The Mark of Sloth and Matthias

"The existence of Amber Angel is related to the 'forbidden.' You can understand it this way: that spine was actually the 'Serpent's Bone.'"

The black-haired girl said with a beaming smile, "And its relationship with Amber... do you really want to hear it? Many of the concepts of the Path of Twilight actually never belonged to Amber from the very beginning. They were things Amber Angel believed belonged to Amber. The higher one climbed along the Path of Twilight, the harder the path became, and this was partly why... The higher one climbed, the further one actually deviated from Amber's path, and the closer one came to Amber Angel."

This situation existed on other Paths as well... One could even say that the main reason no one could advance to the Sixth Level was precisely this.

Serpent Father did not concern himself with matters much either. As a result, Fallen Angel, who diligently dug people out by hand every day, became the absolute mainstream of the Path of Transcendence.

The Path of Transcendence as those Demon Scholars understood it had actually been the "Path of Corruption and Transcendence" from the very beginning.

Their path grew narrower and narrower because, while conforming to the existing Path, they also had to lean toward the "true Path" in their understanding.

Of course, if Fallen Angel successfully rose to power in the end, then all those Demon Avatars stuck at the Fifth Level would advance together. But clearly, they no longer had that opportunity.

Advanced Divine Arts were full of such "dark history." Spreading it carelessly would easily offend the gods. And the more Iver saw, the less reverence he had for the gods... All one could say was that distance truly made the heart grow fonder.

However, even if Aleister did not say