Hearing about Corner and Mr. Gian's background, William was deeply moved.
Though it sounded like a brief, ordinary description, it actually contained a "difficult-to-describe" growth experience.
The Old World was a special world themed around disease, an erroneous world that perhaps should never have been born. It was filled with countless discordant and dangerous places that could not even be evaluated through human nature.
Corner Corner
Being defined as a "dark zone" in the Old World, it could not be illuminated by the Evil Sun. Even the monasteries would never take the initiative to set foot there... It was easy to imagine how terrible Corner's living environment was. Calling it hell would not be an exaggeration.
To survive in such an area, one probably had to tread upon the corpses of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of people.
Remaining neutral was even more difficult. No one knew how many events beyond the limits of human nature Gian had experienced during that process.
Not to mention surviving until the end of the war and crawling back into the Old World after being devoured by the Abyss... In terms of talent, there probably were not many people in the entire Old World who could match Mr. Gian.
No wonder he could replace his predecessor and become the circus's Chief Magician, earning the respect of employees from nearly every department.
Such experiences were enough to fill several autobiographies. Even though Mr. Gian had described them casually, William could clearly sense their weight.
Mr. Gian took a sip of tea and continued, "There are indeed unknown pathways hidden beneath the Abyss, including hidden pathways that have yet to be discovered by the Old World.
"So, once you confirm that your pathway is indeed related to the Abyss, I'll point out several