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Chapter 328 The World's Ascension Trial Ceremony

The changes in the world naturally refer to the rampaging dungeon monsters and the cult's apostles.

Normally, no matter what form a great creation takes, its essence is to supplement or optimize the rules of the world. Even if it ultimately fails to become a great creation, it is still beneficial to the world and there should be no backlash.

This doesn't quite align with their understanding of the path to greatness.

At the same time, it is unlikely that the great wizard was angered by the violation of the special rules in the great creation. Just as the silver-robed wizard directly made the results public, it is impossible for an existence of the great wizard's level to be so petty.

That makes all of this seem rather strange...

Compared to other issues, this is what they are most concerned about, because they will eventually reach this point themselves. If there is a backlash, then many things will need to be carefully considered.

After all, the backlash from the small world is two dimensions more difficult than the backlash from the real world!

"This is not a backlash." The silver-robed wizard understood the doubts in everyone's minds, so he first denied their guesses and then said, "To be precise, this should be called the world's ascension trial ritual!"

"A ritual?!" The legendary wizards present were all shocked, because they had never heard of this ritual before, nor had they sensed any sign that it was about to begin!

It should be noted that the lowest-ranking legendary wizards present were all fourth-tier, and many of them were even miracle wizards specializing in rituals. In terms of their mastery of rituals, it is no exaggeration to say that there were few who surpassed them.

In particular, it includes Isaac, whose skill in rituals alone is comparable to that of a legendary wizard who specializes in rituals at the fifth tier!

Therefore, when Eustia heard the name of the ritual from the silver-robed wizard, she immediately turned to look at Isaac, who had no relevant information in her mind. What she saw was Isaac with his brows furrowed.

"You don't know either?"

“Hmm.” Isaac frowned and nodded, saying, “When the turmoil started, I thought about it in this direction, but I didn’t detect any signs of the ritual being activated. Theoretically speaking, even a fifth-order ritual should have a [concept] flowing in the magic veins when it is activated, but so far, I haven’t seen any signs of it.”

After a pause, Isaac continued, "As for this ritual... I do know of a ritual with a similar name, the Sixth-Order Ritual: World Ascension Ritual, which can upgrade dimensional spaces and demiplanes into smaller worlds... Dimensional Demons also use it to advance dimensional worlds, but..."

As he spoke, Isaac looked at the silver-robed wizard.

The silver-robed wizard nodded to Isaac, picked up the conversation, and continued, "But the strength isn't enough, is it?"

Isaac nodded.

Sixth-order rituals are not widely known in the world. This is mainly because some rituals contain too much taboo knowledge, and also because they are difficult to perform, the materials are hard to collect, and the number of such rituals is really very small.

But every sixth-tier ritual has an incredibly powerful effect!

The World Ascension Ritual wasn't obviously powerful, but besides that, Isaac knew of two other sixth-tier rituals, and their effects were obviously extremely powerful—the Apophis Godslayer Sword and the Arthas Ascension Technique.

Once activated, the former will directly kill a locked sixth-order god and use everything it possesses as material to forge the sixth-order true divine artifact, the demonic sword Apophis!
Note that it uses everything it possesses as material, and "everything" here includes its followers!

Therefore, this ritual was forbidden due to its extreme destructive power, and Isaac only knew its name. In contrast to the brutal ritual of Apophis's God-Slaying Sword, the Arthas's Ascension ritual was much gentler. After casting this ritual, the sixth-tier deity targeted by the ritual would become an avatar of the ritual's performer!

It is said that the original purpose of this ritual was to allow the person presiding over the ritual to replace the deity. However, before he could complete the research, several wizards had already completed the ritual to become gods and ascended to the divine position.

And this ascension to godhood...

The various drawbacks of the gods were exposed, which greatly dampened the wizards' yearning for the gods. Of course, in that era, it was only a dampening, not a complete elimination of the wizards' yearning for the power of the gods.

But while they yearn for it, they also hate the limitations, or drawbacks, imposed on deities.

Is there any way to have both?

Some brothers, Arthas's Divine Art can perfectly meet the needs of wizards, as it can obtain the power of the gods without the series of drawbacks of the gods.

However, although this ritual was far less destructive than the Apophis Demon Sword, it was banned as the honeymoon period between the gods and wizards began.

Most of the sixth-order rituals are forbidden, and only a few sixth-order rituals are permitted to be performed.

But neither of them can be activated in the Wilderness Palace, a small world with a power limit of four. Even the materials for Isaac's Thousand Gods Book cannot be fully collected here, so how could a forbidden ritual of the sixth order be activated?
"Strictly speaking, the World Ascension Trial Ritual is not really a ritual because it cannot be initiated by human intervention and does not meet the criteria of the Truth Association."

Upon hearing this, the legendary wizards present frowned, but said nothing. This so-called recognition was a new standard for rituals established by the Truth Association in recent years, but it currently only had a certain presence among arcane wizards, and the legendary wizards did not agree with it.

In their view, a ritual is a ritual, and the most important thing is the extraordinary magical effect. As long as this is achieved, it doesn't matter whether it can be activated manually.

However, they had come to hear the silver-robed wizard share his experiences, so no one argued with him about it. After frowning, they began to ponder the meaning behind his words.

Since it is a ritual that cannot be initiated by human intervention, then it must be a ritual initiated by the world consciousness's instincts.

This explains why they didn't notice anything amiss.

"However, this is not the focus this time. Although the Spellbreaker Swordsman cannot be considered a great creation, it does make up for the rules of the world, even if this flaw was deliberately left by that great wizard."

As he spoke, the silver-robed wizard paused meaningfully. He couldn't say this explicitly, but he believed that since things had come to this point, the others would understand.

As expected, everyone showed surprise and thoughtful expressions upon hearing this.

"However, precisely because the Spellbreaker Swordsman is not a complete Great Creation, some flaws appeared in the process of filling in the rules of the whole world. But the process of filling in the flaws has already begun and cannot be interrupted. Therefore, the World Origin Ritual automatically launched the World Ascension Trial Ritual. This is the whole process of this change."

"..."

"So, what benefits can we gain from this process, since it's a ritual?" a legendary wizard asked.

(End of this chapter)