With certainty came clarity. The shape of Liam's enemy grew more detailed in his mind, creating a picture that could make anyone give up on life entirely.
At first, Liam's revenge had been limited to the four butchers and their leader, and two of those were now dead, one killed directly while the other taken by the Screening.
However, that small goal had expanded beyond what most cultivators would dare to conceive. It now included a being so mighty that the world had bowed to his Perfection, commanding a whole army of creatures like him.
And that would have still been fine. The odds were impossible but also distant, limited to the Inner Circles, which Liam planned to reach only once he was strong enough to contend with the monsters they hosted.
But the enemy had expanded again. Adding the Church was akin to gaining countless, all-reaching limbs, like tentacles that could spread to the furthest reaches of the Kingdom, leaving no safe space available.
