Chapter 97

Arascus felt the crowd behind him. Igos had come out to watch, from its children still in schools, to its elites from their ivory towers, to the camera crews that desperately begged Abakwa and his men for permission for an hour with Arascus.

He stood at the edge of the port, and accessed his Divine Armoury. Some Divines had their own, Kassandora's carried her armour and blade, Maisara and Fortia had them too, but his was one worthy of the status of God of Pride. Golden gateways opened around him, to the sides and above as the crowd ooh'd and aah'd. Harpoons slowly slid of out of them, he took his time to put on a show, there was no reason to rush.

Then they launched into the water. Arascus felt them pierce the ship that had sunk in Olephia's storm.

He slowly began to reel it back out of the water.