As she walked through the streets of the North Borough, where the sunlight was growing brighter and pedestrians were becoming more numerous, Angel began reviewing and organizing the plans she had already made.
After learning that she could not advance to Sequence 1 of the Demoness pathway through Beyonder characteristics, she had set her sights early on the neighboring Red Priest pathway. After all, no true god had emerged on that pathway since the Blood Emperor's fall, and its Beyonder characteristics were scattered among different families. This gave her the option of advancing by switching pathways, then finding an opportunity to defeat the Primordial Demoness and return to the Demoness pathway at Sequence 0.
But her Mirror Person, Black Cat Wensa, and the residual soul of Blood Emperor Tudor had rejected that plan one after another.
From what she currently knew, Alistar Tudor had most likely left a means of resurrection on the Red Priest pathway. If Angel switched pathways and became a Conqueror, that god might very well revive within her.
This was probably why Vermonda Sauron, the Sauron family's Champagne Earl, had gone mad so soon after advancing, and why Einhorn and Augustus each held a Conqueror characteristic but had long refrained from raising a new archangel.
But with the Red Priest route blocked, Angel could only consider the Darkness, Death, and Twilight Giant pathways, which were not adjacent to hers but could nevertheless be switched to for some strange reason.
This information had first come from the avatar of Consul Amon. According to him, these crucial clues had originated with his main body's "paranoid" brother—Adam, who had now become a god.
Based on her own experiences, the actions of Death Salinger, and the dual corruption of 0-01, Angel had confirmed that some mystical connection indeed existed between