"Fuck!" When Ince Zangwill saw what "0-08" had written on the rock, he could not help swearing again. He drove back the Spirit World Creature that had joined Azik before the battle, seized the quill with all his strength, and hurriedly wrote on the rock:
"On his way here, Saint Anthony happened to discover traces of a Marauder Pathway Demigod who had once humiliated the Church of Evernight and led the Nighthawks around by the nose. He turned aside to investigate... His decision was reasonable."
When he finished, Ince's one intact eye gleamed coldly. He could not go on like this. This time it was Saint Anthony. Would the Goddess's Eye come next?
He had to get rid of the misfortune clinging to him!
At that moment, he finally made up his mind and took an infant's umbilical cord from the seal inside his tooth.
The cord belonged to the Evil God's Child—the infant Megose had carried, the child of the True Creator!
Ince Zangwill had not used this Mystical Item earlier because its side effects were severe. Once he used it, not only would the True Creator mark him, but his strength would fall to half its usual level for a time. The price was steep... And the item could normally be used only three times. Every use was precious.
As a Demigod of the misfortune domain, Ince believed that, given enough time, he could deal with the so-called Gentleman Thief Black Emperor's "blessing." But his enemies had arrived almost at once, misfortune kept striking, and "0-08" was seizing the chance to cause trouble. He had been given no chance to solve the problem. They had even driven him into a corner!
That was why he had resorted to his trump card: the Evil God's Child's Umbilical Cord.
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