Chapter 79

Rumdrax found everything in the world dull and tedious. He'd first turned to running cons simply to survive, but even after he'd made enough to live comfortably, he'd kept living as a greedy swindler for one reason alone — nothing else ever excited him the way a con did.

Watching people's rage and shock after they'd been conned was the one thing that brought Rumdrax genuine pleasure.

Of course, even a man like Rumdrax had one ultimate goal.

Stealing Petrora's sacred relic.

By stealing it, he meant to bring the most powerful man in this kingdom, the king himself, to his knees — to watch him fall into despair — and, more than anything... to bring back to life the mother who'd given him life in the first place.

According to legend, Petrora's sacred relic could raise the dead.

It wasn't out of some grand filial devotion that he wanted…