Durin's Diary

Chapter 692 Only This
It was not until he returned to the Duke's Mansion that Du Lin looked at the old Duke beside him. After standing in the endless wilderness for such a long time, the old man looked obviously healthier. He could even stand up straight now.

"I'm truly lucky, an old man. As a mortal, I was able to witness such a secret event and gain many benefits. Look, I'm in great health now, as if I've returned to my youth." Duke Alessandro said, then clenched his fist. "No, I have to go to the training ground to consolidate my realm. Dulin, you should treat this place as your home."

"Okay." Du Lin watched the old man leave.

Then he returned to the hall.

In the hall, Reed and Lan were playing with a group of children. These descendants of Alessandro family members were only eight or nine years old or even younger, which was just right for Reed and Lan to be the king of children.

The girls in Dulin had no idea what he had just experienced. Anta came over and asked with a hint of curiosity: "What treasure did the Duke take you to see?"

"A life support pod containing an old-age monster, the kind we found at the market."

"How can there be monsters locked up in there? Speaking of which, I'm really curious about what happened in the old era. What kind of horror will invade our world, and how did Mr. Anonymous come here?" As a wizard, Anta naturally has infinite curiosity about the unknown. Du Lin listened to her doubts with a smile and gave some answers - not all, because some things are really not suitable for ignorant mortals to know.

Du Lin had deeply understood all of this in his past life. Now it seemed that Du Lin's past life's timeline must have been the timeline after he had been saved. The invasion of Chaos had become a story of history. In Du Lin's time, the joy of human struggle was the true theme of history. Man and Chaos? That was already untraceable history and legend.

In such a long period of time, even the longest-lived elves in Durin's timeline have gone through dozens of generations, not to mention humans who have an average lifespan of only a few decades.

Of the heroes who defeated Chaos, only a handful of statues remain, and those statues have been weathered by war and time, and many have lost their original appearance.

In this timeline, the invasion of Chaos has also been stopped, but there are still many remnants, such as the monsters in the three passes and four seas of the East, and the alien species in the West that have been distorted by the power of Chaos.

Even the power of the path has an unclear relationship with chaos. It is said that the power of the path required taking potions made of exotic materials. Therefore, while each step of the path is extremely powerful, it also has a very high distortion rate.

It was just like the alien species that Du Lin had seen for the first time—transformed from a human but without any humanity.

This is what they mean when they say that life is worse than death.

Anta was finally called away by Alyssa - a dozen or so mages were discussing magic circles, which was not something Durin learned, so Durin could not help much.

He sat down in a rocking chair nearby, near the fire.

The wizard held a pair of tongs of a different style and threw the firewood into the fire. Listening to the crackling sound of the flames burning the firewood, Durin lay down on the chair.

He was still thinking about the anonymous person's words.

The anonymous person said that he chose to abandon everything for the sake of the world, become the nameless god, and do things that were destined to be forgotten, just to continue civilization.

Now it seems that he is a truly kind person - compared to him, Durin feels like a lawful evil person.

But so what? If we don’t kill, how can we establish our dignity? If we don’t slaughter, how can we make the sinners accept punishment?

It is not easy to make evil people obey the law, and it is even more difficult to make the sons of sin obey the punishment, because evil and sin will never be caught. But this is what Du Lin did before, because everyone knows that if they don't do this, evil will only become more daring, and eventually they will dominate all living beings.

They naively think that they are superior to others and that ordinary people can be trampled upon by them at will, but they forget what has been written in history books for thousands of years. In other places, Du Lin cannot and does not want to control it, but in the history of the East, the unwilling lives will always gather together and return the sufferings their ancestors suffered to the descendants of those people intact.

Just because of the law of karma, just because of retribution.

Du Lin knew very well that his own way was both similar to and different from the anonymous one.

What is the same is that both Du Lin and this anonymous person are willing to devote their efforts and spend their entire lives for the innocence of this world.

Like the anonymous person, Du Lin did not want to see the young ones suffer, did not want to see the innocent people suffer, and did not want the world to become a toy for ambitious people and conspirators.

The difference is that Wuming regards those petty evildoers as gifts for salvation, while Du Lin believes that all evil must be eradicated. If you don't manage the petty evildoers today, they will dare to take advantage of you tomorrow!

History books are filled with such stories. Looking back on the past, the establishment and division of countries, the comings and goings of people, are nothing but disputes under the unpredictable human heart. Those ambitious people, those implementers of conspiracy and intrigue, those greedy people, they have caused too much pain to civilization.

If you don't judge them today, they and their descendants will find ways to wreak havoc on the world tomorrow.

What the final outcome will be is fully documented in history books, so there is no need for Du Lin to go into detail.

What else can we do? The only thing we can do is kill.

Since you endlessly create oppression and suffering for the continuation of your individual selves and bloodlines, those who feel this oppression and suffering can and must slaughter your family and cleanse your bloodline.

Resolve hatred. Yes, I bullied you, hurt you, and killed you. Please forgive me, okay?

Forgive your mother, you stupid idiot. Our ancestors thousands of years ago have already told the descendants what to do. Do you still need your children ten thousand years from now to tell you what to do?

Therefore, Du Lin never thought that he was a kind person - the most important thing for a person is to know himself. What others say about you may be important, but you must understand who you are and don't believe what others say.

Others said that Durin of the Elsh family was a kind person, but Durin never believed it.

Because once you believe it, when you raise the knife in your hand again, you will feel that the knife is heavy.

This shouldn't be the case.

Don’t I know who I am? I am the owner of the hand holding the murderous knife. I never think that I am a good person, but God doesn’t punish me and people don’t care. Someone has to stand up and kill the fucking person.

That's it.

(End of this chapter)