Moor was more farsighted than Mulan had imagined. He possessed extraordinary insight and depth of thought, lofty ideals, and the mental resolve to do what those ideals required.
Had someone like him appeared online in Mulan's previous life, many people would surely have doubted whether he was genuine. But great people did exist, and even among the skeptics, quite a few dearly hoped such people were real.
When Mulan left Moor's home, he was still shaken to his core. As someone on the verge of becoming a transcendent, and a transmigrator endowed with a special gift, he could sense-or rather, "see"-the radiance within Moor. It was the power of ideals and will, the purest radiance of humanity, untainted by any mystical element.
At the same time, Mulan felt invigorated. Meeting such a man in person, someone who bore witness to the path once walked by the martyrs of his former world, made him more willing to believe that human civilization had a bright future, even in this world, in an age like this.
Although the mystical world held all manner of uncanny horrors, transcendent beings who stood for justice and light existed too. It was just that the Black Castle fundamentally represented the interests of the Dilga Empire's royal house and powerful elite. The Holy Temple, though more aligned with the light, represented the interests of a religious theocracy entwined with that same elite.
Yet the light Mulan saw in Moor was also a kind of power, one that surely exceeded Moor's own imagination. As a researcher of the mystical, Mulan understood more clearly that this, too, was fundamentally a tendency toward the construction of a formative world. Through Moor, he had also dimly arrived at a conjecture-or perhaps a discovery: the formidable spiritual will of an idealist might be