"Sequence 4?"
Klein looked at Angel, who was sitting on the sofa with a smug expression, and asked in confusion.
"Yes. Although I haven't digested Sequence 5, 'Affliction,' very much, I still need to start considering the next Sequence," Angel said, unable to keep her voice down as she spoke softly, as if plotting something. "And these Potion ingredients are incredibly expensive. Even a single Auxiliary Material costs several thousand pounds..."
Thinking of the Poison Needle of the Black-Striped Shadow Scorpion, which had been priced at a staggering 3,000 pounds in the City of Silver's trading market, she sighed again and recalled the words written on the "Demoness" card she had seen in that mysterious city she had reached after death.
"Sequence 4, Despair.
"Main Ingredients: Eyes of a Gazer, Complete Poison Sac of the Black-Striped Shadow Scorpion.
"Auxiliary Materials: 150 milliliters of Gazer blood, Poison Needle of the Black-Striped Shadow Scorpion, 10 drops of Blood Mist Tree sap, one portion of self-made highly toxic medicine.
"Promotion Ritual: Rely mainly on your own strength to kill a Demigod or an equivalent Beyonder Creature. Consume the Potion amid their despair before death."
If the ingredients were merely expensive and could eventually be solved with money, then the Promotion Ritual from Sequence 5 to Sequence 4 left Angel feeling somewhat "desperate."
Only after advancing to Sequence 5 did she truly understand what the title "half-god, half-human" represented, as well as just how little effort Lady Despair Panacea had exerted when she toyed with Angel during the Great Smog in Backlund.
Even without the smog created in advance through the ritual, three Sequence 5 versions of herself, equipped with all her Mystical Items, would probably have less than a fifty percent chance against a Sequence 4 of the same pathway... Of course, as