"What?" Nole was taken aback, his expression incredulous.
"What are you talking about, Patriarch? How can our family be a lineage of slaves?"
In Nole's understanding, their family had always been perceived as mysterious and powerful within the Sinners' Realm.
Even though he had been sent to work in an outside laundry, attempting to communicate with the ordinary world, Nole still felt a sense of superiority over the common people.
But now, the patriarch was telling him that they were actually a family of slaves?
Old patriarch Leon looked at the young man before him, sighed slowly, and then patted Nole on the shoulder, offering words of comfort, "This is a very ancient matter, dating back about 3000 years."
"Our ancestors were exceptionally skilled human awakeners in the abyss, who even managed to kill several demons in single combat, hailed as the humans most likely to ascend to deity status within the abyss."