[0764] The Forbidden Zone's Sudden Upheaval

[0764] The Forbidden Zone's Sudden Upheaval

Unlike Lux, Nezuk wasn't a kind man. Although he could feel gratitude, he had no sympathy or pity for the downtrodden.

Nor did he hope for everyone to have magic because of the hardships he'd endured as a child.

What Nezuk hoped for when he said everyone should be a dragon was, more specifically, "If you can do better, then you ought to do better." If Swamp Frogs could appear on the supplementary food list for orphanage children as well as on the menu of an upscale restaurant, then they ought to be served in the latter.

People often said, "With great power comes great responsibility." Nezuk's version was, "The greater your potential, the greater your abilities should be."

The point of everyone being a dragon wasn't to escape a life of hardship. It was that, if you could soar like a dragon, then you should!

Nezuk's way of thinking often made him cold and ruthless. If Lux ever had the chance to meet her senior, she'd be astonished by his extremism.

That was why Nezuk was called "more Karya than Karya himself."

That was why, when Karya realized that Karya's Relic used the power of the Void, he accepted the fact without hesitation.

That was why, when he heard that Nezuk had once worked with Kiyran, and read what Ixtal's records said about Nezuk, Karya hadn't felt the slightest surprise.

He knew Nezuk too well.

In Karya's eyes, Nezuk was like the version of himself who had never met Setaqa. He had no ties, and hadn't journeyed alongside Shurima from the beginning. He was willing to devote his life to Shurima not because he loved everything about it, but because Shurima represented the most advanced politics and culture in Runeterra.

And after Karya