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The Phoenix achieved eternity through Nirvana, an ability worthy of envy for short-lived species.

However, compared horizontally with other abilities capable of granting eternity, Nirvana was not quite so wonderful.

Indeed, many negative factors that were difficult to eliminate or escape could be removed through Nirvana.

But likewise, many things had to begin again from scratch. The more things one carried from before Nirvana to after Nirvana, the less perfect Nirvana became, the greater the chance of failure, and the worse its effects.

Theoretically, the most perfect Nirvana meant carrying nothing over, even burning away things such as memories. But that method was usually not considered the eternal continuation of a life, but rather the birth of a new life.

Moreover, Nirvana meant aging, and the periods of weakness before and after Nirvana were fatal weaknesses for a Phoenix.

The Phoenix's eternal life was self-contained eternity, an endless cycle between the Phoenix and flame. It was not an eternity that remained undying and indestructible under external forces.

Even if it avoided a fatal danger through Nirvana at the very moment it was about to undergo it, the reborn Phoenix would still be incredibly fragile.

None of the other methods Manus could think of were as excellent as the Nidhogg Ritual. So long as it was completed once, it could break through the limitations of the individual in a single step and seize the concepts of perfection and infinity.

And... Manus was not without a foundation for completing the Nidhogg version of the ritual.

He had long possessed Odin's divine status. As the venomous dragon that brought about the end, Nidhogg also overlapped considerably with the concept of death he already possessed and Medusa's divine status.

In ancient mythology, dragons and serpents had no clear boundary between them. Nidhogg's descriptions themselves