Daughter of Marius

"Sacrifice!"

Something Tang Qi had not done in a long time was carried out once again.

He held the upper half of a beautiful, bizarre corpse in both hands. Ignoring the aura emanating from it, one with an intense allure for any male creature, he directly sacrificed her to the long-starving "Master of the Furnace."

As he cast the Sacrifice Method, a Furnace ritual array that was swifter than ever before emerged. Golden Flame swept out and instantly swallowed Queen Goluna, who brimmed with divine power.

Yet at that moment, Tang Qi sensed that the great will beyond that gateway, above the dark and void-like universe, was dissatisfied with this "offering." It even seemed somewhat disdainful.

Before Tang Qi could complain, Information Fragments flowed through his mind. His consciousness was dragged into the Ruins of Darkness, where he watched incomparably blazing, scorching flames gather and slowly form a somewhat illusory, clearly incomplete sun.

"Half a Merit? That stingy?"

In the end, he could not suppress the urge to complain.

Although the density of Queen Goluna's divine power was enough to determine that a Divine Being like her barely qualified as an offering, and she certainly could not yield much Merit, only half a Sun Merit still left Tang Qi feeling helpless.

Of course, he also knew that the Furnace, still in its "half-asleep, half-awake" state, was actually a very straightforward deity. Moreover, it had established some sort of intelligent exchange program and would not deliberately deceive any Furnace Witch.

In other words, Queen Goluna really was worth only half a Merit.

"Perhaps there were losses as well. Queen Goluna had been chewed over by the Devouring Beast once already, and her soul had long since lost a great deal of divinity."

"Does this count as picking food out of the