Primordial Soul's Rebirth

"Well, it's too bothersome…" X2

Both Alex and Alice just shrugged.

Butt Max, Grace, and Damien who heard their words had their mouths and eyes wide open in shock and dumbfoundedness.

They just kept looking at Alex, and Alice as if they had an extra head or something.

Ann didn't say anything as she knew that Alex and Alice were going to answer with something like that.

The only person who didn't show any reaction was Lily as she was savoring the pastry she had.

Max opened and closed his mouth as no words came out.

He couldn't think of anything to say that would not sound like an insult to Alice and Alex, so he kept quiet.

There was a long silence as Max, Grace, and Damien just kept looking at Alice and Alex without saying anything as they didn't have anything to say.

The silence was finally broken by Max who found a normal question to ask.

"You don't want to establish an empire because you feel it would be bothersome?"

"Yes, that's what we said.

It is bothersome, and tiresome, with too much politics, management, and many other things.

But the point is that none of us like anything that I just said."

Alex spoke as he pointed at Alice and himself when he said 'us'.

He didn't include Ann as Ann was a hard worker and she would even master politics if asked for.

"You can just have someone sit on the throne after you have established the empire," Max suggested, but Alex just shook his head.

"I won't go through so much effort of building a new empire just to have a puppet emperor to sit on the throne, I would rather control an empire that is already established if I just want an empire with an emperor who will be my puppet."

Alex spoke and Max who suggested the option closed his mouth.

Max knew that he couldn't do anything if Alex and Alice just didn't want to do something.

"Now that I know that all the help I thought I was doing to you guys was nothing but me having my own delusions, I feel quite disappointed in myself…."

Max sighed as his shoulders slumped.

"It's all right, we never needed help in the first place, but we are grateful for your efforts," Alice smiled as she spoke.

"No, you don't understand, it's not all right for me.

You guys saved my family's life, and now again you saved us all.

But what did I do in return? Nothing.

The fact that I did nothing for you guys even after what you had done for us won't let me sleep at night."

Max spoke with a lot of emotion as he looked at Alice, Alex, and Ann simultaneously.

"So, what do you want us to do?" Alex asked as he leaned forward with his hand supporting his head.

"I want to help you guys," Max replied seriously.

"With what?" Alex asked again.

"I…." Max didn't have any words to say.

"I don't think there is anything we need anyone's help in, after all, we are doing pretty well on our own," Alex continued and Max lowered his head as he knew it was true.

What followed after that was another bout of silence until Max's eyes brightened as he got an idea.

"Gates..." He spoke in a low voice.

"What was that?" Alex raised a brow.

"The gates, I can help you guys get access to more gates," Max explained his point.

"And what makes you think that we want help with that?" Alex asked as he looked intrigued.

"I had two theories about you clearing the gates everywhere without asking much in return, one of them is already denied by you but I know that the second one isn't wrong, because that's not possible."

Max spoke with some confidence back in his voice.

"Can you tell us what your second guess is?" Alice asked as she seemed interested as well.

"I won't ask much nor will I try to look into it but I do know that you guys gain something from clearing the gate, and whatever you gain is good enough to make it up for you to not ask for anything else from the owner of the gate."

Max stated his point as his eyes stayed fixed on Alex.

He knew that there was nothing for free in this world, and he knew that they must gain something from clearing the gate, something so good that makes up for everything they do.

He observed Alex's reaction and he saw Alex's eyes shining with interest for a second before returning to normal.

"I see, but how can you help us get access to more gates?" Alex neither denied nor did he accept the claim, he just skipped it.

Max also didn't push it further as he already got the answer he wanted with a positive response from Alex.

"Till now, I had never actually tried to gain more authority than what I already have because I didn't need it, but that didn't mean I couldn't get more authority.

I have the power to do that, and with just a bit of your help, I might be able to help you guys control the leaders of other countries as well.

After you have control over a country's leaders, you won't have to worry about getting access to any gate in that country as you can walk into their country and do whatever you want without a problem after that."

Max spoke as he leaned a bit forward with a serious expression.

Alice and Ann also realized that this plan might actually help them a bit so they also looked over, with interest.

"That is a nice plan and it might help us a bit as we do find it annoying to deal with the leaders but how are you going to achieve all that?

The leaders won't just give away their powers and if you use force then you are clearly asking for a war or something.

There is the option of killing them, but it won't change anything other than some unrest among the common populace."

Alex questioned even though he already knew how Max was going to do it.

"As I said, I had the power to do much more than what I can do right now, I know that if I tried to get more than what I have, I would be exposing my family to more danger and that was something I didn't want."

Max replied as he looked into Alex's eyes.

"So, what changed now?" Alex asked with a smile.

"I think it's time for me to stop worrying too much about them as we don't know the future," Max spoke as he looked toward Lily and Grace with love in his eyes.

"I see, looks like you gave a lot of thought to what I said earlier," Alex nodded his head as he saw Max smile.

Max thought about all he did to protect Lily and Grace, how he did not try to gain more authority so that he could spend more time with them, protecting them from any danger, and then he thought about how even after that, they would have died if not for Alex saving them.

'No matter what I do, I won't be able to always protect them, so I would rather jump into danger myself and have more authority and power to protect them better after that,' Max thought inwardly.

He knew he wouldn't be able to make much time for his family from now on, but if his plans worked out fine, then he wouldn't have to worry about anything in the future.

"I get all that, but where and when are you going to start and what are you going to do? I need more context…." Alex spoke as he looked at Max.

"Oh, about that…."

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