"Did you notice anything?" Pandora asked.
Dark said, "It was probably a Magitech Card created directly by a ritual." Pandora said, "A Divine Path Ritual?"
Dark nodded, then unconsciously rubbed his brow. "It seems the Twelve Heavenly Gods pioneered an unprecedented method of Magitech Card creation."
Dark had used rituals to create Magitech Cards before, but in essence, he had only treated rituals as a means of generating materials. The core still remained conventional magitech transmutation, so the resulting Magitech Cards still bore a strong "personal imprint."
However, the creation of that [Unbound Card] had completely discarded the magitech transmutation process. It had been produced entirely by a ritual.
—Since it involved a [Divine Path Ritual], it was supposedly a "divine method." In theory, it should have been a form of divine transmutation accessible only after Magitech Apotheosis.
Moreover, the method of transmutation alone was most likely not enough.
Dark said, "If I'm not mistaken, the Twelve Heavenly Gods must have turned this entire Heavenly Court into something similar to the academy's secret passages. And if they were able to do that, it means the rudiments of the [Magic Guidance Divine Path] have already taken shape."
The Twelve Heavenly Gods sacrificed themselves to create the foundation of the [Magic Guidance Divine Path]—the [Divine Path Ritual].
This also meant that their very existence was the ritual itself. Only once the [Magic Guidance Divine Path] had been forged could they separate from the ritual, ascend to a higher plane, and become gods second only to the first God of Magitech, with authority to control the ritual.
Of course, by that point, the [Divine Path Ritual] would no longer be a ritual. It would become a "network" spanning the entire world.
At the very beginning of the [Resurrection of Gods], binding their own