What a plain, straightforward reason...
As thoughts raced through his mind, his hands suddenly felt lighter. The Blasphemy Slate had vanished from them.
Glancing at his now-empty hands, he folded his arms across his chest and leaned back in his chair, resuming his earlier posture of quietly listening.
Then Hermes's voice rang out beside his ear:
"You seemed a little troubled just now. Was it because of the subsequent potion ingredients, or the rituals?"
Cyril tilted his head slightly and answered casually, "Both."
Hermes pondered briefly before offering a serious suggestion:
"The Door pathway currently has no angels, and even saints are rare. Most of its characteristics exist as Sealed Artifacts. The Abraham Family, the Church of Combat, and the Demoness Sect all have some."
"The Aurora Order originally had one as well, but a few months ago, its Saint of Secrets and Saint Tenebrous were attacked, and that Grade 0 Sealed Artifact was lost."
"As for the Door pathway's advancement rituals..."
"If they prove too difficult, you could consider the Error and Fool pathways. You can switch between them at Sequence 3, and you happen to meet that requirement."
"The Scholar of Yore ritual requires complete separation from reality for at least three hundred years. There doesn't seem to be enough time for that now." He even knows who was attacked in the Aurora Order and which Sealed Artifact was lost. This old man is very well informed about Backlund.
Was his last remark a probe to see whether I know the details of the apocalypse?
Cyril nodded thoughtfully. "I'm already considering it."
The burly Feysac man with the neatly groomed full beard and muscular chest, who had spoken first, warned him:
"I suggest you avoid the Error pathway. A demigod is enough to attract Amon's attention, and he'll