Note: The first part of this volume, which is the mini-arc for the promised hundred-year Agreement battle, takes place simultaneously in the past and the present.
The past would always be related to Noctis, and the present with Staff.
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Resurrection turned out to be trickier than he thought, and Rowan cursed Death for the hundredth time as he struggled to push back a sliver of his essence towards Reality.
Rowan had made an agreement with Death, but the wily entity did not believe in it unless he reached the ninth-dimensional level. Yet this promise held enough allure for Death that for the first time since the beginning of existence, it chose to let a soul that had entered its realm leave.
Still, Death had one more trick to play. To cross from the realm of Death to life, Rowan would have to pass through the Bleak Gate, and if he was unable to pass through it, then he had the capability to negotiate with the Beast of Final Rest.
