My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 346 - 303: Leading the Way Home (Part 2)

Hope: When the entities infused with Cursed Blood are at their most despairing, simultaneously grant them hope and heal the wounds of their hearts.

Xue Dili could feel the emotions of joy and elation from the Cursed Blood within him. They seemed to be genuinely cheering, and he could sense the fusion of this new Cursed Blood with the original Cursed Blood in his body achieving a perfect unity in an instant.

After this fusion, the brand-new Cursed Blood acquired two additional traits, also seemingly gaining numerous functions that Xue Dili found difficult to discern from his interface.

After all, this new Cursed Blood was akin to a newly sublimated Treasure that emerged post-salvation, creating a different transformation from the originally fragmented Cursed Blood. Even its ranking had evolved from what used to be B+ Class to B++ Class now.

"Thank you," Xue Dili said.

"No need to thank us; this is what the Interstellar Corps should do. Your former mentor, the Sage, was a lifelong partner of the Interstellar Corps, and now so are you," Senior Olivia added promptly.

Xue Dili didn’t engage further in pleasantries; he just quietly felt the entirely new Cursed Blood within him, even sensing what seemed to be part of the Great Sage’s wish lingering in the Cursed Blood.

Though the Great Sage could not return, Xue Dili intended to use this power wisely. Even now, Cursed Blood remained one of his most frequently utilized abilities, becoming an indispensable force to Xue Dili.

Once again, Xue Dili thought of the "Summoning of Heroic Spirits" technique, which had yet to progress further. With no similar developments, Xue Dili could only use himself as a prototype for research.

Even though he knew that the summoned Great Sage might not be the true Great Sage, and the summoned Heroic Spirit might just be a remnant echo, akin to the "Evil Spirit Rebirth" technique back in Boston.

The summoned "Randolph Carter" wasn’t actually the elder master of Lovecraftian lore, merely a historical and conceptual "Randolph Carter."

Yet Xue Dili always wanted to give it a try; what if it succeeded?

There are always some things that must be attempted, even if it means running headfirst into walls and shedding blood.

...

Subsequently, all matters related to Xue Dili’s preparation to join the Interstellar Corps had been resolved.

He returned part of the Holy Sword belonging to Uncle Brave and the soul of the old man, while also retrieving the relics of the Great Sage from there.

Lastly, only Fafnir remained.

Returning to that beach, Xue Dili looked at the young captain and the group of Interstellar Corps members playing in the distance, asking, "Not going to join your friends for some fun?"

"No, my legs are weak."

The young captain’s words made it difficult for Xue Dili to keep a straight face.

Seeing the young captain with dark circles under his eyes, Xue Dili seemed to gradually understand everything.

This young man likely had an unstable harem lately, hence his intentions to get rid of over a thousand children of his, yet he remained hesitant even now.

Given his pace, in a few decades, Xue Dili might witness an entire "mermaid" race, with a gender ratio of one to dozens. This would become the headache of being "a father of thousands of children."

"Why did you choose this path?" The young captain inexplicably asked Xue Dili.

Perhaps in his view, Xue Dili, a seemingly excellent person without a wife or children, was on a path destined to be without a future, leaving him perplexed.

It might also be that he was feeling lost on his life path, prompting him to ask Xue Dili, a familiar yet not overly familiar figure.

"Why, indeed?" Xue Dili murmured, "Perhaps I’m also looking for a reason. Someone once told me the path to the future when I was ignorant, so I merely inherited his dreams and path."

Maybe Xue Dili hadn’t found an answer until now, but walking this path made him feel fulfilled and happy, and that was enough.

"And your dream?" The young captain countered. "Isn’t there something you simply want to do for yourself, not just inheriting others’ dreams but something solely yours?"

"My dream?" Xue Dili remembered his childhood dreams, and also thought of himself striding forward in another parallel world from his childhood fantasies, saying, "I’ve already fulfilled my childhood dreams!"

"So now, I have no dreams, but I can protect others’ dreams," Xue Dili gave his answer.

The young captain fell silent too, looking at the false sky, murmuring, "Protect others’ dreams, huh..."

The atmosphere between the two entered a deeper ideological collision. Perhaps the young captain was also confused due to his numerous children, doubting if he should continue on his original path.

He paused and shared a story with Xue Dili: "My hometown once faced an asteroid that could destroy the planet."

"That was when I was very young, just starting school, and the whole world was engulfed in an apocalyptic atmosphere. An asteroid a thousandth the size of our planet was about to collide, expected to tear our planet in half..." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

The young captain narrated his experiences and story, and Xue Dili did not interrupt.

"When I had just started school, I didn’t know what ’responsibility’ was. At the time, it was my childhood friend who led me and others into a bomb shelter, silently praying to survive..."