Babayak froze for a moment. His drooping eyelids slowly fell shut, and two tears streamed from the corners of his wrinkled eyes.
"You're very smart. Smarter even than your father, Mite."
"Perhaps I shouldn't have told you the truth either..."
"But Arost, I'm just too lonely."
"Having shouldered less than one ten-thousandth of Lord Lu Li's burden, I've already broken down like this. I truly am unfit for any great responsibility..."
As he spoke, Babayak's voice choked up. He could no longer suppress the emotions in his heart, and like a helpless old man, he began to sob.
Although Arost's expression remained complicated, the fire in his heart blazed anew.
He understood Babayak's loneliness.
And he finally understood just how much this Goblin emperor had sacrificed for their people.
Survival came at a price, and those who knew the truth suffered the most!
Only when everything was on the verge of destruction had Babayak revealed the secret buried in his heart to Arost alone.
Rather than announcing it to all Goblins.
Was that not a form of mercy as well?
"We still have hope, don't we?" Arost suddenly raised the corners of his mouth and put on an optimistic expression. "Even if it's only a little."
Babayak sniffled, wiping away the tears on his face like a child before nodding.
"Yes."
"Though the hope is slim, it isn't nonexistent."
"As long as Lord Lu Li can endure this current trial and become a primordial being today, he can stop the destruction from happening."
Upon hearing that, the optimistic smile that had just appeared on Arost's face instantly stiffened.
Leaving aside whether Lord Lu Li could survive the current crisis.
Become a primordial being today?!
The hell kind of possibility was that?!
Lord Lu Li's Yin Body was, at absolute best,