A hopeless oath would only drive these wind elemental creatures deeper and deeper into despair, until they sank completely.
Changing that was simple. All he had to do was set a time limit on the oath. It would be like raising a lighthouse in a bleak, hopeless wasteland, illuminating the road ahead. Any creature, once it had a goal and something to look forward to, would bloom with the flowers of hope.
Therefore, Angel decided to amend the oath and add a twenty-year term.
Originally, Angel had thought five years would basically be enough, since these wind elemental creatures could at most offer some help during the initial stages of opening up the Tidal Realm. Later on, they would be of little use.
But considering the long lifespans of elemental creatures, five years simply would not be enough to make them reflect deeply. So he extended it to twenty years.
In Angel's view, that was already quite a long term.
However, if Sanders had been here, or any other official wizard from Savage Cave, they absolutely would not have set the term at twenty years. They would have counted in centuries or millennia. In their eyes, Angel's reasoning was correct: considering the length of their lifespans, a term that was too short would teach no lesson, so the duration naturally had to be extended.
Yet compared to the several-thousand-year, or even longer, lifespans of elemental creatures, a mere twenty years was practically no different from the flick of a finger. That proportion simply did not conform to the so-called principle of "awakening," so it ought to be measured in centuries or millennia.
The main reason was that Angel himself was still too young. Although he had begun to stretch his sense of time, he had never experienced spans as long