All these years, he had suffered too many hardships, had been through too many twist and turns, and even life and death situations. Thus, his will had long ago been hammered into something hard and unyielding. The amount of blood he had shed was a million times more than the tears he cried. He had single-handedly gone up against a huge clan and also an entire nation by himself. He had also gone up against an entire continent before… to the point where he was forced to skirt the border between life and death constantly, but he still held his head high with unyielding tenacity back then, and had worn a cold, blood-stained smile that expressed his defiance till the very end…
But at this moment, this feeling of weakness was so real and irresistible that it caused him to have the urge to just break down and cry…
He knew that this was because he was in his mother’s arms.
It was only after two lives, till this very day, that he knew what a mother’s embrace was like… He was finally not a parentless, rootless wanderer covered in sand and dried blood any longer…
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Time seemed to have slowed down. No one came to disturb their family reunion, and nothing else seemed to have taken place that day.