The position of Demon God in the Cross Church Phase was vacant.
At first, Roland had found this very surprising.
Although Demon Gods were transcendent beings who had entered the realm of gods and reached the pinnacle, that did not mean there were no differences whatsoever between the Phases or magical powers of their respective domains.
It was simply that becoming a Demon God required transcending the universe and the Phases through oneself, becoming the source of one's own path, so these slight differences had almost no effect.
After all, comparing infinity with infinity was meaningless.
Only by drastically weakening or even dividing them could one possibly discern some insignificant distinction.
Thus, however one looked at it, the fact that the Cross Church had no Demon God seemed very strange.
In the A Certain Magical Index World, magic was intimately connected with religious myths and traditions.
In theory, the earliest magicians had created or altered Religion Phases by using fantasies crystallized from faith to manipulate Leylines or Phase energy.
The idol theory used by later magicians rested on this premise.
Therefore, the spread of faith and fantasy could not determine a Phase's strength, but it could at least serve as a relatively reliable reference.
With a Phase as vast as the Cross Church's, magicians were bound to come into deep contact with its concepts and Magic Formulas, whether they wished to or not.
In that process, some magician with the potential to become a Demon God, or some fortunate individual, would inevitably find or obtain the qualifications to set foot on that path.
Fiamma of the Right was an obvious example. Although he had only come into being through a coincidence of circumstances, his nature and level of power already allowed him to distort and alter Phases to some extent,