Although Iver did not know much about the New Moon Ritual, he still knew that it was a PVP Mode.
Everyone was an enemy of everyone else, and only the victor had a chance of advancing.
The New Moon Ritual cost far more than the Full Moon Ritual. Even though failure carried no penalty, the ritual materials were still expensive. Only people confident enough in themselves would conduct a New Moon Ritual when advancing. In other words, there were unlikely to be any freeloaders in this mode.
Moreover, the difficulty of the Promotion Ritual rose along with the strength of its participants.
Before setting foot on the Second Path, these Supernatural Beings had already come into contact with high society. As the strong, they held all kinds of secrets, information, and resources. If they went through the Full Moon Ritual at this point, they would easily end up bringing a group of hard-to-work-with newcomers straight into a ritual whose difficulty had been multiplied many times over.
Therefore, after reaching the peak of the First Path, Supernatural Beings often used the New Moon Ritual to advance along their Second Path. The New Moon Ritual was nothing more than mutual slaughter anyway, so it did not matter if the ritual difficulty increased.
When being chased by a bear, one did not need to run faster than the bear. One only needed to run faster than the others.
So, who could be so confident? Apart from young, ignorant hotheads, they were veteran Supernatural Beings advancing along their Second Path.
Everyone here belonged to the latter group, while Iver had to play the former.
A newcomer who did not even know the meaning of "code name," possessed by a Shadow Demon through either incredible luck or terrible misfortune, and inducted into the Noble Red