[Paean of Death]!

Time slipped quietly by.

Port Nyanzaru continued to change, while more bad news arrived from the continent.

Soren was preparing to visit the Eastern Realm to seek out the girl who had accidentally summoned his Demon Avatar to the Material Plane last time. She was the girl his Demon Avatar had found in that temple in the Desert Region during the recent incident. Soren had sensed an aura of death within the temple. If it truly was a temple ruin left behind by a fallen God of Death, he might find secrets related to the [Death] domain there. Even if he could not, anything connected to [Death] held astonishing value!

Slaughter and death.

In ages long past, the two had been linked. Among the Dead Three, there had been a God of Slaughter.

However.

Before leaving, Soren still had a small matter to attend to.

South Coast, Wind Spear Hills.

This land had originally belonged to the descendants of the Isabella Family, but an incident had occurred recently. The family's principal members had all died in an attack by evil yuan-ti. This had left the direct bloodline almost extinct. After various factors came into play, particularly interference from outside forces, a woman had become the heir to the territory.

Adele Isabella.

Some factions already knew who stood behind this woman, but few dared to come forward and say so openly. That lord was the shadow hanging over the South Coast, and no one dared provoke him lightly.

Because he was Soren.

Port Nyanzaru needed a tendril reaching into the continent's interior. Establishing its base in the Overseas Islands did not mean abandoning the continent entirely. Many of the resources Soren needed had to come from inland.

Port Tyler could not fulfill that role.

Since Port Nyanzaru's rise, the Temple