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After Solomon's death, the Seventy-Two Demon Gods absorbed the power that remained in his corpse, and only then were they able to develop independent consciousness.

Roy had already corrected the ritual back to its original form. Thus, the consciousness known as Goetia was already like a candle flickering in the wind.

Unlike all the other Beasts, Goetia had no body of his own. He merely used Solomon's body, just like this Temple of Time created from Solomon's dead corpse.

Goetia could not leave this temple, because this body was the flesh that kept him alive. If he wanted to leave the temple, the only thing he could do was manually create a Spiritual Foundation and descend in the form of a Heroic Spirit.

Thus, the truly great and powerful one was Solomon, never Goetia. Even if Goetia had perhaps surpassed Solomon in strength, it meant nothing.

"Your concept as a 'Beast' has already been taken from you. The end that awaits you is naturally destruction. You have committed a great sin, an unforgivable sin, but I too possess a heart capable of salvation and mercy."

"...So here, allow me to show you one final act of kindness and tell you why your extreme ideology is wrong."

"Simply because you are not human. You do not understand the human heart and possess no humanity. From the very beginning, your ideology was merely a flawed failure."

Roy slowly rose from the throne. He merely glanced at Goetia, and the ethereal Book of Life in his left hand became solid.

The seven seals were undone. The holy book began turning its pages without any wind before finally settling on one.

This was the book that recorded the fate of all things, from the birth of every living being to its death.

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