章 862: Fate Derailed?

"I can't thank master and uncle master enough for the kindness that has been graced upon me." Tina Roxley suddenly bowed.

However, she was quickly caught by the shoulders by her master.

"What are you saying? You are like my own daughter. There's no need to be like this..." Brandis Mercer became emotional as he rubbed Tina Roxley's head, his eyes flashing with a nostalgic emotion.

He had a family once, but they all ended up dead when he made a mistake by offending a powerful family. Even though he had escaped and killed all of them, what is lost cannot be returned or taken back. From then on, life hadn't been the same for him. He was mindless for a time before he took on a dying alchemist and inherited that alchemist's will to reach the peak of alchemy one day, although, after some time, he had been forced to learn the discrepancy and the truth of the world.

It was just too difficult to improve in alchemy!