Yu Lian's mind immediately conjured up the image of a young Franmorean boy. The youth named Berylliu Riverwen, who wielded a trident with great skill, certainly deserved to be called steadfast, talented in both letters and arms.
During the Battle of the River Valley, while Yu Lian swept through the enemy ranks, he was the first to shout, "Let's take those imperial bastards down!" That alone had already marked him as a decisive and heroic figure.
Of course, a person's fate was closely tied to their own efforts and abilities, but when the crucial moment came, one still had to consider the course of history.
At least in his previous life, Yu Lian had never heard of him.
The young man's elder brother was a rare nonhuman high official of Empress Brunhild's era, an inspiring example and heroic model for every alien race in the Galactic Empire. But the boy himself had been little more than one of the supporting figures behind the Riverwen family, a newly ennobled nonhuman family of the Empire.
In this life, however, the boy's fate had changed during that War God Festival. Though still young, he was now the leader of the largest rebel force in the Empire, making him a heroic role model for its various nonhuman peoples in another sense.
As for his brother, Mr. Herito Riverwen, who should have entered the Privy Council, the promising civil servant had naturally lost that opportunity because his own brother had led an uprising. For the sake of his family and people, he'd had to become a much more promising sort of agent instead. Unfortunately, the "Metamorphosis Project" had gone terribly wrong, and he was now Yu Lian's prisoner.
He was currently in the Aether Realm, helping Yu Lian's senior disciples refine the great artifact, the