During the process of gathering the black blood, Gagnor discovered that the blood of these Fallen Angels was not all the same level.
The small amount of black blood he collected at first was level eight, while the black blood that came pouring in like a flood afterward was level five.
Not only was there a great deal more level-five black blood, but it also carried a curse called "Rosier's Taint." However, it was only first-ring and mainly affected creatures no higher than level two, so it could hardly affect level-four Gagnor.
However, because he kept gathering the blood and frequently came into contact with it, Gagnor still fell victim to it once.
Status acquired: Rosier's Taint
Type: Curse
Level: First Ring
Effect: Possesses a tendency toward corruption; upon leveling up, more likely to acquire the True Name "Rosier"
It posed no direct danger. Moreover, because there was "no target for resistance," the curse existed on Gagnor for only a brief instant before the Curse of Equity dispelled it.
Its greatest significance might have been that it let Gagnor learn the name of the Fallen Angel: Rosier.
That name had been mentioned in the Mosa Theology system, and Gagnor had encountered it several times when choosing a Holy Name upon leveling up. He simply had not paid it much attention.
That was because the Holy Name "Rosier" had appeared in the ranks of "trash Holy Names" every time, and it had never possessed a prefix or suffix, revealing how low its rank was.
After choosing Holy Names several times and combining that with his limited knowledge of mysticism, Gagnor had noticed that the Holy Names bestowed by all relatively high-ranked mythological beings basically had some prefix or suffix embellishment.
For example, Wind Prince Sunderland had given him the corresponding Holy