Chapter 241-250

Chapter 241 I Just Want Peace
“Keane, someday, you will find your reason for living,” an old man wearing a robe that had seen better days said. It was old and ragged, and yet, it couldn’t hide the majesty of the person wearing it. “Right now, you just live, for the sake of living. Life shouldn’t be lived like that.”

“Master, isn’t being alive enough?’ the skinny teenager replied. “I eat when I’m hungry. I drink when I’m thirsty, and sleep when I’m sleepy. I am content with what I have right now, I don’t want anything else.”

“Keane, contentment leads to stagnation,” the old man commented as he stroked his beard while eyeing the young man in front of him. “Just like a sword that is forever inside a sheath, it is unable to show its true potential. It is merely a decoration, having lost its true value.”

“But, Master, isn’t being a decoration enough?” Keane inquired. “Wouldn’t peace be better than war?”

“Peace is always better than war, but have you ever thought that in order to keep the peace, someone must have the strength to prevent it from collapsing? If bandits were to descend on a peaceful village to steal their livestock, money, and women, what could being peaceful do?

“If Beast Tides were about to trample on everyone, and everything you hold dear, does living peacefully make them go away? The answer is No. Only those with power can protect the peace of the world. A decoration may look pretty, but that is all it is. A decoration. It cannot carry the sky when it falls down on your head. Remember this Keane, and remember this well.

“Only those who have the power to protect the peace, are the one that keep the peace and safeguard the people from their suffering.”