Once this tiny breach had been opened, everything that followed became simple.
Like a plant growing, it began as nothing more than a tiny seed in a crack between stones. Yet nourished by sunlight and rain, it could eventually take deep root there, bloom, and bear fruit.
Thanks to the tremendous increase in his own strength, coupled with the bishop's near-exhausted state, Anvis spent roughly half a day successfully bringing the Twisted Seed's growth to completion.
Afterward, he dismissed the Flesh Avatar he had summoned to make up the numbers and stopped frightening the young bishop of the Holy Radiance Church.
Just as when he had once assumed the form of the Man in the Mirror, the so-called Fate Parasitism Ritual was likewise the combined effect of Flesh Avatar, Flesh Manipulation, and Old Days Majesty.
The true Fate Parasitism Ritual was exceedingly complicated. Its procedures were cumbersome, its materials rare, and the specific ritual arrangement and process had all but been lost.
With a faint spiritual suggestion mixed into his words, Yanile's current mental state likely left him no time to distinguish the difference carefully.
However, while planting the Twisted Seed just now, Anvis could clearly sense that Yanile's mental resistance had been far fiercer than that of the other targets in whom he had planted Twisted Seeds.
He was uncertain whether this was due to Yanile's Eighth-Rank strength, or because his upbringing in the Holy Radiance Church and his faith had made his heart especially resolute.
Before absorbing that Seal, Anvis truly would not have been certain whether the Twisted Seed could ultimately take shape.
But after the Old Days Secret Scripture absorbed that Seal beyond the Ninth Rank, its fundamental elevation across all attributes was already enough to confront resistance of this degree.
Once he confirmed that the