Blood and... desire?
Iver held the Blood Angel's Angel Shard and fell into deep thought.
Speaking of the Blood Angel, it had indeed suffered endless torment because of its unattainable desires. The Children of the Moon, when all was said and done, had also fallen because of their uncontrolled desires...
They were just like the Transcendents of the Path of Love, mixing lust, appetite, bloodlust, and countless other desires together. It was precisely because they were controlled by their intense thirst for blood that they had committed so many sins.
Among humans, there were also people like Lily, born as Children of the Beast, possessing a "talent" that made them prone to crime. For them, keeping themselves pure and sinless often required them to work harder than others... Was that not also a form of psychological disability?
The Blood Angel had relied on this authority to create the race of Children of the Moon, causing people to remain wary and hostile toward them.
"An enduring hatred..."
Iver murmured softly.
Why did he feel that... compared to the domain of blood, Aleister might actually prefer the domain of desire?
"You guessed right."
Aleister's soft whisper sounded beside Iver's ear. "Master..."
That moist, heated, rustling whisper made Iver shudder lightly.
Annoyed, Iver manifested Aleister's Phantom Demon Card and gently curled his finger before flicking it. The card rang out with a metallic clang, and Aleister let out a wounded "whimper."
At that moment, the Blood Angel's dissipating power finally spread across the entire world.
The Hourglass's proclamation rang out from the clouds:
``` The Path of Love has transcended its limits. The Material Realm is about to ascend--
All Transcendents simultaneously heard the Hourglass's voice in their minds:
Starting today, the difficulty of the Promotion Rituals for breaking through to the Fifth