In the living room, Aputon cautiously recited the Creator's Honorific Name: "O Creator in the Shadow of Order;
"You are the source and end of all Order; you are the Master of Laws who commands the Clock of Order.
"I pray for Your gaze and favor; I pray that You merge the spirituality of the person on the altar with mine, causing my enemies' divinations concerning me to fail."
Aputon had pored over his father's notes countless times and rehearsed it in his mind just as often, but today was his first time performing the Ritual.
His father's notes had warned him not to casually recite the Honorific Name of the Mist of Uncertainty, lest he inadvertently anger that great existence.
After completing his prayer, Aputon stared nervously at the altar.
Suddenly, a surging power descended. A tall, majestic figure appeared above the altar, seated upon a throne forged from Sharp Swords, as though looking down upon everything at His feet.
When Aputon had previously said that he needed a corpse from the Tamara Family, Hobart, with his extensive mysticism knowledge, had thought it over after returning and understood why Aputon needed a corpse to conceal his tracks.
Only those belonging to the same family could have their spirituality effectively fused. Once a portion of Aputon's spirituality was fused with the corpse's spirituality through a highly ranked power of Distortion, any divination seeking Aputon's whereabouts would point to the corpse's spirituality—that is, the Spirit World—causing the divination to fail.
Hobart had estimated at the time that he could accomplish this using the Country of Disorder.
In addition, High Sequence Beyonders of the God of Death pathway could also accomplish this. Manipulating spirituality was precisely that pathway's specialty.
The reason the Lawyer pathway's abilities could also perform some manipulation of