Chapter 437: Old Self

"When I was younger, when Count Lisban told me about them, I had always thought that they were just legends. They were only as real as the Queen of the Sky, and the gods in the temples."

Moriah stared at Thales with a complicated gaze, one the latter had never seen on him before. Thales recognized that expression...

It was the one on Quill Barney Junior's face when Samel failed to take his oath earlier. Lost, hollow, agonized, and filled with regret.

There were also hints of confusion and helplessness.

"But the story passed down in our family through generations is true." Moriah fixed his gaze on the teenager, shook his head slightly, and his chest heaved.

It was as if he no longer knew his companion, who had once experienced life and death situations with him, and had went through dangers together with him for a short period of time. That foreign prince who shared the same fate as him...