There was no love without reason in this world, nor was there hatred without reason.
Especially for those who were highly rational, it often took ample reason to hate someone to the bone.
After all, whether seeking revenge or making someone pay the price, one had to bear an extremely high cost.
Perhaps for those impulsive, willful people who never considered the consequences, as long as they could vent the anger in their hearts, nothing else mattered. At least they had gotten their satisfaction.
But for rational people, if the consequences of revenge far outweighed the benefits, they would choose to abandon unnecessary hatred.
That was why many successful people always appeared so magnanimous and never fussed over every little thing.
It was not that they lacked emotions, but that after calming down, they weighed the gains and losses and chose the most appropriate way to handle things.
The greatest trait of such people was that they never easily displayed joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness on their faces. Even the occasional outburst of rage was often an act intended to achieve some unspeakable goal.
There was no need to ask. Asmodeus was undoubtedly the most representative among them.
Whether it was his tolerance of Prince Levistus murdering his wife, or his later forgiveness of those layer lords who had conspired to rebel and replace him for the sake of political stability, every decision he made showed not even the slightest trace of personal emotion. He carried absolute rationality through to the end.
Hatred, rage, impulsiveness, and other emotions that could easily make one lose reason seemed never to have appeared in the Lord of the Nine Hells.
Even the famous Great Purge had stopped short of the extreme, carrying more warning and punishment than anything else.
But now, facing Zaphkiel,