Indeed, Azaron was feeling guilt at the moment. He had first felt this emotion when he had decided to fake their deaths and allow Asher to witness it. And just like Asher had said, tempering his mind and Will was his goal. After all, one always experienced a kind of change in mindset whenever they witnessed their family die and held their corpses.
To him, the boy was getting strong too fast, and he was worried his Will wasn't tempered enough. Although Asher had told him about Debro and the horrors he had witnessed at the hands of those Experiment Branches, at the end of the day, just because one witnessed that didn't mean their Will and mentality couldn't be bent and broken.
Malrik had objected at the time, but he had ordered Malrik not to say anything as the Priamarch. Morthern had glanced at him, then nodded, as the Great Elder perfectly understood.
