Had he just... intercepted the Beyonder characteristic of the Dancer pathway controlled by the Circle of Inevitability?
No, the Outer Deities shouldn't be able to send Beyonder characteristics directly through the barrier yet. Even if they could, they wouldn't give one to an ordinary follower who was little more than cannon fodder. Based on what he said before dying, this seemed more like some kind of boon...
Angel pondered this as she waited for Amon to explain.
Only after drawing the silver-black speck of light into his hand did the avatar of the world's most powerful Marauder look at Angel. His smile deepened as he said:
"It simply looked interesting, so I stole the boon power that great existence was about to reclaim.
"In fact, before you arrived, I'd already interrogated some Outer Deity followers. Apart from the Circle of Inevitability worshipped by these Sinners, there were the Gourmet School and their Primordial Hunger, and the All Things End Society's Monarch of Decay. But those other two Outer Deities are more dangerous. I didn't attempt to steal their power and only gathered some basic information."
As he spoke, he took a palm-sized note from his robe pocket and handed it to Angel.
She accepted it and glanced at it. To her surprise, it already listed the pathways controlled by the three Outer Deities. Although it contained only the Low Sequence names and some brief descriptions, obtaining even this much in the short time since the Outer Deities had intensified their invasion surprised her.
*Dancer, Vagrant, Patient... Their Sequence 9 names do hint at their abilities... Amon certainly lives up to his title of Blasphemer. He even dares to steal boon power from Outer Deities at the level of great old ones. Still, with the barrier in place for now, they