"...Become a Pillar God?"
Hai Na repeated in disbelief.
She instinctively clenched her fists, bringing them up to her chest.
--No matter when or where, she had never entertained such an absurd notion!
No, that wasn't right.
...Did she really not?
At that instant, Hai Na thought of the thoughts that had welled up inside her when Iver had first told her the story of the Silver Crowned Dragon: He could be replaced.
Now that the opportunity had truly arrived, was she going to choose to back down at this moment?
Hai Na fell silent for a long while, but her expression grew resolute.
She spoke up and asked, "Why me?"
The Gray Angel merely smiled, reaching out to point at the shattered firmament: "How many Angels do you think are up there?"
"...One?"
Hai Na turned back to take another look at the floating Giant Whale, speaking with some uncertainty.
Could there possibly be two?
Or was it that this Gray Angel—who didn't know whether he was dead or already resurrected, and could walk freely in the Material Realm—also needed to be counted among them?
"It can be one, or it can be many."
The Gray Angel replied, "The Veil of Equilibrium shattered by the Ouroboros Ring Ritual isn't something that can only be passed through once."
Hearing this, almost everyone present was startled.
They all understood what the Gray Angel meant.
"Autolycus, you mean to say..."
Hassan, the actor playing Arthur, turned back in dismay to look at this close friend whom he had known for many years, yet felt as though he had never truly known: "Are you going to use the Sovereigns' ritual to summon other Angels down?"
As someone originating from an orthodox wizard background, although Hassan was not very proficient in Ritual Studies... yet