Four Pillars: Depths of the Apparatus

"Wait… huh?"

Registering the words that left Vaughn's mouth, Valyr was left confused once more as he did not understand how the man had gotten to this point.

"Why me, though?" asked the young man for clarification. "Don't you have more than enough strength to kill the two Arbiters in your current state?"

Hearing that, Vaughn nodded. "That's true. If I were to do it, it would have already been done."

"Then… why me?"

"Because those two know me," replied Vaughn, his expression becoming serious. "And I don't mean that in a way that they remember what I looked like at the end of the Great Cataclysm."

"When I say they know me… I mean it in a way where they more or less know everything about me."

At those words, Valyr went silent for a bit, trying to wrap his head around the situation.

Eventually, the young man had a rough idea of why Vaughn was asking him to take over the task that he had started, nodding in slight understanding.