You would think that this was a simple answer for me, but it really was not, because I was truly tempted, and this temptation was not necessarily about the power; no, that was a rather simplistic way of looking at it; the true temptation was now.
There is always a reason for now. My continent was being destroyed by the Conclave, my parents were dead, my sister was on the run, and there was no Moon Fox to keep her safe… There were Sovereigns above me that would tear me apart in the blink of an eye, and I believed I could feel the cold gaze of that demon god at the bottom of the ocean on my back.
I did not even include the assurance that the Sovereign of the Stars was most assuredly coming for me, because in this timeline, he knew about the loop and understood the dangers of my freedom from the Soul Flayer and reaching the Sovereign level.
Every one of those is a perfectly good argument for being strong today instead of reaching an unknown potential in the future.
