A grimoire recording Secret Knowledge did not have to exist as a single copy.
The "secret" in "secret covenant" referred to "esoteric knowledge," while the root of "covenant" here carried the meanings of connection, continuity, and continuation.
—This was a paraphrased translation from the various nations of Herasul.
If it were translated directly using the language of the Dream Wandering Monk's birthplace—the language of the Horus Empire—its original meaning was actually a compound of "propagation" and "salvation": rescuing some lost knowledge and spreading it.
Thus, a grimoire was inherently something meant to be handed down to different peoples and cultures, and would naturally be written in different languages.
Precisely because what it concealed was not writing, but a condensed, living, individualized "secret" itself, only one grimoire could exist in any given language.
Although Iver had destroyed the Avalon Language version of the "Shepherd's Secret Covenant," the Shepherd's inheritance certainly still existed elsewhere.
For example, here.
"No wonder..."
Iver gazed from afar at Generous Adil, seated in a sedan chair as though he were enshrined in a shrine, and suddenly understood many things.
Precisely because Adil possessed the Shepherd's inheritance, he performed such compassionate deeds. The drinking water and food he supplied to the residents free of charge were the "flesh and blood" he shepherded.
Now that Iver had personally arrived in Paradise City, he knew that even the slaves had water to drink. They were only forbidden from eating, not from drinking.
The Parthians worshipped water, so the water they drank contained no coloring. In other words, the slaves could also obtain free drinking water.
Providing the city with water on such a scale undoubtedly required a huge amount of sacrifice. Whether slaves were taken directly from the city in batches or purchased outside the city for sacrifice, a tremendous