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Book one - Virtuous Sons
The prologue
- The first time we see Sol, he is chained up, unable to use any cultivation. He is still handing ass whopping to an young aristocrat of the Rosy Dawn, with absolutely zero effort put into it.
- This is what led Griffon to be interested in Sol. After that, they fight in a filial pool and are equally matched. Remember that Griffon is his cult's young master and a pankration prodigy.
- Griffon winning the entire Scarlet games is both this and a mini tearjerker because he sweeps everything. In every contest the games have for him, he finishes first, even if he starts last. Nobody in that arena is his match, and it is a mini tearjerker because he tries to get Sol to come with him, to stand in the spotlight and be free, and Sol looks at his hand like it's filled with snake venom. The awesome continues when he realizes his full place in the scarlet city at the end of the games and advances to the top of the civic realm.
- Griffon and Sol escaping from Alkios and the Rosy Dawn. First, we have Griffon winning against an elder of his cult, a senior sophist. It is the common truth that a rank above equals about ten below. The senior sophist was close to the peak of his realm while Griffon was at the peak of the first realm, so he was in no way close to the elder, but Griffon wins with ease, making the fight look choreographed and he ends the fight with an elbow drop that both breaks the elder's nose and knocks him unconscious.
- After that, the two of them go to Damon Aetos's office to grab the Sword, and they get intercepted by the entire young generation of the Aetos family ( not the elder + Niko and his group because they are inside the mountain range) to try and stop them. And Griffon, by himself, goes against his family and curb-stomps them. With them pulling out all the stops to try and stop him, he just waltzed through it. Special mention to Griffon reveals his pankration intent to beat them all simultaneously.
- Then the senior sophist elder from before comes back with five other elders as a backup, and they conjure a hurricane to take out Griffon and Sol. But at that moment, Sol regains his motivation and fully breaks his slave chains and shackles and uses his virtue Gravitas to dispel the hurricane and reform it around himself, all the while Griffon laughs like a madman. Sol then uses a finger flick to make a hole into the house for them to escape, and together he and Griffon take on five close to the peak of their realm elders and win.
- Then they jump out, and for the first time, Griffon tastes freedom on his tongue, and the experience is strong enough for him to gain his first pillar in the sophist realm and ascend with the image of a bird in a cage taking flight for the first time.
Book three - The Kings Curse
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- Griffon stabs Melpomene with the King's Curse, and denies her his beating heart.[My virtuous heart is MINE.]
- After stabbing Melpomene, in revenge her sisters the Muses attack his very soul, claiming that he is nothing and no one. In response, a shade of Alexander the Great appears to directly refute the goddesses, and to essentially acknowledge Griffon as his successor."NO.""NEVER NOTHING. NEVER NO ONE.""THIS MAN TOO IS ALEXANDER."
