What was a hero?
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What defined a hero?
What did it take to be called a hero?
Was it harboring a great sense of righteousness, saving the people from misery and suffering, saving the world when the apocalypse descended?
Was it being irreconcilable with evil and forever standing with the light?
Was it being lonely and powerful, bearing a tragic past yet willingly giving everything?
Was it being handsome and fit, wearing a skintight suit and delivering justice in the night on Heaven's behalf?
How did a hero become a hero?
It was standing up under oppression, singing for the people in resistance.
It was roaring in silence, never retreating in the face of hardship.
It was the extraordinary among the ordinary, the greatest love among love.
"A person was not called a hero because they were a hero."
"A hero was merely someone whom people called a hero."
"Since heroes were defined by people, then why did heroes exist?"
"Not to save people, nor to save the world."
"Only so that, amid bullying and danger, someone could be the first to stand up."
"Once there was a first person to stand up, there would be a second, and a third."
"And as long as someone stood up."
"They could be called a 'hero.'"
That fellow who was suspected to be Heavenly Dao, or something similar, had once told him that after helping him complete the pieces of himself—the remaining Soul Rings and Soul Bones—he still had an unfinished mission in this world. That mission was the key to whether he could return, and also the final trial that fellow had left for him.
Tang Liu no longer wished to say