"Shoko, take off Poseidon's Great Rune." Melina decided to test it.
"Okay." Toyokawa Shoko obediently removed the Great Rune from her body.
In an instant, the threads formed from the essence of the Elden Ring, which had been drifting toward Shoko intentionally or otherwise, turned back into headless flies floating on the wind.
Case closed.
So it was not that no one was qualified—it was that no one had offered up a Great Rune.
"No wonder only demigods who possess their own laws can become gods. So that was why." Melina nodded.
A God-kin was an existence that, on the foundation of being a demigod, possessed laws of their own.
A demigod, meanwhile, was someone Queen Marika had granted a Great Rune of the Elden Ring.
The first time Melina performed the godhood ritual, she had only focused on the requirement that the candidate needed to possess their own laws, overlooking the prerequisite that they also had to be a demigod.
"Miss Melina, have you found the problem?" Sunday asked.
"Yes. You still need to fuse with a Great Rune." Melina nodded lightly. After a brief pause, she spoke again, her tone carrying a hint of regret. "However, I currently don't have any suitable Great Runes for you and your sister."
After making Great Runes of the main gods for all the group members, she had used all her remaining divinity to merge with Qianyi's divinity, creating "Qianyi's Great Rune."
But this Great Rune was special. It was meant to serve as the core and main trunk of the Elden Ring, establishing the foundation of its laws. It could not be given to Sunday.
Thus, Melina currently had no spare Great Rune suitable for Sunday.
"Use mine. This thing can't budge the Divine Monarch anyway, so it's useless to me."