MMORPG: Rise of the Primordial Godsmith

Chapter 880 Four Pillars: Anomaly

Whoosh!

Returning back to the Gates of Transcendence now that the memory was finished, Valyr stared off into the horizon for a bit, going over all of the information he had obtained from the memory in silence.

By the time he had made sure he committed everything to memory, the young man let out a faint sigh before looking at Vaughn with a slightly bitter smile.

"To think that everything was the result of one decision," said Valyr, causing Vaughn to flash a bitter smile of his own.

"I still feel a bit of regret from the event since that decision caused many lives to wither away," replied the man. "However, now that many years have passed since then, I feel like I'd made the same decision."

At those words, Valyr faintly nodded in understanding. "Exchanging your civilization's freedom for something that's technically free isn't a good deal by all means."

Hearing that, Vaughn nodded in agreement. "You could definitely say that again."

After that, the two of them talked a bit more about the memory the two of them had viewed, with Valyr slowly filling in the other missing parts of the greater narrative through it.

In the end, it took Valyr a few hours to make sure he had obtained everything he needed to know to make the greater narrative complete, feeling a faint sense of satisfaction because of it.

'If Mystia or any historian from Veldanyr knew that I had knowledge of something like this, they'd probably go crazy,' thought the young man to himself, causing a faint smirk to appear on the edges of his lips.

But of course, even though he and Vaughn were talking about what had happened in Veldanyr in the past all this time, that did not mean that he had forgotten the question that Vaughn dodged answering.

"Alright, then." Looking at Vaughn with a calm expression, a faint smile could be seen on Valyr's eyes. "Now that we're done looking through the memory, can you tell me what you were holding off on saying earlier?"

Unsurprisingly, Vaughn began to act oblivious.

"Holding off on saying what?"

Valyr merely let out a sigh in response, telling Vaughn that he knew what he was doing.

After that, he went over what he had told the man earlier regarding the prophecies made known to him through the Imperial Alchemist.

Fortunately, the man dropped the act after hearing that. "The Heralds and the one regarding the being greater than Heralds, right?"

"That one, yes." Valyr nodded.

Nodding back, Vaughn then asked, "Did that Imperial Alchemist person give a name or a title for that being?"

"How about the Anomalies, then?" asked Valyr after that. "How did they come to be?"

"The same thought process," replied Vaughn with a slightly bitter smile. "I checked what would happen if I were to cohabitate with Heralds."

"The result that I obtained was that there would eventually come a descendant that would have all of their blood be my own blood."

"In other words, they would turn out to have similar qualities to the humans of the past."

Ding!

[You have gained a piece of information regarding your true identity.]

Hearing a notification go off in his mind once more, Valyr briefly looked at it for a bit before continuing the conversation.

"Wait, that doesn't make sense," he replied. "Does that mean that you... cohabitated with a Herald from the Zeihardt clan, then?"

"Surprisingly, no." Vaughn shook his head. "All of the Heralds I made back then actually ended up becoming the founders of the various noble and imperial clans you see today."

Though he was surprised to hear such a fact from the man, the young man continued with his questioning.

"Then, how...?"

"More testing, of course." Vaughn faintly smiled. "Since me cohabitating with a Herald meant that an Anomaly would arise, I checked if an Anomaly would also arise if I were to do it with a normal human created through Operation Hope."

"It took a long time, but the machines in the laboratory eventually gave me an answer," replied the man. "They said that an Anomaly would only come about after a few Heralds had appeared in that Anomaly's lineage."

"After a bit more checking, I found out that the magic number was seven Heralds, which equates to who knows how many years after I established the Zeihardt clan."

"In any case, I've figured it out from the start that you're asking all of these to answer a question you've long wanted the answers to," said Vaughn after that, prompting Valyr to nod as he remained silent.

Smiling back, Vaughn then nodded. "That Imperial Alchemist was correct. She might have called you a Harbinger, but I will call you an Anomaly."

"However, if I were to phrase your identity more nicely..."

"Then you're the true inheritor... the sole inheritor of my... no."

"The sole inheritor of the Darkstar lineage."

Ding!