Chapter 328: Winter King (Rex Hyemis) (16)
This wasn’t just a threat. If you’re going to kill me, then do it. This was what I genuinely thought.
Killing me wouldn’t end with the death of a single person. It would also cut the makeshift bridge between the Plains, Mountain, and Neutral Factions. It would also be the death of the mediator between demons and humans. You would also be destroying the only way to suppress the unaffiliated Demon Lords by killing Gamigin’s lover.
Furthermore, there were also the lives that were lost in order to get this far.
The fifty thousand lives that had fallen at Austerlitz and Bruno respectively, the two thousand resolved death throes on the Black Mountains, and the lives of both Agares and Baal also lay on top of all this.
Naturally, the weight of tens of thousands of innocent lives was on my shoulders. I committed all of my slaughters with explicit intentions.
I fully acknowledged that this was my responsibility. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
We were on a mountaintop with no room for excuses. This was a barren land that you couldn’t even plant excuses in as seeds to harvest later. A graveyard of specters with their heads held high. A barren land of ice where nothing could be born.
A person who wishes to deny this requires a great excuse.
You could be like Elizabeth and declare the betterment of humanity and one’s nation. It doesn’t matter what the excuse is. The important part is if you have the resolve and whether there is any hypocrisy in your words. Paimon understood this fact very well.