Serena paid no mind to the Red Hats raiding her base. 0

As Sense, the word failure did not exist in her dictionary. Her success was merely postponed. Every act of resistance would turn into welcome, every distance into closeness, and every death into reunion. It was like a story whose ending had already been written. No matter how wildly the plot twisted and turned, the final chapter would arrive exactly as destined.0

The only person she truly cared about was Ashe Heath. The silence of the Four Pillars Deities in response to her sacrifice alone was proof of the weight he carried. Interestingly, they had also ignored his sacrifice.0

From an outsider's perspective, Ashe's act of turning the sacrifice back onto the Four Pillars' cultists might have seemed absurd and nothing more than a last desperate flail from a cornered...0