But after he put forward this suggestion with feigned open-mindedness, the stone house fell silent once more.
Because both Li Wei and Garvin knew perfectly well that this path was likewise a winding road filled with the unknown and thorns—not one that would be easy to walk.
It was only that, compared to directly facing Legendary Destiny without having made any preparations, it at least offered a sliver of hope for salvation.
According to Garvin, since that "Heaven" had truly come into being, then even if Li Wei ruthlessly slaughtered every Cavens Rat in Zelandia, it would be useless.
Because in that unknown place, tens or even hundreds of millions of Cavens Rat souls had already formed something akin to the Abyssal petitioner pool, and had become bound to Garvin.
It was foreseeable that if Garvin advanced directly into Legend at this moment, he would never again be able to escape the influence of the Cavens Rat race.
The two would only become ever more tightly bound, even if those obsessive souls bore Garvin no ill will.
That nature and desire inherent to Cavens Rats would also gradually taint Garvin's soul until the two merged as one.
No matter how resilient a human's thin soul might be, compared to that vast, oceanic ratman will, it was no more than a single drop in the sea.
The outcome, then, was naturally easy to imagine. Perhaps by then, Garvin would truly become the Great Horned Rat worshipped by those ratmen.
Such an ending was almost inevitable.
However, before Garvin was completely assimilated by that immense racial belief, with the help of Icarus, that emotionless artificial idiot of a firewall, he could at least maintain a "brief" sense of self.
For ordinary people, such a "brief" span might very well amount to an