Chapter 314: 214 - Failure

Plotline: Main

Type: Social, System

"That was a shameful failure of everything moral and ethical." Kong Bai told me.

"That was what survival looks like, at least for me." I said.

"You have used the truth to lie!" he said.

"No, I stated the truth and let them draw their own flawed conclusions."

"Stating part of the truth and hiding the rest, how is that different than lying?"

"Not all truths need be spoken." I said. "How is it moral and ethical to keep the secrets of others, but not my own?"

"Have you learned nothing from our time together?"

"I'd say I've learned quite a bit from you, Monk Kong." I said.

[Truthspeaker, level one, 144/300 XP toward level 2, 27 class points available.]

Yes, my rate of experience during that two week training was phenomenal. If I'd had six months, and if he had six months of classes, I could have stayed and made second level.