If a person was destined to die, should you tell her that news, or keep it from her?
Before this, Ash had thought the same as Vishy and the others: "There's no need to say it." Just as people didn't care whether their shadow was absent on a cloudy day. But the deeper his contact with Philly and Rose became, the more that thought tormented Ash.
He had countless reasons to excuse himself. After all, it had nothing to do with him. It was the Star Law Master who had created the stars on a whim, and it would be the Star Law Master who destroyed them on a whim next.
A single thought from a Divine Lord landed on everyone's head like a mountain.
And for the previous 1668 years, Multistar Country had always been perfectly safe. It was only by coincidence that this year, the Source Angel had finally been shut inside this cage, so the gears of Fate had begun to turn.
There was always one unlucky generation, and it just so happened to be this one.
Ash was merely present by chance to witness the curtain fall on this tragedy, like a Watcher gazing upon the end. None of it had anything to do with him. He could originally have remained calm as still water. Just like the more than one million mortals in Canaan City buried in the dragon's belly, he felt no stir of emotion at all. He had even faintly thought the Star Law Master was rather protective of his subjects, specially creating the illusory Multistar Country to bear the disaster.
After he had spent a month in Jia Shi, that relaxed, comfortable thought gradually warped into a poison harmful to the soul.
It wasn't just Rose and Philly. Everyone he met—the fans