Chapter 208 Ambition and Training (1/2)

Chapter 208 A

Aldrich woke up first, probably because he was still not too used to letting hi Dark still He considered his internal clock quite consistent, and he roughly estimated he had slept seven hours He felt incredibly refreshed fro to gaes would feel mental exhaustion the lower their mana became, and this made it h it was not actually possible in the gaes were capable of controlling details of their spells like projectile speed, output, area of effect, and so on by finely es often did this by chanting their spells, delaying the cast and giving it away but in exchange letting them customize its effects a little

Aldrich hi this, but so far, only hat felt like si the trajectory of a [Death Bolt] or willing a [Bone Wall] to rise up faster The Death Lord had noted he did not actually have to sit down and study years to fore was i how to use a spell and how to use it to ard, Aldrich likely neededand experimentation Now that he had slept and refreshed his mind, he was ready to push hishi up She had slept on her side, with her head on his shoulder and her hand and leg placed over his body She had wanted to sleep facing hily intense whispers of 'I love you' throughout his sleep that he chose to wisely ignore for his own safety

"Is so her voice not to wake the Chrysalis She looked at Aldrich with half open eyes, strands of black hair cast across her forehead in a curtain ofhow to train ain, I see," said Valera "In ossip fro a man with ambition is a hassle They said that a up so much of their attention, but when you try to pull them from it, you also feel awful inside, for it feels as if you are pulling them from their dreams"

"Is that how you think?"

Valera sazing at him with a tender look "Not at all I think a man must have ambition No, to be more precise, I do not mind men or women content with simple lives and simple dreams

But I believe men that seek power should have ambition they put that power towards The ain, the more ambition they must have, for what else do they sit upon that power for?

Power is so often taken fro to taking a position that would have gone to another – it is difficult not to gain poithout taking Therein the end

There is nothing worse to me than those that hoard power and sit upon it, or worse, take it fro even the slightest bit to use it for anything other than stroking their egos and desire for power"

"I agree with you," said Aldrich

Valera spoke from a place of personal hurt, for her father was assassinated and taken over by relatives for no other reason than si true in this world where sowith their power except sit on it to feel good about it

"Your ambition in this world, can I ask what it is?" said Valera "In the past, I knew you wished to save the realrand hero would What about now?"

"Maybe you're right Maybe I am still the same, whether it was me in your past memories or -," He stopped hiame' as it felt like it trivialized Valera's life experiences "Unlike before, there isn't oneDark to defeat

There's a little bit of bad everywhere Villains, variants, false heroes, destructive corporations, the list goes on"

"And you wish to stamp that all out?" said Valera

"I'ood possibility There will always be some bad out there hell, I'm also that 'bad' in many peoples' eyes," said Aldrich "I still want to save this reah I am a Lich now, I still have an attachment to humans

But hoill I do it? Do I do that by destroying every villain and corrupt hero? Do I destroy every variant that threatens huo further and disovernment that stands in my way?

Do I sit back and let the world fix its own uide them?

Or do I take over entirely? World doo? Howto sacrifice for it?

All of these are questions I do not have answers to yet I'uard was at the prime of his power and could shape the world as he wanted to, he thought about these very same questions

All I know is that I want to keep walking the path I'ure out my powers and how I stand in this world, the more I'll knohat to do eventually"

"And I alk that path by your side forever, no matter where it leads us I owe at least that much to you for what you have done for me" Valera stroked Aldrich's cheek with a soft touch

"Where it leads us, huh?" Aldrich looked up at the painting from his mother he had saved from the Boundary It depicted a house, a ht sun started to rise in the distance, casting a warlow across the dusk kissed landscape

"A pretty piece, that one," said Valera

"It's from my mother" explained Aldrich "When h money to buy a little house in a nature zone"

"Nature zone?" asked Valera

Aldrich wondered how to explain the econo ood chunk of the world's land being either uninhabitable or infested with variants h to sustain concentrated population densities, and that meant no individual ownershi+p of houses

Instead, corporations and govern

The only exceptions were granted, obviously, to the ultra-rich for who cities, were zoned out and cleared of variants These were nature zones where the wealthy could build homes for exorbitant prices