Above the wilderness, once the ritual was complete, Isaac stroked the white jade-like Divine Tome with a complicated expression. Even someone like him, who dealt with Outer Gods regularly, felt a little unnerved when facing an unnamable evil god.
The thing was rather like Cthulhu from the novels of his previous life—sinister and bizarre.
Still, since this power had been obtained through a miracle, there was at least a tiny measure of assurance...
Yes, only a tiny measure...
But ultimately, it was power from those disgusting creatures. If things went wrong, its effects might change slightly...
After pondering for a while, Isaac finally decided to stop thinking about it. Only the final stage of the three-part ritual remained anyway. Whether it was a mule or a horse, taking it out for a spin would tell him.
Compared to the troublesome second stage, the third ritual was much simpler: a blood sacrifice of six Fourth Tier divine species. Though the Wilderness Dungeon World had no divine species, and Isaac could not yet create Fourth Tier ones himself.
But all the ritual required was a concept, and the Blood Sacrifice Ritual was no different. He only needed to kill six Fourth Tier monsters, then add a certain amount of divinity fragments to convert the [concept], and the ritual would succeed.
Neither was difficult for Isaac to obtain.
Especially here in the Wilderness Dungeon. Fourth Tier monsters might be relatively hard to find outside, but here, they were practically everywhere.
With Isaac and Cuisti working separately, they soon gathered six monsters from the two dungeons. As for divinity fragments, they had more than enough. After all, to produce more Virtual Divine Sparks, neither Cuisti nor the Mother Goddess had ever stopped producing them.
Only Mephisto and the God of Strife needed to accumulate