling.

The starlight was reflected in the sea, sparkling as if a cluster of stars surrounded her, commemorating her death.

Luo Xiu's heart tightened at this thought. In other words, the [Guide] really had the ability to foresee the future?

He saw Selena's future death, which is why he wouldn't let her leave.

He held his breath and continued turning the pages. After many, many pages, he found the useful information on the next page.

By this time, Selena should have grown up a lot, and writing this booklet would no longer be a daily occurrence; it would likely be a long time before she wrote it again, with a significant time span.

I finally have some free time today.

The work in the Knights is more tiring than I imagined. Like I told you before, I was appointed captain as soon as I joined. At first, I thought that all I had to do in the Knights was fight, but now I realize how naive I was.

Leadership, coordination, delegation, command, and training—there's still so much I need to learn.

It's quite noticeable that Selena's narrative style matured considerably during this period.

Regardless, I feel that joining the Knights of Rauwanpu was the right choice. I'm honing my skills rapidly, and I feel that it won't be long before I reach the fifth rank.

[Of course, "not long" is probably a bit of a stretch, but it'll probably take at least seven or eight years. After all, I'm not a monster like Senior Brother Earl.]

However, I am already very satisfied. I can feel myself improving every day, and I really enjoy this job. The people of Rovaniemi are very kind and simple, and it's very pleasant to get along with everyone. I feel like I've found the meaning of my life.

However, that's not what I'm here to write about today.

What I want to tell you is that I saw my teacher again.

He's lost a lot of weight, but he's still as wise and composed as ever. A while ago, my senior brother Earl wrote to me saying that our teacher had stayed with him for a long time and made an appointment to visit him every year. I was quite jealous at the time, thinking that our teacher was being biased.

But this time is different, hehe, because this time the teacher brought me a gift.

[Earl didn't receive any gifts from the teacher.]

My teacher bought me a dress; it was made by a master blacksmith in the capital, and it's a fifth-tier dress!

As Luo Xiu read this passage, he couldn't help but chuckle, and the chill in his heart was somewhat dispelled.

He noticed that although Selena's narrative had matured considerably by this time, she still retained some of her girlish habits, such as her fondness for using interjections.

This dress is pure white, which is my favorite color.

Some strange things happened during this time.

When the teacher handed me the dress, she said, "This is the last time."

I pressed the teacher to tell me if this was the last gift, but he smiled and said of course not, there would be a new gift every year.

That's all. I asked the teacher about your situation, but the teacher wouldn't go into details.

Why haven't you shown up yet?

If you showed up, you should be able to kill all those beasts.

I hope I won't be too old by the time you appear.

[Sigh, I wish I could stay young like my junior sister Olivia. I need to ask her for advice someday.]

This page has ended.

Luo Xiu focused on the dress on this page—a white dress.

He recalled a recurring dream he'd been having lately, in which the figure was wearing a white dress, her face obscured, but beckoning him closer.

"time is limited."

That figure always only uttered this one sentence.

Is that white dress worn by Selena Gomez?

It's possible.

But not necessarily.

Luo Xiu thought back carefully and realized that he had seen quite a few white dresses since arriving in Dorant.

When did it all begin? With his current abilities, past memories flashed through his mind like images.

Soon, he spotted a figure.

Liz.

At the time, Liss was wearing a white dress and cleaning at the Adventurers' Guild in Wheel Town.

What next?

It looks like Olivia.

Luo Xiu recalled her sitting in the dark, scorched garden of Kanriel, her long dress billowing out like the only flower in that garden.

What next?

It seems to be Selena.

is it?

Luo Xiu felt like he had missed someone.

He had this feeling when the Battle of Kanril ended, and now it's happening again.

I had completely forgotten something; now it seemed to be a young woman wearing a white dress.

When his head began to throb, Luo Xiu stopped thinking about it immediately, to avoid being drawn into the vortex of the mental world like last time.

If you really want to continue searching for that vanished being, you must at least cross the sixth level.

Luo Xiu focused his mind slightly, cleared his mind of distractions, and calmed himself down before continuing to turn the pages of the diary.

