What's Going on with This Year's Sentinel Legion HR? They Passed Him Without Even Looking at His Résumé?

Murphy had possessed this artificial divine spark for quite some time.

He'd obtained it during the "Calamity of the Wolf Father" campaign of the Black Calamity War, after taking a risk while sealing an Abyssal rift.

By now, Murphy was no longer the reckless fool who'd dared to do anything and everything. Even so, he had to admit that the adventure he'd shared with Monica and Adele had been the most wildly profitable investment of his short—but so far, thrilling—life as a vampire lord.

With several Chaos shadows watching, he'd recovered Artificial Divine Spark No. 7 while walking a knife's edge.

Of course, that was also why Murphy owed Vam an unrepayable debt.

The roughneck had always played the tough guy and never said it outright, but judging by how Vam had practically vanished during this time, Murphy was fairly certain that Vam had suffered a grave injury in that battle—one he wouldn't have sustained if he hadn't helped Murphy obtain the divine spark.

That was a debt Murphy had to repay.

And he'd already figured out how.

Take Divine Spark No. 7, whose database had been formatted and authenticated. Its previous owner had been Old Su, but now it was quietly and patiently waiting for its next bound host—or, as one might call them, "the next victim of the Frontier Pact."

Old Su seemed quite open-minded about the matter. But when Murphy asked whether he wanted to bind with the divine spark again, the old fellow had refused without the slightest hesitation. That alone showed that Su, for all his apparent nonchalance, deeply resented the thing.

The sly old wolf hadn't set out to escape the onerous Frontier Pact, but he'd paid for his freedom with his own daughter's life. And when one considered what the big sister Kulkan