As soon as Luce thought of the name, he felt a surge of annoyance and rage. He recalled the enormous amount of damage he had suffered from Zich. From Zich’s past actions alone, he wished he could rip Zich’s body apart limb to limb and grind them to pieces to feed fish. On top of that, Zich had struck a new blow against them today.

‘To think he knew a method to stop a city sacrifice ritual!’ As soon as he heard these words, Luce had to swallow back his horror. He failed to disguise his face from the sheer shock he felt, but fortunately, other people were also shocked—though in a different way than him—and didn’t notice. Thus, Luce barely managed to maintain his calm till the end of the meeting, and now that he was alone, he was seething in anger.

‘I knew things failed in Porti, but to think it was because of a method like that!’ It was a very disgusting method without any respect for the sole god who would rule this world: Bellu.

‘I have to find out as soon as this is over!’ Although Luce heard about the general situation in the meeting, he wanted to know...