Chapter 12 The Melancholy Knight

"The desire for power, isn't that a basic human instinct?" Xi Mu replied as a matter of course. He pursued power not to uphold justice, nor because he had anyone he wished to protect, even less to realize some ideal.

Instead, it was because becoming stronger made him feel happy and satisfied, just as people feel pleasure when they eat sweets.

"That's a perfectly valid reason," Hecate nodded slightly, accepting her apprentice's explanation. She could understand a man's desire for power, an impulse rooted deep within the soul, but she did not want her apprentice to become a person who only chased after power.

"Apprentice, power requires wisdom to wield," she said to Xi Mu with a smile, "If you really are in a rush to forge the Great Sword of Death, I can help you."

With her current abilities, she could quickly locate the meteorite needed to enhance the Great Sword of Death and find a suitable Forging Master to create it.