The phantom spirit, temporarily named "Nicholas the Second," was unswayable.
—Annan had understood this.
The more he spoke, the deeper Annan's "understanding" of him grew.
It was the soul of someone so arrogant that they were beyond redemption.
Unable to tolerate the "ignorance" and "lack of ambition" of his peers and mentors, he swore to become the Tower Master of the Jade Tower, thereby controlling the "forbidden alchemy" abilities that only those of the Gold rank could master.
He couldn't bear those whom he saw as hopelessly stupid yet paradoxically in possession of power and wealth, so he created Awakeners capable of destroying human civilization, in an attempt to seize that power for himself.
...From the very beginning, what he despised were not the nobles who frivolously wielded "power," but rather, the question of "why that power was not in his own hands."
Extreme elitism.
