Finding oneself

"Just travel around Jundra, conquer dungeons, get to know other races and their traditions, and find yourself," Meryl answered after a while.

She knew that she shouldn't influence Nial in his decisions but the young Original was not able to follow his desires because he was afraid that something might happen to his father if he left him on his own.

It was not as if that fear was bad but restricting himself to the new human shelter would only result in stagnating his strength which would inevitably mean that he would be weaker than the beings who would attack the human shelter in the future.

That being said, he wouldn't be powerful enough to defeat his future opponents, which meant that it wouldn't be possible for him to protect what was left of his family.