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"Let the 'Attendant of Mysteries' go, give Antigonus a chance to become a god, and then have Amon steal his Apotheosis Ritual?"
He naturally knew the requirements for "Error" as well. If it really were just a matter of stealing the Apotheosis Ritual of a King of Angel about to become a god, that would be one thing, but this was Antigonus-a fellow who had already been deeply corrupted by the Lord of the Mysteries' psyche back in the Fourth Epoch, and whom they had only put to sleep by borrowing the power of the River of Eternal Darkness. And the Apotheosis Ritual for "Error," "taking a god's place in his ritual," was essentially also stealing the "fate" and "future" in which the other party would have become a god!
If Klein and the Lord of the Mysteries were one person in terms of "fate," then Antigonus was almost completely identical to the Lord of the Mysteries in terms of "psyche." Thus, under these circumstances, stealing the current Antigonus's Apotheosis Ritual was equivalent to stealing the part of his fate in which he was "about to become the 'Fool' and become the Lord of the Mysteries"...
Amon did not dare take that fate, but did he dare steal that "future"?
Edward weighed the pros and cons of the first plan, but did not comment directly on the second. "All-knowing God of Knowledge, do you think Antigonus has completed the 'Fool' ritual?"
"His ritual did not succeed completely."
Observing the changes in Antigonus's spirituality, the Demon of Knowledge said in his usual even voice, "This is also a loophole I can intervene through... An Apotheosis Ritual that failed nearly two thousand years ago-if it 'succeeded' now, wouldn't that be a fooling of time and history? Of course, I can also