However.
'We can make a deal. I will grant you the power to protect this world. You won't even have to change your faith. All you need to do is give me a little of your time and help me with one thing.'
It was his first time speaking directly with a Demon, and terror and unease spread wildly through the depths of Raphael's heart.
He couldn't tell if these were truths or lies meant to deceive him.
The Demon's warnings and predictions about the future felt so real, as if Lord Hayden was already lying in a pool of his own blood.
To say he wasn't worried at all would be to lie to himself.
But he believed that the Divine Emperor would not abandon this world.
He had never feared death. To die for the Divine Emperor and his faith was the highest glory for a Priest!
Raphael struggled desperately, trying to look away, trying to forget the knowledge, filled with evil power, that had appeared in his mind.
