Chapter 472: Forgeside chat

Chapter 472: Forgeside chat

Before they even left the forge, Life agreed to trade one of her divine essences for everything Sofia had taken from the admins’ house, so Sofia started to bring the things out from her storage ring one by one.

The documents on the creation of the trial were first, along with all the electrical doodads Sofia had pilfered and the accessories like the Sun Compass, and no one really cared about those. Then she started taking out Anna’s stuff. The clothes, the shoes, and the one strand of blue hair rolled around a small bone.

Lina teared up when Sofia brought out the enchanted robes, she said nothing as she held them with both hands like a fragile historical relic. Clint's facial expression was tense watching all this, and ended up stepping away to walk around in his forge while Lina received the items.

It’s really hers... Lina muttered as she delicately unrolled the hair from the small bone.

Then Sofia stopped bringing out things.

“Is this everything?”Kyle asked, seeing how both Lina and Clint were not in a state to talk much.Ne/w novel chapters are published at novelhall.com

“Well, no. There is more... But...”

But? Lina repeated, looking up at Sofia.

“The rest are things related to the Dragon admin.”

Dragon? Lina repeated again. There was no dr- She stopped in the middle of her sentence, and her eyes opened wide. K- Kyle. What did you say this child’s name was, again?

“It’s Aphenoreth,” Sofia answered with a smile, “Sofia Aphenoreth.”

Lina stared at Sofia in horror.

“I understand there is no need to introduce my adoptive Uncle,” she continued, “This has allowed me to ‘bring back’ some of the third administrator’s things. Like this picture,” Sofia said as she brought out the group photo of the three admins together.

Space distorted in the forge as Lina’s eyes landed on the picture. Her appearance flickered, and she disappeared. It was more violent than a simple teleportation, as if she got sucked out of reality itself.

What?!

Clint cursed from the other side of his forge, FUCK, NOT AGAI-

He also disappeared, leaving Sofia alone with Pareth and Kyle.

“Wha- What was that? Are they alright?” Sofia asked Kyle, who held his face in his palm.

“They will be alright,” he answered with a sigh, “Life just lost control of her emotions too much and her connection with the physical plane got cut off. Creation got cut off as well because this is one of their restrictions for coming to our plane. They cannot stay away from each other.”

“Does this happen often?” Sofia asked, storing the picture back into her ring.

“No. But this isn’t the first time... They will be back in a matter of hours, at most.”

“Yeah, that’s also a thing. You really do know a lot. A given considering your name, I suppose. We are going to have rewards for people who help with that, actually, it’s getting worked on right now. But the next eclipse might be a bit soon for you.”

“Will it? I’m growing fast. Level 500 doesn’t feel that far away.”

Kyle stared at Sofia silently for a few seconds. “I’m not even going to say anything. Have you chosen how you want to level up from the options in the book yet?” he asked.

“My Scribe’s got it all figured out. Which one did you use, by the way?”

Kyle laughed lightly, “Ahah, you just figure I was already strong before the system?”

“Call it my feminine instincts.”

“Power-hungry beast instincts, more like, no?”

Sofia shrugged.

“Ancient human method,” Kyle finally answered, “I don’t recommend it for someone who’s already at your level. Too slow. If you ever want to train a human child without having to use the system, though, this is the fastest method for the first hundred levels. Just don’t have them cross the filters without a trial or they’ll be booted out of the system too.”

“Good to know, thanks. Who knows if I’ll ever be able to have children after the race evolution coming my way, though?”

“You can trust Clint,” Kyle said with a smile, “You’re in good hands. If he wants to compete with us Vampires and the Elves, he’s got big shoes to fill.”

“Moon created the Vampires, right?” Sofia asked.

“Yeah. Guess who Moon used as the base?”

“Humans?”

“You got it. Race evolution is mostly a feature intended for humans, though a lot of other races use it. Some monsters can even evolve an intellect sometimes, so they get integrated into the system and get a race evolution... And this is where our blabbering ends, it looks like; they’re coming back.”

“It was great to get to know you a bit better, Kyle.”

“Feelings shared. Now you better get stronger and survive, alright? I’ll be waiting for the story of your adoption.”

“Oh, I totally forgot about that, sorry...”

Clint and Lina appeared in the forge at the exact same spots they had disappeared from.

Aherm. Sorry for the wait. Clint apologized as he adjusted his leather apron.