Chapter 283: 048 – The Highest Point
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The immortal asked a man common man, 'What will be the highest point of your life?'
The man answered, 'The day that I own a home of my own, and don't have to worry about making coin,'
'So, you wish have a noble tittle?' the immortal asked.
When the immortal was done he went to ask a noble, "What would be highest point of your life?"
The noble answered, "The day that I stand as king and by subjects rejoice at my magnificence,"
The immortal went on to find a king and ask him the same question, to which the king answered, "On the day that I vanquish all other kings and stand as an almighty emperor of the entire world,"
On that day the immortal left the world in search of a world such an emperor who reigned supreme over an entire world.
After decades of searching, the immortal found such an emperor and asked him the same question, to which the emperor answered, "I have conquered all the lands, and oceans of my world, now I set my gaze upon the stars in the distant skies,"
And so the immortals journey continued he searched through the starry nights for eons for a conqueror of stars when at last he did, the conqueror of stars said, "On the day that every star in the sky is under my rule, and the countless worlds cry out my name in reverence,"
And so the immortal waited for countless eons, that conqueror of the stars eventually died of old age, and a hundred new conquerors of stars were born to the stream of time, before the day came that a person was named chancellor of the universe, and every star in existence fell under their rule.
On that day the immortal found the chancellor of the stars and posed his question that he had asked so many countless others, the chancellor of the stars answered, "The highest point of my life will be the day on which I become a god that all worship and fear, it will be the day that no one can take what is rightfully mine,"
The immortal sighed in disappointment, for even the answer of one who ruled over all had yet to experience the highest point of their life.
"So, do you know what the immortal did next?" Lirian asked.
Sobby and Chatty were both listening intently despite their earlier attitude's to Lirian, they were taken by the story and involuntarily they both asked, "What?" in an enthusiastic tone.
Lirian grinned at their change in attitude's and continued the story.
The immortal went to a hidden place in the starry sky and cast a spell on himself, that sealed him away so that time could not touch his body.
After countless eons had passed the immortal returned to the world, and he learned that the chancellor of stars he had met, was nothing more than a distant memory, remembered only by himself.
In that time thousands of chancellors of the stars were born, and faded into nothing, but there was one good thing that he learned, gods existed in the current world.
And so, the immortal set on a grand journey to meet the god, who was known as the greatest of all gods.
When he finally gained an audience with the good, he asked the god with batted breath, to learn the answer he had sought for so very long, "What was the highest point of your life?" he asked the god, filled with countless expectations.
To which the god answered, "The highest point of my life will be on the day that all gods grovel at my feet and declare me 'God of all gods'.
The immortal felt despair at that moment, the gods answer he expected to be profound beyond compare was no different from a common mans, the god sort more than he already had to make up for his childish insecurities.
"Is that it?" Sobby cried out grabbing on to the bars of her cage, "Is that the moral of the story, that no matter what we do we will never be satisfied with all that we have?" she asked in disappointment at the end of the story, she was looking forward to the answer.
"That is indeed a moral of the story, all sentient races no matter how highly they think of themselves are fundamentally the same," Lirian said knowingly and the eyes of his two listeners widened in surprise.
"But that isn't the end of the story," Lirian quickly added, "As I said to you noble girl, you are currently at the highest point of your life, I wouldn't know that without knowing the end of the story," Lirian said and continued once more.
The immortal was filled with despair, the answer he had sought out for so many countless eons was impossible to find.
It drove him to the edge of madness, and for countless years more the immortal sought out every person of every profession he could think of, doctors, merchants, politicians, soldiers, generals, philanthropists and all the other things he could think of.
But the answer eluded him, eventually the day came when the immortal felt he was drawing close to the end of his life, yet still he had no answer to show for all his efforts.
And he settled down in a little city to live out the remainder of his days, it was there that unexpectedly he found the answer he had always sought.
On a fateful night the immortal got drunk in the local tavern, it wouldn't be the first time that such a thing happened, but on that day he got into a brawl in his drunken stupor.
As it turned out the man he attacked was noble, so he got thrown into a cell, and it was there that he found the answer he had always sought, in all that time he had never thought to ask a prisoner the question he always carried.
But the immortal knew that his life was drawing to its close, on one of the days he spent in prison a man entered, with the brand of a murderer, in just a day he was set to be executed, and so the immortal asked, "What is the highest point of your life?" he asked out of habit not expecting any reply, yet to his wonder, the man gave an answer he never heard before.
'That's tricky,' the man answered thoughtfully, 'I suppose that my highest point was a long time ago but it could also be tomorrow as well, or perhaps my entire journey since that day has been my highest point and tomorrow will be the day it comes to an end'
The immortal looked with widened eyes and practically begged the man while grovelling at his feet for the answer, 'Tell me!' the immortal cried.
