Chapter 1602 Selfishness [4]

Chapter 1602 Selfishness [4]

Damien left for the Western Region not long after his conversation with his mother. He only stayed as long as he needed to, going over several plans with to ensure that the Heavenly World would remain stable.

This trip was another self-satisfaction move from Damien, aside from the obvious importance of letting others know what happened.

He childishly wanted others to tell him what he wanted to hear, so he could feel better or worse about himself. He didn't quite know which one it was, but Damien was definitely looking for someone else to tell him he was wrong.

He didn't like that he was getting full of himself. He didn't enjoy wagering the lives of countless people for his own benefit.

But he did it anyway, didn't he?

It went against his moral code while following it to the tee, which caused chaos in his mind.

He had to force himself to put it away.

Damien never forgot his humanity. He couldn't just throw away his emotions like everyone else seemed to do.

He had the ability to make sure he felt nothing, but that wasn't the kind of person he wanted to be.

Even if he did something arrogantly like a God, he didn't want to forget this terrible feeling in his chest that reminded him of what was at stake.

He didn't want to lose his sense of reality.

Nevertheless, that was a problem for him to deal with on his own, not something for him to push on others.

Damien teleported away, focusing everything on work.

As his spatial fluctuations filled the room, Claire turned to take a look behind her.

"Are you sure you don't want to see him?"

A shadow came around the corner. He had been there from the start, but even Damien had been unable to sense his presence.

"It's fine. If he sees me now, it might mess with his mental state. It's better for us to meet once he's in a better place."

The man smiled. His sapphire-blue eyes gleamed in the light, and though he didn't have his Divinity, he radiated a strange aura of power unlike anything else that existed in the cosmos.

He walked up to Claire and Serena. His smile was directed at both of them, after all.

"He is one of ours, isn't he?" He said, nothing but confidence in his voice.

"I want to see how far he can go when he's living as he pleases. For us, as his parents..."

Dante Void peered through the layers of Existence, laying his eyes on Damien, who was already in Arulion.

"...isn't the only thing to make sure our children can be happy?"

Claire nodded with a smile.

As of a few hours ago, her husband had woken up, and now, her son had returned and finally showed her that he was truly safe.

Life was going to be good from now on.

'A lot has changed.'

The world he woke up to was a new one. The palace was not his anymore, and the younger generation had already surpassed the old.

The influences that were still growing in the past were now in their prime, and some of those he knew well were long deceased.

But...it didn't bother him as much as he thought it would.

'They really did it.'

Hearing the stories about his sons, daughters, wives, and people, he felt immense pride.

Especially Damien, who was born with the worst starting point of them all.

'He actually made it here, and...'

When he regained his bearings completely, the memories of the many clones and projections he'd left through the cosmos came back to him.

He almost cried in that moment.

As if he was looking at a collection of images, he watched his son change as he progressed through life.

And he realized something.

'This isn't my world anymore.'

Everything belonged to his son now. Even his own life was primarily saved because of the countless efforts his son made to save him.

Damien wasn't the only one, either. Dante had five children, yet, he hadn't seen any of the rest of them in millions of years.

Considering that they'd only been born in the past two hundred years, the disconnection he felt was even more severe.

That level of time dilation wasn't easy to overcome.

It was a bittersweet feeling to see how they'd grown. It was even worse since he wasn't able to experience anything that had happened before now.

The separation of a million years became painfully tangible when he saw the palace.

Still, he was here.

No matter how it happened, he was here.

So there was no way he'd miss out on anything else.

'No more mistakes.'

That was the promise he made to himself.

In order to live the rest of his life in a way that he wouldn't regret, in order to never feel the emptiness of being separated from his family again...

Dante Void was willing to do anything, no matter the cost.