After Ligeia left, Iver refused the court maid who came to clean the room. Instead, he had Lily gather up all the things in the room that had been burned.
—Seriously, that charred chair beneath Iver, along with the burned books, letters, and newspapers, were all quite precious!
With a little processing, they could serve as decent ritual materials. They could even be used as materials for Iver to make Phantom Demon Cards.
Although the flames Iver had drawn out were not particularly powerful, they were, in terms of their nature, ultimately Angel's Fire.
Its power had attacked Iver from within his hallucination—or rather, his dream—and damaged the parts of reality beyond Iver himself as well. This ability to "seep from dreams into the Material Realm" was the most standard form of angelic power.
The mundane objects incinerated by Angel's Fire had also acquired the properties of supernatural objects after being touched by that power.
The causes behind the birth and destruction of anything each held a special significance. Phoenix Parasol Wood and Lightning Struck Wood were both precious ritual materials.
It was like an ordinary person who had lived an unremarkable life for decades, remembered by no one. If he were suddenly killed by Divine Punishment one day, then after his death, he would instead gain a certain uniqueness. People would remember this man who had died an extraordinary death, because his death had already been tainted by the aura of the gods.
Following Iver's instructions, Lily collected all the ashes. She then crushed them and spread them over the Grimoire. This would not only let them draw power from the Grimoire of the same origin, reducing its activity and serving as a seal, but would also slowly increase the quality of these materials.
The chair could also be