Chapter 350 - Soft Hearted (1/2)

”What is your decision?” Hao Xuan stood in front of them as composed as he could be in a situation like this, but as expected, the Orc teenagers had a wide range of emotions coursing through them.

Some of them couldn't believe what Hao Xuan was saying and simply looked away, some fell down to the ground and some had tears in their eyes. A young girl of about 14 years of age walked forward. She was the smallest of the entire group.

She raised her shaking hand, ”E-Excuse me b-but what about our families?”

As she asked the question many of the others looked at him expectantly. Hao Xuan faltered for the first time and didn't know how to answer the question.

”They...” while he was fumbling about trying to find the right words, the white-haired man spoke up for the first time.

”They're all dead, all of them. This is all that's left of our clan,” his cold voice poured a bucket of cold water on these younglings.

”Father...brother..”

”Mama!!”

”Sister!”

Many of them broke out crying for their loved ones, all of their family members that were now gone forever.

Hao Xuan looked at the man with a great many emotions bubbling inside him. He knew better than most what he was feeling right now. He left the crying children where they were to give them some time to come to accept this new reality and he walked towards the man.

But as he got closer, the rightmost door in his mind palace opened by itself. Hao Xuan looked at the door and then at the man, deciding to go visit Hyde first.

He stepped through and the door closed behind him. The inside of the room was exactly the same. The cozy fire, the snow outside the window, the comfortable chairs. He couldn't help but relax a little bit and take the left seat that was always empty.

But as he sat down he felt a warmth like someone else was sitting there just before he came. He looked at Hyde who had his eyes closed while sitting back. Hao Xuan had a lot of things to ask but he knew time was limited, so he decided to satisfy his own curiosity first.

”Why was it him that came to fight that beast? I thought he died.”

Hao Xuan was referring to the figure that had taken over the white-haired man's body and asked Hao Xuan to save the Orcs.

Hyde's eyelids quivered slightly as he let out a deep sigh.

”Just a foolish man who didn't want to vilify his son.”

”Can you tell me what really happened back then?”

Hyde slowly opened his eyes and stared at the fireplace in front. Hao Xuan followed his line of sight and a scene started playing back in the flames. It was the same scene he had seen in the tablet underground, of Orion's birth.

It was moving much quicker this time but Hao Xuan was still able to keep up with it. The scenes changed over and over and it was the same as he had seen, until the one where Orion was fighting three other kids played out.