We did not -- I did not merely shatter Zodiark. All things, all people, the world itself, we shattered.
[Venat is quiet now, though no less wrought with conviction.]
This, you may, and ought to, judge me for. In that moment, I condemned mankind to suffering and misery. I stripped away the ability it had to soar to paradise, on the wings of creation magic; instead, I set it to finding its way by foot. I saw no other way for it to find the answer to Meteion's question, no other path for it to find the strength and courage to make meaning out of life's misery... but I do not deny, I do not pretend, that what I did was not horribly, unforgivably cruel.
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[Venat is quiet now, though no less wrought with conviction.]
This, you may, and ought to, judge me for. In that moment, I condemned mankind to suffering and misery. I stripped away the ability it had to soar to paradise, on the wings of creation magic; instead, I set it to finding its way by foot. I saw no other way for it to find the answer to Meteion's question, no other path for it to find the strength and courage to make meaning out of life's misery... but I do not deny, I do not pretend, that what I did was not horribly, unforgivably cruel.