Elliot had already tried making sacrifices and estimated the requirements from the progress of the sacrifice bar.
Advancing from First Rank to Second Rank had taken a little over a hundred pieces of supernatural material, while advancing from Second Rank to Third Rank would take at least four or five hundred!
There were two nodes within each rank, meaning three sacrifices were needed, and the quantities required for those three sacrifices did not differ much.
In other words, for Vanessa to light up the first node through sacrifices, she needed between a hundred and thirty and a hundred and fifty pieces of supernatural material.
She had only sacrificed one book, yet she had almost filled the first node. This book should have been worth a little over a hundred pieces.
Elliot sucked in a sharp breath. Just five books would get her to Third Rank?!
The quantity of supernatural material required differed by roughly four times between First Rank and Second Rank. In other words, twenty-five books would make Vanessa a Middle Rank supernatural person?? Then this entire bookshop...
At that moment, Elliot only regretted that he was not using the Stage Difference Engine. Otherwise, he would have personally dumped the bookshelf scenery into the Altar! Just as he was getting excited, he suddenly caught sight of the sentence spelled out on the Brass Dial, and his gaze sharpened.
[Esoteric Cult Leader Vanessa sacrificed a fragment of the Abode, the Overflowing Garden.]
Elliot: ???
Elliot had never heard of the [Overflowing Garden], but he had heard of the word before it: [Abode].
Wasn't that the dwelling of a Great Being?
But what Vanessa had sacrificed was clearly a book?
Wait!
Elliot suddenly realized something. Could this book be a fragment of the [Abode] called the [Overflowing Garden]?!
Then this Daydream...