Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang wasn't sure if that was good or bad.

For now, he decided to remain silent.

"Let me explain my conundrum with a metaphor," the Lightning Emperor said.

"Imagine you are a mortal and live in a village with 50 other villagers. You don't have any sort of real societal standards and norms, and the strongest person in the village is the leader."

"Now, imagine there is a council of five leaders since they don't want to fight each other for whatever reason, and you are one of them."

"One day, you find the offspring of a very powerful beast, which is far more powerful than any member of the council."

"You nurture it, and it follows you."

"Yet, it doesn't completely follow your commands, and you know that there is a chance that it might attack you and everyone else. After all, it is still a wild beast."

"But maybe, it will also help you."

"But also only you. What if it attacks any of the others in the village?"

"Right now, the beast is still a baby."

"So, what do you do?"

"Do you nurture it?"

"Do you kill it?"

"Do you ask the others?"

The Lightning Emperor drank another mouthful of tea.

"Everything about this beast screams risk at you. No matter what happens, it will be a risk. If it isn't one for you, it definitely will be one for the village."

"But you like the village. You live in the village. You are happy with the village."

"You don't want your beast to kill other villagers."

"But it very likely will."

"So, what would you do?" the Lightning Emperor asked.

Spirit Sense focused on

his answer

Should he lie?

even attempt

he had the skills to lie in front of

for

reason, this would

defer the responsibility of the decision to the Lightning Emperor? After

he give

what I would do, what someone else should do, what the village should do, or what the morally correct thing to

Lightning Emperor answered

to do would be to send it out of the village," Shang said.

Lightning Emperor didn't show

for the village is to either collectively raise the

Emperor remained

normal person would do, it would depend on their ambition. Is it worth the risk to nurture it for the eventual payoff? The person could become the

Emperor's interest,

what

let

reason?" the Lightning Emperor

its existence has no

elaborate," the Lightning Emperor said

be the

I must be stronger than the beast if I want to have any shot at reaching my goal. Even more, the beast's growth might even give me the incentive to

it turns out that the beast is stronger than me, it means my goal

I might as well kill myself right

Silence.

looked at Shang with a bit

you just tell me to kill

that my own goals and priorities are not in line with most people's goals

"You are not me."

choice in your case, it doesn't mean

eyebrow. "That sounds a bit extreme.

"I sacrificed everything else,

this world. Geniuses might be rare, but among billions, trillions, quadrillions, or however many people there are, there have to be lots

many of them

if there are only a thousand people left from one trillion people, that is still a thousand people that I have to defeat if I

stops them from being the