บท 2029: The Rise of the Demon Race (Part 1)

"I could have saved a few of them, but not everyone. I'm no god. My power has limits and back then I was much weaker than I am now." Lith replied. "Even if I could, I wouldn't have saved them anyway."

"Good." Colonel Varegrave nodded, making both the Tiamat and the members of his regiment stare at him in confusion.

"Good?" Lith echoed, taking the words out of everyone's mind.

"Indeed. It means that even back then you were neither an idiot nor a monster. You were just a kid, dragged from his academy into a nightmare, who did everything he could to survive.

"We all have seen what happened after Meln Narchat revealed the truth about him." Varegrave turned around to address the troops. "The same thing would have happened back in Kandria if major Verhen had single-handedly resolved the plague.