Chapter 209: INTERLUDE. It works well enough

For a moment, there was a tense silence. Then Goddess of Wizards raised her chin with a huff. "I suppose it was inevitable, but I don't see how is that important. The problem certainly exists, but it is not of urgent sort, and is not impossible to fix. Our current problem, which proved itself to be irritatingly hard to remove, is Devourer."

God of Rogues raised his hands in a defensive gesture. "Don't take my words wrong, goddess! Who are you taking me for? I was simply shocked when I heard this all at first. Now I'm dying from curiosity. I won't sleep until I understand—how could that happen at all? Just listen—you explained from the start that EXP was a mysterious energy that souls generated from their development, and that we could harvest and harness it for whatever he wanted. Right?"

Goddess of Wizards nodded. "Indeed, this is what I had said back then, when I first explored the world we were born into."