The man happily complied and explained his story.
When he was young, his family had deemed as a talentless trash of society and cast him out with nothing but the clothes on his back.
While alone he worked hard to make his way up in the world, and with great effort he climbed the ladders of the world and married into a great family.
The immortal looked at him sceptically and asked, 'If you married into such a great family, what are you doing in a prison cell?' he asked.
To which the man pointed to the brand of a murderer on his arm and whispered, 'I killed my wife,' he said it with such joy that the immortal became confused.
'Did she cheat on you with another man?' the immortal asked.
The man shook his head, 'She was the best wife a man could ask for,' he said in ecstatically, 'But she was a duchess you see, since I killed her the king will have to execute me,'
'What does this have to do with the king?' the immortal asked, he was still unable to see full picture.
'The king is my father,' the man whispered, 'He cast me out when I was a child, yesterday I killed the woman he sought to get rid of throughout his reign, and tomorrow I'll rub it in his face, and let him know who the real trash is before taking him with me to my grave,' he said revealing a spell circle that was engraved into his chest.
With it if anyone killed him they would die with him.
The immortal looked at the murderer as if he was his saviour and wept at his feet as if the man was a deity he revered.
He finally found his answer.
The highest point of the man's life was on the day he was cast out, on the day he had nothing left to lose, when there was no room left for him to fall.
It was the day on which the man experienced a great change and dedicated his everything to achieve his goal, all that the man done was to make his way into the presence of his father the king, and achieving revenge on the man who labelled him as a disgrace.
"The highest point of a person life comes long before they achieve their goals, a person's highest point is the day on which they find their ambitions and dedicate themselves to it," Lirian said bringing the story to it's close.
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The immortal asked a man common man, 'What will be the highest point of your life?'
The man answered, 'The day that I own a home of my own, and don't have to worry about making coin,'
'So, you wish have a noble tittle?' the immortal asked.
When the immortal was done he went to ask a noble, "What would be highest point of your life?"
The noble answered, "The day that I stand as king and by subjects rejoice at my magnificence,"
The immortal went on to find a king and ask him the same question, to which the king answered, "On the day that I vanquish all other kings and stand as an almighty emperor of the entire world,"
On that day the immortal left the world in search of a world such an emperor who reigned supreme over an entire world.
After decades of searching, the immortal found such an emperor and asked him the same question, to which the emperor answered, "I have conquered all the lands, and oceans of my world, now I set my gaze upon the stars in the distant skies,"
And so the immortals journey continued he searched through the starry nights for eons for a conqueror of stars when at last he did, the conqueror of stars said, "On the day that every star in the sky is under my rule, and the countless worlds cry out my name in reverence,"
And so the immortal waited for countless eons, that conqueror of the stars eventually died of old age, and a hundred new conquerors of stars were born to the stream of time, before the day came that a person was named chancellor of the universe, and every star in existence fell under their rule.
On that day the immortal found the chancellor of the stars and posed his question that he had asked so many countless others, the chancellor of the stars answered, "The highest point of my life will be the day on which I become a god that all worship and fear, it will be the day that no one can take what is rightfully mine,"
The immortal sighed in disappointment, for even the answer of one who ruled over all had yet to experience the highest point of their life.
"So, do you know what the immortal did next?" Lirian asked.
Sobby and Chatty were both listening intently despite their earlier attitude's to Lirian, they were taken by the story and involuntarily they both asked, "What?" in an enthusiastic tone.
Lirian grinned at their change in attitude's and continued the story.
The immortal went to a hidden place in the starry sky and cast a spell on himself, that sealed him away so that time could not touch his body.
After countless eons had passed the immortal returned to the world, and he learned that the chancellor of stars he had met, was nothing more than a distant memory, remembered only by himself.
In that time thousands of chancellors of the stars were born, and faded into nothing, but there was one good thing that he learned, gods existed in the current world.
And so, the immortal set on a grand journey to meet the god, who was known as the greatest of all gods.
When he finally gained an audience with the good, he asked the god with batted breath, to learn the answer he had sought for so very long, "What was the highest point of your life?" he asked the god, filled with countless expectations.
To which the god answered, "The highest point of my life will be on the day that all gods grovel at my feet and declare me 'God of all gods'.
The immortal felt despair at that moment, the gods answer he expected to be profound beyond compare was no different from a common mans, the god sort more than he already had to make up for his childish insecurities.
"Is that it?" Sobby cried out grabbing on to the bars of her cage, "Is that the moral of the story, that no matter what we do we will never be satisfied with all that we have?" she asked in disappointment at the end of the story, she was looking forward to the answer.
"That is indeed a moral of the story, all sentient races no matter how highly they think of themselves are fundamentally the same," Lirian said knowingly and the eyes of his two listeners widened in surprise.
