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"White Tower Pathway, that dragon's power. Omniscience is-learning, imitation, memory, and decryption..."
After temporarily escaping the sealed space, Bethel withdrew his records while considering the authorities and possible countermeasures. He flickered back and forth between the Spirit World and the real world sixty times a second, never letting himself linger anywhere even slightly longer. This also made his figure exceptionally elusive and uncanny. Sometimes he appeared near the Seven Lights of the Spirit World, startling them; sometimes he flashed past just above the ground, leaving those nearby with a glimpse of an illusory, transparent figure that seemed to have stepped out of history.
An unusual hair color, a strange being undetectable by spiritual intuition, a great existence of an extremely high level-Bethel merely wandered around a little, sending humans screaming and Beyonders scrambling in panic along the way, incidentally acting as a Bizarro Sorcerer as well.
"Hmph. All you did just now was use my power to show off with an Apotheosis Ritual. You don't understand this Pathway's power at all."
"You even used a True God's authority for the simplest Spirit World Traversal in plain sight, letting that Lightning fellow learn Wandering just by watching. He's even deciphered the reverse Soul Repatriation formula for Possession... Reflect on yourself, boy."
Whenever Bethel thought of his face and identity being used so crudely, anger surged within him. He addressed Klein entirely in the tone of an elder lecturing a junior.
"If you were my descendant, I would have thrown you out already."
Klein nodded frantically within his consciousness, not daring to offer a single retort.
Seeing his willingness to admit his mistakes, Bethel reluctantly let Klein off for the moment, refraining from saying anything more hurtful-when it came to the power of words, the angels and True Gods who had