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

The scene shifted again, before the Eternal Forge Fortress, paladins of the Prime Creator carried a coffin, designated only for kings, into the royal mausoleum.


"Hassan Sabah, the greatest assassin!" Durin heard the voice, it was Mentor Fernando, who recognized this person's identity.


Then the elderly Pantho stepped forward, and with each step, the suffering that years had inflicted upon him gradually faded away. The young Pantho embraced his parents and then headed towards the Prime Creator until finally, an eleven-year-old Pantho boy walked alongside his deity into the boundless Wheat Field.


"Kast Otto!" a mentor of the Pantho snow leopard clan recognized his fellow clansman, incessantly tracing a sacred emblem across his chest.


Durin looked out the window, unaware of when the rain had stopped.


The next second, the Emerald Star Nero and Mimir Moonchant, stepping into autumn, tread towards the ruins in the distance atop mountains covered in snow.


Chapter 104: This is My Small Step (4K Mega Chapter)_2