The Magic Wishing Lamp? The Sealed Artifact designated 0-05?
Hearing that one of the School of Truth's ultimate goals was actually to find this Grade 0 Sealed Artifact, currently in Bernadette Gustav's possession, Angel froze, intense confusion welling up within her.
According to Arrodes, this Sealed Artifact had formed from a Miracle Invoker characteristic, and another characteristic seemed to be sealed inside it. This caused it to fulfill its owner's wishes in a distorted manner, often creating additional dangers rather than truly granting what they wished for.
Does the School of Truth want that Miracle Invoker characteristic? Or do they want to use the lamp to fulfill some special wish? For example, wishing for "Earth's barrier to shatter ahead of time" so the Outer Deities can enter this planet? But if a Sequence 2 characteristic could accomplish that, why would the Great Old Ones, whose status surpasses that of Sequence 0 True Gods, have lingered outside the barrier for millennia...
...Could this have something to do with the characteristic sealed inside 0-05? If it's related to the Justiciar Pathway, all three Hand of Order characteristics are already accounted for, leaving only the Uniqueness...
...No, when I fought Zarathus's Historical Projection, the Emperor Roselle he summoned forced a whole pile of strange knowledge into my head, including the whereabouts of the Justiciar Uniqueness. It became the Trunsoest Brass Book and was corrupted. It's clearly a separate Sealed Artifact...
Thought after thought flashed through Angel's mind, but she could not guess the School of Truth's true purpose. She could only set it aside for now and consider another question raised by the Magic Wishing Lamp's ownership.
Why did this secret organization, which most likely worshipped the Outer Deity known as the Son of Chaos, have finding the mausoleum of Bernadette's father—the former