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After drawing the Tarot cards, the two exchanged various pieces of intelligence they had gathered in detail.
George told Klein the subsequent potion formulas for the Seer pathway—Clown, Magician, and Faceless One—as well as some information regarding the Secret Order obtained from the Clown killer.
Only by letting Klein know the subsequent potion formulas early could Klein grow powerful quickly and enter the core of the Church.
Furthermore, being too weak made it easy to be killed.
He also obtained a significant amount of useful intelligence from Klein.
For instance, much of the content from Roselle's diary, the first Blasphemy Slate, the second Blasphemy Slate, and some history regarding the existence of Beyonders that was unrecorded in history books.
This allowed him to gain a more concrete understanding of this world.
After finishing their exchange of intelligence, the two discussed a few more details before parting ways to return to their respective homes.
Meanwhile, above the Astral World, within the Divine Kingdom of the Evernight, the Divine Kingdom of Serene Silence, the face of the Goddess of Night, Amanises, was filled with a look of doubt.
"This George... what exactly is his situation?"
As a deity, there were many major affairs to handle; it was impossible to have the time to watch every single believer. Even if a believer prayed, she generally wouldn't pay attention unless it was a specially marked believer.
Occasionally, if she was in a good mood, she might pick out a few lucky believers to respond to.
But Klein was different. Even before he became her believer, she had been focusing her attention on him.
Because she, like Klein, came from the modern civilization of the prehistoric era.
She was originally an executive of a large company in Northern Europe. Later, she was kidnapped by the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings, and her soul body was suspended above the Sefirah Castle for an unknown number of years.
During the Second Epoch, she was cast by Sefirah Castle into the body of a Demonic Wolf, starting as a Sequence 2 Servant of Concealment.
During the Twin-Sovereign Era, she ascended to the Divine Throne, advancing to the Sequence 0 Darkness of the Darkness pathway, becoming a True God.
In the Third Epoch, she proselytized in secret. By the end of the Fourth Epoch, she became one of the seven Orthodox Gods of the Northern Continent. To resist the Outer Deities, she moved her Divine Kingdom to the Astral World.
Over these many years, she had also figured out the truth behind being hung in the Sefirah Castle.
Roughly speaking, the Original Creator created the world, but problems occurred with His main body. After splitting off a group of powerful Outer Deities, He entered the Earth to begin His slumber.
During His slumber, His personality split into six.
They were also in a state of slumber, but they began to use the authorities and Beyonder characteristics they controlled to indirectly and secretly interfere with and influence the real world, making many preparations for the "Original Creator's" actual splitting upon awakening.
Thus, many myths and legends were left on Earth.
Of the two strongest among the six personalities, one was the omniscient and omnipotent God, and the other was the Lord of Mysteries, the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings.
To prevent His own fall during the struggle, the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings had long ago captured many souls from modern civilization and placed them within His Sefirah Castle.
If something went wrong with Him, the Sefirah Castle would release the souls, allowing Him to return through resurrection in the future.
The prehistoric era ended, entering the Chaos Epoch, which was the First Epoch.
In the early stage, the Original Creator awoke, and Earth's civilization was destroyed. The nine Sefirot and twenty-two Divine Pathways, representing the power of the Original Creator, also converged on Earth.
Some "Old Ones" were pulled from the "Starry Sky" by the "Original Creator," and some "Sefirot" activated to form "Old Ones."
Due to the schemes of the six personalities, the Original Creator died completely and split into six, with the residual power turning into a barrier to block the Outer Deities from invading Earth.
In the middle stage, after a series of great battles, the Celestial Worthy and God defeated and devoured the other four, obtaining seven additional Sefirot.
In the late stage, because they controlled too many Sefirot and could not suppress the instinct of convergence, the two fought each other and both fell.
God's remains transformed into the first Blasphemy Slate within the Chaos Sea, one of the nine Sefirot. The cunning Celestial Worthy sealed all seven Sefirot—excluding Sefirah Castle and the Chaos Sea—in Asia, namely the Western Continent.
In the future, anyone on Earth who wanted to advance from a True God to an Old One would have to resurrect Him so He could open the seal and release the Sefirot.
In passing, He also stuffed the Error Uniqueness into God's possession, intending to prevent His rival from being able to resurrect.
The first soul released by Sefirah Castle in the Second Epoch was her, the Goddess of Night. Because she did not choose the Marauder, Seer, or Apprentice pathways belonging to the Celestial Worthy, but chose Darkness instead.
Therefore, she did not inherit Sefirah Castle, nor did she allow the Celestial Worthy to awaken and resurrect within her body.
Waiting until the Fifth Epoch, Sefirah Castle, following the Celestial Worthy's settings, cast out the second soul, which was that Emperor Roselle.
Because Roselle also did not choose the three pathways of the Celestial Worthy, the Celestial Worthy could not awaken.
A few months ago, Sefirah Castle cast out a soul for the third time, and this time it even brought along the Celestial Worthy's relic, the Curtain.
If the casting was successful, the third soul would immediately inherit the power of the Curtain and become a Sequence 1 Attendant of Mysteries of the Seer pathway.
The Celestial Worthy would immediately seize the body and resurrect within the third soul.
Thus, she used the Uniqueness of the already out-of-control half-Sequence 0 Antigonus, which was sealed within her Secret Palace on the main peak of the Hornacis mountain range, to fool Sefirah Castle.
The third soul was separated from the Curtain. Instead of going to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, he entered the body of Klein, an ordinary person in Tingen City who had just died due to a Beyonder incident.
Klein inherited Sefirah Castle and chose the Seer pathway; in the future, it was still possible he would be possessed by the Celestial Worthy.
Therefore, her gaze had never left Klein.
This allowed her to also see George, who wandered everywhere in the night, possessed powerful physical strength, and claimed to be a transmigrator.
What she could be certain of was that George did not come from Sefirah Castle.
Sefirah Castle had only ever cast out three souls: herself, Roselle, and Klein.
"Could he be from the Chaos Sea?"
Back then, the Celestial Worthy left Sefirah Castle as a backup plan, and God similarly left the Chaos Sea as a backup.
The Celestial Worthy captured hundreds of human souls to hang in Sefirah Castle, while God captured hundreds of souls with physical bodies to sink into the Chaos Sea.
One must know that the Ancient Sun God, who wiped out the various ancient gods, devils, dragons, and giants and unified the entire Earth in the Second Epoch, was a modern human who crawled out of the Chaos Sea.
"No, if he were a modern person crawling out of the underground Chaos Sea, he should have a physical body, rather than being a soul possession."
The Goddess of Night, Amanises, shook her head again, ruling out this possibility.
At the same time, she was certain it was not a reincarnation of the Fate pathway, nor a parasitism of the Marauder pathway.
In the night, under her deliberate gaze and observation, if it were either of those, it would be impossible to hide it from her.
Furthermore, George had consumed the Magician characteristic and become a Sequence 7 Magician, which was of the Seer pathway.
"I'll observe for a while longer."
After pondering for a moment without an answer, Amanises temporarily pushed the matter aside.
Although George's origins were strange, he was only a Sequence 7 after all, not yet enough to warrant her full attention.
By observing slowly over time, she would eventually discover his hidden true identity.
Her main energy was currently still focused on seeking the Uniqueness of the Death God and how to scheme against the God of Combat, to take his Uniqueness and Beyonder characteristics for herself.
(End of Chapter)