Sui Xiong fell silent after understanding the full chain of events.
He looked at the two nervous yet utterly resolute legendary mages and could not help but feel a little wistful.
Of all hardships through the ages, only death is the hardest!
Come to think of it, these two legendary mages were already very old. If placed on Earth, even the relatively younger one would have lived longer than the history of most civilizations in the world. The older one was practically as old as the pyramids—a living human fossil!
By rights, having lived so long, they should not have feared death. Yet the long years had not given them the courage to face death calmly. Instead, they feared it all the more.
That was hardly strange. There were plenty of precedents on Earth. There was no need to mention the First Emperor of Qin or Emperor Wu of Han; even around Sui Xiong, he had seen a centenarian muttering every day about health and longevity, looking as though he truly wanted to live another five hundred years.
Granted, a hundred years was nothing to these two legendary mages, and the First Emperor of Qin and Emperor Wu of Han would count only as juniors in their eyes. But at least in their desire to keep living, everyone was the same.
Sui Xiong neither despised nor wished to mock them. Not fearing death was certainly admirable, but fearing death was nothing to scorn or ridicule either. He merely felt somewhat moved—these two had more or less lived to the very limit of what a "mortal" could achieve. Looking at how utterly aged they were, they likely had to pay a great price for every day they remained alive. Yet even so, they still struggled on, dragging out their miserable existence,