Kindle Notes & Highlights
humanity refused to do what survival required, which was to raise one another up. To strengthen each other as only iron may sharpen iron, and as only the strong may serve alongside the strong.
You cannot save humanity without saving people,
"Three rules, Seraph. Do not take a life unwarranted, do not harm without reason, and all above all else, safeguard humanity and ensure your own survival.
a cold sentient and terrible intelligence moving within that darkness. Something hungry for his life, and something hungry with a desire to live again.
This is what you become. Look at what your desires have wrought. Look at the ways your hands have been stained,"
"Remember what you have done, child. Remember these faults, remember these sins, and learn from them.
My dungeon does not exist to kill all of you, but rather to challenge and help you to grow.
Unable to move and dying, he begged for vengeance against those who had wronged him. He cared nothing for justice—only the power to never be weak again.
Though it had been thirty years since he had last seen the man, the passage of time had not abated the sense of loss he had felt, and this man… well, this man was still his father.
‘This man is a contradiction. He is full of self-loathing and doubt, unable due to his own arrogance to understand and be aware of his own failings.’"
'This man’s destiny is his doom. He will be a martyr. He will be a sacrifice.'"
'This man is a herald; he comes from disaster and calamity on the race of men.'"
'This man must overcome his apathy, for apathy is death, and indifference toward a helping hand will be fatal.'"
'He must gain discernment. Be wary of low hanging fruit. Ask of all easy things, what is the cost?'"
'Be wary, lest victory defeat you. Choose battles carefully or risk losing everything. Be wary of forcing one’s companions to leave you. One’s actions ripple beyond oneself.'"
'Another will join him of harsh critique and demeanor, to teach and train him but never know him.'"
'This man has known absolute defeat and tasted unavoidable calamity. His fate cannot be denied.'"
'The future is owed to his own appetites. The voice that traps itself in the throat. He pays homage to that which he desires—vengeance and retribution.'"
'This man will know an end. New life will be given, and from the ashes, seedlings will spring.'"
There was no other way around the truth, so Seraph would give him a version of it that the man could tolerate. "Yes, I am your son. But I’m not Luca, not really. I haven’t gone by that name in a long time. I spent over thirty years in this dungeon before dying and triggering my restart ability. When I died, I bled to death at the end of a massive battle. I was a little older than you are now.”
Two identical boxes meant only one thing. One was real, and one was a fake, likely a mimic.
