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After telling Medici the approximate time for the meeting with Bernadette Gustav and exchanging a few sarcastic remarks, Lin Ruo watched Medici leave and silently finished his now-cold black tea, finally sighing.
The sigh wasn't for any particular reason, except that Lin Ruo was thinking about the topic that both he and Medici had tacitly avoided: Medici's godhood ritual.
Lin Ruo himself could abandon the Hunter pathway and start anew, but given Medici's situation, that path was clearly not viable.
And in that case, if Medici were to initiate a war to advance to Red Priest in the future…
"Tsk, what a pain!" Lin Ruo muttered, raising his right hand to rub his temples again.
Just thinking about the possibility of turning against Medici because of this issue one day, Lin Ruo felt a headache coming on.
"…Look on the bright side. Rituals, in essence, are meant to solidify the extraordinary state, help the extraordinary maintain their self, and reduce the probability of losing control. The godhood ritual simply adds the effect of aggregating characteristics and triggering qualitative change. In other words, if there's a way to replace the ritual's effect, directly drinking the potion would be fine. Perhaps after recovering my memories, I might have a similar method?" Lin Ruo speculated uncertainly, then suddenly thought of a question:
"Speaking of which, did the Blood Emperor hold a ritual when he consumed the Red Priest potion back then? Probably not, otherwise Medici and the others wouldn't have been unaware at the time. How did he achieve the Convergence and qualitative change of characteristics? Purely by luck? Tsk, directly chugging potions from non-adjacent sequences and still becoming a god, 5664 and the Little Snake must be crying…"
Lin Ruo's thoughts were completely scattered as he thought of Alistair Tudor's nickname, "True Lord of the Mysteries," and for a moment, he felt a bit emotional that these days, good seedlings from any pathway seemed to like staying in other pathways.
After his musings, Lin Ruo decided to temporarily stop thinking about the headache-inducing matter from just now. After all, it was still early before Medici would arrange the godhood ritual. There was no need for him to worry about it now; it wouldn't do any good.
If he really had to worry, he should at least wait until Medici regained his position as King of Angels!
"The most urgent task is still to figure out the godhood ritual… The Evernight Goddess should know; she was a supporter of Night Emperor Trunsoest back then," Lin Ruo said, pinching his chin. He glanced at the clock and, noticing he had some time before his appointment with Mr. A, decided to set up a ritual to ask the Evernight Goddess about this issue, and also to ask if she was allies with the Earth Mother.
Although Lin Ruo felt the answer to the latter question should be affirmative—after all, City of Silver had Black-faced Grass, and in the original story, the source of Black-faced Grass was the corpse of the real Omebella, which was also the origin of City of Silver's bloodline curse.
Even though this was a world that had been interfered with by him, Lin Ruo didn't think these things would change because of him.
And with the real Omebella already dead, the Earth Mother currently wearing the Omebella persona, regardless of whether she was Sanguine Ancestor Lilith, was very likely an ally of the Evernight Goddess.
Because only the Evernight Goddess's Concealment authority could allow the Earth Mother to safely wear Omebella's persona without being discovered for so many years.
"Concealment… truly a useful authority," Lin Ruo said with emotion, casually touching the Concealment Badge in his pocket, and began to set up the ritual to pray to the Evernight Goddess.
As a person who valued ritual, Lin Ruo naturally wouldn't use expired essential oils to fool the Evernight Goddess. After properly setting up the ritual, Lin Ruo brought the imitation parchment closer to the candle representing "me" among the three candles. Watching the candlelight ignite the imitation parchment, he threw it into the cauldron.
Under the influence of some mysterious power, the flame suddenly soared, almost instantly burning the imitation parchment to ashes.
Lin Ruo stared at the flame, and in the next second, he saw the flames in the cauldron recede, leaving only a pile of ashes.
These ashes moved automatically without wind, outlining a few lines of words:
"The Justiciar's godhood ritual requires first formulating a set of rules recognized by oneself and having at least one million people abide by them. Ultimately, use this set of rules to individually initiate a trial against a Sequence 0 and obtain sufficient results."
"The Earth Mother can be trusted."
After Lin Ruo clearly saw these words and memorized them, the ashes scattered again without wind.
"Formulate rules… initiate a trial… sufficient results?" Lin Ruo chewed on these key points. To be honest, the Justiciar's ritual given by the Evernight Goddess wasn't too unexpected for Lin Ruo. After all, the ritual itself could be inferred from the sequence name, such as the Fool needing to fool a history, and the Error needing to replace someone else's godhood ritual.
So for the Justiciar's godhood ritual, the key was judgment, which was very reasonable.
"First, formulate a set of rules recognized by oneself and have at least one million people abide by them… Considering that the Justiciar pathway is different from the Black Emperor, it can be said that in the early stages, they are always maintainers of order, and in the mid-to-late stages, they have the meaning of using rules and formulating rules. Such a requirement is very reasonable…" Lin Ruo analyzed the Justiciar pathway's godhood ritual and abilities. "The difficulty is alright, at least more reliable than ruling a country…"
"The difficulty of the ritual should lie in the trial of a True God… Any ritual involving a True God cannot be said to be simple. In the Tyrant's ritual requirements, I remember there was challenging a Sequence 0 and surviving."
"Judging a True God and obtaining sufficient results, obviously cannot be achieved in a playhouse manner. At least that True God must pay a certain price… Tsk, not simple!"
Lin Ruo raised his eyebrows, seemingly saying with emotion, but he wasn't nervous.
For ordinary Justiciar pathway Beyonders, this godhood ritual really couldn't be said to be simple. After all, the gap between a normal King of Angels and a Sequence 0 was still quite large. Wanting to individually judge a Sequence 0 and make them pay a considerable price, it didn't seem easy no matter how you looked at it.
But as a player with a cheat, Lin Ruo felt that this question didn't seem so difficult for him in the future.
After all, when his Beyonder power recovered to the level before amnesia, not to say that he could directly kill a Sequence 0, at least fighting one while ensuring his own safety shouldn't be a big problem.
"This ritual is quite suitable for me…" Lin Ruo pinched his chin, but his expression was a bit subtle.
He now increasingly felt that what he really wanted to walk after washing his account and starting over was the Justiciar pathway.
As for the words that the Earth Mother could be trusted, Lin Ruo naturally saw them too, and decided to explore the Earth Mother Cathedral tomorrow.
As for today, of course, he would still follow the original schedule. After all, they had already made an appointment, and the matter of changing pathways wasn't something to rush in a day.
"If I really want to change pathways, I still have to think about where to get the mystical items of the Sun pathway… Hmm, first ask the church. If the church doesn't have them, then I'll think of a way," Lin Ruo stood up, stretched, and the content of the original novel floated in his mind.
"For example… that cross?"
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