A Toast to Duchess Bayard (Monthly Tickets, Please)

The ritual was proceeding smoothly.

Watching the ritual chamber on either side move up and down in an elevator-like, seesawing cycle, with wisps of gray aura slowly being drawn out and sticking into the translucent Wild Hunt King like felt... Aleister realized that he had truly found the right person.

To handle an Angel's remnant soul so effortlessly...

Although it was not a complete incarnated soul, but merely a remnant left after death, it was still astonishing enough.

Matthias Grünewald was concentrating on tending to the souls of the two. He was not holding a staff; instead, he had simply raised both hands.

A dim yellow radiance spread through the bones of his hands. The portions of the original soul that had been drawn away were perfectly bonded back together by him. The loss of vital essence in those parts was even imperceptible.

Watching the Wild Hunt King being injected bit by bit with the Gray Angel's remnant soul, Aleister fell into thought.

Being injected with an Angel's remnant soul in this way... did that count as having an Angel Shard implanted?

Aleister remembered that a Great Sin Beast could fuse with an Angel Shard of the same attribute and evolve once more.

The Gray Angel was a spider, smoke, illusion, and lies. Its attributes were wind and water, symbolizing the fickleness of flowing things. And now, the Wild Hunt King Hellerchein happened to be a Great Sin Beast of the Wind Attribute!

Since the Gray Angel could be completely reincarnated through this method, that meant its Angel Shard had not remained in the Dream Realm. When Iver communicated with the Pillar God earlier, he had also learned that the Gray Angel had not died completely... In other words, its power had actually been scattered among these "Human Pillars."

...But