Heart-Eating Demon

Surprisingly, for some time afterward, the entire royal capital not only showed no signs of an approaching storm, but was instead eerily calm.

It was not the silence before a storm, but as though every last disturbance had truly vanished. The stillness was terrifying.

Through Yuri's intelligence network, Riezel kept a close watch on developments in the royal capital. Yet Yuri told him that nothing had indeed happened there, which was truly baffling.

Because of this, Riezel proactively contacted the Corderion Family for the first time, hoping to obtain information unknown to outsiders through Sharia.

Yet Sharia failed to respond to Riezel for a long time, leaving him puzzled more than once.

"What's going on now?"

Riezel pondered it repeatedly.

He did not believe the royal capital could be this quiet, this peaceful.

Not to mention the uproar caused by the royal family's previous house arrest of Liz—Riezel did not believe that the various factions drawn into the matter had not arrived, much less that they would do nothing.

"Are they still watching and waiting?"

That was all Riezel could think.

Even so, Riezel always felt that somewhere beyond his knowledge, something astonishing seemed to be taking place.

It was intuition, intuition without any omen or logic.

It sounded unreliable, but Riezel was already Lv.8 and no longer an ordinary mortal.

God's Blessing was a power that allowed the human race to evolve step by step, gradually drawing closer to the gods. The higher the holder's level, the closer they themselves came to beings known as "gods."

Under such circumstances, Riezel might not have become a god despite being Lv.8, but he had at least transcended the mundane. The concept of his life could no longer be summed up simply by the word "human."

In that case, perhaps Riezel's intuition