"Thump~"
"Thump, thump~"
As the steady, powerful heartbeat sounded, Zhou Heng's eyes filled with reminiscence.
"The Invincible Heart..."
"So this is what 'ordinary' truly means?"
"The helplessness of all beings, their sorrow, their despair, their powerlessness..."
"Everything will gather within me at this moment, constructing my own ordinary 'truth'..."
Zhou Heng's voice grew ever calmer, but a crystal-clear tear fell from his eyes, which held countless emotions.
That tear slipped from the corner of his eye and slowly rolled down his cheek.
It was not large-in fact, it was tiny-but within that single tear lay every insight he had gained in his life, all his empathy, and all the light and darkness he had seen in those ordinary people.
Throughout his journey, with the help of his Unique-Level Talent, "Fate Hint," he had truly swept aside everything in his path among all beings.
Yet precisely because of this, he had become somewhat detached from ordinary people, unable to perceive the true underlying nature of this world.
And at this moment, as that tear containing every emotion fell, Zhou Heng truly comprehended what it meant to be "ordinary."
He did not stand high above everyone else.
He was merely one among the countless beings in this boundless immensity.
He had simply been fortunate enough to receive a certain gift and take a step ahead of those who came later.
That was all...
The instant Zhou Heng understood what "ordinary" meant, the heart representing "invincibility" in his hand began beating even more violently.
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
Then endless blackness surged out of nothingness, flowing into the originally pure-white "Invincible Heart" like ink poured into a clear spring.
The pure-white radiance intertwined, collided, and merged with the incoming darkness. The "Invincible Heart" changed from a single color into an extremely uneven mixture of