After a while, Liens let go of his hand that was on the City Lord's chair.
"It's done."
"I have closed the ritual and changed its control condition from requiring a specific bloodline to inputting a specific command to control the switch."
"This ritual is still somewhat useful; destroying it directly would be too wasteful, so I just modified it."
"The command is *******; you can tell Ben the command later."
"Next, you'll stay here and watch over the ritual core, and by the way, keep an eye on this City Lord Paul; his identity should be somewhat useful."
"I should go to the city gate to check the situation. I hope those guards are sensible enough."
Liens said to Reid with a joyful smile, as if he had just solved a difficult math problem.
"The guards at the city gate have already surrendered, so you probably don't need to take action anymore."
"Oh, really? Then I only have one more thing to do tonight."
