RUMBLE!!!!!
The world shook as a profound change seem to occur within the depths of the Gatekeeper as his eyes widened with understanding.
With enlightenment.
Time slowed down.
Time slowed down to a crawl as the Gatekeeper entered an extraordinary state of mind.
An extraordinary state of introspection even as the malevolent mechanical eyes gazed into his, looking for the terror that all the other Martial Masters harbored within the depths of their heart.
And yet, it only found a profound level of awareness.
"I see…" a whisper escaped him even as he came closer and closer to death. "…My body. This temple that I have created, that I have cultivated is also the source of my heart."
Of his emotions.
After five hundred years of isolated Physical Evolution, Sir Armstrong had lost his bond with people and the world.
Anybody he may have loved and cared for had died a long, long time ago.
