Strongest Hammer God novel Chapter 936

"There's no time left," a tall man wearing black armor spoke to a stalwart man sitting in the middle of a corrupting cloud of sand.

The stalwart man moved his hands, and the cloud of corrupting sand parted for him. A moment later, he stepped out.

"Then, we have to go," the stalwart man said. "I hope you've said your goodbyes."

"I did," the tall man said.

The stalwart man nodded and walked past the tall man. "Bring me to it."

"Are you not going to say goodbye yourself?" the tall man asked.

"To whom?" the stalwart man asked. "Samira is happy with her life. If I return to her now, it will just bring back painful memories."

"But she's your only daughter," the tall man commented. "I'm sure that she also wants to see her father one last time."

"She really doesn't," the stalwart man said. "Her mother died alone, and the only thing she asked for was to see me one last time, but I was too busy fighting. Miriam understood what I was fighting for. Whenever we met, she said that everything's fine and that she shouldn't stop me from protecting everyone. She has sacrificed her happiness just as much as I have sacrificed mine."

"Samira doesn't see things that way, and she shouldn't. The truth is that I have abandoned them to protect everyone else. While thousands of people call me their hero, my family just sees me as an absent father. I made my choice, and she made hers."

The tall man sighed. "Very well, then. I will lead you to it."

The two men stepped out of the basement of the imperial palace and ran towards the west.

The beast would break out within a year. Sadly, they couldn't wait until then. After all, if they waited, they wouldn't be fighting a Transcending Beast anymore but something much more terrifying.

They had to fight it while it was still relatively weak and restrained.

As the two of them ran towards the west, they passed by an old man sitting on a tree stump.

The tall man ran past the old man without interacting with him. He didn't know him.

The stalwart man's eyes narrowed for a moment when he saw the old man, but in the end, he also just ran past him without saying anything.

The old man watched as they passed.

The tall man was the Imperial General. The stalwart man was the former young man.

As Kyle watched them moving toward the west, he sighed.

After unveiling the existence of the Transcending Beast and part of his power to the young man, things had deteriorated.

"Why are you not stopping it?! You have the power! You can save millions of people! Why do I have to be the one who sacrifices their happiness for the greater good?! Can't you choose somebody more talented? Why do you insist on forcing us to carry the weight of the world when lifting the world is a negligible act to you?!"

Kyle told the young man that this was just a small part of the world. This entire empire was just a training camp for Transcendents. They were supposed to face adversity and grow stronger. Sure, he could save a couple of thousand or a couple of million people, but that would come at the expense of a Transcendent.

"Are you even listening to yourself?! We are talking about millions of lives here! You're putting one individual's personal power above the lives of millions of people! That's not the right thing to do!"

When Kyle heard these words, he felt something strange. These words felt familiar.

That was when he made the connection.

The Laws of Karmic Luck.

Hadn't he essentially said the same thing about the Laws of Karmic Luck? He claimed that they were bullshit and unjust. Why would the life of one Sage be worth more than the lives of millions of people?

"I'm essentially doing the same thing as your Laws of Karmic Luck," Kyle thought as he watched the two men entering the mountain. "I am valuing one powerful person more than thousands or millions of individual lives. I am doing the same thing as you."

"Yet, we are also not the same. You chose this fight against the Cult of Final Fate. You were not their target, but you made yourself their target. You started the battle and forced us to adapt to your Laws of Karmic Luck."

"Ayuvar did not choose this war. Yours is a war of aggression, while Ayuvar just wants to survive. You implement the Laws of Karmic Luck because you want something. Ayuvar acts like this because it needs something. It's the difference between stealing an expensive jewel to become even richer and stealing an apple to survive. We are both stealing, but we're doing it for different reasons."

As Kyle fell into thought, a brutal battle broke out below the mountain.

The Imperial General and the stalwart man were trying to exhaust the Transcending Beast. The only reason they could even attempt to fight this thing was the restraints. The Transcending Beast could not move a lot, giving the two heroes a chance to retreat and regain their strength.

Sadly, the Transcending Beast also regained its strength.

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