The presences weren't the only traces of Qi. That energy was everywhere, even in the very air Liam breathed, but there were locations that held it in far greater concentration.
Those locations obviously were the hundreds of Churches scattered below the perimeter of hills, and their power increased toward the city's center. Initially, those buildings resembled rank 1 items, and weak ones at that, only to reach levels that alerted Liam's survival instincts.
And further beyond, at the exact center of the city, the huge, tallest Church radiated a power that Liam had felt less than a handful of times in his life.
'Rank 4,' Liam thought, suppressing an instinctive gulp. 'The spirit told the truth. This is far, far more than what the trials could have given.'
Liam didn't know how that place worked or what rules it followed, but its overall power put it far above everything he had witnessed earlier. The two sides of the inheritance were simply incomparable.
