"There are questions we all still need time to answer," Henry said as he rose from his seat, cutting off the conversation and drawing everyone's attention.
He did not linger on them. Instead, he moved straight to the problem that mattered most. "The Rank 4 Practitioners are still waiting in our city for an answer. The same goes for the two Blood Path Practitioners. What are we supposed to tell them about everything that has happened?"
For the Humans, the situation was especially delicate. They still could not reveal their true identities. That alone forced them to maintain the lie that they had come from the Central Region, a cover they had relied on since the very beginning.
Because of that lie, they had no choice but to accept the two descended Gods as their own. More importantly, they needed a strong and believable explanation. One that would satisfy powerful Practitioners and justify why their Paths had all changed to AXION.