"But that isn't the end of the story," Lirian quickly added, "As I said to you noble girl, you are currently at the highest point of your life, I wouldn't know that without knowing the end of the story," Lirian said and continued once more.
The immortal was filled with despair, the answer he had sought out for so many countless eons was impossible to find.
It drove him to the edge of madness, and for countless years more the immortal sought out every person of every profession he could think of, doctors, merchants, politicians, soldiers, generals, philanthropists and all the other things he could think of.
But the answer eluded him, eventually the day came when the immortal felt he was drawing close to the end of his life, yet still he had no answer to show for all his efforts.
And he settled down in a little city to live out the remainder of his days, it was there that unexpectedly he found the answer he had always sought.
On a fateful night the immortal got drunk in the local tavern, it wouldn't be the first time that such a thing happened, but on that day he got into a brawl in his drunken stupor.
As it turned out the man he attacked was noble, so he got thrown into a cell, and it was there that he found the answer he had always sought, in all that time he had never thought to ask a prisoner the question he always carried.
But the immortal knew that his life was drawing to its close, on one of the days he spent in prison a man entered, with the brand of a murderer, in just a day he was set to be executed, and so the immortal asked, "What is the highest point of your life?" he asked out of habit not expecting any reply, yet to his wonder, the man gave an answer he never heard before.
'That's tricky,' the man answered thoughtfully, 'I suppose that my highest point was a long time ago but it could also be tomorrow as well, or perhaps my entire journey since that day has been my highest point and tomorrow will be the day it comes to an end'
The immortal looked with widened eyes and practically begged the man while grovelling at his feet for the answer, 'Tell me!' the immortal cried.
The man happily complied and explained his story.
When he was young, his family had deemed as a talentless trash of society and cast him out with nothing but the clothes on his back.
While alone he worked hard to make his way up in the world, and with great effort he climbed the ladders of the world and married into a great family.
The immortal looked at him sceptically and asked, 'If you married into such a great family, what are you doing in a prison cell?' he asked.
To which the man pointed to the brand of a murderer on his arm and whispered, 'I killed my wife,' he said it with such joy that the immortal became confused.
'Did she cheat on you with another man?' the immortal asked.
The man shook his head, 'She was the best wife a man could ask for,' he said in ecstatically, 'But she was a duchess you see, since I killed her the king will have to execute me,'
'What does this have to do with the king?' the immortal asked, he was still unable to see full picture.
'The king is my father,' the man whispered, 'He cast me out when I was a child, yesterday I killed the woman he sought to get rid of throughout his reign, and tomorrow I'll rub it in his face, and let him know who the real trash is before taking him with me to my grave,' he said revealing a spell circle that was engraved into his chest.
With it if anyone killed him they would die with him.
The immortal looked at the murderer as if he was his saviour and wept at his feet as if the man was a deity he revered.
He finally found his answer.
The highest point of the man's life was on the day he was cast out, on the day he had nothing left to lose, when there was no room left for him to fall.
It was the day on which the man experienced a great change and dedicated his everything to achieve his goal, all that the man done was to make his way into the presence of his father the king, and achieving revenge on the man who labelled him as a disgrace.
"The highest point of a person life comes long before they achieve their goals, a person's highest point is the day on which they find their ambitions and dedicate themselves to it," Lirian said bringing the story to it's close.
The immortal asked a man common man, 'What will be the highest point of your life?'The man answered, 'The day that I own a home of my own, and don't have to worry about making coin,''So, you wish have a noble tittle?' the immortal asked.When the immortal was done he went to ask a noble, "What would be highest point of your life?"The noble answered, "The day that I stand as king and by subjects rejoice at my magnificence,"The immortal went on to find a king and ask him the same question, to which the king answered, "On the day that I vanquish all other kings and stand as an almighty emperor of the entire world,"On that day the immortal left the world in search of a world such an emperor who reigned supreme over an entire world.After decades of searching, the immortal found such an emperor and asked him the same question, to which the emperor answered, "I have conquered all the lands, and oceans of my world, now I set my gaze upon the stars in the distant skies,"And so the immortals journey continued he searched through the starry nights for eons for a conqueror of stars when at last he did, the conqueror of stars said, "On the day that every star in the sky is under my rule, and the countless worlds cry out my name in reverence,"And so the immortal waited for countless eons, that conqueror of the stars eventually died of old age, and a hundred new conquerors of stars were born to the stream of time, before the day came that a person was named chancellor of the universe, and every star in existence fell under their rule.On that day the immortal found the chancellor of the stars and posed his question that he had asked so many countless others, the chancellor of the stars answered, "The highest point of my life will be the day on which I become a god that all worship and fear, it will be the day that no one can take what is rightfully mine,"The immortal sighed in disappointment, for even the answer of one who ruled over all had yet to experience the