'The Nine, the Nine… what do I know about the Nine?'
Auro had been an imperial soldier as a young man. Eurys had been an imperial slave, but he also claimed to have slit a god's throat… now that Sunny knew more, he could guess that it had been the mortal vessel of War God, most likely. The one watching over the Empire.
'It had to be, right?'
Aletheia, meanwhile, ventured into the Tomb of Ariel.
Sunny's eyes widened.
'Wait.'
What was it that the Oracle had said?
"You simply have to find the beast's weakness. You have to lure it into a trap. You have to sink your blade into its weak spot."
He remained silent for a while.
'Aletheia…'
The sorceress and philosopher, Aletheia, had been tasked with revealing the lies of the gods and teaching the truth to the rest of the Nine.
