The Flame Spear that Dean Wengris had become streaked across the sky. Once the Black Death was out of sight, the spear began to descend, then vanished after passing an island.
Yes.
It vanished.
Without the slightest warning, as though it had leaped into the Spirit World in an instant.
That was not what had happened.
On the island's rocky shore, a figure pressed down on his hat to keep a gust of sea wind from blowing it away.
From where he stood, he could just make out the lights on the Black Death's deck.
Just then, the moon emerged from the clouds, and its crimson light illuminated Sifa's face. A faint smile curled his lips as a symbol sank into the depths of his pupils.
The Dean Wengris who had boarded the Black Death and cast the bait for Tracy was a "counterfeit" Sifa had projected by spending 40,000 subscriptions.
With Conspirer among his preceding Sequences, Sifa naturally would not make an appearance himself. Instead, he had projected a Demigod of the Iron and Blood Cross Order to appear in his place.
If Tracy reported this to the Demoness Sect, they would only turn their attention toward the Iron and Blood Cross Order. Best of all, the Order, which controlled the Hunter Pathway, genuinely had a motive to obtain a Sequence 1 characteristic, and Dean Wengris himself was indeed among its members.
However.
According to the information the Watchers had provided, Tracy wanted to become a man again, so the Iron-blooded Knight formula and ritual would be sufficiently attractive to her.
The chances of her reporting this were slim.
Tonight, Sifa had merely cast the bait without stating his purpose. Everything else could wait until the fish took the hook.
He then released Mr. X's projection and had him