Wizard: Start with Biological Transformation to Grind Experience - Chapter 431 - 32: Departure
Chapter 431: Chapter 32: Departure
Not long after, the Light Church.
In the Light Chapel, Alya still stood there, but she no longer wore the veil that symbolized her status as the Holy Daughter.
Lynch frowned and asked, “So, you’ve made up your mind?”
A while ago, Alya had approached him, indicating her wish to resign, intending to leave the position of Holy Daughter of Light and ultimately leave Feiyan City and even the entire Jade Land.
Lynch said, “Isn’t that a bit much, just for this?”
Birth, aging, illness, and death are natural human conditions. As a Wizard, one’s life dimension is on a different level from humans, a realization one should have had from the day of becoming a Wizard.
Alya shook her head, “It’s something I finally retrieved.”
Her expression remained as cold as ever, like a statue, but her voice seemed deeper than usual.
Lynch looked at her in confusion, “Retrieved?”
She looked at Lynch, her gaze no longer cold as it once was, but rather brighter.
She continued, “Emotion.”
Lynch was taken aback.
Alya said, “Before meeting you, I didn’t know what the meaning of my life was. To me, existing seemed to be only as Tristan’s plaything, living each day repetitively like a puppet.”
“After meeting you, I gradually found the meaning of life. There was a time I thought serving the Divine was my pursuit, following God’s footsteps until the end you depicted, reaching the Eternal Heaven.”
She paused for a moment, then changed her tone and continued, “But does eternity really exist?”
Her voice had a certain fluctuation, no longer as monotonous as before.
“For decades, I’ve knelt here devoutly every day, praying to this statue with sincerity. Decades passed, and I have not witnessed any true miracle befall me, nor has my life changed in the slightest.”
Lynch shrugged, “It was something I made up.”
He never concealed this fact; regarding the Church, the Light Goddess, the Faith, all of it was a mythological system he created based on human folklore in this world.
Everything stemmed from legend, just something he concocted recklessly.
Alya continued, “I’m not telling you this to blame you. I just want to let you know, I’m weary of living like a puppet without any independent thought. I don’t want to live like this anymore.”
She recalled the past, a faint smile playing on her lips, “I want to see the ocean. Someone told me the turtles in the sea would surface at sunset and lie on the rocks to bask in the sun; I want to see if that’s true.”
“I also want to see the Snow Mountain, where I’ve heard stunning crystalline ice flowers bloom amidst the icy world.”
“Desert, grassland, mountains, lakes…”
During the years Hasrant stood guard here, he would occasionally chat with Alya about the mundane world, mostly about various sceneries outside.
Some places Hasrant had been before, while others he heard about from books or Minstrels.
Knowing Alya had never been, he often selected a few to tell her. Over time, Alya gradually remembered them.
Alya said, “I never thought of these before, but now I really want to see if these sceneries are truly that beautiful.”
Lynch hesitated, wanting to try persuading her once more.
Don’t think Alya in the Church was merely a symbol of good fortune; although she hardly managed affairs, she had become a symbol within the Church after so many years. All believers acknowledged her existence.
If suddenly this prominent figure disappeared, it would probably cause significant trouble.
So after thinking a bit, Lynch said, “The path to pursuing eternity is inherently lonely.”
Alya looked at him, “But an eternity without emotion…”
“What meaning does it hold?”
Lynch was taken aback.
All of a sudden, he felt this scene seemed familiar as if someone had asked him this before.
Who was it…
“If to attain eternity one must abandon emotion, then even if such eternity truly is achieved, what is its worth?”
The flickering bonfire, the brilliant starry river.
Ah!
Remembered it…
Lynch gazed into Alya’s eyes, at this moment her gaze also held a bit of confusion, alongside some of her own thoughts.
Looks like it’s futile.
Lynch sighed, “Alright, alright.”
A forced outcome is unsatisfactory; no matter how Lynch wanted to retain her, once someone has made up their mind, persisting would be pointless.
…
The year 10096 in the Wizard Calendar, March.
A spring filled with blooming flowers, yet for all the people of Feiyan City, it was no ordinary spring.
This year, in spring, the Light Church suddenly announced to the public that the Light Goddess’s spokesperson in the mortal world, the most devout servant by the goddess’s side, the Holy Daughter of Light Alya would step down from her position.
For all believers of the Light Goddess, this was undoubtedly a heavy news, their first reaction all being utter shock, disbelief, and confusion.
After all, the Holy Daughter of Light had been the leading figure of the Church for so many years, already a symbolic existence. To a certain extent, she herself had become one with the Church. How could the Holy Daughter leave the Church, how could she possibly leave?
But soon, the Church provided an explanation, declaring that Alya’s term as Holy Daughter had ended, and she was called by the Light Goddess to go out into the world to proclaim the teachings.
A new person would assume the position of Holy Daughter of Light to continue spreading the goddess’s gospel to the Church.
In conclusion, in this spring, the inaugural term of Alya as the Church’s Holy Daughter came to an end, and the Church was about to usher in a new Chapter.
After Alya’s departure, that night, at the Light Chapel.
Under the tall Statue of Light Goddess, Lynch raised his head and gazed at the statue ahead, as if observing something.
His brows furrowed slightly, his eyes filled with confusion.
He wasn’t observing anything else at this moment but rather the Power of Faith that was constructed when the Light Church system was originally established.
For some unknown reason, he had a faint feeling that this Power of Faith… now seemed to have undergone some peculiar change?
