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Immortality is certainly desirable. But if one were born with immortality, that would be even better.
To resist death is to betray all that one has experienced as "life" thus far.
Each painful decision, each sorrow hatched from loss, each joy ignited by gain... The love and hatred of days past are leveled by time.
When one looks at the graves of a lover or an enemy's grandchildren or great-grandchildren, the emotions of the past that arise in the heart seem all the more absurd.
As if everything one strove and suffered for in the past has lost all significance due to the great extension of life.
In this respect, the intense desire held by the Gold rank and the concept of substituting "soul" as fuel for extending lifespan pave the way for their completely restructured worldview post-deification.
The view of life for the short-lived species is naturally quite different from that of the Long-lived Species—it is only logical.
