Vizet's words made Serena Pendragon's eyes widen instead.
Her voice was full of disbelief. "Vizet, are you saying... the Ancient Magic Power has also been corrupted? I thought only the Killing Curse had been affected."
As soon as Serena Pendragon said this, everyone present began clamoring as well.
This was much easier to understand. It could even be directly interpreted as The Master having done something to the Killing Curse.
"We did realize that the Killing Curse was a tool The Master used to speed up his descent." Serena Pendragon frowned. "But I truly never expected that even the Ancient Magic Power..."
"Then doesn't that mean..." She seemed to have thought of something, and her expression turned strange. "Doesn't that mean the Isaiah Society's long conflict with us has been an internal feud all along?"
"Serena, I don't think that's the case." Vizet gently shook his head. "The corruption did not happen from the very beginning. It did not exist from the very beginning."
"I should explain this matter..." A familiar voice spoke up to Vizet. "The origins of the organization known as the Guardian began with me."
It was Hermes Trismegistus's voice. "I guided the earliest humans to discover our power, allowing it to manifest through rituals."
"After completing all this, I returned to the Emerald Tablet and fell into slumber. Only when the aphorisms of the Emerald Tablet were activated could I appear."
"As for the Ancient Magic Power wielded by the Guardian, the Killing Curse did not exist among the magic taught at the beginning. And due to my special circumstances, I was unable to notice the existence of the Killing Curse later on."
He let out a somewhat frustrated sigh. "Without question, magic like the Killing Curse is precisely what Mictlantecuhtli excels at. He spread this