Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 875 The Beginning of Misfortune Was You
Kyle knew Pat would hesitate.

If she were still the same Pat from the past, someone who had experienced and cherished love, she wouldn't have made the decision so easily.

What Anise can do, Pat wouldn't even dream of.

But he knew even more that Pat would eventually agree.

To survive.

Uncle Lowry once said that people are not born to bear the sins of others, nor are they born to die for no reason.

Death is nothing to be afraid of, but one must die a worthy death.

Regardless of what those grand, fearless heroes do, for ordinary people like them, it's enough to have no regrets when facing death.

A person should at least not die with regrets.

Kyle used to think he could just die, but now he wants to live for himself.

Even though he only occasionally interacted with Uncle Lowry, he still had this kind of awareness.

How could Pat, who spends almost every day with Uncle Lowry, be unaffected?
She can even live so vibrantly in such a godforsaken place!
Pat would never just sit idly by and wait for death to come.

Kyle pulled out a scroll book from his hand and handed it to Pat: "Take a look at this."

Pat looked at him with a puzzled expression, then reached out and took it... Without her having to think much, the scroll automatically flipped to the section Kyle wanted her to see.

That was the research of a great scholar from Scroll Mountain, which clearly stated that human fetuses would show flashes of spiritual light after one month, be fully formed after three months, and only have a complete soul after six months.

So, one month...

Pat suddenly looked up: "When was this research conducted?"

Kyle gave her a strange, forced smile: "A long time ago, the one who first proposed this was... the nameless one who became the spirit of the tower and has been sleeping ever since."

Mages are not interested in this; even evil mages only care about intact souls.

But scholars are different.

After all, the idea that knights originate from blood and mages originate from the soul is very appealing to them.

Although they could only approach the path of becoming a mage through their intelligence and ingenuity, they wanted to try and create an artificial mage…

“They’ve gone mad…” Pat groaned softly. “Scroll Mountain, no wonder Scroll Mountain has come to this end. Even the Lord of Knowledge didn’t care much, just waiting for them to bring about their own destruction.”

They were his followers, after all... I see...

The great mages are indeed not on earth, but that doesn't mean they can't do anything.

"Madmen, they're all madmen!"

The research results produced by such a madman have harmed the women of Gezar for a full century.

Pat reached out and touched her face. She, one of the last to suffer the tragedy, was already over seventy years old.

If she hadn't become a knight... ha~ her companions who served alongside Agris back then would have long since vanished from this world.

On the contrary, many of the girls who had suffered together in the past were reunited in this evil place.

They may support each other, but they have absolutely no interest in becoming friends.

After meeting them, just take a silent look to make sure they are still alive.

While power preserved her stunning beauty and youthful vitality, it could not erase the memories of sorrow and struggle that lingered in her soul.

She now understood why those old guys from the Storm Church dared to do that, and weren't even afraid of the statues in the Storm Cathedral.

A fetus without spiritual light does not add much sin to them.

Even the Lord of Storms cannot expect all his followers to be good people.

As long as it doesn't exceed a certain limit, he doesn't really care about so much.

The most wicked people could not possibly appear before the statue of the Lord of Storms... Without seeing that filthy, bloody aura, who could know what they had done?

Since the will of the world has limited the gods' control over humanity, the gods cannot afford to waste their energy meddling in other people's business.

The same goes for the Lord of Storms.

He was only concerned with the safety of the world and the evil that was right before his eyes; he didn't care too much about anything else.

“I’ve been hesitant about whether to show you this book,” Kyle’s calm voice rang out again. “After all, after Ms. Agnes’s outcry, the girl’s fate is no longer a secret.”

Since you became the eyes of our Lord so early on, you must have been implicated in it as well.

At most, you're a little luckier than them.

The Lord of the Tower has a somewhat twisted personality.

He enjoyed watching his men commit all sorts of evil deeds and wreak havoc throughout the world.

However, he only appreciates good people with principles and doesn't like using overly tragic or resentful beings as his adventuring entities.

Whether it's him, Pat, or someone else who might exist in Scroll Mountain, they are all the kind of people who, despite being somewhat unlucky and resentful, might not have survived or been able to take revenge without the help of the Lord of the Tower... but they still have a trace of awe and a bit of attachment to the world.

Even though he has killed countless people, he will not randomly harm innocent people.

Just like his strange, divine talent, which was twisted.

