Aside from that, Ince Zangwill's condition had also been very strange.
Although they had been far apart at the time, Luther had still easily detected the distortion Ince had displayed.
"That fellow's spirituality was extremely unstable, fluctuating constantly, as though something was missing..." Luther lowered his head in thought. "Could he also have been affected by the higher-ranking Artificial God of Death?"
Before advancing to Sequence 4, Ince Zangwill had always been a Beyonder of the Gravedigger pathway. It would only be natural for the Beyonder characteristics within him to be affected by a higher-ranking being.
"No... if that were the case, Miss Daly is also a Sequence 5 Beyonder of the corresponding pathway, and she was perfectly fine..." But he soon rejected his own conjecture. "Ince's condition seemed more like something he'd brought upon himself..."
At this thought, he suddenly recalled something, and a cold smile crossed his face.
Could that fellow have been screwed over by 0-08?
Mr. Azik had once said that the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact had an instinct to kill its wielder. Ince Zangwill had possessed it for some time now. Perhaps the quill had finally found an opportunity to deal him a devastating blow...
What could it have been?
Loss of control, a curse, a Beyonder Item's side effects, corruption from an evil god...
Aside from his obvious madness, the unstable spirituality Ince had emitted was far greater than that of a normal Sequence 4 demigod... was it because he struggled to control himself, or was there another reason...
Luther pondered for a while, but eventually gave up due to the lack of information. He got out of bed and quickly wrote a short letter at the desk by moonlight. It contained only two sentences. Then he summoned Klein's four-headed messenger, handed her a