Angel had not yet seen anyone selling a Sequence 5 potion formula, but judging from the roughly 2,000 pounds needed for a Sequence 6 formula, a formula one level higher would probably cost no less than 5,000 pounds—and might not even be available at any price.
As for the potion's Main Materials, the two together would cost around 8,000 pounds. The Beyonder Characteristics that could replace them would cost about the same.
Having viewed the Card of Blasphemy and retained the Affliction Beyonder Characteristic, its contamination newly separated after the Great Smog, was equivalent to saving Angel the 13,000 pounds needed for her advancement. She only needed to prepare the Auxiliary Materials, as well as...
"Being tied to a stake and burned for a full fifteen minutes, without being able to use a substitute... Could I use Frost abilities to reduce the fire's damage?"
Angel pondered in secret. Her first instinct was to find some way to circumvent the dangers of the Promotion Ritual. With her rudimentary medical knowledge, she knew very well that an ordinary person might go into shock from the intense pain after being burned for even one or two minutes, or inhale too much scorching air and smoke, suffering burns to the lungs and dying of suffocation.
At the middle and low Sequences, a Beyonder's body was not much stronger than an ordinary person's. They might possess several times the strength of a normal person, and their speed and reflexes might have been enhanced by potions more than once, but they could still be killed by bullets and blades. Fire would not let them hold on for many extra minutes either.
Not to mention the searing agony of flames burning their skin.
It would probably hurt even more than the suffering she had endured when she