Professional Tom Larkin

In the Boundless Mystery, somewhere in the bizarre void of the cosmos, an exquisite Wooden Boat sailed onward. Its lamps glowed dimly, its oars rowed themselves, and the aura spilling from it scared off passing oddities from afar.

Aboard the ship, forty figures blazing with ultimate light trembled slightly. Whether it was the most powerful Annie Fox or the differently wired Klaus Lovich, all forty Furnace Witches who had just accomplished something great alongside Tang Qi were in a peculiar state.

Their expressions were astonishingly uniform.

Every one of them was frowning, their faces full of conflicted anguish.

Before them, Tang Qi Number Two, who was receiving the merits gained from the sacrifice, watched his forty subordinates with a smile.

He could fully imagine what the forty of them were going through.

Clearly, before the Roar of the Furnace Master, everyone was equal.

More precisely, the spell's proper name was the Whisper of the Master of the Furnace. It had originally been a rather useless spell, one that few Furnace Witches had been willing to exchange for during the Dark Age. It was only after entering the New Era that it encountered an oddball who gave it another use.

And not only had he done it himself, he had even encouraged all forty Furnace Witches to do it with him.

If nothing unexpected happened, the forty of them were currently being furiously berated by the Furnace Master.

Fortunately, it did not last long. After all, most of the Master's will had been expended on the Lord of Light.

Tang Qi found it rather regrettable. If circumstances permitted, he truly wanted to hear what the two Masters had said while hurling insults at each other. It would surely have been very entertaining.

*This incident should have had far more spectators than