To conclude that a colleague of many years had been beguiled by an evil god and take action against him, they naturally could not rely on Klein's word alone.
Of course, even Klein himself could not be entirely certain that the eye he had seen back then had not been an illusion caused by his newly activated Spirit Vision.
Thus, before taking action, Dunn and Klein had already gone to Old Neil's residence to investigate.
Yet whether it was the traces of rituals that violated Orthodox Church regulations or the diary with its deeply troubling contents, everything pointed to the fact that Old Neil had been beguiled by an evil god and had sunk into its influence.
Still, Old Neil's motive was fairly understandable. He had wanted to resurrect the fiancée who had died when he was young.
Moreover, even after being beguiled by an evil god, he had continued to uphold the principle of "do as you wish, but harm no one," and had not hurt anyone—at least, not yet.
Even if he subjectively did not wish to hurt anyone, whether that so-called resurrection ritual would cause casualties after being performed was not something he could control.
Surely a ritual conducted by a Sequence Nine Mystery Pryer could not truly resurrect someone who had been dead for so many years?
Zhou Mingrui had only avoided dying on the spot after awakening in Klein's body by overdrawing a resurrection miracle from a Sequence Two Miracle Worker. Azik, another person capable of returning from death, was likewise a Sequence Two Death Magistrate.
If Old Neil could truly accomplish, as a Sequence Nine, something that even Sequence Two Beyonders had to pay a considerable price to achieve, then no matter how mad the Hidden Sage was, the Moses Ascetic Order would never