Backlund's morning fog was at its thickest, making the entire winter in Backlund cold and damp.
On Thursday morning, Hobart took a rental carriage to Order Square. Watching the people in the fog already beginning to toil for their livelihoods, or the Vagrants living like Living Corpses, did little for his mood.
It was only after getting into the rental carriage that morning that he remembered he had the ability to travel. Why was he even taking a carriage? But since he was already aboard, and Order Square was crowded, appearing there through travel would be too conspicuous. He still had to take the carriage.
Thinking back to his startling idea from last night, Hobart still felt some lingering fear. What if he injected the power of the Nation of Order into the Ancient Death God's corpse and the Ancient Death God came back to life? Perhaps this was the resurrection opportunity Undying Bird Gregaire had been desperately waiting for?
Reconsidering the matter today, Hobart felt that yesterday's idea had been completely unnecessary. First, what he had injected was the power of "Order," not the power of "Undead," so it was incompatible with Gregaire's pathway.
Second, the power of Order did not possess the ability to bring the dead back to life, as described in an online novel Hobart had read.
At most, those powers could charge an inanimate object, allowing it to temporarily regain spirituality and vitality. But that was not life, merely a loophole in death; it would not produce intelligence.
Nor would it resurrect some ancient god. On the contrary, the power of Order would block some of the channels through which that ancient god could revive.
After all, it was normal for the Black Emperor to revive through the loophole in death found by the shadow