As Angel looked at the answer Arrodes had given without hesitation, a chill slowly rose within her, as though she had stepped into a bitterly cold lake in the depths of winter, the piercing cold seeping into her from her toes to the top of her head.
Because she knew that answer was wrong.
As the true god of the Red Priest pathway, Tudor had naturally accommodated its Uniqueness. According to history, he had retained it for at least several hundred years, until he perished in the Four Emperors War and it fell into the hands of the Nether Emperor, Salinger.
A hundred years later, during the Pale Calamity, the latter was besieged by the orthodox churches and perished in the Berserk Sea—to be precise, his death had created the Berserk Sea, which remained difficult for ships to traverse to this day—and left behind the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact now numbered "01," Salinger's Blood Banner.
These two gods had undoubtedly possessed "0-01." As for whether Salinger had attempted to accommodate this Uniqueness from a non-adjacent pathway or had merely used it as a powerful Sealed Artifact, Angel had no way of knowing.
But aside from the two true gods, there was another obvious answer to "Who once possessed 0-01?": the Red Angel, Medici.
From her conversation with the three-in-one evil spirit at the entrance to the underground ruins in Backlund, the entries in Roselle's Diary, and accounts from other high-level beings, Angel had learned that when Tudor switched from Sequence 1 of the Black Emperor pathway to the non-adjacent Red Priest pathway, he had seized all the characteristics and the Uniqueness from Medici, Einhorn, and Sauron, three Hunters who had been Sequence 1 Conquerors at the time. By doing so, he had advanced to true god at the cost of