Chapter 2960 Yurial’s Lesson (Part 2)
After that, Nalrond tried to save just enough mana to keep it together, but the moment the cores started using fusion magic, exhaustion would bring him back to square one.
Next, he resorted to poisoning his cores and almost died from it. Instead of making the cores meeker, the presence of external mana gave them the means to strike directly by forcing the poison onto the other core.
The damage his life forces sustained after trying to exploit mana poisoning brought the experiments to a halt for a whole day.
After eight days and 90% completion, the group of healers was no closer to finding a solution whereas Nalrond was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
"Fuck Mogar and its lies!" He punched a wall of the tower with all of his strength, breaking his hand in four points. "My people, all the werepeople, have wasted centuries chasing a damn pipe dream.
"I've struggled so much, spent so much effort, and for what? I've wasted years of my life and argued with some of my best friends and Lith for nothing."
"Maybe, and maybe not." Quylla took his hand and fixed the damage. "I've thought long and hard about this. We may have found no solution yet, but I'm sure Mogar doesn't lie."
"What makes you think that?" Nalrond snorted.
"Friya's vision was true and so was Lith's. Heck, based on what Faluel has recently learned about the Harmonizers, her vision and Ajatar's are true as well. Why should you be a special case?" New novel chapters are published on
"Story of my life. That's why." He said with a sigh.
"No, that's the story of my life." Lith waved at himself, the tower, and Solus.
"Point taken." A small smile appeared on Nalrond's face. "Still, I don't agree with you, Quylla. If Mogar's vision is true, then the solution should be something that any of the werepeople can do on their own.
"Just a question." Lith's eye twitched in annoyance seeing the state the room was in. He didn't pop a vein only because the enchantments of the Manor would fix the damage. "Why me? I'm not as kind as Solus and for sure I don't care about you as much as Friya."
"Because unlike them, you don't give a shit about my feelings." Nalrond handed Lith the only half-fixed chair in the room while he sat on the ruins of the bed. "There's a question that's tormenting me and I need an honest answer.
"I don't want someone to cheer me up, sugarcoat the truth, or tell me some optimistic bullshit about the rainbow after the storm. I want to know if what I'm doing is worth the effort or just madness.
"I'm fighting so hard for something that might as well kill me when I could just sit back and enjoy the rest of my life with Friya. Am I crazy for hurting myself and risking my future with the woman I love for this?"
Lith pondered the question for a while before answering.
"You know, years ago I had a friend who was facing a similar choice. Yurial was a rich pampered kid so there was no life-or-death situation involved. Yet he too was torn between what he wanted to do and what others expected him to do."
Lith conjured a hologram of one of his rare conversations with Yurial in one of their rooms at the White Griffon academy. There were no sounds, only images to not betray those old confidences.
"In the end, he chose to pick the easy way. To have the rest of his life planned by his father, to marry a woman he didn't even like, and to live for the sake of others. Were he still alive, I don't know if by now he would have found happiness or be more miserable.
"What I know is that back then Yurial wasn't happy and he spent his days at the academy with his head filled with ifs and buts.
"Nalrond, you can give up like Yurial did at any time. If you do it, however, I'm certain that for the rest of your life there will be a small voice in the back of your head. It will never stop wondering how things could have gone had you made a different choice.
"It would ruin your happiest moments and be a constant reminder that you settled for what you had instead of striving for what you wanted. Success or failure don't matter, only knowing that you've done everything you could.
"I felt the same way every time I had to reveal a part of my secrets to the people I love. I knew that I could have kept silent and no one would have ever suspected a thing. I knew that by telling the truth I could have lost everything.
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