The flames spread through the oil trench and lit up the entire place, making fire walls around Clara and Maria as they were at the center. Keith couldn't look inside thanks tot he flames, so he simply sat down and waited as both excitement and anxiety filled his being.
Passage of time felt extremely slow and each minute felt like an hour filled with anxious agony. After a few minutes, he was unable to hold it in and walked out of the place in a hurry.
The fact that the marriage would help with the survival rate was true and was also written in the novel, but it never stated that the survival rate was a 100%. It was only after the ritual began, did Keith realise this and he just couldn't contain his anxiety anymore.
Not knowing what to do, he decided to distract himself with other things but before that, he had one thing to do. He rushed over to an inn and completed the luck ritual, the result of which was to increase Clara's luck for the next three hours.
