Half-step Purgatory

Durin stroked the black cat on the armrest of his chair, sitting on the black leather sofa. Through the glasses perched on his nose, his gaze passed over the long table in front of him and settled on the man kneeling on the carpet:
"I understand, you've made money in Naples, your business has been very successful, and you've led a happy life. You've had those secret police, friends in both the law and the underground, and even the Royal Family speaking on your behalf."
"You don't need a friend like me, I know that. You're afraid of owing me a favor, and you don't want to get involved in troubles."
"But now you come to me and say, 'I beg you, Mr. Durin of the Corleon family, please help me seek justice, so that my life and my family will not suffer and sink into despair.'
Yet, in your eyes, I was nothing more than a second-rate artist involved in movies and music. Even at the brink of death, you still show me such disrespect, not even willing to call me by my title... Keeper of Secrets."

Durin's Diary

Hassan Sabah, in that era when the Green-skinned Orcs used the Great Wilderness as a springboard to invade the Western Lands, was the prince of the Gamida Kingdom, which was located in the Great Wilderness. When the kingdom fell and the landscape shattered, he was taken out of the capital by the Royal Family's steward at the age of two.


In his verdant years, the young man always wanted to restore his country, but the number of Green-skinned Orcs was too great, and his efforts were in vain time and again, never achieving his wish, until the Prime Creator established the Eternal Forge Fortress.


He went there and met the Prime Creator.


He hoped this deity would restore his country, and he was willing to recognize the Prime Creator as the state religion if possible. But the Prime Creator asked him one question, just one question, which he was unable to answer.


How will you lead your people toward prosperity?


Chapter 68: Destiny (Part 3)