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–You don’t have anything to apologize, Arturo, –said the Professor before my excuses– it
has been a pleasant charter, in which I remembered with you something that, in other times,
also worried me.

In that summer day in the Faculty were just the janitor and the cleaning staff. I went out
with Professor Ramirez and I accompanied him to one of the teaching houses that is, in the
University City. And I never saw him again… That the Unknowable God guides his path
towards the Origin, or Wothan to Valhalla, or that Frya shows him the Naked Truth of Himself,
that his heart be cooled forever, conquer the Vril and possesses the Wisdom that he have
searched during all his life! And, above all: that he could escape from the vengeance of Bera and
Birsha…

Chapter IV

I returned to my department plunged in shadowy musings, fighting to overcome the
dejection. Once passed the initial enthusiasm, the weight of the reality was supported harshly
in my Spirit and I wondered an unavoidable interrogation: how could I, drawing on my own
forces, comply with the request of Belicena Villca? It is true that I felt owner of an unbreakable
will that would not yield easily in my determination to reach the end, that all my forces,
without reservations, would be put at the disposition of the Cause of the House of Tharsis; but
It was true as well, I recognized humbly, that I was not gifted with the virtue of Ulysses. No;
definitively I was not the Hero Perseus who according to Belicena had descended to the same
Hell to conquer the Wisdom: but not only those mythological heroes I wasn’t similar; I was
neither remotely approximated to any of the Lords of Tharsis. They knew how to resolve any
kind of situations. They had faced for millenniums to an infernal conspiracy, inconceivable for
a common human mind, they resisted many attempts of extermination, and they went out
gracefully from all the proofs, they overcame all the dangers, triumphed above all foes. And
they achieved because, as Belicena Villca said, their hearts were harder than the diamond Stone

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