"Strongest people?" Her soft silvery voice echoed in his mind. "Do you think strongest people are those who won a battle?"
Without thinking, he replied, "Aren't they the strongest ones? After all, they won the battles that make them the heroes."
She sniggered before her face turned back to its original tranquility. "Good Smartian, the people who won the battles are not the strongest ones. They are the broken ones. Because you can't even fathom what they lost in order to win that battle."
"What did they lose?" He questioned with a curious look.
"They lost a part of them... Some even lost their souls..." The reply took him by surprise as his raven black eyes stared at her face covered in bandages. "Battles don't just leave scars, each scar came with the price of one's soul."
Taking a while to get back his composure, Xiao Zhi Ren inquired, "Then who are the strongest people?"
