536 The Governors Pas (1/2)

”You are right. As far as I know, is something related to their species, but even I don't know what kind of species they are.”

Yale didn't know if that was good or bad, but it didn't change the fact, that they were still the most likely ones to know something about how to help Lar to become a human again.

”Have you seen them before?”

From the Governor's words, Yale felt that he had some contact with them in the past.

”Well, I guess you can consider it in that way.”

The Governor wasn't prideful of that part of his past.

”Explain.”

Yale could feel that his disciple didn't want to talk, but it was related to Lar's future, so Yale didn't mind if his disciple felt awkward. After all, it was just a matter of past, so Yale didn't feel that there was any problem in speaking of it even if it was shameful.

Seeing how serious his master was, the Governor decided to speak.

”Well, it is just an old story. If my citizens heard of it, I doubt they will continue respecting me, but you are my master, so I guess it is okay.”

The Governor closed his eyes, remembering the past.

”It started when I was young and inexperienced. I was an orphan, so I needed to rely on myself to survive. People like me usually die before reaching adulthood and becoming an immortal.”

For a lot of countries, becoming an immortal was a proof of adulthood, the age really didn't matter.

”Master, you should already know, but without a proper training method, it is impossible to continue training after becoming an immortal. Trying to advance without any reference is just a death wish.”

Yale nodded because that was the problem that Dan had been facing when they first met.

”Of course, for someone like me, there was no way that I could obtain one unless I swore loyalty to some power. Well, in my case, even if I wanted, there wasn't anyone who wanted me as a servant.”

Since becoming an immortal was just a proof of adulthood, being an immortal wasn't something that would catch the attention of others, and even less of that person was an orphan without background.

There were powers that gathered orphans to train them into servants that would give up their lives at any moment, but that was just brainwashing them, not because they were interested in helping them improve in their training.

As for orphans that were already immortals, brainwashing them was too difficult for little benefit, so they just ignored them.

”Thus, I decided to rely on robbery to obtain anything I needed. I was extremely confident in my capability to hide myself. Then, bit a bit, I managed to increase my power thanks to stealing methods of others. I didn't have one that suited me perfectly at the start, so I just went quantity over quality.”

The Governor felt that his past a thief was too shameful, and Yale already noticed that the Governor's relationship with those crafters was probably related to those activities.

”While I was slowly improving, I heard about a rumor that said that going to lower universes had a lot of benefits, but that unless one knew a special method to send only the soul, it was impossible.”

Yale didn't expect that was some relationship between those crafters and how the Governor obtained the method to go to a lower universe, but following the conversation, he was sure that it would lead to some kind of connection.

”I was greedy and investigated that by myself. Then, I discovered that a prince of a powerful country was going to use that method, so I decided to go and investigate him to obtain it. However, as you already know, the method I used was incomplete and lost all my memories. In fact, thinking it now, the only reason the guards of the prince didn't bother of the information leaking should be that they knew that using an incomplete method was almost certain death. Of all the people that managed to steal it, only I survived.”

The Governor hadn't acted alone, a lot of people worked together to obtain that chance since it wasn't something that only one could obtain. However, none of them noticed that it had been a trap, and the information was flawed on purpose.

”It was while I was gathering information about that prince that I learned about that powerful tribe. He once went to the tribe to learn from them, and I followed him, but once I neared the tribe, I didn't dare to near them and just watched from far away.”

The Governor would be scared to offend that tribe even after having become an eighth level immortal, so it was easy to guess how he felt while being far weaker.

After hearing the story, Yale didn't feel that the Governor's actions were particularly wrong, but he also didn't feel that leaking the wrong information on purpose was wrong.