A sigh escaped Isaac’s lips.
He realized he needed to make one thing clear.
"rlin, I don’t care about people or the bonds. It’s not who broke the bonds between us. It’s them. They threw away, and I have no intention of coming back."
He turned and walked toward the door.
"Even if it’s them who broke the bonds, you can still be the one who ties them back! Isaac!" rlin shouted from the back.
Isaac didn’t listen to him.
He opened the door.
Outside, he saw his sister, and Hazel, standing stiff.
Amanda’s eyes were swollen and red from crying. She looked thin, as if she hadn’t eaten in days.
Both won flinched and lowered their gazes, too guilty to et Isaac’s eyes.
Amanda gathered her courage.
She raised her head, looked at Isaac in the eyes.
"B-Brother, I—"
Was it a montary weakness that made her co to him for a shade?
Did she want the warmth of the family after losing everything?
Isaac didn’t care. He walked past her before she could utter a sentence.
"Brother, wait! P-please!"
Isaac didn’t stop or acknowledge her words.
After returning to his mansion, he absorbed himself in training.
His interactions with rlin decreased after the incident at late Wright family’s mansion.
rlin never brought up his sister or Wright family whenever they t.
Maybe rlin had given up. Or, maybe rlin didn’t want to hurt Isaac by bringing up the past.
Isaac didn’t care enough to find out which of the two it was.
Six months passed.
Isaac’s growth speed was still explosive.
He was improving at terrifying speed, but he understood this speed would soon slow down to a crawl, and he would have to work hard to reach Awakened (Advanced) or First Layer (Advanced).
The training for Weapon Elent had beco simple and monotonous.
He only needed to damage his internal organs and wait for them to heal. This process was called tempering.
It took a lot of ti, and due to the nature of process, he could do it while focusing on other stuff.
Isaac decided to train his other Elents to make use of the extra ti.
In his last life, he had awakened Sand Elent, and Poison Elent.
He had made good progress in Poison Elent, since Elves had a lot of knowledge about it.
He started training Poison Elent again.
[Poison: Unawakened → First Layer (Beginner)]
One thing Isaac was surprised to find out was that rlin also practiced Poison Elent.
’In the novel, he looked down Poison Elent and anyone who used it.’
’He believed only weak would use it.’
’But he is using it himself now?’
This fact made Isaac realize rlin’s growth speed was far lower here, than it was in the novel.
He was already at the level of Ten Stars, but in the novel, he would’ve been far beyond by this ti.
’Why is he so untalented now?’
Despite such thoughts, Isaac knew rlin would have plethora of knowledge.
However, his and rlin’s relationship had beco awkward, and they only t to talk about business.
It was impossible for Isaac to ask about insights of Poison Elent from the protagonist.
’Forget it. I rember the information on Poison Elent from Royal Elven library. That’s enough for .’
Six months passed, and their rchant company InstantSpeak now stood on sa level as big rchant companies.
It was the fastest growing rchant company in the kingdom’s history.
Isaac was now earning more money than he was spending on his resources.
Instead of letting the money collect dust in treasury, he decided to open an orphanage.
The war was close. Many children would lose their families. And when ti reset, he would lose all his money anyway.
So saving it made no sense.
When he told the protagonist about his decision, he received a stunned gaze.
"You... would... what? But I thought you didn’t care about people...?"
Isaac ignored his ramblings and opened a huge orphanage.
He hired nannies to look after the children while he focused entirely on training.
More months passed.
The flas of war had begun to rise.
Noble Houses were alert, and rlin was being called by countless Nobles.
Everyone was hoping to pull him to their side. rlin was officially a Ten Star now, and with him, their safety would be guaranteed.
War began officially.
Marquis Belikas’s estate and territory were ravaged, leaving no one alive.
The horrific death count forced all nobles to join hands against the Four Knights and their leader who called himself Human King.
Noble Houses faced defeats after defeats.
rlin had to stop focusing on business, and he joined the front lines.
Isaac didn’t follow in his footsteps.
Joining the war would work against his goals. He intended to live until the old age, and use all of that ti to train.
Risking his life in the war was stupid when he knew everyone would be revived after ti turned back.
Isaac kept training.
Six months later, the Knight of Death—the man who killed his father—ca to et him.
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