Finding Purpose In The Multiverse: Meta Essence Quest Mode

What Is Legacy?

Entry 73:

General POV (Third Person):

The world stood at a standstill as if all the light was focusing on a single person, an undeniable light.

Then the being spoke with his voice reverberating through their souls: "I see now the reason, the true reason for all of this.''

As the being took a step forward, light and dark warped as he moved forward. "Each of you is broken. Allow me to show you where you all went wrong."

In the next moment, the Kyoto landscape is replaced by a burning village that Cao Cao recognizes as it was his home.

All around them were the scars of battle in its worst state, pillage and loss.

Then, the view shifts to a boy on the ground, bleeding to death, before a bright light shines and his wounds are healed. At that moment, a spear forms as the boy takes it and screams not of righteous vigor but despair and vengeance.

He cut a swath through the devils and other beings present as he fought through the night, and when day broke, all that was left was ashes with that same boy standing there covered in blood and ash with a look of emptiness on his face.

Cao Cao stares at the boy with an unreadable expression as Linus places a hand on the fallen hero.

"You left, and you lost everything after was but vengeance and anger, but I know what happens if you go down that path. While you may achieve satisfaction, it will not bring them back."

Cao Cao considers these words as he fully understands that what he has done is unforgivable.

He is no hero.

Not anymore.

The sitting around them shifts again as they are now in a church with a little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes praying at the altar.

"Faith can be our greatest motivator but also our greatest weakness as if we place our faith into one being and find them wanting, what is our purpose then?" Linus said as the new setting registered to the audience.

Jeanne realizes where this is and looks almost angry and tries to attack the angel, but he just looks at her and stops her attack with his stare.

"This was your past, wasn't it? A life full of unreachable expectation and a broken faith left you empty, alone, and purposeless, did it not?" Linus says as he watches the young girl cry over the broken altar.

Jeanne just shouts in frustration, "What do you know of our past or the present? All we have is each other. That's all we've ever had in this world, for there is no God, there is no one watching over us anymore!"

As she says this, the sword falls from her hands, and she begins to cry at the unfairness of it all.

She was always taught to find her strength in God so that she may grant the power to others, but once Jeanne had learned of his fate, that faith was broken, and she was lost, and with mounting expectations due to her being the inheritor of Joan of Arc'sArc's spirit she cracked and ran.

The girl continues to cry as the new God just hugs her, and she cries into this being's chest.

The world around them is silent, as if they do not want to interrupt this moment.

The setting then shifts again, and we see a large child for his age, but all around him, all he can hear are derisive comments.

"He is the descendant of Heracles. What a joke!"

"He has no strength, no power. How is he a descendant of Heracles?"

"He is worthless and weak. Let him starve."