Aside from the Calamity Seal, all my other selves stopped at Sequence 2?
That did seem to be the case...
It probably wasn't for lack of materials.
Judging by the Wheel of Fortune's earlier move into the Land of Unknown beyond the Pure White Eye, the version of me who was the God of Luck had definitely held it at one point...
And Will probably hadn't become a Sequence 1 Snake of Mercury yet. With my luck and my special advantage, finding that Sequence 1 characteristic and advancing with it shouldn't have been too difficult.
But for some reason, I chose not to...
It was much the same in the life of Rhine Calendia, the Silver-Eyed Observer. Aside from the Beauty Goddess characteristics held by the Blood Moon Queen and Lilith, another should have been out there. Yet Rhine showed no sign of deliberately seeking it.
As for Vincent Miranda, the Lord of the Dead, that was even clearer. The fact that I could pull out his Historical Projection in the Nation of the Evernight showed that he had always held Pale Death, a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact formed from a Sequence 1 Pale Emperor characteristic!
Pale Death had originally lain dormant with Vincent in a tomb deep beneath Calderón City. Later, Roselle entered the tomb in his old age and took it away.
In short, in the three lives where I reached my greatest heights, I should have had the chance to advance to Sequence 1. Yet each time, I either failed or gave up outright...
Was I unable to, or was I afraid?
Hmm. One of Roselle's crucial diary entries recorded something the Calamity Seal had told him: only by becoming a Sequence 1 existence could someone find all their past memories within the unknown place...
Could there