In legend, the compassionate hero Xediles could heal all pain and disease, asking nothing in return, showing no discrimination against anyone’s status.
Whether a peddler or a noble, the compassionate hero treated everyone equally without hesitation.
With this great love, he faced all beings, leaving himself to endure the frost and wind alone.
He would hide under a pure white hood, and no one could see his face. So said he was the most beautiful person in Ancient Greece, while others said he hid his face to cover scars.
As the minstrels sang, the albatross would spread this legend throughout the Aegean Sea with the sea breeze. Whether it was faraway Athens or even further Poros Island, they had heard the na of the compassionate hero.
Naturally, the King of Troy was delighted upon hearing another hero’s legend in the city-state, and he imdiately invited this legendary compassionate hero to the king’s banquet.
Not only to et the legendary compassionate hero, but also with the thought of marrying the princess to this hero.
Well, in hero-admired Ancient Greece, it seed reasonable.
The one sent to extend the invitation was Hector, the great prince of Troy, known as a great hero. At this ti, Hector was not yet thirty years old and only mildly famous; what truly made him renowned was his battle with Great Ajax during the Trojan War.
The peak of his fa ca from his fight with the famous heel victim... Achilles.
Outside Troy, Hector’s stories and fa were not so extraordinary; perhaps his fa was not yet as great as Xue Dili.
Hector, inquiring with the public, made his way to a farr’s ho in the lower city.
He heard the farrs’ groaning and a woman’s pleading. Hector saw the farr’s entire leg was almost twisted, festering, and decaying.
Shaking his head, unless a god intervened, there was no hope.
Even in the 21st-century modern day, saving injuries like this wouldn’t have a high probability, let alone in three-thousand-year-old Ancient Greece.
At a glance, Hector knew this farr didn’t have long. After a leg broke, the best course was to imdiately amputate and cauterize with fire, then pray to the gods for survival.
Just when he couldn’t bear it, the hero in the white hood extended his hand, touching the farr’s wound.
The next mont, it was as if a miracle.
The rot vanished, the festering subsided, and the shattered bones healed and realigned miraculously.
Hector’s mouth dropped open in astonishnt, because in that short mont, he indeed witnessed a miracle!
"Alright, but refrain from movent for now. If you fear subsequent infection, apply alcohol or crushed dandelion on the wound, and in a few days, you’ll be back on your feet."
Underneath the pure white hood, the compassionate hero spoke thus.
"Thank you, compassionate hero... Thank you. We will forever be loyal to you and hold you in reverence!"
"Your kindness, we could never repay in our lifeti!"
As the elderly couple expressed their deepest gratitude, Xue Dili continued to walk through Troy City, yet today, soone openly followed him.
Hector looked at this hero of legend, seemingly without purpose, yet whoever sought his help would receive his selfless healing.
From the initial farr with a broken leg, to the injured fisherman, even children afflicted by plague...
He turned away no one, healing their pains with thods akin to miracles.
And even by twilight, Xue Dili ca to an empty cottage and asked Hector behind him, "Won’t you co in, great hero Hector?"
"Pardon ." Hector slightly bowed, not out of politeness, but out of sincere respect from this Trojan hero towards Xue Dili.
Hector was born when the Greek hero Argo had just set sail; many speculated that if Hector had been born ten years earlier, he would have been one of the great heroes on Argo, worthy to rival Hercules.
Thus, nearly thirty, he had seen all kinds of heroes: valiant, arrogant, extraordinary, and so sinister and greedy... but never... one so selfless and noble.
It appeared he found a kindred spirit.
Initially, before he set out, the king discussed with him to test this compassionate hero, to see if he was truly as rumored.
But now, Hector felt the rumors were not enough! Far from sufficient! How could such rumors do justice to such a selfless hero?
And Xue Dili looked at this middle-aged man resembling a nice person, hard to imagine as the future legend of ’Troy’s Iron Wall,’ Hector, who single-handedly resisted the Greek hero all-stars.
Nonetheless, Xue Dili truly respected this great hero, ever since he watched the movie "The Trojan War" as a child for this hero’s famous quote.
’Honor your gods, cherish your family, defend your country.’
This forward-thinking quote ensured that even in Roman tis, the great hero had countless supporters. Hector’s words represented the earliest articulation of virtue in the world, later blossoming into the knightly eight virtues of all Europe, becoming the "chivalric spirit" influencing thousands of years.
It’s even possible to say Hector’s deeds and spirit beca the template for knights of later generations; he truly deserved the title of "Knight King."
Even in the 21st century, Xue Dili rembered quoting Hector’s words in school essays.
This era’s other heroes were rely a group who knew "fight, have fun!" They cared not why they fought but just aid for legendary achievents, to secure their place in history.
Therefore, Hector’s concept of protecting one’s ho and country stood out, marking him as one of the most famous heroes in later Ancient Greece.
At this mont, the great hero of Troy, Hector, looked at Xue Dili and asked a question that mattered most to him.
"Compassionate hero Xediles, why do you wish to save all the world’s pain?"
Xue Dili did not answer directly. He looked westward, towards the Aegean Sea, under the setting sun, he slowly spoke: "Hector, if you knew the world was destined to perish, and in the new world, there would be no place for humanity, what would you choose?"
Hector’s pupils shrank dramatically, as he gazed intently at the hero veiled under the white hood.
And Xue Dili only slightly raised his head, his words laced with deep sadness: "I’ve once touched Hell and witnessed battlefields of tens of millions of demons, but now, the future blinds ."
"This world lacks hope and light, it has been taken away, leaving only suffering and despair. But now, I wish to defy the future, to beco an ally of justice."
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