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everyday I’m getting closer and closer to chapter 21 and everyone’s talking about it 🤨

“Because all the Cike knew how to do was destroy. For all their powers, for all their gods, they couldn’t protect their people. Couldn’t reverse time. Couldn’t bring back the dead.”

"They seemed eminently human--vulnerable and breakable."

WHAT.

"I bet he's always been like this. Old man in a young man's body. You think he ever smiles?"
"Only once a year," said Baji. "Accidentally, in his sleep."

LOL

"They clambered and fell before him like worshippers. He cut them down like reeds."

"It was utter carnage. It was beautiful."

"But the Cike pulled them down with them back into the world of mortals, and when they did, they were destructive and chaotic and terrible."

"She could not bear the sight of him and yet she could not tear her eyes away."

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omg bajis STRONG STRONG

i want to be atlan tbh

atlans probably so stable because he doesnt need to get high to summon some god

"Amateurs obsess over strategy, Irjah had once told their class. Professionals obsess over logistics."

uniqueness makes iconic characters

LMAO THE ROASTS IN THIS BOOK

this is so deep knowing imperialism 😭

I just googled it “The First and Second Poppy Wars are the Opium Wars, the Nikara Empire is China, Speer is Taiwan, The Federation of Mugen is imperial Japan, the Hesperians are Europeans, and the Third Poppy War is the Sino-Japanese War/WW2 when Japan invaded China.” LITERALLY MAKES SO MUCH SENSE

I just googled it and I KNEW mugen was based off of china’s history with japan cuz it makes sm sense

I love pain

IM SORRY NEZHA AND RIN IN THIS SCENE ARE SUPPOSED TO HATE EACHOTHER BUT ITS SO CUTE

JIANG SLAYY

IS THIS RIVALS TO LOVERS? HMMM..

nezha saving rin...HMMMMM (;;

"Fear was impossible to eradicate. But so was the will to survive."

"Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers."

nah because i actually feel like the protagonist in all these scenes 😭

'War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.'

Damn the empress a savage 😭☠️