Such a sudden oath—especially coming from a fourth-stage warrior—made Ethan's face light up with surprise in an instant.
His eyebrows rose slightly.
"Do you know the meaning of your own words?" Ethan asked, his eyes narrowing as he examined every feature of the warrior before him.
He already knew quite a bit about the City of the Howling Fire, especially through Theron's son's friend—the sole survivor of that massacre at the claws of that second-stage beast.
The old Lord of that city was already approaching five hundred years of age—practically the natural limit of life for a normal human fourth-stage Awakened.
In other words, he was at the age when he needed to prepare to place an heir on the power, but… what if that heir wasn't powerful enough yet?
The Eternal Forest was not like the rest of the continent, where so much was governed by laws, rights, and honor.
