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Cheek, who was hiding on an inconspicuous island digesting the power of the City of Calamity, suddenly heard a series of strange thumping sounds behind her.
She turned in puzzlement and saw that the case she used to hold the Trunsoest Brass Book was shaking incessantly, as though the Brass Book inside had suddenly gone mad and was trying to escape a true god's seal.
"Someone is calling to the Brass Book."
The Brass Book was the Justiciar Uniqueness, and its original holder had already been utterly destroyed, so Cheek immediately guessed the culprit behind its sudden agitation. Yet the Primordial Demoness still could not quite be certain. Loen's Black Emperor was indeed alive and had completed his apotheosis ritual, but could a true god really communicate with the Uniqueness of an adjacent pathway over such a vast distance, and even induce it to resist its current holder to some degree?
There... seemed to have been no precedent.
Even Solomon, widely acknowledged as the most powerful Black Emperor, had never managed to get his hands on the Justiciar Uniqueness held by the Seven Gods.
This inevitably left the Primordial Demoness somewhat doubtful and confused. Since when had George III possessed such capabilities?
If this was the power of a sefirah, Cheek thought that might make some sense, but that was precisely the problem. The cooperation between the Demoness Sect and the Augustus royal family had, of course, received her approval. Thus, in the Primordial Demoness's memory, George Augustus III was someone with ample ambition but barely adequate resolve. Most importantly, he had shown absolutely no signs of contact with a sefirah.
His plan for apotheosis had succeeded, but the price was remaining locked inside his mausoleum, without emerging even now.
Then what exactly was he using as a medium