Chapter 215: Chapter215-Tracing Origins — Kelly, Deep in the Endless Starfield

"Queen Kelly?"

Brand frowned.

"That’s right! Five years ago, she cleaved the heavens for the first time, and after that, she never appeared again. Don’t tell me this has nothing to do with you Godkin."

Brand fell silent for a moment.

He did not dare lie to Daniel.

In his eyes, Daniel was the kind of man who was cunning, slippery, ruthless, and cruel.

Trying to deceive him would probably not be easy to cover up. If things went wrong, Brand might end up losing more than he gained.

With that thought in mind, Brand slowly opened his mouth.

"Of course... it has something to do with us."

"But why should I tell you?"

Daniel grinned, and his smile was filled with naked threat.

"Because every last one of you Godkin is a bargaining chip in my hands."

Brand’s expression twisted with fury.

But the moment that anger surged up, he forcibly pressed it back down.

"If I tell you, what do you intend to do?"

Daniel asked in return, "What do you want me to do?"

Brand snapped, "Get out of the God Realm!"

"I never want to see you again!"

For a dignified sage of the God Realm to say such a thing clearly showed that he truly had no way to deal with Daniel anymore.

When Daniel heard that, he let out another cold laugh.

"That depends on whether you can satisfy me."

Brand took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the killing intent churning in his chest. Then he said in a low voice, "Queen Kelly... went to the Endless Starfield."

"The Endless Starfield?"

Daniel’s pupils suddenly shrank.

Then he shouted sharply, "You actually dare to lie to me!"

"Queen Kelly was only legendary-grade. How could she possibly go to the Endless Starfield?"

"And besides, why would she go there for no reason?"

Brand sneered. "Do I need to lie to you?"

"Who told you that legendary-grade beings can’t go to the Endless Starfield?"

"As for why she went there—how would I know?"

"Stop asking so many questions. I’ve already told you everything I should."

Daniel felt that this matter was definitely not that simple. There had to be some hidden story behind it.

But right at that moment—

[Ding! Your class change mission has been completed!]

[Ding! You have obtained [Queen Kelly’s Message] ×1 and [Forbidden-grade Archer Class Awakening Scroll] ×1!]

Daniel listened to the system notifications ringing in his ears and took a deep breath.

The class change mission was complete.

The mission this time had been to find clues about Kelly.

Brand must have given him a genuine clue, which was why the system judged that he had passed.

There were still parts of the matter that did not make sense.

But he had no way to force a sage to explain everything clearly. Getting this much out of Brand was already the limit.

"Maybe... Kelly’s message will contain more clues."

Thinking of this, Daniel stopped pressing the matter.

"Send me back."

Brand could not wait for him to leave. The farther Daniel rolled away, the better.

But being ordered around by Daniel like this—

It felt terrible!

He raised his hand and tore open space. A gate of light appeared out of thin air in the void.

"Hurry up and get lost!"

"If you dare come again, I won’t spare you!"

Daniel snorted coldly.

"Spare me? Heh, heh, heh... It should be me sparing you Godkin."

"You? Just you?"

"Fine. Then let’s wait and see!"

Whoosh—!

He stepped through the gate, and his figure vanished into the light.

...

The next moment, Daniel had already returned to the human continent.

He let out a long breath.

Thankfully, he had the Heart of Immortality supporting him. Otherwise, even a hundred of him would not have been enough to get stuck between Brand’s teeth.

Divine-grade powerhouses were ultimately existences on an entirely different level.

Even though Daniel himself had grasped the higher-level laws of fate and karma, there was still only so much he could do.

He shook his head and took the rewards from the class change mission out of his backpack.

A letter, and a Class Awakening Scroll.

Daniel opened Queen Kelly’s letter first.

"Natasha, by the time you see this letter, I think I should already be somewhere in the Endless Starfield."

"I have left the God Realm."

"The Godkin told me that our ancestors came from another star sea."

"We are the remnants of a star sea. With nowhere left to go, we came to Aetheria and settled here."

"I want to find the homeland of our ancestors."

"I can’t really explain why, but in this land, I have never been able to find a sense of belonging. Aetheria raised me and made me who I am, yet I have always felt like a piece of duckweed floating on the surface of the water, drifting wherever the current takes me."

"We are like pitiful ants."

"Or rather, like puppets."

"That feeling makes it hard to breathe."

"So I want to search for my homeland. Even if life and death are uncertain along the way, even if that homeland is only a dream I can never reach, even if I die on the road, I will not regret it."

"I call this journey, whose destination even I do not know, Tracing Origins."

"Oh, right! Aside from Tracing Origins, there is also one very important matter."

"Do you still remember the story I told you when you were little?"

"Actually, that story was true. That man and I really did make a promise."

"We agreed that we would meet again."

"Unfortunately, we will never see each other again."

"I waited for so long, but I never imagined that, in the end, I would be the one who broke the promise."

"Time flows like water, and tens of thousands of days and nights passed just like that. Strangely, I never found it unbearable. Perhaps waiting itself is also a kind of happiness."

"Come to think of it, my entire life has been spent either waiting or searching..."

"What is even more laughable is that I became Queen Kelly because of that person. I wanted nothing more than to stay by his side, yet in the end, precisely because I became the queen of humanity, I had no choice but to leave on my own."

"Fate truly is a mischievous little cat. It really knows how to toy with people."

"If one day that person comes to keep the appointment, tell him for me—Kelly is already dead."

"Lastly, I wish you happiness every day, and success in both life and career."

"Your dearest family member and friend, Kelly!"

Daniel finished reading the letter.

Clearly, this was a letter Kelly had written to her adopted daughter, Natasha.

In the letter, she had explained where she had gone and the cause and course of her journey to trace her origins.

And there was also...

A promise!

The promise that Daniel and Kelly had made a very long time ago.

Seeing this, Daniel’s emotions became complicated.

"Fate really is something that enjoys playing tricks on people."

He shook his head.

This time, he did not hurry to use the Forbidden Curse Mage Class Awakening Scroll. Instead, he flew toward the Soul Devouring Vale in his memories.

...

Soul Devouring Vale.

A stone stele stood there, with the three words "Soul Devouring Vale" carved into it.

Standing outside the valley, one could already smell the fragrance of flowers drifting out from within.

Whoosh—!

Daniel’s figure suddenly appeared inside the valley.

He looked around and almost thought he had come to the wrong place.

Soul Devouring Vale was actually filled with blooming flowers.

As far as the eye could see, there was a sea of flowers. A faint fragrance drifted through the air, carrying a trace of sweetness.

That lake was still there. The water was still so clear that the aquatic plants and swimming fish at the bottom could be seen at a glance.

By the lake stood a wooden cabin.

In front of the cabin stood a young girl carrying a longsword on her back.

Her face was cold and stern, her gaze firm and resolute. Her whole body radiated confidence, yet she was not ostentatious. She possessed the steadiness of someone who had sheathed her sharpness rather than exposed it.

She was Natasha!