Chapter 153.1
Desert Rose
What is “Strength”?
Was strength based on a high muscle value? Does a high magic value make one strong? Does a higher level of combat skill make one strong?
None of these were wrong. Simple “Strength” was the power to overcome everything.
For example, if the Rank was the same, the difference in physical ability would be the difference in “Strength”. The most prominent example of this would be the [Dragon] that also exists in this Sarth Continent. It was strong from the moment it was born.
I was weak. I was a mere child with no power, no magic, and no fighting skills, and to fight the strong, I had to become strong with my [Heart].
That was why I was [prepared to kill]. To be ready to kill was also to be ready to be killed. If I did not take from them, they would take from me. As a weak person, I was not allowed to have the [naivety] to forgive those who opposed me.
I chose to fight against fate. To live was to fight. Therefore, weak as I was, I chose to be strong with my heart.
But I knew that there was a limit to that strength.
There would eventually emerge an opponent who could not be defeated by feelings alone. I felt that I could not win against Carla, who had turned into pure “violence,” who had pursued only power, who had turned her heart into madness, and who had risked her life to seek only power.
