Chapter 655: A Compensation

Damien raised one of his brows as he realized how a lot of things suddenly made sense. He always wondered why someone as powerful as Ruthren was taking a backseat all this time when it came to Lily.

"An ethereal contract? An oath that binds our ethereal cores to our words? Something that will destroy our ethereal cores if we betray our own words….Why…Why grandpa…Why did you never tell me that you did something so severe? I had no idea Ruthren forced you into something like that," Lilly now realized why someone so powerful and evil like Ruthren was holding back for all these years.

It was not that he wanted to respect the idea of a tournament and let the best man win. It was because he had to if he wanted to open the gate.