"As for that entity. I don't know much about them. I only know that the Beast Blood's head refers to them as the Ancients."
Renar expressed his willingness to cooperate with Marla's judgement on them. First, he didn't have a choice but to oblige. And second, he felt that the cultists' organization and the kingdom were two sides of the same coin. One side of which was shiny while the other looked rusty.
Marla narrowed down her eyes after she heard Renar talk about the Ancients. It seemed that she had connected a few dots in her head.
But nobody in her team was willing to ask her. They knew there were a few things that the D-Ranker couldn't share with them. It was out of the syllabus for the current ranking scale they were at.
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The kingdom wanted to control people to bring stability. The cultists wanted to destroy that stability in the name of freedom. And ironically, they controlled the rouge rankers joining their fold to get that freedom.