Not long after the news of the [Ritual] was released.
For several days in a row, the island sank into silence.
That day, Lukar, who had been following his father and watching the construction of the Wonder, suddenly spoke.
"Why not let me try, Father?"
That was what he said.
"Since people always need a beginning, then let me be the pioneer."
Ned did not turn around. He merely watched the craftsmen coming and going, hauling stone on wooden carts, before saying:
"If I do that, and anything happens to you, your mother and grandparents will probably rush over from the Island of Eternity and beat me to death."
Lukar's expression did not change.
"Coming from the mouth of the man who left me and Mother behind to go to sea back then, that doesn't sound very convincing."
"I'm only doing the same thing you did at the start. Why are you trying to stop me now?"
And so Ned answered with silence.
What he had said and done back then was like an arrow that had gone round and round, only to circle back and strike him squarely between the brows.
However.
In truth, he could see what his child wanted by going to sea.
Although Lukar was just like his younger self, possessing an extraordinary zeal for conquering the sea, that zeal was not for the sea itself.
It was for conquest.
Lukar said:
"Father, you said that gods are great, and therefore cannot be presumptuously speculated upon."
"Since mortals do not understand gods, do not know what gods need, and find it even harder to know what should be offered to gods, then why must we think so much?"
At this point, light slowly began to shine in Lukar's eyes.
"All we need to do is offer