Although the Deification Method was no secret to the many Legendary beings of the Main Plane today.
With the Fate Overlord actively spreading it and the tacit consent of those bearing Heaven's Mandate.
Any Legendary being could obtain the complete Deification Method with a little asking around.
However, not every Legendary being qualified for Deification.
First, Deification had a chance of success. Even for someone as thoroughly prepared as Dunn, with such a vast following, the success rate was less than eighty percent.
Failure meant death.
For an ordinary Legendary being, the success rate of Deification was only around fifty percent.
For those with insufficient talent, especially those who had advanced through a Will Potion and Enfeoffment, the success rate was less than ten percent, even with sufficient faith.
Lilith was one such example. That was why Dunn had given up on grooming her. After all, Lilith was only a little over a hundred years old, and there was absolutely no need to risk her life on odds of less than ten percent.
And once Lilith reached old age, her body deteriorated, and her will weakened, her chances of successful Deification would plummet even further. Thus, unless Heaven's Mandate favored her, Lilith had essentially no possibility of achieving Deification.
Besides that, acquiring faith was the greatest obstacle to Deification for many Legendary beings.
There were only a few dozen Legendary beings in the entire Old World who could control a country, like the Old World's Lionheart Sword Saint. Many even shared control of a country with one or two other Legendary beings.
More Legendary beings instead sought refuge with powers like the Atlantis Empire, wielding no real authority and serving purely as elite fighters.
Without territory of their own, they had no foundation for maintaining a following.
Especially after the