Continent Z
Peter looked at the disappearance of the passage with a complicated expression.
He realized that Riya was right…
That once they crossed the passage, the passage would close down on its own. He saw the space distorted and the passage crumbled.
At the same time, the mana concentration in the air dropped one after another.
With each passage destroyed, it decreased by 99% of the previous rank.
By now, the mana concentration was already similar to the time before the earthquake had ever happened.
With such thin mana concentration, it seemed that no one would be able to advance pass rank 4 in their entire life. Their main sources of mana would lie within the crack that still existed.
But it would be a more dangerous process.
And without Riya maintaining the formation, how could they survive?
5 cracks in Continent Z alone and if Peter had gone with the others to the other side of the passage, he was absolutely sure that no one on Continent Z would be able to handle it.
"You're right… they all left one after another."
Whether they left because they realized the scheme from the Green Planet's consciousness or it was because they wanted to, Peter didn't know.
But after Riya left, he could sense that the other returnees were also leaving.
The Green Planet's Consciousness's schemes worked.
Riya didn't fully explain the truth of what the Green Planet's Consciousness wanted from them… but Peter knew that it should be something that couldn't be spread to many people.
Because if they were to know that their own relatives had to die in order to fulfill the scheme that the Green Planet's Consciousness was concocting…
It was estimated that many people would become crazy.
Even now, Peter was still having a hard time digesting the fact that these people had left and it might take decades for him to see them again.
Or perhaps…
He will never see them again.
Peter pursed his lips and then asked, "Is it truly worth it?"
He didn't know.
Whether his decision is correct or not, whether he would regret it or not in the future, or whether he had made the right decision….
But he knew that the Green Planet's Consciousness should have long known that he would choose to stay behind.
Because compared to the dream of reaching the peak that many people from Afirer Kingdom chased after, Peter was more tempted by the warm meals that he could share with the people close to him.
And seeing the smile of the people he protected behind him only made him smile back too.
He had no family.
He had no relatives either.
Ever since Peter could remember, he was an orphan on the Green Planet with no one whom he could rely on.
No…
That's wrong.
He still has the kind orphanage dean and other orphanage children who would play together with him.
The young Peter looked at loss.
"Live on… not only for your own sake but also for them. Live your life to the fullest and fulfill your dream." The soldier smiled. "That way, you will be able to achieve their expectation for you."
He didn't know what the young Peter's friends thought when they chose to protect him instead of themselves.
But since such a child can be loved by his friends so much…
He hoped that he would not forget about them and live his life to the fullest.
"Don't treat them as a burden but as a motivation to move forward."
The young Peter always remembered those words.
That's what drive him to continue living despite difficulties when he arrived in Afirer Kingdom.
In a magic world without any talent for magic…
How tragic is it?
Perhaps many people would have experience breakdown and unable to accept reality after they saw it.
But Peter could accept it.
He never thought that he was someone special or anything like that.
He's just an ordinary person who has people who cared for him and also someone who's living his life to the fullest. If he didn't have any talent for magic, then so be it.
This meant that he had other paths available for him.
A path that was more suitable.

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