Zdravko drew a long breath and said, “Everybody has both good and evil tendencies, and the line between good and evil is often thin.

“For instance, take Xanthakos—before ascending as one of the Five Path Emperors, he wasn’t inherently malicious. As one of the earliest beings to enter Zymurgy, he represented the epitome of virtue, striving for self-improvement and reaching the zenith of cultivation.”

James squinted and murmured, “So good and evil are essentially contextual and based on circumstan