Anyone who had ever tried Blood Rage would involuntarily develop a certain feeling: the power of wrath could change everything. And that was indeed true. The power granted by dragon blood of a superior lineage was enough for Hybrids to crush any obstacle in the natural world.
Yet when the ball of fire rose on the horizon, a profound helplessness still washed over them.
Chu Zihang extended his arm and raised his thumb to estimate their distance from the center of the Nuclear Explosion. Beside him, Caesar merely stared at the ground, gasping for breath. This helplessness was different from anything they had ever felt before. They had no need to blame any decision, present or past, because this was something human effort could never reverse.
What good was anger? What could they accomplish even if they turned every molecule in their bodies into fission fuel? The strongest, fiercest outcome would amount to no more than that distant ball of fire, a fleeting spark upon the earth.
"Ye Sheng said that if you prayed to Lu Mingfei, he might hear you," Chu Zihang suddenly said.
"Is that supposed to be a joke?" Caesar lay flat on the scorched earth. "Then why can't I laugh?"
"I never imagined I'd spend my final moments with you," he added. "Maybe I should have agreed to let Nono come to the front."
"The council would never have allowed you and Nono out of surveillance at the same time. Even Lu Mingfei couldn't order them to," Chu Zihang analyzed calmly. "Perhaps you should have stayed with the council."
"Let's not argue at a time like this," Caesar said. "You know that was impossible. I reorganized the Gattuso Family and took another generation of young people from the households that had followed our family for generations.