Chapter 335: Cruelty [Part 1]

To use his own hands to slay someone he had taught and created a personal relationship with.

How cruel can reality be.

If Sura was telling the truth, then it'd really mean that Ulzred is indeed a puppet created to hold the core of the rift's guardian.

He wasn't a real being.

He wasn't even a human to begin with, yet Northern had bonded with him, had compassion for him and one of the reasons he wanted to defeat this rift was to free the boy king from whatever may be suffering him.

However, now he has to come to terms with the reality that Ulzred is not real and just a puppet.

It was truly unfair to him who was already falling into a dark and empty depth.

Whose game was it? Fate? Was he destined to go this path the moment he consumed Chaos and Void?

Northern didn't believe in things like fate and destiny; things happen because we do them.

In every situation we find ourselves, we always have a choice.