Chapter 307 - 260: The Truth of the 7-Day Divine Descent (3)

So, they had no choice but to halt everything and search for the cause with all their might.

The Ancient Nobles gave Ms. Shen a final ultimatum: either find the reason for the Divine Descent Plan’s failure and complete it...

...or declare the plan a total failure and destroy all related traces, including her, the child, and that man.

She, of course, could not tolerate the plan’s failure. So, she threw herself into investigating everything with even greater frenzy.

It was also at this time that her state became abnormal, which led Han Su to that one sigh:

’This woman has truly gone mad.’

When the Circuit Knight first found her, she had actually made a choice. Despite various irresistible factors, she was still the one who personally agreed to send that child into the Divine Descent Plan.

But after making that decision, she was plunged into endless pain and self-recrimination. This torment gnawed at her day and night, especially after she saw the little child escape.

To search more rationally for the reason the Divine Descent failed, and also to escape her suffering, she sealed her emotions within the Crystal Skull. Yet, she also craved that pain, so she would take out the Crystal Skull time and again, letting sorrow drown her.

Over time, she developed extremely fractured behavior.

By day, she went all out, using every means possible to investigate the cause of the Divine Descent’s failure. She replanned everything over and over, dealt with the people of Qinggang, and moved between the eleven altars to maintain the Heirs whose conditions had stabilized and their equipment.

But at night, she would hold the Crystal Skull and immerse herself in pain, her mind filled with thoughts of her child.

She was terrified, racking her brain and trying every conceivable method to find a sliver of hope for his survival.

But this was undoubtedly difficult. With the attention of the world’s most powerful figures fixed upon him, how could a small child possibly survive?

Saving her own child was perhaps even harder than completing the Divine Descent Plan.

...

...

"So, this is the whole truth?"

Han Su couldn’t help but pause as he saw this part of the memories.

Endless memories flooded his mind through the Crystal Skull, and a suffocating despair settled in his heart.

’I’ve always hated the kidnapping that ruined my life. It’s been my curse.’

’But the one who proposed the plan was my father, and the one who carried it out was my mother?’

’And the reason I managed to escape the Ancient Castle was a bug whose cause is still unknown?’

’Most importantly, I actually saw Miss Ai in these memories?’

’If she was the one who calculated that I needed to enter the Ancient Castle in the first place, then why did she work so hard to protect me later?’

Through these memories, he also began to understand everything that happened in Qinggang in the previous timeline. He understood why Ms. Shen went mad the moment she saw Copper’s Will appear on him.

Because she had never found the true reason for the failure of the Seven Days of Divine Descent. But with Copper’s Will appearing on him, it was as if there was a sudden hope of advancing the Seven Days of Divine Descent.

It was like a screw that had fallen out of a precision machine, and no one knew why.

But then, out of nowhere, a suitable place appeared to screw it back in.

It was for this absurd reason that she had to descend upon Qinggang and take him back in a cage.

She truly both hated and loved him.

When she took care of him as a child, she was just like that. One moment she would hate him and hit him out of fear for the future, and the next she would dote on him out of familial love. This state only intensified after she stripped away her emotions.

After sitting silently for a long time, he pressed the Crystal Skull to his forehead again and continued to learn more.

The related information was mostly Ms. Shen’s own speculations, born from her fractured state, about how he might escape.

She knew how difficult his fate was, yet she stubbornly insisted on finding a sliver of a chance for him to survive.

But they were the Ancient Nobles, the most powerful people in the world.

Even she had no hope of fighting them. In their eyes, Qinggang was just a small testing ground.

How could a child possibly stand against them?

But over the past ten years, she had thought about this problem for so long and with such intensity that she had actually found a faint possibility.

"The Emperor!"

"My child, if you want to escape all of this, if you want to fight back against those Knight Descendants, your only hope is to find the Emperor!"

"Those Knight Descendants Master everything in this world. No one can resist them!"

The information she left in the Crystal Skull was transmitted with solemn certainty: "But these ten years of cooperation and communication have also allowed me to confirm one thing—these Knights fear something as well."

"Not the Tide. The Tide is what the whole world fears. What *they* fear is the Emperor—the one who has always been mentioned in the same breath as the Twelve Knights, yet of whom there is no trace."

"My child, since you have already been chosen, you have no way to break free and no chance of survival."

"The entire world will stand on their side. Unless... you can find all the Throne Fragments..."

"Only by reassembling the one true throne might you have a single chance at survival..."