Cthulhu Corrosion: Another World Rescue Plan

Bronte died in hatred.

Before he died, he handed over all the evidence he had collected to his son who was guarding his bed.

The evidence, hatred, and the chestnuts that he could never finish eating but had to eat in order to survive were all inherited by Bronte's son and passed on to his grandson, great-granddaughter... until it was passed on to Uncle Scar.

When Delmont Desmond and his other family members re-established their roots in the town of Desmond and lived a life that was not as expected but still rich and affluent, his grandson who was left behind became the only sacrifice to the God of Light, and Delmont did not care whether Bronte lived well or not.

He had many grandchildren, so he didn't need one more.

Only on the birthday of the God of Light every year, when all the family members gathered together, would they raise a toast to Bronte who was not present, and wish him honor and achievement in the Knights of Light in a hypocritical manner, but no one had ever really asked about Bronte's recent situation.

——Or maybe, they had tried, but the Knights of Light could not let them know about Bronte's miserable life, so they perfunctorily sent them away.

Uncle Scar's real name is Salmer Medis. He grew up in Shanwei Town since he was a child, and then joined the Knights of Light like his ancestors.

As time passed, as the tragedy of the Mont Blanc Autonomous Federation became a forgotten history, Shanwei Town has long been unrecognizable. This place has changed from an ordinary town to a thorough training camp for the Knights of Light. All the people in the town are "logistics" exploited by the Knights of Light.

——Written as "logistics", read as "slave".

Ordinary people here are so poor that they have no money and no life. They can't leave this town. The farthest distance is just to pick chestnuts in the back mountain. If they go out, they will be intercepted by the illusion.

All people have been trapped in this town for generations.

They either do odd jobs for the Knights of Light, such as being a fireman or a cook; or join the Knights of Light and become the lowest-level cannon fodder knights who can be consumed at any time; or become miners and follow the Knights to the mountains to mine Orichalcum... But miners will encounter pollution, and it is also the most dangerous and physically demanding job.

What's worse is that the wages for mining Orichalcum are very low. With the collapse of the Mont Blanc Autonomous Federation, the Orichalcum mines in these mountains have become "donations voluntarily offered to the God of Light by the survivors", and the people of Shanwei Town no longer have any rights to them, even though the people of Shanwei Town also carry the blood of the survivors of the Mont Blanc Autonomous Federation.

Salmer's parents also became miners and cooks.

Salmer was instilled with the "truth" of the past by his parents since he was a child. He listened to his father telling the beautiful legend of his ancestors' wealth, ate the chestnut cake that was not sweet at all, and silently lowered his eyes, trying to imagine the taste of the sweet Brown Snow Peak Cake that his ancestor Bronte said.

The chestnuts that are abundant in the mountains are the staple food of the people in Shanwei Town.

Every autumn, these chestnuts are carefully stored in the warehouse by the people of Shanwei Town, dried, ground into powder, and made into various starches, becoming the staple food that can be eaten for a year.

After being surrounded by the illusion and isolated from the world, these chestnuts and the occasional supplies given to them by the Knights of Light are all they rely on for survival. What's worse is that under the influence of the pollution emitted by the illusion, the quality of chestnuts produced in the mountains and forests is getting worse every year, with lower and lower sugar content and worse taste.

It is already an extremely luxurious thing to make cakes with chestnut starch and chestnut paste, not to mention adding precious sugar to the cakes.

The result is that the chestnut cakes made with such a little effort taste like chewing wax.

But this chewing wax thing is the most precious memory of Salmer's parents and hometown in his memory.

The chestnut trees on Brown Mountain still bear fruit every year, but the people of Shanwei Town can no longer make the legendary Brown Snow Peak Cake.

After Salmer's father died in a mining accident, Salmer buried the ancestral evidence in the mountains, joined the Knights of Light, and became a cannon fodder knight.

To get rid of the identity of cannon fodder, you have to become a transcendent and climb to the god level. After having enough strength, you can walk out of this closed mountain and go to the holy city of Jourlanda.

The Knights of Light always need a lot of cannon fodder. Low-level ordinary cannon fodder is only worthy of being buried in the Brown Mountains, while high-level and powerful cannon fodder will be given more value. They will be selected to sacrifice their lives for the children of the noble families in the Knights of Light and even for the Pope in Jourlanda.

Salmer didn't want to sacrifice his life for those guys, but he knew that this was his only chance to escape from this mountain forest and take the truth passed down from generation to generation away from here.

He spent a long time, shed countless sweat and blood, and trained a body of steel-like muscles. He became a transcendent and attracted the attention of the holy city of Jourlanda as he wished. Fortunately, the tragedy of Mont Blanc had happened so long ago, and his bloodline had long been diluted in marriages. His surname now was Medis, not the eye-catching Desmond.

The Knights of Light had been replaced one after another. Although they were still as bad and domineering as before, they had forgotten who Salmer was descended from.

Salmer finally became the leader of the 14th Regiment of the Knights of Light. He became the only Knight of Light who was born in Shanwei Town and climbed up from the bottom all these years. He finally left this cursed land and came to Jourlanda.

The first time Salmer met Domon Montblanc was when he was escorting the Pope to the Magic Federation to attend the annual joint meeting.

At that time, the Church of Light still maintained a good relationship with the Magic Federation, but a high-level magician who hated the Church of Light obviously did not intend to continue to maintain this false peace. He almost successfully attacked the Pope with a poison needle, but Salmer quietly stopped the old man.

That was the first time Salmer recognized Domon Montblanc, and it was also the first time he ate sweet chestnut cake.

Although the chestnut cake was made by an old man who was not good at cooking, it was crooked and ugly like a lump... cough cough, but the very impactful sweetness still left a very deep impression on Salmer.

An assassination that could have shaken the Church of Light and the Magic Federation, completely destroyed the hard-earned peace, and ruined all future possibilities was averted in a clumsy tea party after two survivors recognized each other. One of them was even an eyewitness to the tragedy, and the other was the descendant of the culprit who helped to create the tragedy, and was also the descendant of someone who was betrayed and abandoned by the culprit.