A conspiracy above the gray fog

Old Man, Sequence 1?

Leonard was puzzled. It wasn't that he didn't know what Sequence 1 meant; he had simply assumed that the "Parasite" hiding inside him hadn't reached that level. After all, after all, he always helped Leonard with words rather than power, hid whenever trouble arose, and had even been frightened into silence by Amon's Avatar, only recovering after they left Backlund...

I'd thought he was an angel at most, a Sequence 2—and an extremely weakened one who could only hide inside a Mid Sequence Beyonder like me...

But as he recalled the power the other party had occasionally displayed, especially the wondrous effects of the Luck Stealer charm recently made from a Worm of Time, as well as the breadth of knowledge that had allowed him to recognize the headless messenger as an angel, Leonard began to find Klein's words somewhat credible.

"So what does this have to do with Amon's Avatar?"

He frowned as he asked, then answered his own question in sudden realization:

"Amon's Avatar will search everywhere for him because of this, searching for me, his host, hoping to absorb this important Beyonder Characteristic and split off more Amons. And because of aggregation, we might run into each other for all sorts of reasons?"

That Marauder angel even told him about the aggregation law. It looks like he's fundamentally different from the rat demigod who became Hazel's teacher but concealed so much important information... Angel considered this, then nodded slightly and said:

"You're half right. Amon does want Pallez's Beyonder Characteristic, but not as material for other avatars. He has a greater goal... With this Sequence 1 Beyonder Characteristic, he might be able to ascend to godhood and become the true god of the Marauder pathway."

This wasn't actually difficult to guess.

As one