“It looks like we don’t have much time to chat from the way things are looking. Did they get Ras?”

Anya nodded her head with a sorrowful look on her face.

Juan bit his lips as he regretted leaving his child alone on the battlefield.

‘Ethan, your loyalty and faith has at last killed one of your emperor's beloved children and brought the god of death to the ground.’

Juan felt like throwing up. Looking back, Juan had no choice but to leave Ras to stop Bishop Rietto. The result would have been the same even if he had warned Ras even more firmly. Juan didn’t want to resent Ras for such a reason, nor did he have the time to.

The wind that carried the scent of death was blowing toward them, which meant that Nigrato would soon arrive. When that time came, everything that Ras had tried to protect would die and crumble down. Juan couldn’t just sit and watch that happen.

‘I wonder if I have a chance against him.’

Nigrato was establishing himself in reality at a fast rate even in this moment. Nigrato was different from Talter, whom Juan had encountered back in Tantil; if Talter was a seed that had potential for growth, Nigrato was a tree which had already completely germinated from the seed and continued to grow exponentially.

To make matters worse, Juan had never fought Nigrato before. Back when Juan...