Greg couldn't stop thinking about the talk he had with Lylia and Seraphine. Even though he was trying to focus on his regular work and teaching his students, the idea kept coming back to him like a fly that wouldn't go away.
There were many villages, each one weak and scared, and each one could have used a Guardian like the one he had made. But there was a problem.
Making the Guardian Reborn almost killed him, and doing it again would need the same level of desperation and emotional intensity. He couldn't just make that kind of moment happen like it's, like, a daily thing.
He couldn't put himself in danger of death over and over again for every village that needed protection. There must be an alternative solution.
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