Codex of Dimensions
Chapter 842

Protagonists Are Such a Pain to Deal With

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Although Fang Zheng admitted that protagonists often discovered plenty of hidden conspiracies and secrets precisely because they could not keep their hands to themselves.

He still sometimes felt that those protagonists really had a knack for meddling...

In fact, there were plenty of similar clichés.

For example, some protagonist accidentally entered ancient ruins, opened some seal, and released a demon lord bent on destroying the world.

Then, in order to defeat the demon lord, the protagonist set out on the path to becoming a hero. After overcoming eighty-one trials and tribulations, he defeated the demon lord and became a hero. Along the way, he also learned that he was the descendant of some incredibly powerful race, which was why he could open the door to the ruins and activate the seal. It was all fate!

But hold on. Do not get all excited and fired up just yet. Let us discuss a matter of logic.

First of all, why did the protagonist's ancestors seal the demon lord away after capturing it instead of killing it? Did they care about human rights back then too?

Secondly, if the protagonist had not meddled, would that demon not have remained sealed in those ruins for another thousand years or so without moving?

But what about now? The demon had been released. Countless families had been destroyed, wives and children torn apart, hundreds of thousands left homeless, and city after city reduced to seas of flame. All of this happened because the protagonist could not keep his hands to himself, yet you still regarded him as a hero who saved the world??

Was something wrong with your heads, or was something wrong with mine?

Or... perhaps he should knock out that guy called the Chief Petty Officer and take him away.

With that thought,

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