[During that period of further study in the Imperial Capital, there was not a single profound memory worth speaking of. Compared with that perilous experience I shared with you, it could only be described as plain as water.]

[I once promised you, ‘I believe parting is only temporary. Under the arrangements of Omniscient True Knowledge, you and I will eventually meet again.’]

[But after reuniting, if you discovered that the once erudite me had now become only the most mediocre and ignorant Scholar, could I still become the companion of the True God’s Envoy? Could I still fight alongside the True God’s Envoy once again?]

[I was unwilling to accept it, and I studied Knowledge ever more diligently, improving my own strength… but the reality was that my talent was mediocre. No matter how much I studied, I could only be limited by my talent and become an ordinary Scholar.]

[Recognizing one’s own limits and admitting one’s own mediocrity is undoubtedly a cruel and painful process. After all, those who can become lofty Sages and Prophets are only an extremely small minority among the countless Scholars.]

[Most people have to endure this painful experience. I, Rona… Rona who was once fortunate enough to fight side by side with the True God’s Envoy, also had no choice but to have my sharp edges worn away and merge like a drop of water into the millions of ordinary Scholars.]

[The cruel reality forced me to lower my head…]

[As for the vision of meeting the True God’s Envoy again, and that past experience of fighting together, I would just treat it as a beautiful memory treasured in the depths of my heart.]

[Perhaps many years later, perhaps at a white-haired age, before I died, I would tell this experience, enough to be remembered for a lifetime, to my students, my descendants…]

[On the night when I finally let go and finally put down my obsession, I had a dream.] 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

[In that dream, I became the most knowledgeable Great Prophet, and I had the fortune to meet you again and become your companion fighting at your side.]

[After enduring countless hardships and dangers, we finally defeated the evil star gods that had returned, awakened the long-slumbering great existence, and allowed the beautiful world to continue…]

[Thinking about it now, it was truly absurd. A mediocre me actually became a Great Prophet. Even in a dream, could it really be so unrealistic?]

[When I awoke from the dream, I vaguely heard an aged and benevolent voice…]

[That voice told me that my persistence had moved the true Lord.]

[If I still persisted in the vision in my heart, then I should not give up. One day that absurd dream would become reality, and one day I would be able to meet the True God’s Envoy again.]

[In my daze, I saw an old man in white robes, with a head full of white hair. He stood within a grand divine hall built from pure white Characters, looking at me with boundless kindness…]

[I suddenly woke with a start. For Scholars with powerful mental power, let alone the absurdity of the dream’s content, even dreaming itself is an absurd thing.]

[If a Scholar cannot even control dreams, then how can they control powerful mental power, and how can they draw in endless Knowledge?]

[Once someone becomes a Scholar, they say eternal farewell to sleeping and dreaming.]

[The only exception is the Great Prophet. Only when a Scholar advances to become a Great Prophet can they step into dreams again through prophetic foresight.]

[I was only an ordinary Scholar, yet I absurdly had an utterly absurd dream…]

[What was strange was that after that night, the abstruse and complex Knowledge in books suddenly became simple and clear.]

[Courses of Knowledge that had once required more than half a year just to begin learning, I now needed only a single day to completely master and thoroughly comprehend.]

[I was incomparably overjoyed, because I knew that in that dream that night, I had encountered the great deity I had believed in for so long!]

[I was incomparably elated, because I knew that what I had promised you was no longer just a memory to treasure in my heart. It would definitely become reality!]

[I remember very clearly that after that night, it took me only three days to advance from Elite Scholar to Bachelor, and half a month more to advance to Grand Scholar.]

[Immediately after, it took me two months to advance to Scribe, and half a year to Great Scribe… For a time, I became the most glorious and most gifted Scholar in the Imperial Capital.]

[In order to poach me, the Direct Vision School even offered extremely generous terms, promising that the moment I transferred over, I would gain lofty noble status and obtain endless money and wealth.]

[Of course I did not agree, because I could not stop moving forward. I did not know when the scene foreshadowed in that dream would descend. I had to become a Great Prophet before reuniting with you.]

[This was the will of the great deity, the mission bestowed upon the formerly mediocre me, and also the future I had always longed for in my heart.]

[I cherished this talent that had fallen from the sky with all my heart, and I did not slack off or grow lazy for even a single day. Only those who have experienced mediocrity and despair can realize how precious such extraordinary talent is.]

[It was precisely because of this that all the way through my advancement, until I became a Great Sage, the total time spent was less than ten years.]

[This astonishing speed of advancement was recorded in history and written into teaching materials. In the Hall of Fame of the Multivision Academy, there was also now a statue of me, standing shoulder to shoulder with many great sages of the past… This was a scene I had never even imagined.]

[But I still could not stop, because I still had not approached the realm of Great Prophet from the dream. I was still far, far from Great Prophet.]

[I worked even harder to improve myself, rejecting all social interaction and staying all day in the library, archive rooms, and great book repositories. If I was not meditating, then I was absorbing new Knowledge.]

[I thought I would continue advancing without obstruction, until I became a Great Prophet and reunited with you…]

[But to my horror, I discovered that the extraordinary talent that had once been unstoppable suddenly failed when trying to break through the boundary between mortal and god.]

[The talent had not disappeared, but when facing the abyss-like barrier between human and god, it too was powerless.]

[After long periods of exploration and research, I discovered that the boundary between human and god seemed to be an incomparably solid iron wall, stopping all those ignorant humans who overestimated themselves and wanted to become gods.]

[This was not a difficulty that could be overcome merely by relying on talent. There had to be some hidden secret within it that I did not know.]

[I left the archive room and saw sunlight again after a long time. I was going to ask the Prophets and Great Prophet of the School exactly what that boundary between human and god was, and how it could be broken through.]

[As I wished, I obtained the answer from a Prophet. To become a god, one must first master Authority. When the Authority one possesses reaches the realm of a god, one can break through that chasm.]

[Scholars can obtain Knowledge from books, can analyze Knowledge and transform it into their own power. That itself is a kind of Authority, Authority bestowed by the great existence.]

[As long as one continuously developed and continuously improved this Analysis Authority, one could break through the boundary between human and god!]

[I should have been delighted after obtaining the answer, but instead I plunged deeply into boundless fear…]

[Because I sensed that those lofty Prophets and Great Prophets, who had long since become gods, did not seem quite normal.]

[No, describing them as not normal is far too conservative.]

[They… seemed to have already gone mad!]

[They had completely gone mad!]