Angel said, "The major secret churches have emerged from the shadows, and these secret churches seem to have created a new school, one that allows ordinary people to gain extraordinary power even without receiving a god's blessing."
As he spoke, Angel glanced at Gabriel.
Gabriel picked up the thread somewhat blankly. "This... I heard Raguel mention it."
Angel said nothing and merely continued looking at Gabriel. It took Gabriel quite a while to understand that Angel was asking it to introduce this new extraordinary school.
It hurriedly said, "This school is also known as sequence advancement."
What was sequence advancement?
Ordinary people could advance through extraordinary sequences by consuming specific medicinal powders and supplementing them with rituals.
The lowest sequence was Sequence 9, and one climbed step by step until reaching Sequence 1. Extraordinary beings at Sequence 1 were immensely powerful, practically worthy of being called "demigods."
"Medicinal powder that grants extraordinary power?" Laplace raised a brow. "It doesn't sound particularly special."
There were quite a few potions in alchemical pharmacology that could grant people extraordinary power.
If that was all this extraordinary power amounted to, then it was far too insubstantial.
"I thought so too at first—that this kind of extraordinary power was nothing much. But later, through Raguel's descriptions, I discovered that once sequence advancement reached its peak, it could allow someone to rival a legendary creature."
"Even at Sequence 2, they began to display the true form of legendary creatures, gaining a portion of legendary power in advance."
At this, Laplace showed a trace of surprise as well.
There might be alchemical potions that could turn someone into a legendary being in a single leap, but such potions were certainly exceedingly rare, perhaps even unique.
Yet the sequence advancement Gabriel described seemed to be a system of