As the most frequently used in recent years by the Tower Lord to contact high-level combat forces, Kyle holds a very high level of authority within the Church.

All the secrets of books would be revealed to him. When he didn't know what to do but wanted to do something, he would read books... Uncle Lowry had a really big influence on him.

This happened when he was trying to cultivate but found that his body couldn't keep up with the energy expenditure, and he almost fainted from hunger in the underground sewer. Uncle Lowry, who happened to be passing by, found him and gave him a piece of roasted meat while telling him this.

Later, Uncle Lowry would give him a little bit of food every time he passed by.

Kyle knew long ago that Uncle Lowry had his own secret.

After all, much of the food he received was not something the castle kitchen could produce.

Pat's judgment of him and Uncle Lowry was somewhat biased... In her view, Uncle Lowry only occasionally gave him some resources that belonged to ordinary knights.

For example, the fruit that Mrs. Yages used to fumigate the house.

But even if they smoked the house, they would never give it to Kyle to eat.

It's not that they lack compassion, but rather that they simply cannot.

Doing it would only make Kyle's life more difficult.

That would harm him.

But Mrs. Agris and Pat certainly knew that Uncle Lowry would occasionally give him something, since Uncle Lowry would take the fruit from Mrs. Agris's room.

Uncle Lowry would never eat fruit that wasn't very fresh.

That's alright. Even if Count Montes, that old geezer who loves to play dumb and blind, knew about this, he wouldn't make a fuss about it.

After all, he always claimed that he didn't dislike all children, but that he had to make choices.

Tsk~ If he had died ten years earlier, Montes Castle would have been a bit quieter.

Of course, in that case, the Montes family would probably suffer an even more terrible fate.

However, that's a power struggle between the two major inland noble families, with Count Alex Montes at the center... and later on, there will be the grudges and feuds between the Tower, the Ice, and the Lord of the Storm.

Heh~ Maybe it will be even more interesting than the current result!

But then, there might not be Uncle Lowry... and that would make the world too boring.

It doesn't matter if he's not around.

Although Kyle desperately wanted to live, he didn't really think that his existence in this world was a good thing.

"You're not seeing Anise, is it just because of your health? Actually, you could..." Pat asked in a low voice.

“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I think what you’re thinking and what I’m thinking are probably not the same thing.” Kyle interrupted Pat’s wild thoughts directly. “If it’s a collaboration with Anise, the only thing she would do is to kill the father and keep the son.”

I have no interest in betting that she might suddenly have a bottom line.

The reason why Agnes is able to thrive in this place is because her bottom line is actually no different from that of the church's high-ranking officials.

She had been immersed in hatred for too long and suffered too much. Even though she tried to live like a human being, her true nature had been completely corrupted.

She would ruthlessly eliminate anyone who might threaten her interests.

The only ones who could show some sympathy were the women who were also from the Gezar.

She wouldn't even resent those lucky Ghazar girls who escaped because she suffered so much... like Pat.

This is actually not easy.

This place is full of 'victims' who suffer themselves and then drag others down with them.

However, Kyle didn't think that Agnes would be forgiving towards him.

As for the other Gezar girls, they did not possess the divine power of the Tower Lord and were not qualified at all.

However, Kyle never expected Pat to be so quick-witted.

She almost instantly thought of Anise's youngest daughter, who had a special identity.

That child is indeed a backup incarnation of the Tower Lord, and, compared to Pat, he is more in line with the Tower Lord's current preferences.

Anise raised that girl to be exceptionally intelligent, studious, and strong; she was also a level 6 knight.

Everyone thought that if there was any chance, the Lord of the Tower would choose her immediately.

After all, this is a body that we've nurtured ourselves.

But that's precisely why Kyle won't choose her.

Anise's ambition is too great; what he hates most in his life is 'ambition'.

He wanted to go to Qingfeng Territory, not the divine kingdom of some god.

Getting involved with Anise will inevitably prevent him from escaping that vortex.

Indeed, successful people reap unimaginable benefits.

Even under the current circumstances, Anise's chances of success are still very high... Even he and Pat, as manifestations of the Tower Lord, are looking for a way out for themselves, so the higher-ups of the Tower Church are definitely playing even bigger games.

Of course, Agnes wasn't that stupid; she wouldn't betray the Lord of the Tower.

But as a former victim, she is definitely one of the easiest people in the Tower Church to escape.

Actually, at first, Kyle thought it would be Pat who would gather the girls.

(End of this chapter)