Chapter 726: Thera's Perspective
Continuing their journey, Thera felt stuck on what they’d seen along the way. She knew that an untold number of ghosts had made their way into the world along with the outsider but despite the time she still tried to make for the guild on top of her current hospital work, word about sightings were slim.
Of course, compared to demons, the dead were largely ignorable no matter what power they might have wielded and far easier to deal with too. It was even possible that plenty had passed on by themselves or that the planet’s main foes who wielded a natural power over souls were putting them to rest whenever they encountered them for the bit of security that would give. There were plenty of potential explanations but still it bothered her as she couldn’t escape the question of just how many problems there really were on the planet.
A question she’d get no answer to beyond the major ones and once they arrived in the area of their next destination she wasn’t going to have time to think as her eyes turned back to the chimeras, trying to appraise them the best she could despite her conflicted feelings on the matter.
As much as it annoyed her to admit it, they were a success already. Power was in short supply and the easier it was to claim, the better the world would be. If her aunt could so simply lift people up to greater levels of strength when the world hung in the balance then there was no reason not to take it, no matter what harm Ben was seeing in their minds. Even if it left them traumatized by the time things were done, they and many others could still be alive.
It was what she was telling herself at least but it still didn’t sit right with her. Why should those sacrifices be any less villainized than Iberu who’d tried to use her own paternal race as a power source or Naloth who’d gone and opened the gate to hell to try and get stronger? In the latter case, it would have even only been using people across the universe whose gods had found worthy of hell instead of the most easily manipulated that Vividus could find to take advantage of, with the outsider it also held almost certainly coming as a surprise to all of the casters involved.
She shook the thought from her head. She hadn’t been sent to judge the morality of it, if the gods thought it was wrong then they’d step in. All she could do was the job she’d been given and stood at attention as Fone started talking.
Same as the first two times, Fone turned to the chimeras.
“Anything?”
He didn’t get an immediate response like he had previously though, with the group looking amongst themselves for a bit before one answered for them all.