Calamity Upon This World

"Sure, go ahead," both Rex and Myra said in unison, a bit curious about what could cause their son to suddenly get nervous.

"I\'m going to go to the neutral continent," William said, finally ignoring his hesitation and choosing not to beat around the bush.

"What??" Both Rex and Myra exclaimed, doubting their own ears.

Why would their 10-year-old suddenly ask to leave their protection right after declaring war on a dangerous criminal organisation only to travel to one of the most dangerous places in the world?

Surely they must have misheard, right?

"Well, you heard me the first time I\'m going to the neutral continent." William sighed as he witnessed his parents disbelief, which arguably made sense.

But since William couldn\'t explain everything to them in detail, he chose to twist the facts a bit and continued to explain himself before they could retort.

"I\'m aware that I\'ve put a target on my back; however, it was intentional and not something I did while being swayed by my emotions."

Rex wanted to start questioning him already, but he decided it\'d be best to give his son a chance to explain himself before he started questioning him.

"I want you guys to announce to the world that I\'ve entered solitary training inside our territory."

"And due to  father\'s status, no one except the emperor himself can really question this, and this will also limit Laughing Coffin\'s actions as they would spend time searching for his whereabouts inside Karka Kingdom, which obviously won\'t exist."

"While all this is going on, I plan to use a different identity to travel to the neutral continent and get strong enough to back up my words."

"While Laughing Coffin is focused on William, who in their eyes is hiding inside his house, I\'ll go to the neutral continent, and when I come back, I\'ll no longer need to hide."

William said he was hoping that his parents could understand his intentions.

Both Rex and Myra were silent for a few seconds after hearing William explain the reasoning behind his actions.

Truthfully, they didn\'t expect him to have such solid reasoning behind his actions; they half expected him to have declared war simply because of his anger.

In which case, while they could understand where he was coming from, they at least planned to give him some form of punishment for putting himself in so much danger.

But the more they listened to his explanation, the fewer flaws they could find in his reasoning.

Everything he said made sense, all except one thing: why would he want to willingly go to the most dangerous place in the world?

And besides that, that place is the home of the dragons and mythical beasts—the same dragons and beasts—who have been trying to kill him ever since his birth.

He should know how hard Rex has worked over the years to protect them, and yet why would he willingly go to their home continent?

So with a desire to satiate his curiosity, Rex finally asked the thing that had been bugging him.

"Well, so you see," William breathed deeply, preparing to tell his parents the half truth.

"My flaw, father, mother, I have found a way to fix it, and it exists on the neutral continent," William said, his eyes containing determination, proving that he wasn\'t joking.

Silence followed Williams words as his parents took a few seconds to process what he just said.

Finally, Myra asked.

"What? " She asked almost inaudibly, her voice containing pure disbelief.

Hearing her voice, Rex also snapped out as he realised the implications of his son\'s words.

A flaw is not something that\'s common among any of their two worlds.

Only a divine aspect user had a flaw, and according to popular belief, it was the only thing preventing them from ascending.

The only thing maintaining their humanity and suppressing their dormant divinity.

Many believe that after a divine aspect\'s 10th ascension, they can get rid of their flaws and ascend to the higher planes.

Of course, these were all just rumours and speculations, as there had only ever been one divine aspect user in history, and he obviously only divulged very limited information about how this tier of aspects functioned.

And even a lot of this already limited information had been lost to time.

But people widely believed that it was impossible to get rid for a divine human flaw of his flaw without ascending 10 times.

And this was only further solidified after both Rex and Myra had spent years searching for a way to remove or, at the very least, suppress it to some extent so that their child could lead a somewhat normal life.

And yet it was all to no avail; nothing they did or tried worked.

A few years after his birth, they came to the realisation that the will of the world wanted to kill him.

They weren\'t sure what exactly their newborn son had done to warrant the anger of a being of such scale, but they had no intentions of giving up without a fight.

The will of the world is a very complicated concept, with not much known about it, but a few tribes chose to worship this unknown entity.

According to them, the Will of the World is an amalgamation of all emotions, dreams, hopes, fates, futures, pasts, souls, and many other complicated concepts of every single entity that lives on Astressa.

And according to them, the reason behind the merger of both Astressa and Morgov was because the will of Astressa devoured the will of Morgov.

Of course, most people considered this just the ramblings of some senile, uneducated old people.

But both Rex and Myra had reason to believe them due to a few things they found during their research.

And according to their beliefs, dragons are the most closely connected beings to the will of the world.

Which is why it was able to manipulate them to try and kill William, even ignoring their usual neutral stance throughout history.

At this point, they had basically given up on getting rid of his flaw and instead chose to focus on making William strong enough to resist whatever the world wanted to throw his way.

So to hear William talk about how he had managed to find a way to fix his flaw out of nowhere definitely came as a shock to them.

Causing Rex to finally snap out of his trance and ask.

"Surely you jest, right?" He asked, his tone practically begging to be proven wrong.

Thankfully for him, his wish was granted.