...Several years ago, there was a peaceful small village.

The people in the village are hardworking and kind, living and working in peace, and using farming as their main means of making a living.

Due to the good geographical location, there is not even a gathering place for monsters nearby, and there is not even the lowest level, so people in the village do not like it, nor are they good at fighting monsters! But they are proficient in their duties, and the farmland is fertile, and the grain and vegetables produced are sold to several villages and towns with poor geographical location, so that people in remote places can also have a full meal. At the beginning of each month, many carriage merchants come to the village to purchase goods, which is also the happiest day for the children in the village.

But such peaceful and beautiful days were broken one morning.

A large group of monsters came from somewhere and raided the village.

The self-defense regiment, which was negligent in training, was no match for the monster group at all. The village walls were quickly broken, and adults holding hoes fell down one after another... Although they were not good at fighting, they still bravely stood up with farm tools and stood in front of the elderly and children.

There is a young girl who is only fifteen years old and just adult, watching her parents fall in front of her.

If there were no accidents, she would be the next one to die... No one in this village could survive. The monster polluted by the darkness would never let anyone go. They only have killing and destruction in their eyes!

But the Adventurer of Light appeared.

Many, many adventurers... seemed to be divided into many teams! They followed this large group of monsters. For some reason, they seemed very excited. In their eyes, these monsters seemed to be some rare prey, and they were scrambling for the opportunity to kill the monsters with their own hands!

Humans obviously gained the upper hand. In order to seize prey, some teams began to quarrel and even force.

The helpless girl didn't know what the special attraction of these monsters...

She only felt that before the man-eating monster left, there seemed to be another group of robbers coming to the village!

Houses collapsed in the battle, and some surviving villagers were even affected. The wounded people who were in urgent need of treatment were lying on the ground but few people were interested. Not to mention the bodies of the dead villagers were trampled at will, and were destroyed by crooked arrows and fireballs, etc. again and again.

It was at that time.

The helpless girl, who felt that the sky had collapsed, saw the figure holding a huge shield for the first time.

The adventurer squatted down, checked her injuries, and then quietly dragged the body that was obviously her parents to the side of the road, and then used the huge shield in his hand to block the random attacks from monsters or adventurers again and again. During this period, a companion seemed to be calling him loudly, but he turned a deaf ear to him.

He kept guarding the couple's body... until the battle ended.

After the war, the girl who lost everything buried her parents in tears, and then resolutely became a follower of this person.

Only adventurers can have "followers".

This identity is similar to the "sergeant" of a knight. He is responsible for helping around him during battles, and is usually responsible for serving tea and wine, but at the same time, he can learn skills from the strong, which is conducive to his own growth!

But the people in this village never fight, and she is no exception.

Even if she couldn't help with the battle, she still insisted on following and could not drive away. At least she could help him sew the damaged clothes in the battle and help the careless guy arrange all the details of his life! Even because he found that he insisted on using a shield, he was passively beaten and had no time to fight back. She also secretly practiced sword skills, hoping to help him even once.

Adventure travels, with no regrets along the way. She accompanied him from his youth to his early growth.

But she never said she liked him! She just kept saying that she was to avenge her parents.

What she didn't know was that he went to places with many monsters again and again to avenge her, taking risks and exploring one dangerous place after another... It was not until he got old and accumulated too many secret injuries that he was forced to retire and return home! It was not until the two of them that they finally expressed their feelings to each other.

The misunderstanding was resolved, and in shock, he looked at each other and smiled.

She followed him back to where he grew up, a small riverside village that was equally peaceful and simple, and lived.

The two gave birth to a baby with brown hair in their forties…and then raised him together.

That was the happiest five years of her life.

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Listening to Diana telling the whole story in a plain and peaceful voice, no matter how stupid Daren is, he knows that the little brown-haired baby is himself.

The hero and heroine of the story are her parents - Herbert and Diana!

The reason why I am most happy is that when I was five years old, my father died of an old injury recurrence...Dalen vaguely remembers that my mother was sitting in the room and shed tears all day, and her eyes were blind that day.

After that, her physical condition began to deteriorate rapidly and was plagued by illness. After only six or seven years, she was gray-haired and as if she was in a tranquil age! Three years ago, the pastor William even concluded that she could not survive that winter. This situation did not improve until she saved Enid and brought her home, drinking her strange soup.

"I can't teach you anything," Diana sighed, "I'm not even an adventurer at all. The sword skills I practiced hard are only a bit powerful when facing ordinary beasts, and they are not comparable to those of an adventurer! And I know my own physical condition... The soup of Enid's little girl is just temporarily delaying my death."

"In the battle tonight, I forced myself to kill the beasts, but I smelled the breath of death again. I probably couldn't stand tonight... But don't be afraid, child, death is nothing scary, I will return to the embrace of the goddess, and Lao Buer is probably there too. We haven't met for ten years..."

Diana said as she reached out to touch the rough stone surface of the Statue of Light, and tears seemed to flash in her godless eyes.

"No, no...you won't be fine..." Daren shook his head desperately and hugged Diana tightly.

"Silly boy, the only thing I can't rest assured is you." Diana took back her hand and gently stroked Daren's soft brown hair. "To be honest, I know you have a lot of small movements. I know you want to travel to the mainland and hear her want to be your follower... In you and Enid, I vaguely saw the shadows of Herbert and me. You are always so careless, and she always arranged many trivial details for you... She is a follower who is better than me and knows how to predict..."

"Now that this happened, I know nothing can stop you from being an adventurer... But Daren, you must remember one sentence." Diana's tone suddenly became stronger, and her hands tightly held the brunette boy's arm.

"You said." Daren looked at his mother with tears in his eyes.

"Child, remember, never become stronger for hatred, but to protect the beauty! No matter how much you desire strength in the future, remember your original wish, which is what Enid and I want to see most..."

"I...I will remember." Daren pointed his head.

"That's good..." Diana's voice began to weaken after saying that, "Child, I'm tired, and my eyelids are fighting... I suddenly want to hear the story. Have you brought the mainland travel notes at home..."

"I, I can recite it..." Daren's voice was a little choked, "I'll tell you now..."

In this way, in the dilapidated village, under the goddess' stone statue.

A brunette boy tried hard to let the white-haired woman lie in her arms in the most comfortable position, and began to tell one adventure story after another. He gently patted his shoulders while telling it, just like when he was a child, she coaxed the boy to sleep countless times. The boy now also talked in the softest voice, telling... until the white-haired woman fell asleep peacefully.
Chapter completed!