Sixteen Years (3)

The Fallen Mother God possessed four Pathways in total. Two of them had fallen to Earth along with the Mother Nest. Of the two remaining within her body, one had Sequence 0, the Chaos Progenitor.

This was the Fallen Mother God's trump card, and also the means Alice had once suspected she could use to open Earth's barrier—when the Mother of All Things gave birth to the Chaos Progenitor, a new Original Creator would be born.

Of course, the Fallen Mother God did not have the courage to let the Original Creator truly be born. That would likewise bring about her end. Thus, she had merely used this Pathway to open Earth's barrier, but it had also caused her to enter a weakness period.

Information regarding this Pathway came from Grischa Adam, who had truly become God. After confirming the existence of this ability of the Fallen Mother God, getting her to voluntarily remove the barrier, start the war while weakened, and cripple the Outer Gods' pillar-level combat strength became a crucial part of the war.

Naturally, before that, they first had to ensure the safety of ordinary people and make as many preparations as possible.

Thus, the plan was not truly set into motion until the barrier grew thinner and thinner, while incidents of loss of control and contamination became increasingly frequent.

Cattleya and Bernadette were together as well. Although the Hidden Sage had already died at Klein's hands, Bernadette had not advanced further, remaining at the Sequence 2 Sage.

Cattleya used the surplus Characteristics expelled after Bernadette's advancement to advance to Sequence 3. Her Sequence 2 potion came from the Hidden Sage's remnants, but she likewise did not continue advancing.

According to the original plan, the Uniqueness and Sequence 1 Beyonder Characteristic of the Hermit Pathway should