It Begins!

Ever since he'd figured out the problem with the godhood ritual, Feng Xue had been struck by a sense of déjà vu. It wasn't until that little boy brought back the memory that he suddenly realized: Aoyagi Lantern—or rather, the Hundred Tales she'd created—was, in essence, a standard godhood ritual.

"The Tower of Babylon and Infinite City have just gotten another degree more similar. You could even say that, if things followed their normal course, under the influence of the super Weird Tale 'All Things Have Spirits,' the Eastern Kingdom would eventually become structured like World 121. And could Infinite City be the Tower of Babel of the present world?"

At the thought, Feng Xue rubbed his brow. He couldn't shake the feeling that it resembled the "convergence of Beyonder characteristics." Now, he was even starting to think that the Tower of Babylon appearing in Infinite City might not have been a coincidence.

"Come to think of it, no wonder that woman went to Bailang. There are fewer living creatures in that godforsaken place than anywhere else. Combined with all the ghostly Weird Tales in the Hundred Tales, she might already be setting up a secret society!"

Feng Xue muttered to himself, but at the same time, a strange idea occurred to him: those ordinary people's extraordinarily active Tags.

He'd originally assumed this was caused by the influence of some Weird Tale god. But now, it seemed clear that this was a kind of "ritual." The Tags and even the authorities of Weird Tales could be pulled onto people. If the process were reversed, wouldn't that be how Weird Tales condensed Traits?

So the essence of a ritual was to create a new understanding capable of resisting the cognition of a "Hell Joke," turning the process of ordinary people pulling