Damned Healer-Chapter 668: The Impossible Odds

Darian took a deep breath, moving the soul power into the inventory and restoring Howlyn's soul. After her soul detached from the dead body, the terrible corruption also fell apart.

She was sleeping deeply. After so much pain, it was better for her to stay like that for a while, to recover.

With everything done, Darian turned to Niara and Alear.

"She'll be fine. But… I don't know if she'd like turning into a Shadow Hero and connecting to some random person. Knowing her, she'd rather stay in this universe taking care of everything, like she always did."

Niara nodded in agreement. At that moment, Alear spoke, "Why not make her reincarnate into a body?"

Darian thought about it for a bit. Doing that wasn't simple, and only cultivators with a lot of skill and knowledge knew how to proceed, because to cultivate, they had to manipulate both their own body and soul, which forced them to understand the deepest and darkest things.

The Spiritual Guardians were abnormal and frightening figures to cultivators, but the truth was that fast power came with a huge cost. All of them had limited knowledge and techniques in comparison.

Darian was no exception. Even though he had knowledge in certain areas far above any cultivator, in the end, he didn't know how to do that.

'Master, I think I can help.' Ailik's voice echoed again.

'Since her soul was nurtured by the Nether, it gained high affinity. It's easy to connect it to a new body that also has that power. The Nether does this on its own if I move it correctly.'

Darian swallowed hard. Ailik and everything he gained in that universe were definitely a massive boost for him. Trusting that Heaven's Will would lead him to the right place had been a big gamble. It could have gone very wrong, but it worked, and that was what mattered.

"Wait? But if we do that, Howlyn will lose her memories." Darian thought about it seriously.

Ailik nodded. 'Indeed. After connecting her to a new body, the laws of the world will act and seal her memories inside her soul.'

Darian snorted and turned to Niara and Alear, explaining everything.

Alear didn't know what to say, but Niara didn't hesitate.

"That doesn't matter. She won't remember, but she'll still be the same, in a different way. We'll raise her to be a ruler again."

Darian took a deep breath and then agreed. Alear was the greatest example: she lost her old memories, but still kept her talent and previous connections instinctively. Turning Howlyn into a Shadow Hero would be a big problem for her, since she clearly liked her current work.

After thinking for a bit, Darian nodded. "Alright, let's give her some time to recover. After that, I'll look for a wolf of her race who's pregnant."

He remembered that book. The current Heaven's Will had also learned how to manipulate the power of Origin, and that was the key to bringing back people's past memories. Darian was walking that path and, one day, he would be able to do the same.

Howlyn had lived for a long time, seen many terrible things, and had been forced to do things she didn't even like remembering. So erasing everything would be like giving Howlyn a gift. Starting over could bring many positive things, like a new view of the world, lessons, and experiences that might have been impossible before. In the future, Darian could restore her memories.

The three of them finally left the room, several days after returning.

As soon as they stepped out the other side of the door, a figure appeared at the end of a long corridor, approaching timidly, step by step. He finally gathered the courage to see him and had been waiting for Darian to come out for several days.

Niara's eyes froze when she saw him.

Darian smiled faintly. "His name is Alirio. Our nephew has grown quite a lot."

Hearing that, her eyes trembled, and a painful feeling of loss washed over her. They had left when Veyle had just discovered the pregnancy; they didn't even know it would be a boy. They had missed his entire childhood.

But seeing his aura, his gaze, and his seriousness, Niara nodded, somewhat satisfied. She felt he was a great kid. He was handsome and radiated an aura of confidence and honesty.

Alirio's eyes were fixed on Darian as he walked. Then his gaze passed over Niara. He had heard about both of them his entire life, and his fluctuations were in chaos. Then…

When his eyes moved to the third figure.

"!"

His steps stopped briefly. Then, as if he had been shocked, he staggered forward again, a bit unsteadily.

Darian and Niara were confused. They turned their gaze to Alear…

"?"

Her eyes were locked on Alirio, and there was clearly something very wrong with her. Her fluctuations also changed drastically, and her heart started racing.

Niara immediately realized something, hardly able to believe it. Then, with a faint smile, she whispered softly into Alear's ear, 'He seems pretty nice, don't you think?'

That comment was the trigger. Alear's already unstable fluctuations exploded into agitation. This young woman, who had never felt anything like this for a man, didn't know what she was feeling.

She didn't answer, but the blush on her face and the trembling of her hands said everything.

Niara covered her mouth, hiding her laughter, "Hehe…"

Even Darian, who was dense about these things, understood what was going on.

At that moment, his memory went back to when he first saw Alirio. He felt a karmic connection with him. Even being his brother's son, that didn't necessarily create a karmic connection; there was something more there. And with Alear's completely abnormal reaction…

Darian's eyes went wide at that realization.

Darian was the only one of the three siblings who had any contact with Darius. But he was very young and had no memories of him. Obviously, his mother couldn't have any photos or anything linking her to him; so the three of them didn't even know what his face looked like.

Later, seeing the past through Mallory, Darian, and, afterward, Lucy and Lucius, they saw their father for the first time through those images. But that was all. They never had real contact or deep affection for him.

But… for the one who had been their mother, Alear, it was completely different.

Darian vividly remembered when he was younger. Sometimes, he would wake up in the middle of the night and hear his mother crying quietly while she looked at the stars. She probably lived every day as if wounded, remembering him, full of longing.

The memories might have been erased. The names might have changed. But the bond between those two souls was so deep that it broke through the restrictions of reincarnation.

Heaven's Will, in all its cruelty and irony, had decided to be kind, once again colliding the orbits of those two stars that should never have been separated.

Darian scoffed, recalling the cheap stories he'd read in the past where 'love at first sight' was used as a mere narrative crutch. He had always found it forced—a senseless fantasy. However, seeing the two of them now, he realized it might not be a myth after all. It was an event of impossible odds, an anomaly that logic couldn't explain, but one that destiny insisted on manifesting.