Ideals Are Just Another Form of Selfish Desire

A flash of light and shadow passed before Anse's eyes, and he appeared on an unfamiliar planet.

Everywhere he looked was barren earth and stone—lonely, desolate, with thin air and weak gravity.

Clearly, he had gone to the wrong place.

Gray Vault Tianyu was too vast. Rumor had it that its diameter exceeded twenty-six billion kilometers.

He had been on the outskirts of space just now. It was impossible to grasp the situation of the entire Desolate Universe System with the naked eye, so he could only casually choose a celestial body closer to Tianyu's interior.

But he had not done this to act alone. He was warning Mordenkainen.

Mordenkainen was an exceptionally legendary figure, but his personality was far from likable: proud, conceited, controlling, and willing to stop at nothing for his so-called "ideals."

Put nicely, they were personal ideals. In essence, though, they were another form of selfish desire.

It was simply that his "selfish desire" was not entirely self-serving, making it highly deceptive.

Many years ago, Rary, one of the Circle of Eight, had betrayed him and killed Tansen and Otiluke.

The Circle of Eight claimed publicly that Rary had been corrupted and controlled by evil entities, but that was not the truth. He simply did not agree with Mordenkainen's theories.

He believed that balance itself was a false proposition, its essence being manipulation without limits.

To maintain an equilibrium between good and evil, order and chaos, Mordenkainen could sacrifice frontier city-states without the slightest burden, tacitly permit barbarian invasions, and even secretly fund evil forces.

In his eyes, everyone was a piece on the chessboard, including his colleagues in the Circle of Eight.

The trigger for the betrayal was Rary's discovery of Mordenkainen's deeper plans.

Through various channels, he confirmed that Mordenkainen was secretly researching a