Lord of Mysteries, God Almighty, Great Old Ones, Pillars...
One unfamiliar term after another reached Klein's ears, leaving him momentarily dazed. These names, which seemed to represent an entirely new level of knowledge, kept circling in his mind.
"...I thought 'God Almighty' referred to the one from the Old Era—a name brought into this age by Grisha, the researcher who emerged from Chernobyl, that Ancient Sun God who imitated His act of creation and called himself the omniscient and omnipotent God Almighty..."
Klein murmured, instinctively feeling that there was more to it.
He immediately recalled the "information you cannot know before becoming an angel" that Angel had repeatedly emphasized, and pressed:
"Is this the dangerous knowledge about the 'cosmos' you mentioned?"
"That's right. Now that you've advanced to Sequence 2, you can safely learn about these things."
Angel nodded, then organized what she knew about the "Great Old Ones" and the "cosmos" in her mind. Starting with the Original Creator splitting apart and falling into slumber, she explained how the barrier outside Earth had formed, how the Outer Deities had gathered there, hungrily waiting for the barrier to dissipate and the apocalypse to arrive. Finally, she turned to the level "above the sequence" and the relationship between true gods and Great Old Ones.
As this knowledge, which contained power in itself and could drive people to madness, entered his mind, Klein's expression inexorably shifted toward surprise, then blank astonishment.
He had already formed a few guesses about such matters. For instance, the Ancient Sun God, who controlled multiple pathways, had likely stood at a level beyond true gods. Likewise, the Mother Tree of Desire, whom all the orthodox gods, the True Creator, and the Primordial Demoness jointly hated and opposed, might have occupied some peculiar position.
But when Angel unveiled