[Final Ascension Quest of the Human Race]
[The Human Emperor shall offer their life as the price to grant the entire race a collective ascension.]
[The Human Emperor will be permanently bound to the Human Race and will lose all resurrection privileges.]
[Please confirm: Do you accept this quest?]
Daniel stared at the line of text that only he could see.
For a brief moment, his mind went completely blank.
He had never expected that the final ascension would demand such a condition—that it would require him to bind himself completely to the Human Race.
Was this… really considered a "quest"?
Yet from another perspective, this was perhaps the harshest trial of all.
Because this choice was not about strength, nor intelligence, nor strategy.
It was about meaning.
If humanity were wiped out, then what significance would it have for him to survive alone?
What value would eternal existence hold, if there were no one left to share it with?
Daniel did not hesitate.
