The Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom: Volume 3

We need to buy time for the children to grow up in peace

Heroes weren’t something anyone could just create—they appeared naturally. That lack of artificiality was part of what made them heroes in the eyes of others.

For him, it was all about how much value could be found in the facts he’d brought to light as he crawled through the boundless darkness of undiscovered truths; that was the measure of an academic’s worth.

I had no desire to go back anyway. I felt more like a man who’d married the wrong woman and been given a sense of freedom once he’d finally divorced her.

“I don’t live to provide entertainment for you,” I told her bluntly. “I won’t do something just because you want to see it.”