But now is not the time to consider who can become the winner of the ritual. Even if they offer sacrifices again, can they truly calm the anger of the Old Gods?

Thinking of this, Nightmare made a decision.

...

"Didn't expect to cast the opposing vote in the end."

On the way back to the consortium, Echo muttered to herself.

She intentionally threw a predicament towards Nightmare, stated her stance, and yet remained outside of the matter. This is the philosophy of Sincaro's followers.

Echo considers farther than others; she was present when Ethan left and heard Ethan's instructions to Nightmare.

I'll leave this to you.

Ethan specifically mentioned Nightmare's name, indicating a close relationship between the two.

Is it because of Lindong?

Nightmare's decision at the three-party meeting showed her stance—she trusts Ethan more.

Thinking of this, Echo returned to her mansion, already prepared with sufficient materials: a sheep's skull, thorny grass, using bone powder as fuel. She drew a red circular array on the bedroom floor and placed the sheep's skull in the center. Ignited bone powder burned with a ghostly green flame.

The same flame burned instantly in the skull's dark eyes.

A puff of black smoke slipped in through the window, attaching itself to the skull, followed by a lazy yet enchanting voice, "Why is it you again? What is it this time?"

Echo called her name directly, "Lilith, what's the commotion outside the city?"

"... You don't know?"

The voice sounded quite surprised, and the ghostly green flame flickered incessantly.

"Should I know?"

"Hold on a moment, let me think."

Lilith's voice weakened significantly, Echo could even imagine the high-level demon folding her arms and deep in thought, offering ample time to the counterpart.

Time ticked away second by second.

The ghostly green flame grew brighter. After several minutes, Lilith finally reached a conclusion, "So that's it, that's it! Aren't you deceiving his trust!"

"Deceive who?"

"Ethan, that human."

Lilith suddenly laughed, her laughter crisp and pleasing, yet it did not hide her sharp tongue, "You truly are a fool, so foolish that even I was fooled by you!"

Wisdom in foolishness and foolishness in wisdom are barely separated by a fine line.

Being betrayed and sold out by Echo naturally filled her with displeasure, but Sincaro's followers are always prepared to accept their losses; she admitted that the modest human was more skilled than her, but now it turns out to be untrue.

Apparently, it was Echo's sheer simplicity that made her mistakenly perceive that Echo had calculated everything.

In fact, this human simply believes Ethan can solve her dilemma.

"But precisely your stupidity has led the plan to progress so smoothly, Echo, maybe you are not even aware of the remarkable thing you've done."

Let a mere human correct the behavior of a god?

Perhaps only Echo could think of such a plan, "Thanks to you, they voluntarily entered that place."

Lilith watched Echo's expression, her laughter growing more joyful, "Haven't you realized? They've already gone too far to return."

Unease spread within Echo's heart.

Standing from a psychologist's perspective, Ethan explained the pathology of her master to her, she appeared to be among the few capable of understanding the master.

Yet, was everything they saw truly real?

"This is also part of the master's plan."

Lilith did not hide her admiration for the master.

This time, even Echo's vulnerability and foolishness were within His calculations?

...

On the other side, after a brief distortion and shift of his vision, the scene on the other side of the door unfolded before Ethan.

This seemed to be a library.

A library shrouded in darkness.

"Please do not make loud noises."

This label was written in the corridor.

Besides, there were words of welcome.

——"Warm welcome to Old Sen's visit."

——"Old Sen's miraculous recovery."

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