Determining Factors

"I hoped to see you shine in the near future."

Seeing Dam’s excited expression, Harvey spoke with a hint of anticipation.

"Lord Kassadin has given me an opportunity to change my life. I definitely won’t disappoint you."

"I am willing to go through fire and water for Lord Kassadin without hesitation."

Dam nodded deeply at those words.

Seeing Dam’s appearance as a fanatical believer, Harvey himself became curious about what exactly Dam had seen. However, asking would make it seem as though he did not understand it himself, so he did not ask.

"Mm. Go experience your power."

Harvey merely nodded slightly and spoke with some approval.

"Yes!"

Dam stood up at once, bowed deeply to Harvey, and strode away.

Only Harvey and Sonia remained in the villa.

"Ask whatever you want to ask."

Seeing Sonia hesitate as though she wanted to speak, Harvey said so.

"Mr. Kassadin, what was this Void you mentioned just now?"

Now that she had been given permission to ask, Sonia could no longer suppress her curiosity and immediately asked.

"You can think of it as a place, or as the symbol of some kind of will."

"If you believe in the Void and receive its response, you can obtain continuously growing power akin to being reborn, as well as a long lifespan."

"You can cast off the constraints of common sense and glimpse the more profound truths of the world."

Harvey looked at Sonia and answered.

"Believing in the Void can grant power? Is there no price to pay?"

Hearing that she could gain power beyond common sense, Sonia was also tempted.

"The Void will give anyone an opportunity to join it."

"But it is impossible to say there is no cost at all."

"First, your appearance will become increasingly youthful, eventually likely settling around adulthood. Changes in your appearance will make it easy for others to discover that you are different."

"Also, your appetite will become enormous, and you will need to consume large amounts of food every day."

"However, none of those are major costs."

"The cost that requires the most attention is that you must constantly remain vigilant against your ever-growing power."

"Otherwise, excessively powerful strength may cause you to lose yourself and become a monster that only knows how to eat and evolve."

"Therefore, you need strong mental fortitude to resist the temptation of power."

"From now on, when you work for me, you will be responsible for my daily affairs as you are now. You will also need to observe these people for me when I am away."

"If they engage in cannibalism or show signs of losing their reason, simply record it and report it to me."

Harvey did not hide anything and explained it rather clearly.

After all, Sonia was different from those people. He wanted her to serve as his butler, handling his daily affairs while also observing the condition of every member of the Void Cult in the future.

So, allowing Sonia to understand the situation more deeply would make things easier in the future.

"With great power comes more choices. You can obtain what you want more easily and live more comfortably, so why would you lose your reason?"

Sonia understood why Mr. Kassadin often ate so much in one sitting, but she still had some doubts.

"Sonia, aside from a small number of simple and wise creatures."

"For the vast majority of intelligent beings, their desires never have an end."

"When things they once dreamed of because they lacked power become easily attainable, obtaining them will immediately give rise to the next thing they desire."

"Things they once did not dare to do because they lacked power will become things they dare to do."

"As their strength grows and they come to understand more things, their conduct and personality will inevitably change."

"Whether they can maintain their sanity and bottom line through that process is extremely important."

Harvey stood up and looked down at Dam, who was striding out of the Celebrity Hotel, as he spoke.

"Then why are you still willing to grant them power…?"

Sonia considered his words and spoke in confusion.

However, as soon as the question left her mouth, Sonia looked at Kassadin’s figure, realized something, and revealed an enlightened expression.

"That’s right. I am also among that vast majority."

Noticing the change in Sonia’s expression, Harvey spoke.

To live freely and unrestrained in the Marvel World, he had to possess power that feared nothing.

He did not want to suddenly encounter an enemy he could not handle with his own strength during the long years ahead.

"Then can I also believe in the Void and join it?"

After understanding, Sonia became even more tempted and asked.

"Have you thought it through?"

"The prospect of gaining power is something people dream of, but it will also mean that you will come into contact with a world completely different from the one you knew before."

Harvey’s eyes flickered as he spoke those final probing words.

Only if Sonia’s answer satisfied him could he feel at ease entrusting certain matters to her.

"I have thought it through. The opportunity to change my life is right before me."

"If I fail to seize it, I may regret it terribly whenever I think of it in the future."

"And if I want to help you monitor those people, I might not even have the courage to do so with my current self."

"Besides, Mr. Kassadin, you explained everything to me so clearly because you wanted me to decide now whether I was willing to join the Void, didn’t you?"

"If I am willing, I will officially become your butler and manage many matters for you."

"If I did not think it through right away, you might still allow me to join the Void, but you would probably choose someone else to help you handle more matters."

Sonia looked at Mr. Kassadin, a captivating smile appearing on her sweet and innocent face.

"Being smart is a good thing, but being too smart is not."

Harvey did not answer directly, instead giving an irrelevant reply.

"Mm, I’ll remember that."

There was a note of warning in Mr. Kassadin’s words, but Sonia heard approval in them as well and nodded.

Upon hearing those words, Harvey finally confirmed the system’s prompt from two months ago asking whether he wanted Sonia to learn about the Void.

With Harvey’s confirmation, Sonia closed her eyes and felt the scene before her undergo earth-shaking changes.

Watching Sonia close her eyes, Harvey knew that she had long been curious about him.

She had been curious both about his identity and the Void he belonged to.

However, before receiving his permission, Sonia had never taken the initiative to ask, nor had she ever done anything out of line.

This was also one of the important factors behind Harvey’s decision to make Sonia his butler on Xandar.