highest point of their life."So, do you know what the immortal did next?" Lirian asked.Sobby and Chatty were both listening intently despite their earlier attitude's to Lirian, they were taken by the story and involuntarily they both asked, "What?" in an enthusiastic tone.Lirian grinned at their change in attitude's and continued the story.The immortal went to a hidden place in the starry sky and cast a spell on himself, that sealed him away so that time could not touch his body.After countless eons had passed the immortal returned to the world, and he learned that the chancellor of stars he had met, was nothing more than a distant memory, remembered only by himself.In that time thousands of chancellors of the stars were born, and faded into nothing, but there was one good thing that he learned, gods existed in the current world.And so, the immortal set on a grand journey to meet the god, who was known as the greatest of all gods.When he finally gained an audience with the good, he asked the god with batted breath, to learn the answer he had sought for so very long, "What was the highest point of your life?" he asked the god, filled with countless expectations.To which the god answered, "The highest point of my life will be on the day that all gods grovel at my feet and declare me 'God of all gods'.The immortal felt despair at that moment, the gods answer he expected to be profound beyond compare was no different from a common mans, the god sort more than he already had to make up for his childish insecurities."Is that it?" Sobby cried out grabbing on to the bars of her cage, "Is that the moral of the story, that no matter what we do we will never be satisfied with all that we have?" she asked in disappointment at the end of the story, she was looking forward to the answer."That is indeed a moral of the story, all sentient races no matter how highly they think of themselves are fundamentally the same," Lirian said knowingly and the eyes of his two listeners widened in surprise."But that isn't the end of the story," Lirian quickly added, "As I said to you noble girl, you are currently at the highest point of your life, I wouldn't know that without knowing the end of the story," Lirian said and continued once more.The immortal was filled with despair, the answer he had sought out for so many countless eons was impossible to find.It drove him to the edge of madness, and for countless years more the immortal sought out every person of every profession he could think of, doctors, merchants, politicians, soldiers, generals, philanthropists and all the other things he could think of.But the answer eluded him, eventually the day came when the immortal felt he was drawing close to the end of his life, yet still he had no answer to show for all his efforts.And he settled down in a little city to live out the remainder of his days, it was there that unexpectedly he found the answer he had always sought.On a fateful night the immortal got drunk in the local tavern, it wouldn't be the first time that such a thing happened, but on that day he got into a brawl in his drunken stupor.As it turned out the man he attacked was noble, so he got thrown into a cell, and it was there that he found the answer he had always sought, in all that time he had never thought to ask a prisoner the question he always carried.But the immortal knew that his life was drawing to its close, on one of the days he spent in prison a man entered, with the brand of a murderer, in just a day he was set to be executed, and so the immortal asked, "What is the highest point of your life?" he asked out of habit not expecting any reply, yet to his wonder, the man gave an answer he never heard before.'That's tricky,' the man answered thoughtfully, 'I suppose that my highest point was a long time ago but it could also be tomorrow as well, or perhaps my entire journey since that day has been my highest point and tomorrow will be the day it comes to an end'The immortal looked with widened eyes and practically begged the man while grovelling at his feet for the answer, 'Tell me!' the immortal cried.The man happily complied and explained his story.When he was young, his family had deemed as a talentless trash of society and cast him out with nothing but the clothes on his back.While alone he worked hard to make his way up in the world, and with great effort he climbed the ladders of the world and married into a great family.The immortal looked at him sceptically and asked, 'If you married into such a great family, what are you doing in a prison cell?' he asked.To which the man pointed to the brand of a murderer on his arm and whispered, 'I killed my wife,' he said it with such joy that the immortal became confused.'Did she cheat on you with another man?' the immortal asked.The man shook his head, 'She was the best wife a man could ask for,' he said in ecstatically, 'But she was a duchess you see, since I killed her the king will have to execute me,''What does this have to do with the king?' the immortal asked, he was still unable to see full picture.'The king is my father,' the man whispered, 'He cast me out when I was a child, yesterday I killed the woman he sought to get rid of throughout his reign, and tomorrow I'll rub it in his face, and let him know who the real trash is before taking him with me to my grave,' he said revealing a spell circle that was engraved into his chest.With it if anyone killed him they would die with him.The immortal looked at the murderer as if he was his saviour and wept at his feet as if the man was a deity he revered.He finally found his answer.The highest point of the man's life was on the day he was cast out, on the day he had nothing left to lose, when there was no room left for him to fall.It was the day on which the man experienced a great change and dedicated his everything to achieve his goal, all that the man done was to make his way into the presence of his father the king, and achieving revenge on the man who labelled him as a disgrace."The highest point of a person life comes long before they achieve their goals, a person's highest point is the day on which they find their ambitions and dedicate themselves to it," Lirian said bringing the story to it's close.
