Just like in games, where the further a version progresses, the more "Wild Monsters" there are that aren't extraordinary beings—
The essence of the Ouroboros Ring was to share the Path Power monopolized by the Celestial Angels with the Material Realm. Expanding the Material Realm was equivalent to weakening the Hourglass's balancing barrier by indirect means, disrupting the absolute balance that had originally existed between the Dream Realm and the Material Realm.
Raising the maximum level of more extraordinary beings meant there would be more chances for them to ascend to the rank of Dream Realm Apostles or Celestial Angels. It also meant that more Phantoms would be able to reside in the Material Realm permanently. Thus, a brand-new form of balance based on mutual infiltration would be achieved.
—Put simply, once the Ouroboros Ring Ritual began, Phantoms would start spawning in the Material Realm.
And the fact that Great Sin Scholars could capture Phantoms meant they could indirectly purge the Phantoms from the Material Realm.
After all, killing an extraordinary being, though illegal... at least yielded the other party's extraordinary items and personal wealth. Killing a Phantom, on the other hand, yielded basically no rewards apart from some extraordinary materials that might not even be valuable. Compared with fragile mortals possessing flesh and blood, Phantoms were even harder to kill.
The rewards were lower, and the risks higher. Under such circumstances, Phantoms might become a new kind of disaster.
But if the profession of Great Sin Scholar rose to prominence, things would be different...
Capturing Phantoms would become a necessity. Without the Shepherding Method, they wouldn't be able to tame Phantoms barehanded like Iver could. They could only honestly defeat and capture them. And because Great Sin Scholars lacked a formal inheritance, each person's Phantom lineup would certainly resemble