"Hm? You're saying a Creator God has taken a grudge against you?"
A few minutes later, after everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, they looked at the helpless Rimuru. The great Lady Lilith was the first to express her sympathy, comforting him gently. "Look on the bright side. I think being hated by a god on the Creator level is still better than offending a demigod."
"Huh? What kind of twisted logic is that?" Rimuru tapped his bowl and chopsticks in dissatisfaction. He suspected Lilith was enjoying his misfortune.
"Think about it. If this world's highest limit is Sequence 3, then if it were a demigod, they could come bother you right now, couldn't they?"
Lilith leisurely tended to her nails. "Besides... divine wars involving Sequence 2 and above aren't something that can just break out whenever people please."
"The greater the power, the greater the restrictions instead." Ye Xiaoqian frowned slightly. "If that's the case, what's the point of pursuing such great power?"
"You can't put it that way." Rimuru spoke up. His feelings were rather complicated right now; he did not know whether to mourn or celebrate.
Or rather, he was caught between joy and sorrow.
The existence that hated him had leveled up again, jumping straight from Sequence 3 to a Creator-level deity at Sequence 2. At that level, it was undeniably an existence that could be called a god even in the void.
But because of that, his ritual had completely met the requirements. He could now activate it and complete his advancement.
"It's like nuclear weapons on Earth. Even if they're things no one uses in the future, can you really say they're useless?"
"At the end of the day, you may not use it, but you can't be without it." Lilith gave the