Chapter 1831 - Balance- (4.4) (1/2)
Dyon didn't know how to respond. In fact, he didn't respond at all. He fell into silence for a long time before turning and leaving.
Dyon wasn't an individual who couldn't admit he was wrong, and in this case, he was very much so. Of course, there was the chance that Jasmine was lying, but Dyon's intuition told him that she wasn't. He simply wasn't prepared for that level of twist…
Could he harm someone simply for the way they were born?
On the one hand, he felt the answer might be yes. The reason there were so few universes today as opposed to the near infinite number there once was, was because the Dark Phoenix Clan wiped them all out one by one before they were finally stopped by Amethyst. Even to this day, there was a slight taboo still attached to death will precisely because of this…
Were the Dark Phoenixes simply following their affinity for death? Yes… They were. But did that mean others had to simply sit back and accept their actions? Of course not.
However, on the other hand, the Dark Phoenixes weren't entirely at fault either. It was the Heavens that blessed them with their affinity. It wasn't their choice to be the arbiters of death…
Would one blame the earth for quaking? Or the ocean for forming waves?
In Dyon's home world, natural disasters were a major problem, but the disaster itself was never hated or cursed… In fact, in some instances, the people who lived in natural disaster intensive regions were blamed instead when it really wasn't their faults either.
Was Dyon right to disdain Jasmine's existence? Could he even follow the old man's path of Balance if he did? He simply didn't know. It was a dilemma he couldn't answer to in a short time…
So, Dyon left. He didn't give Jasmine a response, but he had very clearly changed his mind about how to treat her. As for the new approach he would take in their relationship? He … also didn't have an answer to that. He realized that the reason Jasmine kept roaring at him to 'Do It' and 'Cleanse' her was so that she could show him just how foolish that attempt would have been.
Dyon had no choice but to pour himself into another task instead: Dealing with the problem that was the Mist Clan.
But, he had to do so silently. He couldn't allow the Mist Clan to call upon their slumbering ancestors. As long as he succeeded, those ancestors would become moot.
Ancestors could only be awoken a very set number of times and for a very set amount of time. As a result, it would be impossible for the Mist Clan to rely on them to reclaim power in the Water Mist Sect. This didn't even mention the fact that doing so would be against the rules of the Sect, so they wouldn't risk such a thing anyway.