An arcanist's greatest enemy was only ever another arcanist.
Rajesh suddenly remembered something he had encountered long ago during the Three Years of Reincarnation.
Between the time he fell into reincarnation and the time he understood the Lord of Paradise's intentions, there had actually been a "Rebellious Period."
Simply put, because he himself had fallen into reincarnation as punishment, he had desperately wanted other eternal beings to make mistakes and create sins of their own. That way, once their one-year free period ended, they would naturally have to fall into reincarnation too and suffer.
I'm not doing well, so why should you be doing better than me?
I made a mistake, so why do you still get to answer correctly?
People with thoughts like these were actually the mainstream among reincarnators. It was not only because human nature was evil, but even more because a sycophantic, treacherous minister could live more comfortably in reincarnation, while those loyal ministers who admonished the eternal beings would basically be put to cruel deaths by the enraged eternal beings—in that sense, loyal ministers might have been even more likely than traitors to increase an eternal being's sins.
Rajesh's true transformation stemmed from one particular reincarnation.
In that reincarnation, the eternal being was a Curse Elf. She actually could not be considered a bad person. She merely wished for the world to revolve around her, for many handsome men to like her, for everything she did to go smoothly, for anything she wanted to fall into her hands, and for everyone to favor her.
At first, she was still very polite. She would not make any excessive demands, would care about other people's feelings, and treated everyone equally. But under Rajesh and the other reincarnators' deliberate guidance, she gradually let her desires loose. She began