"Is this the legendary Blood Magic?"
Xi Ye stared at the bloodline on the ground. It writhed constantly as though it were alive, and the blood had come from Raine himself. It had unconsciously obeyed someone else's commands, like an activated element. Most importantly... it existed outside the lord's rules!
Raine's expression darkened. Only now could he be completely certain that the higher-ups seemed to have abandoned him!
Xi Ye glanced at Raine gleefully and said with a smile, "I just don't understand. With so many lords in the universe, why didn't you pledge yourself to any of them? Why did you have to join a lord of the Demon Department? The demons in the Abyss are notorious for rejecting outsiders. I just don't understand why you thought you were special enough to make the demons look at you differently."
Raine's face turned even grimmer at those words, but he couldn't say a word for a long time.
It wasn't that they had looked at him differently. He had been won over by the bearing Borton had displayed, believing that Borton wasn't one of those narrow-minded demons from the Abyss. But it seemed he had been wrong.
But... why?
If Borton had merely been using him, why had he put on such a show of valuing him in public? Since he had already acted that way, why had he suddenly decided to cut him off so completely? How would the non-demon factions that had come to join him view this?
Beside them, Death's Embrace Sophia glanced at Raine's ashen face and opened her mouth, but ultimately said nothing. Even someone as eloquent as her couldn't find the slightest reason to explain the situation.
Xi Ye, meanwhile, didn't care at all about his Eldest Cousin's crisis of faith. Instead, he kept