He spent a very long time flipping through the pages, starting from when Selena was the captain, continuing until she became the overall captain, then the vice-captain, and finally reaching the fifth rank in her early thirties. Further down the page, he found that she became the sub-captain of the [Demon Slayer] guild.

She found Olivia and learned the technique of preserving her appearance. Although she could not live as long as Olivia, her beauty would remain forever, and coincidentally, her youthful spirit also seemed to remain forever.

At the same time, she also wrote about Earl. A few years after she crossed the fifth rank, Earl crossed the sixth rank and became the vice-commander of the Royal Capital Knights, in charge of the defense of the northern demon tide.

About ten years later, when she first tried to break through to the sixth rank, Earl reached the seventh rank.

During this period, the author visited her many times, but never mentioned anything about himself.

She would still ask every time, but the [author] almost never answered anymore.

Until a certain page, Luo Xiu stopped turning the pages.

[Brother Earl is dead]

Chapter 237 The Diary (The Unveiling Chapter) - End

[Brother Earl is dead]

As Luo Xiu looked at this sentence, his mind automatically recalled Dorant's timeline, connecting all the previous events together.

Earl, the Sword Saint, was one of the last two Tier 7s in Dorant and died 30 years ago.

In the same year, a seventh-tier being known as the "Shipping King" left the Rovan Sea in Rovanpu and went beyond the Land of Divine Remnants to seek an opportunity to advance to the eighth tier.

Haven't returned yet.

Earl died because he perished together with the seventh-tier Shadow Wolf King. After the Shadow Wolf King's death, the Shadow Wolf clan was in a state of decline, and the two remaining clans in the north, the Goblin and the Moon Shadow Bear, became the main fighting force of the monsters.

In other words, the content of this page in the booklet was written 30 years ago.

Luo Xiu continued looking down.

How could Senior Brother Earl be dead? I was stunned for a long time after receiving the news the day before yesterday, and I still can't accept it.

[That senior brother Earl, who was like the sun, ultimately died in the Shadow Forest.]

Did you know? My senior brother Earl is very kind to me, no, he's kind to everyone.

He's the kind of person whose smile is like a sunny day. We were studying together under the same teacher, and whenever I made a mistake, he would always take the blame for me. If I had any questions, he would keep teaching me until I understood, even if it took five or six times.

As I write this, some wrinkles appear on the paper, probably traces left by tears that have dried after being wet.

Selena's narrative style in describing Earl is close to plain description, but this makes Luo Xiu feel even more that she was sad at that time. When the emotion of sadness reaches its extreme, one will not consider so-called gorgeous words and reasonable wording.

I'm so sad. I couldn't believe that my senior brother Earl would become a cold corpse until the teacher came this morning.

He looked exhausted, as if he had traveled a long way. The first thing he said to me was to tell me that Senior Brother Earl had really left.

I couldn't hold back my tears, and they streamed down my face. The teacher, though also saddened, comforted me, saying that Earl's passing was meaningful.

After I had a good cry, I promised my teacher that I would definitely advance to the seventh rank, and that I would finish what Senior Brother Earl hadn't done.

But the teacher patted my head and told me that it wasn't necessary, and that I should just be happy being myself, because I had already found my own path.

The teacher's words made me uneasy, because her goal had always been to wipe out the monsters and lead Dorant out of the Land of Divine Remnants, but now it seemed like she had abandoned that goal.

I couldn't help but wonder if it was because my aptitude was so poor that it was almost impossible for me to reach the seventh level, which led the teacher to make the decision to give up.

I told my teacher my thoughts.

He laughed and dismissed my idea, telling me that as long as I kept moving forward, I would definitely be able to reach the seventh rank, but he hoped I wouldn't become obsessed with reaching the seventh rank.

He said someone would come and finish the rest of the work for Brother Earl.

I know the teacher is talking about you.

But where are you?

Why hasn't it appeared yet?

If you had shown up sooner, Brother Earl might not have died.

[I don't care what the teacher says, no matter how long it takes you to show up, I'm going to do what I want to do.]