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"W-What…! You must be joking, right? D-Divinity?!" Augustus asked desperately, unable to comprehend or believe my mother's words despite her authority.
"I am not joking. I never joke," my mother replied with a stern voice and piercing eyes. She wasn't exaggerating; she was the most serious woman I had ever known. Yep, that's my mom—Miss Serious Business. "This Curse is the powerful Manifested Divinity of something—or someone—dwelling somewhere within these Blue Mountains. I am not completely sure who it could be. But it must be an entity seeking to drain the power of everyone this Curse infects—not to consume them directly, but… perhaps to use them for some kind of Ritual of Ascension."
"W-What?!" Augustus screamed like a madman, refusing to accept it. "A-Ahhh! No, this cannot be happening! We're being targeted by an actual Evil God?! This town… it's doomed! What can we do against the wrath of the gods?!"
