"What is it? Do you have doubts about my choice?" Seeing Angel alternately grow solemn and furrow his brow, Caroline could not help asking.
Angel shook his head. "No. I was merely thinking over Lady Caroline's question."
Caroline asked, "Then do you have an answer?"
"Unfortunately, not yet. Whether Ermi should undergo a second awakening is a decision I need to make only after weighing the pros and cons. Yet I still cannot fully grasp all the entanglements of those pros and cons."
Hearing Angel's solemn answer, Caroline could not help laughing. "I merely raised the question so you could think about it in advance. I did not expect you to take it so seriously."
In Caroline's view, Angel definitely had no way to make Ermi undergo a second awakening anytime soon. There was no need for him to take it so much to heart.
He only needed to keep these considerations in mind, so that if such a day truly came in the future, he would not make a hasty choice and end up regretting it.
Angel smiled but offered no further explanation. Instead, he raised another question. "If Ermi had a chance to undergo a second awakening now, roughly how much would his strength increase?"
"Not only are you taking it to heart, you are dreaming beautifully too." Caroline teased him first, but she still gave Angel an answer. "It would not increase much."
"For an awakened demon, transcendence is a transformation. The transformation itself does not add much strength; rather, it broadens its future potential."
Using a bucket as an analogy, transformation meant that the total amount of water in the bucket remained unchanged, but the bucket's capacity increased. How far it could go in the future still depended on the Liberator itself.
"Although its overall strength