Magic was a circle.
If you went around long enough, you always came back.
If he had not looked at the source code, who would have guessed that the spell used to transfer consciousness into a biological golem had something to do with the spell the God of Knowledge used to divide divine authority?
"Shocking! A forbidden evil spell actually came from a certain god—"
There was really nothing shocking about it. Many of today's forbidden spells had originally come from divine magic. Most had been banned because they were too cruel. When it came to dealing with heretics, every pantheon displayed quite a flair for creativity.
Compared to those, the God of Knowledge's spell was practically fresh and wholesome. After all, it had been designed for use on oneself from the very beginning.
Although Jia Xiu had no way to decipher the God of Knowledge's entire spell system, the parts he could understand were enough.
The one responsible for casting the spell on the God of Pain when the time came would not be him, but Master Larven. Yet even Master Larven could not use it quickly and conveniently. It was not that he lacked understanding or mastery of magic; he mainly lacked magical power. As a human who was no longer quite human, his reserves of magic still could not compare to a chief god's.
If they insisted on using it, they would need extensive preparations, a mountain of support measures, and supplementary sources of magical power.
Those conditions were clearly unrealistic for a surprise attack away from their home ground.
So when the time came, Larven would borrow Daniel's magical power to complete the spell.
Using the magical power of the God of Knowledge's pantheon to cast the God of Knowledge's divine spell—serving the original soup with