"What was his offer?" The young lady asked, with eyes full of intrigue.
"I should start by explaining the circumstances. My meeting with the young man named Xasha wasn't my first time seeing similar weapons, potions, or rings like this one. The first time we encountered them was on the battlefield when the cultivators of Ariah showed up with them and committed a slaughter with their newfound strength. They took control of the war and seemed to be on the verge of winning the whole thing when Lumina got their hands on similar potions and artifacts and balanced each either out, but we and Estia were still under heavy fire and suffered severe losses."
"Bastards, they were playing both sides," the old woman coursed.
"It was worse than some unscrupulous businessman with no sense of loyalty. That man was no businessman at all. He was a predator, a vicious predator that saw all of us, the entire Western Region as prey even while being a lowly Lava Sage."
