My Players Are So Fierce – Handsome dog Frank-Chapter 2158 - 720: Even Such a Cool Supreme Lord Has Learned Sorrow...
But Hether belongs to the Shield Dwarves.
In the society of the Brass Dwarves, they are seen as stubborn and conservative, never accepted by the mainstream. However, as a subspecies of the Brass Dwarves, they were still allocated a small mining area by the Supreme Lord.
At that time, Hether had just taken on the heavy responsibility from her uncle, Fan Te, single-mindedly wanting to develop the Hoffman Mining Company and allow her fellow clansmen in Polut Pass to live as well as the dwarves in the Brass Fortress.
They even ambitiously planned to build their own city, but to achieve this goal, they needed to stay ahead of other exploration teams in finding more Burning Gold Mines.
Hether was quite talented in this regard.
Before becoming a vampire, she was a formidable hill lord and a master Shield Soldier. Every operation she commanded achieved great success, and under her leadership, the Hoffman Company thrived. However, smooth sailing caused Hether to lose her reverence for the power of the land.
On her 170th birthday, she embarked on a risky expedition.
At a certain location in the Dark Mountain Range, she found a vein of Burning Gold Ores but accidentally fell into an ancient ruin while extracting samples.
The typical boldness of dwarves worked against her that day. I don’t know what she touched there, but the result was that when Lily, who was patrolling nearby, reported this to me, I realized something had gone terribly wrong.
I have lost the memory of the Golden Era, yet I retain certain indescribable obsessions with my last assignment.
Coincidentally, I had on hand a sealing tool that I didn’t understand but knew how to use. It was one of the few things I had when I left the Dark Mountain Range over a thousand years ago.
The Lord closed his eyes and continued to describe:
"I rushed over and entered the broken ruins to reseal the Lord of Darkness, who had already escaped his cage. But Hether was also near death. She knew she had committed a terrible mistake, so before I arrived, that brave young dwarf had been fighting against the Evil God’s power, which also led to her corruption, with even her form destroyed.
I saved her with my blood, and since then, she has become my second offspring.
A sliver of the Lord of Darkness’s power entrenched in her body. Hether’s ancestral helmet is the seal’s switch. I had warned her not to casually open the seal, but at that critical moment, she made her own decisive choice.
I felt proud of her, but..."
"Don’t worry, Lord. She can still be saved."
Murphy comforted:
"I have learned from the Administrator’s power that there exists a ’Shiny Artifact’ left to me by the creator on this continent. As long as we acquire it, we can completely expel the Lord of Darkness’s power, and Lord Hether will be rid of disaster as a result.
The only problem is, I don’t know where the creator hid that thing."
"Origin Land!"
Lord Pa Ying’s eyes lit up as he immediately said:
"Anything associated with the word ’Shiny’ is surely in the hands of the Radiant Sun Society! The Sanghai People have been painstakingly collecting items left by the creator. During the Golden Age, that place was also the most important creation facility outside the Eden District, so most likely, that thing is in the Sanghai Empire.
However, the Lord of Darkness belongs to the ’Ancient Gods,’ representing supernatural entities that extend from certain natural concepts of this world itself. Thus, I am more inclined to seal rather than directly destroy them, or it might exert some influence on the world itself.
This is why back then the creator sealed these Ancient Gods in the Old God’s cage.
They are concept aggregations, making them difficult to truly eradicate.
The Lord of Darkness represents the aggregation of the night, darkness, and every related concept, being one of the oldest and most powerful among the Ancient Gods.
Similar beings include the Nightmare Tyrant Baphomet, the Winter Witch Baba Yaga, and the Oak Evil Spirit Kailan, all of whom are renowned figures in the Old God’s cage. However, the number of Old Gods is actually quite large, and most are very weak.
Compared to the shadows of the subspace, they are no match even before the New Gods.
But since you’ve suggested a method, I will make an effort for Hether. After the Black Disaster is over, I will go with you personally to the Origin Land to ensure we find or borrow the Shiny Artifact.
For now, let us focus on this Black Disaster instead."
"Yes, indeed, the responsibilities you bear in this war are no lighter than mine."
Murphy took out his broken pocket watch and looked at it. He said:
"Let me see you off. I will devote attention to every matter you have instructed, and I will contact you immediately once there is news."
Lord Pa Ying did not immediately reply.
He gazed at the pocket watch in Murphy’s hands.
That thing was battered, marked with the traces of collisions of power. Its style was not one commonly used by vampires, hinting it was a memento of this young man’s human time.
The Lord stood up, took out an object that caused Murphy’s eyes to widen, and placed it in his hand, stroking it a few times, and said:
"When I first awoke in this era, I always thought this represented some part of my past life, so I kept it with me. But now, as memories return, I know it’s not actually mine.
It belonged to another person.
To a brother of mine from the past."
Lord Pa Ying glanced at Murphy and handed over the thing that exuded a sense of futuristic technology, fashioned like a mechanical pocket watch, saying:
