The summary of this mission revealed some pretty significant things.
First, it clearly confirmed my suspicions.
Communication through special gestures was a ritual in the form of a "pact."
This ritual could directly transform a person into a special form and eliminate the bottleneck to advancement.
To some extent, this method could be called cheating. Compared with those who struggled to find their way to demigodhood, it was simply far too easy.
Of course, the corresponding price was losing all hope of ever becoming a god.
As for why that was, Fu Qian had a theory.
The essence of this ritual was for an extraordinary being and a "god" to form a special unified concept through a pact.
In this process, the extraordinary being gained an easily developed model, but lost their own completeness.
Just like William and the Goddess of Sin.
William could grow stronger by collecting sin, and even avoid the negative effects that came with it.
That was because he was merely a tool of the Goddess of Sin.
Just like a murderer's knife: no matter how many people it cut down, the crime of murder would never fall on the weapon.
And to make it more effective, the murderer could sharpen it.
But no matter how sharp it became, the moment someone chose to become a tool, they had already lost their potential.
No wonder this thing had to be kept under control. If it became widespread, the consequences would be rather outrageous!
Fu Qian let out a deep sigh.
Besides that, the summary contained another important piece of information, in its final sentence: there were many more traps like this beside the path to godhood.
That sentence made it almost certain that this wasn't the only path involving a pact.
In Fu Qian's earliest conception,