Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 885 - 417: The Enlightenment of the True God’s Messenger, the Great Prophet and the Great Sage

Chapter 885: Chapter 417: The Enlightenment of the True God’s Messenger, the Great Prophet and the Great Sage

"Over twenty years..."

Lin Xun remembered that the Knowledge god servant had once told him that twenty-five years had already passed since Chapter Four.

If Coleman hadn’t lied, by the time he had entered the Omniscient World during the events of Chapter Four, the Great Prophet should have already discovered him and arranged for Coleman to wait here.

However, this prophecy seems rather odd. Was the Great Prophet really so certain he would return to the Omniscient World?

[You ask "Coleman" what he is waiting for here and if the Great Prophet’s prophecy mentioned anything else.]

["Coleman," calming his excited emotions, heaves a long sigh and begins to recount his story...]

[From the first time he came into contact with Refined Copper devices as a child, he was captivated by these lovely gadgets.]

[After becoming an apprentice device craftsman, he displayed a talent for device craftsmanship far surpassing that of ordinary people.]

[At that time, he realized that it was his destiny, the arrangement of fate!]

[With these lovely things for company, he would not be interested in anything else for the rest of his life; improving his device-making skills was his only belief.]

[Indeed, he was so engrossed in creating devices that he never married or had children.]

[After a hundred years of dedication, his craftsmanship had almost reached the pinnacle of his predecessors.]

[He was not skilled in magic, nor did he possess great physical strength; he could produce various unique effects with Refined Copper devices, using only his frail human body.]

[The Refined Copper devices he made could even affect the high and mighty demigods...]

[But the craft passed down from his predecessors had no further path ahead.]

[The skills of each ancestor were unable to break through the immense barrier between gods and mortals.]

[In everyone’s understanding, the limit of device craftsmanship stopped here; it was impossible for devices made by mortals to shake the gods.]

[He suddenly realized that the Great True God had given him exceptional talent as a sacred mission!]

[The mission was to surpass his predecessors in device craftsmanship, to break through those unbreakable limits... to create Refined Copper devices that had an effect on gods!]

[The vast chasm of power between gods and demigods, when reflected in the quality and effectiveness of Refined Copper devices, seemed like a towering mountain whose peak couldn’t be seen.]

[And as the chosen one of the True God, he was destined to climb to the summit beyond his predecessors and become a true legendary master, fulfilling the True God’s mission for him.]

[One night, he dreamed he entered a magnificent temple made up of countless tiny characters, where a kind and gentle old man told him to go and pursue his belief and dream, for that was the mission the True God had bestowed upon him.]

[Upon waking from the dream, his heart surged with emotion, and he clenched his fists, resolutely determined.]

[With such belief bolstering him, his skill in device crafting advanced by leaps and bounds, constantly pushing his own limits.]

[But no matter how high his skill level, he couldn’t change the fact that he was merely a frail human. There was no end to the craft of making devices, but his life was quickly approaching its end...]

[He didn’t fear death, but he was afraid that he wouldn’t break through the predecessors’ limits before dying, that he wouldn’t change people’s entrenched notion that the utmost potential of Refined Copper devices ends here.]

[He was afraid that at the moment of death, as he merged into the Endless Sea of Knowledge, into the embrace of the True God’s "Almighty True Knowledge," he wouldn’t have fulfilled the inborn mission bestowed upon him and would have let down the favor granted by the True God.]

[But his fragile flesh and blood simply couldn’t support him in reaching the summit; the human lifespan was the greatest obstacle to continuing his quest for greater skill.]

[He didn’t have the talent to become a powerful scholar, nor could he extend the limits of his lifespan by bathing in the Endless Sea of Knowledge.]

[He abandoned his failing heart and aging body, transforming himself into this grotesque form, hoping only to delay his impending death and fulfill the True God’s mission before life’s end...]

[Yet even in this deformed state, even with a little more time to cling to life, he still couldn’t bridge that vast gap between gods and mortals.]

[The craft of his predecessors came to a halt not because they lacked ability but because... it really seemed to be the limit of Refined Copper devices.]

[He couldn’t accept this despairing fact, and it felt as though his lifelong belief crumbled in that moment.]

[He felt like a joke—believing in a mission from the True God based on mere fantasy, based on a ludicrous dream, wasting his entire life in pursuit of something that never existed.]

[He reflected on his life; what had he done?]

[He had retread the path his predecessors walked, only to arrive at the road’s end and find that there was no mountain awaiting his climb, just an abyss of utter despair...]

[What’s more ludicrous was that his predecessors had already put up a signpost at the beginning of the road, telling him everything. Yet he thought of himself as chosen by the gods, attempting to surpass his predecessors...]

[Everyone said he was a legendary master who surpassed his predecessors, but only he knew that he was nothing.]

[Busy and hardworking, in the end, he achieved nothing in his life...]

[As "Coleman" spoke, his old tear-streaked face moved you, and though you couldn’t understand his pursuit of the craft, you could feel the powerlessness of his despair as his lifelong belief collapsed.]