"Power, influence, wealth, fame, beautiful women—all these things are easily within our grasp, yet we act like fucking idiots, staying in this backward, filthy cesspool. We delude ourselves into thinking we can change this rotten World, help those ignorant masses whose spines were broken long ago stand up and escape the oppression of the upper class… Plague Doctor, if that's not idiotic, what is?
Gavin's emotions grew heated. "We're Ascenders! One-in-ten-thousand Ascenders! We are nobler than these ignorant masses. Why should we suffer for their sake? Why should we give up a better life, give up grasping even greater Power, for them?"
Having known him for more than ten years, Plague Doctor had never seen Gavin like this. He pondered for a few seconds before saying softly,
"Gavin, you were never like this before."
The sentence was clearly pointed at someone else. Zhou Chen calmly replied:
"Mr. Plague Doctor, people change.
