The group members were very clear about Erica's strength.
Before Ryuga joined the chat group, as the only member to reach a tier, Erica had always been the group's highest combat power.
After Ryuga joined the chat group, Erica had further improved her strength through the master version magical power refinement technique, almost reaching the pinnacle of Great Knight.
But even so, Erica had always been Tier 1 strength, never advancing to Tier 2.
Apart from Ryuga having no experience with this, the others who hadn't even reached tier level all understood the difficulty of advancing tiers, and also deeply understood that the higher you go, the harder it becomes.
Even someone as confident as Tohsaka Rin understood that she would need to spend a lot of time to grow to Tier 1 level.
The deeper everyone's understanding of the difficulty of strength improvement, the greater the shock they felt when they saw Ryuga casually wave his hand and Erica breakthrough to Tier 2.
Ryuga's own rapid strength growth was one thing.
He could actually bring others along?
This thigh was a bit too thick!
Madoka was fine; she was just purely amazed. Tohsaka Rin and Kana were truly moved.
What they had said about being Ryuga's maid before might have been just teasing.
But now, it had become a route they needed to seriously consider.
No one could resist this level of temptation!
Not to mention Tier 2, even just Tier 1 would be enough to solve their problems.
If they didn't think it would be too presumptuous, they really wanted to ask if Ryuga was still accepting people.
While everyone maintained complicated silence.
Erica excitedly opened her eyes, feeling the surging power within her body.
"Ryuga-sama's blessing is so strong. Now, if I faced that divine beast boar from before, I definitely wouldn't lose! Even uncle couldn't be my opponent!"
If normal blessing could only pull her from Great Knight level to regular Holy Knight level, then Ryuga's blessing could be said to have pulled her to top-tier Holy Knight level.
Ordinary divine beasts and subordinate gods would not be her opponents.
If she activated the hidden backup energy source—True Ether Mode—Erica was even confident she could briefly contend with Heretic Gods.
"This is just a small amount of divine personality enhancement."
Ryuga shook his head lightly.
Erica might be very satisfied with this effect, but Ryuga felt it was somewhat insufficient.
"The blessing system's upper limit shouldn't stop here. Let me research godhood in depth and see if I can directly bestow godhood-level blessing."
"Godhood-level blessing?"
Erica couldn't believe her ears.
"According to what you said before, those with godhood are gods if not, then at least Campione-level existences, right?"
That would be Tier 3, nation-destroying level combat power.
From Ryuga-sama's meaning, raising her to Tier 2 wasn't even the limit—Tier 3 was possible?
Even Heretic Gods themselves couldn't do this, right?
Undoubtedly, this was speech that defied common sense, yet Ryuga's expression remained calm as water.
"What's so strange about it? Couldn't the main gods or god kings in mythology do similar things?"
Even without mentioning those singular gods, stories of powerful deities elevating weak beings to godhood were common in mythology.
For example, War God Verethragna himself was a subordinate god of Sun God Mithras. This didn't prevent Verethragna from being Zoroastrianism's strongest war god, revered as the highest armed holder among Zoroastrian deities.
Going deeper, Sun God Mithras was also a subordinate god created by the good source Ahura Mazda.
These myths clearly showed that as long as gods were strong enough, their subordinate gods could also possess godhood and become main god-level existences.
Of course, this referred to the original gods in the divine realm.
Ordinary subordinate gods summoned by Heretic Gods mostly lacked godhood, and when Heretic Gods themselves lost their godhood, they would also fall to the same level as divine beasts, becoming Divine Ancestors or subordinate gods with clear hierarchical distinctions.
Hearing Ryuga explain it this way, Erica was slightly stunned.
Right!
Even things that gods couldn't do, Ryuga-sama might not be unable to do.
Now this was something that main gods and god kings could do, so it might not be difficult for Ryuga-sama.
Realizing this, she lowered her head.
"You are absolutely right!"
Not just her, after hearing this explanation, Tohsaka Rin and others, beyond their initial shock, had no doubt about Ryuga.
There was no choice—when dealing with this level of big shot, so-called common sense simply didn't apply.
"So Ryuga-sama, what do we do next?"
After glancing around the surrounding ruins, Erica inquired.
"The residents here were evacuated successfully before. If you need magical materials, I've already arranged for Copper Black Cross to prepare them in advance. You can go directly to Rome if you want to see them."
Without needing instructions, she had prepared everything she could before successfully pledging allegiance to Ryuga.
In terms of qualifications as a secretary, Erica was indeed excellent enough.
"The magical materials aren't urgent."
Ryuga shook his head.
The magic in the Campione world was almost entirely based on mythological foundations, and looking at a few techniques in this area would suffice—the rest would be ineffective repetition.
Compared to this, he was more interested in the authority he had just obtained.
He still hadn't discovered what Verethragna called "true power."
Pandora had said before that battle was the way Campione could best integrate their power, so next, he should find a god to kill.
Conveniently, there was a target right nearby.
"I plan to first deal with the remaining Heretic G—"
Before he could finish saying "god," suddenly, a roar like mad thunder came from the sky above, the thunderous bellow directly interrupting Ryuga's words.
"Cunning son of folly! As payment for stealing my opponent, come quickly and receive death!"
"I shall complete the interrupted battle and build the martial achievement of victory here!"
An incredibly majestic voice swept across the entire island accompanied by wind and thunder.
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Erica looked questioningly toward where the voice came from.
Rather than being surprised that there was a second Heretic God hidden on the island, she was more amazed that some fool would be so eager to seek death.
Was this... tired of living?
To be continued...
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