He took a deep breath. "Let me admire this beautiful moon one last time."
He looked up, only to see a pitch-black cloud obscure the crimson moon. Furious, he immediately started cursing. "I can't even look at the moon once before I die? Isn't that going too far? Believe it or not, I'll..."
Rumble!
Suddenly, the ground began to shake.
"Roar!!"
An enraged roar echoed out immediately afterward.
Looking back at the dark clouds overhead, streaks of silver lightning covered them. At one moment, they all erupted together, bathing the entire world in silver-white light.
This series of tremendous disturbances immediately roused the whole of Tiana Island.
The Numinous Episcopate Half-God, who had been sitting before a massive altar built from corpses and withered bones, sprang to his feet in alarm. He looked toward the direction from which terrifying auras kept emanating, utterly shocked:
Had that Sea King from the Church of Storms followed him here?
Two days earlier, while hunting down a traitor, he had briefly encountered Sea King Jahn Kottman-of course, he had been the one fleeing in panic then.
Although he was certain that the traitor was doomed, he could not guarantee that the man would not reveal what was happening on Tiana Island before dying. The safest course was naturally to abandon the plan immediately, relocate from Tiana Island, and start over.
But that would mean all their preparations had been wasted. The Numinous Episcopate was hardly a united organization, and their Artificial God of Death faction had paid an enormous price to secure this opportunity to make an attempt.
There simply was not enough time to start over somewhere else.
So he had hurried back to Tiana Island and demanded that the Sea God Church cooperate with him to accelerate the ritual.
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