Chapter 858
If human history were compared to a long, endless night, then those great figures of noble character, who illuminated their eras with the radiance of their integrity, would be like shooting stars—brilliant, dazzling, but fleeting. Like brief flashes of light, they illuminated a fragment of history and left humanity with eternal memories.
Yet beyond those shooting stars, the rest of human history was like utter darkness, so black one could not see a hand before one's face. That time was filled with blood and violence, recording humanity's struggles, conflicts, and suffering. It was an age of challenges and hardship, but it was precisely because of those shadows of history that figures of noble character seemed all the more precious and worthy of reverence.
Every shooting star's appearance was a miracle in history, adorning the starry sky of that endless night with its brief yet glorious existence.
They might have been heroes, prophets, or reformers, but no matter what, they were the essence of history, inspiring later generations to pursue excellence, kindness, and justice.
However, gentlemen were never common.
Likewise, the odds that all nine hundred-plus Tierras were gentlemen were very low.
After Tierra severed his connection with all his incarnations, those nine hundred-plus Tierras were no longer extensions of Tierra himself, but independent individuals possessing Tierra's power and personality.
Once the restraints vanished and individual consciousness began to awaken, power enough to shake the world began steering changes in the worldline.
After Tierra cut all ties between himself and his clones, the Tierras who remained on Earth went through initial confusion, joy, and then the fear that followed close behind—
The unknown was the most frightening thing of all.
In such a sudden situation, the Tierras almost instinctively began doing the thing they were best at, and the