"What the hell is he doing?" Aaron wondered when he saw the scene where the man was performing the ritual.
Aaron recognised the ritual from a book in the Academy's library. It was a sacrificial ritual. Though it didn't look exactly, there are many similarities with what he has seen in the books. He didn't think much about why it looked vastly different.
Whatever the information that the alliance got about these sacrifices should be old.
While the alliance was trying to find a way to make the sacrifices obsolete, the criminal elements in the society should also be working to make the sacrifices even more powerful and better than before.
This is quite common. So, Aaron just thought that it might be the upgraded version, but what made him wonder was the absence of any sacrifices and the weird energy he felt flowing into the circle.
"Wait, that energy feels familiar", Aaron thought for a while before he remembered where he felt that energy.