Half-step Purgatory

For a long time, Malin always felt that Fate had been quite generous to him. Although he had to face that life-threatening job every day, as long as he had the lovely Leopard Girl cooking delicious food for him daily, and as long as there was meat to eat and cats to stroke, life wasn't too unbearable. Working a bit harder and facing some difficulties on the job weren't really an issue for a man.
Moreover, being able to live two lives meant one shouldn't have too high demands, right, Mr. Different-Kind?
Having said that, and without waiting for an answer, the young man snapped his fingers, and the white flame on his fingertip lit the tobacco in his other hand, then he flicked it towards the non-human entity on the stake.
Welcome to Abield, to witness the last splendor of the steampunk era.
And the madness.

Steampunk Era: Mad Abield

Malin spent a day reading through Mr. Zhang's diary he left behind and discovered that the man once had the opportunity to become a Caster, but he refused.


In his own words, knowledge should serve not a small group of people, but everyone.


Malin didn't know if Mr. Zhang was being pedantic or if he truly was a Saint... but none of this mattered anymore, he was dead, with regrets.


Malin kept his electronic brain, hoping that one day, he could go back to look at it and incidentally visit Mr. Zhang's hometown.


Death extinguishes a person's life, but Malin also understood Mr. Zhang's point—Jason was the piece he left behind, he had been maintaining Jason's database for thousands of years, reinforcing security, and rewriting the core code of the artificial intelligence in the European region.


Malin specifically asked Jason one question, "How many movies were made about the Terminator before the Great Destruction?"


Section 402: Mechanical Mind (Part 2)