Helmut: The Forsaken Child - H.F.C Chapter 198 (Part 1):

That day, Helmut told Alea a long story that he had never told anyone before.

The thought of ever voicing this story had been but a vague notion.

It was incredibly heavy—his own voice, revealing the secret that had sunk deep within him for the first time, sounded strange to him.

Helmut had been abandoned in the Forest of Roots because he possessed the seed of darkness. From the moment he left the Forest of Roots, that fact had become a secret that needed to be kept hidden, even if it meant taking someone’s life.

Time spent in silence and hiding his power had ingrained itself in his body.

Alea had secrets too, but they were not quite on the same level as Helmut’s.

Alea had turned against the temple, not the world itself.

Helmut was different. The truth he held would immediately cast him out from the world once revealed.

Alea asked, “You… came from the Forest of Roots?”

“Yes,” Helmut replied calmly. Even Antiol, the archmage who had noticed Helmut’s seed of darkness, was unaware that he had grown up in the Forest of Roots.

The first human to come out of the Forest of Roots. Alea’s eyes flickered slightly upon hearing this unbelievable miracle, but she did not show much disturbance.

She had already theorized in her mind how a human with the seed of darkness could pass through the sacred barrier and leave the Forest of Roots.

However, none of her theories could touch reality.

“How?”

Helmut briefly explained the method he used. It was not a complete theory, and he admitted that he had been lucky.

Alea listened carefully, her gaze steady. It was both mage-like and typical of Alea.

Looking into her violet eyes, Helmut momentarily sank into a heavy mood.

Now Alea knew almost everything. This meant that Helmut’s destruction was in her hands. She could wield it lightly or heavily.

Handing someone a weapon that could threaten oneself was surely not a wise move.

Humans are cunning and prone to betrayal, as Darien said. And they hadn’t known each other for even a year.

But he trusted her. It was a steady and unshakable belief, hard to explain how it came to be.

He wanted to say it. Perhaps it was because of this impulse that he had trusted her. The impulse warmed his heart intensely and fervently.

Maybe he had been waiting for someone to come along and speak the truth.

He had fought alone in solitude. Helmut was now transplanting his roots and growing in the new soil of the human world.

Revealing the truth to Alea was a change for him. Change is an adventure, and adventure comes with risks.

Alea looked straight at him. A boy who had lived a harsher life than one could imagine at his young age.

Of course, Helmut was not a fragile and delicate boy to be pitied by Alea. Nevertheless, it pained her heart.

It felt like she finally understood Helmut. The questions she had held till now fell into place one by one.

Alea chose her words, “I also have something to tell you.”

She was not used to revealing secrets either.

Alea slowly revealed the truth about herself.

She was the disciple and granddaughter of Archmage Heike, a public enemy of the temple.

Heike had caused an incident in the past and was pursued by the temple. But being an archmage, if she chose to hide, the temple had no means to pursue her.

The temple’s pursuit reached her parents, living far from her.

Only Alea was left alive when Heike arrived.

“I resemble Heike a lot. The temple knows Heike’s granddaughter is alive. That’s why I disguised myself as a boy and entered the academy.”

It’s hard to imagine a girl attending the academy as a male student.

Moreover, Baden’s Academy was out of the temple’s reach.

“Did you have to enter the academy for that reason?”

“While being pursued by the temple, I thought I needed a power they couldn’t meddle with. Greta Academy’s Magic Department is the best place to build such power. Even if I’m a legacy mage, the Magic Department of Greta Academy has a high reputation. Heike and the dean had a connection.”

“Do you plan to take revenge on the temple?”

“Revenge… While I have no fond feelings, unless they provoke me like this time, I don’t plan to act.”

After finishing her words, Alea asked, “What about you?”

“I feel the same.”

If the temple starts trouble like this time, it’s a different story, but otherwise, he had no intention of attacking them.

Helmut possessed the seed of darkness. Fighting the temple would only reaffirm his fate of being abandoned to the Forest of Roots.

A path that would lead to blood and slaughter. It was not what Darien wished for.

Darien hoped that Helmut, strong like a Sword Saint, would carry the burden of power and walk the righteous path.

That was why he had abandoned the thought of revenge.

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