The Feeling of Heartache (Bonus Chapter for Fighting Beauty Girl)

"Mordo, you believe her instead of the master?" Wong stared at the grief-stricken Mordo, utterly agitated. Ancient One's most valued disciple had hesitated. He had wavered.

"Me? I think what she said makes sense..." Mordo had basically accepted the theory. Daisy had not made it up; those were simply the facts.

Several sorcerers with a deep mastery of magic had harbored doubts before. They were protecting Earth's safety, so it would have been one thing if they received no reward—but why did they have to suffer backlash themselves? It was not like shooting an enemy with a pistol meant getting shot too. There was no logic to it. Now, combined with their own experiences, they understood.

They understood that they had actually been walking down the wrong path all along. The farther they went, the narrower it became. Ahead lay nothing but darkness. In the end, they would only be buried by that darkness.

Mordo felt it most deeply. Few people capable of becoming sorcerers were stupid. Once he connected the dots, he understood. His gaze swept past by chance and landed on Ancient One, sprawled at Kamar-Taj's entrance. Was she not a living example of someone buried by darkness?

"With darkness at that level, are you sure she's still our teacher?" Mordo revered Ancient One more than anyone, but after seeing the darkness within her, the faith in his spirit had collapsed.

A hypocrite who would stop at nothing for power—this was the new label he gave Ancient One. He would not repay kindness with enmity like Kaecilius, but asking him to oppose justice for darkness? He could not do it.

"Colleagues, let's stop using magic. Whatever she needs, just... just let her take it!" Mordo commanded considerable prestige. Besides him, three other high-ranking sorcerers had realized the enormous