That night, after a hired freight carriage transported the lumber and wooden frame to the foot of a sheltered hill in the outskirts, Angel personally assembled her stake. Beside it, she opened an exquisite little wooden box capable of isolating spirituality and carefully checked the Beyonder Characteristic and Spiritual Materials inside.
After confirming that everything was in order, she looked at Klein beside her. He wore a solemn expression, his left hand holding an amethyst suspended from a gold chain. The chain was rapidly spinning counterclockwise, indicating a negative answer to his divination question—whether this promotion could be completed safely.
Klein had only learned of the Promotion Ritual for the "Affliction" Demoness from Angel before they bought the lumber and ordered the stake. He had looked like this ever since.
"Rapid counterclockwise rotation indicates a strongly negative answer. Your Promotion Ritual is extremely dangerous, and there's a significant chance of failure."
His gaze shifted from the amethyst to Angel's violet eyes as Klein spoke slowly.
"But this is already the best opportunity. We'll be leaving Pritz Harbor by ship afterward. We can't possibly set up a stake on the ship, and the situation in Bayam is unknown. It might be even more dangerous there."
Angel answered with a smile, opening the wooden crate she had brought and taking out the materials and containers to begin brewing her Potion.
"Besides, didn't your earlier divinations already confirm that the Potion formula and the ritual itself are correct? The danger lies in the method of the ritual. How could being burned alive not be dangerous?"
Carefully, she poured 50 milliliters of seriously ill patients' blood and 30 milliliters of Painted Bat blood into a small iron pot, submerging the tip of the Two-Tailed Black Snake's tail within. Finally, she used a dropper to