Vanessa pursed her lips. That was not really what she had meant to say.
Dorothea had actually accepted the need to eat people so naturally.
After some thought, she still chose her words carefully and asked, "Don't you feel any resistance to Maeve having to eat people?"
"Of course I do. That's why I said to switch the targets to the Genesis School." Dorothea gave a cold laugh and spoke through almost gritted teeth. "They don't count as human! They're already twisted monsters!"
Vanessa fell silent for a moment.
Honestly, she could not really accept having to eat other innocent people for the sake of her own advancement.
But almost Dorothea's entire life had been ruined by the Genesis School. Her once-happy family had fallen apart, Elsa had suffered terribly and been left incapacitated, and their father had gone mad, his whereabouts still unknown.
Were it not for the Great Being's mercy, Elsa would have died long ago.
Vanessa felt she had no right to judge Dorothea's resentment.
She was simply a little lost. Did advancement have to take such a cruel form? Did becoming Middle Rank mean abandoning humanity and allowing oneself to be distorted?
Vanessa did think the Genesis School deserved to die, but eating them was another matter.
Sighing inwardly, she did not voice that thought.
A bystander's mercy was also a kind of cruelty to the victim.
Dorothea took several deep breaths, regaining her calm and composure. "Let me tell you about the Ascension Society first."
"Once you set foot on this Path, you fall into an endless hunger and thirst, yearning for flesh ascension. That's also where their sect's name comes from."
"But they chose restraint."
"The Ascension Society was originally divided into the Ascension School and the Genesis School. After they split, the two