Preselected Candidates for Godhood, Lined Up to Share the Spoils

Crack! Crack!

Aaron blinked blankly. Once he came to his senses, he could not help swearing. "Fuck! What kind of joke is this? How the hell am I supposed to play with that?"

He was now a Holy Magus, one of the stronger Sub-Heavenly Fathers.

With all the foundations he had accumulated, he was fully confident that once he became the God of Magic, he would rank among the first tier of Heavenly Fathers.

The twenty-two Divine Pathways were paths to godhood where one consumed potions and advanced step by step from Sequence Nine to Sequence Zero. Once someone consumed a potion, they would evolve from an ordinary creature into a Beyonder.

Among them, Sequence Nine through Sequence Eight were low sequences; Sequence Seven through Sequence Five were middle sequences; Sequence Four through Sequence Three could be called demigods or Saints; Sequence Two through Sequence One were Angels; and Sequence Zero was a True God.

Every Divine Pathway represented a kind of authority, yet the True Gods corresponding to Sequence Zero were only Heavenly Fathers. Moreover, advancing from low sequences to high ones grew increasingly complicated and difficult each time. Coupled with all those cumbersome rituals, it was ten thousand times harder than taking a civil service exam. With bad luck, one might not become a True God even after several thousand—or even ten thousand—years.

It would be a lie to say he was not interested in the authorities represented by the Divine Pathways. But he had already embarked upon the broad road to godhood and was drawing ever closer to its end. He truly had no patience to start over and open up other branches, especially not twenty-two of them.

Aaron rubbed his forehead, shook his head, and let out a heavy sigh.

"What a mess!

"The twenty-two Divine