After receiving Di Qi's firm answer once again,
the Mysterious Lord ultimately chose to respect his wishes.
He also prepared to set aside some of the energy he had obtained from the Great Old Ones by selling liquor at cost, and use it to begin Di Qi's transformation ritual.
During this time, the Mysterious Lord also consulted Nyarlathotep and his five fellow allies about the plan.
However, rituals to transform ordinary races into Great Old Ones were rarely performed.
Even Yog-Sothoth, the most learned being in this universe, had no particularly good solution.
That left them with no choice but to drag Ithaqua out again, since he had become a Great Old One through much the same bizarre method.
And flog him all over again!
After all, Ithaqua had originally been a yeti native to Earth. Although he had reached the higher ranks of the upper-tier servitors,
to be honest, his fundamental level of existence was not particularly high, and his combat prowess was actually rather poor among demigods as a whole.
Perhaps the only thing that allowed him to rival the demigods of those advanced races was his endurance!
"Hastur, Ithaqua is your follower. Tell me a little about his origins, would you? If even a demigod that pathetic could become a Great Old One, there must have been some trick to it, right?"
After casually mocking Ithaqua in brutally frank terms while he was absent, the Mysterious Lord asked Hastur.
The main reason was that, throughout the entire Cthulhu finite multiverse, apart from the unspeakable existence that was Azathoth,
Hastur, the Lord of the Deep Sea Starry Sky, was a special case even among the Great Old Ones with countless followers!
Because he had a Great Old One as a follower!
Now that was prestige!
Look at that!