A rain of blood from the skies indicated the death of a sacred supreme. The sacred supreme from the Cardinal Sacred Palace was dead!

He really was dead!

The dazed crowd stared wordlessly at the dark red horizon. All was quiet. This phenomenon had occurred only once in history—when a sacred supreme fought a powerful demon from the outside. A bloody rain drifted from the skies, the heavens and earth keening when they perished together.

Another sacred supreme had died today, and at the hands of a mere grand supreme!

Stunned, no one so much as twitched a finger. Whether it was outsiders or denizens of the Three Thousand, all of them waited for the fury of the sacred supremes to arrive.

One of the Cardinal Sacred Palace’s sacred...