"Ughh, my head hurts"

"How long was I out?"

"Where am I? What happened?"

Waking up from Damien's mind was instantly in chaos as he struggled to get his senses back.

His whole body hurt.

His mana and aura core were faint, both giving signs that they were about to give out.

The blue in his eyes had faded a bit, and his overall aura was weak

"Arghh!"

Grunting in pain, just as he struggled to get up, a sharp pain came from his body, instantly forcing him to lie back down.

In his current state, it seemed that even moving a bit was impossible.

"However, it doesn't seem like the worst has happened"

"If anything, the fact that I woke up on a bed intact means that we managed to win the battle!"

Saying this, he began to gather his thoughts, analysing everything that had just happened.

"Wreckless! I was reckless!" he muttered.

"Looking at everything now, from the slave fortress, I should have noticed that something was wrong!"

"According to Lyra's first report, the slave fortress was meant to be teeming with multiple fourth orders and even a fifth-order leader"

"However, the strongest people we met were that fat bastard Kael and a fourth-order Vargus"

"Adding to the fact that Vargus had mentioned the twilight order behind him, I should have put two and two together and known that they would be aiming for the elves!"

"They probably mobilised most of their personnel for this operation!"

The more he thought about it, the more Damien felt he had been complacent.

Because he got the golden dragon breathing method, a part of him had begun to become prideful

Calling himself the King of greed multiple times, he tried to establish this powerful and mysterious persona wherever he went.

"However, that isn't me!"

"I'm not the protagonist, I'm not even the original Damien Voss"

"I'm just a loser named Lin Ye who never made it into society properly before being transported to the strange world"

"In such a situation where all kinds of gods and demons appear out of nowhere, how dare I be proud…"

Speaking slowly, Damien's voice began to become lower and lower with each sentence,

Before this, apart from his fight with Isabelle, all his battles had been crushing wins for him, with even the golden dragon golem not giving him that much trouble.

However, now, after truly brushing shoulders with death, Damien began to doubt himself.

He began to wonder if he would even survive the next year, let alone reach the end of his story.

Adding to the fact that his family now was probably fighting for their lives against the second prince, Damien felt completely powerless.

For the first time in his new life, he suddenly wondered if he shouldn't just give up.

Even with the system, is it really possible to change destiny?

"Is this the so-called 'you cannot change the direction of the river, but you can redirect the streams '?"

"The general trend cannot be changed; only the small trends can be adjusted?"

Recalling some Daoist classics from his former world, Damien began to wonder if they were true.

Even if he could save Theron from dying as a baby, could he really stop the Voss family from falling?

Thinking of all this, Damien slowly began to lose his motivation.

He began to doubt the point of his new life

Was his struggle truly worth it in the end?

"Hahaha! Funny, isn't it? Even the dungeon I entered to get the golden dragon aura was me being lucky"

"Not because I arrived here so early, Italica's corpse should still be hidden somewhere, not fully releasing her mana"

"If she had not just golems, the entire place would have been crawling with dragon beasts, and the guardian would have probably been way stronger"

"If I went when the slave fortress was at full strength, even if I won, I would have probably pushed my body to the limit, and maybe some slaves would have died"

Lost in thought, Damien's confidence diminished by the second.

Fortunately, just before he could continue to self-wallow, three familiar voices came into his ears.

Wrapped in bandages and even using crutches.

Isabelle, Leona and Lyra made their way into the room.

"Young master!"

"Young Lord!"

"Voss Kid!"

They yelled, smiling happily that he had woken up despite being seriously injured.

A scene that made Damien's heart ache.

In front of him, the three of them could practically be called walking mummies.

Leona no longer looked like that cheery battle maniac beast girl

Rather, her condition was the worst of all of them

Her whole lower body was wrapped in bandages.

Her aura was practically non-existent, even weakening to an extent.

Looking at her closely, Damien even felt the breath of death hovering over her.

It seemed that the last sacrifice she made made a mark, as the current her, even if she didn't die from her injuries later on, she would never be able to wield a sword again.

And beside her, Isabelle and Lyra, while still bad, with proper medication and treatment, they should be able to recover in about three months.

This battle was truly a tragic one.

"Leona…."

"Lyra…."

"Isabelle…." he muttered

Looking at three of them who were excitedly approaching him, Damien, whose heart ached for their state, instantly did one thing that made the three of them pause in their steps.

"Arghhh!"

Grunting in pain, he forced himself to sit up, even at the cost of his internal injuries getting worse.

He mustered all his strength to sit up

"Three of you stop!"

Stopping them from getting any closer, with a face full of remorse, he bowed his head.

"Three of you, especially Leona, I'm sorry"

"I didn't intend for things to end this way. I was overconfident"

"challenging a seventh order being with my barely stable fourth order state"

" Had Charron not been toying with us for the most part, and Aelinor sacrificing her lifespan to help, the three of us would have died since"

Saying this, he bowed his head, unable to face any of them.

It seemed his so-called black thread had finally cut without being able to weave anything meaningful.

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