The defeated saint is also on the way to tame the evil god today

　After walking for an unknown amount of time, she came to a place

　Empty crypt.

　A damp smell hit me in the face, and what came into view were thousands of ice-blue fireflies floating in the air. The light of the fireflies hit the pool of water below, and the connected lights looked like a starry sky.

　That is a lake.

　In the middle of the lake stood a vague outline with the shape of a crescent moon engraved on it.

　That's the slate of truth...

　Xingmo passed through the cave and came to the lake.

　She was about to fly over when a voice sounded in her mind:

　"Let's go."

　"Walk on water."

　"Just because you are a shining star."

　A drop of water fell from the sky, landed on the water surface, and splashed illusory ripples.

　Xingmo hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and stepped on the water.

　Her feet did not sink into the water, but were floating in some magical way among the illusory ripples, half real and half unreal.

　Xing Mo swallowed his saliva, feeling as if he had come to some extraordinary place.

　So she walked on the lake, passing through the half-real and half-unreal ice-blue fireflies, the illusion under her feet and the reality above her head blending together.

　It's like walking on a mirror, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion.

　In such an atmosphere, Xingmo took three minutes to cross the lake and came to the slate of truth.

　She was finally able to bring the slab of stone into view.

　From a close distance, the shape of the stone slab is irregular. Although the corners are sharp, they have a slightly strange curvature.

　Its surface is also pale, but there are faint pale blue lines in the white, which flicker on the surface of the stone like human blood vessels.

　In the very center of the stone slab, a crescent shape was outlined with pale blue light, and below it were densely packed pale blue symbols flashing. Those symbols kept changing due to Xingmo's sight, and Xingmo could not understand their meaning.

　“Touch.”

　A voice sounded in Xingmo's mind, sending a slight chill down her spine.

　She magnified her inspiration, confirmed that there was no malicious intent around her, then reached out and touched the surface of the stone slab.

　"Buzz buzz----"

　dragon.

　Its ice-blue vertical pupils burned as the ancient Dragon of Truth opened its eyes in the darkness and looked up at the pitch-black night sky.

　He watched as the darkness gradually shattered, and the golden sunlight pierced through the dark clouds like a sharp sword and fell into the dragon's eyes.

　Above the sky, the dragon saw a six-winged golden angel. His wings stretched for thousands of miles, spraying a vast golden galaxy, making the angel's body look like an extremely tiny dot.

　Ah... beautiful starlight...

　The dragon roared into the night with an eternal rage. Thousands of ice-blue ridges of light rose from the ground at his roar, tearing through the plates and piercing the sky.

　And in the vast night sky, in the narrow gap between the galaxies gushing out from the angel's six wings, thousands of stars lit up at the same time, condensed into meteors, and fell to the ground.

　On that day, the earth shook in the collision of starlight and ice flames, plates drifted, and civilization was destroyed.

　That day was the last day of the eternal night.

　That day was the first day of the Golden Dawn Era.

　"!"

　Xingmo opened her eyes suddenly, and when she saw the shape of the stone slab again, she understood -

　——This is not a stone slab, it is a dragon scale!

　A scale straight from the Darkmoon Dragon, Orbusgura!

　These are the scales of the ancestor of all dragons! They are the scales of the original dragon that roamed in the eternal night, the scales of the ruler of truth and authority!

　That is why it has the power to reveal the truth, because it comes from a God!

　This is not a god like the Invisible Mist who lacks accumulation and growth, but one of the first three gods in this world.

　Of course...that's assuming the original string painter isn't counted.

　Xing Mo took a deep breath and recalled the scene he had just seen.

　That scene...seems to be the legendary final battle between the Star Sea Goddess and the Dark Moon Dragon.

　According to the timeline, the Golden Sun had already passed away by this time, and the Dark Moon Dragon was regarded by the People of the Mist as a hunter in the eternal night and an evil god.

　But in Xingmo's vision, when Long saw the goddess' light piercing the clouds...

　...She felt a breath of relief.

　There may be no way to trace back what happened at that time.

　Is this what the Slate of Truth wants me to see? Xingmo frowned and stared at the surface of the slate.

　At this moment, pale blue ripples appeared on the ancient dragon scales, and blue runes jumped out one after another.

　But this time, they formed the common language that Xingmo was familiar with.

　And when those languages ​​were pieced together, a spiritual pressure spread out, making Xingmo instinctively alert.

　There is no doubt that this information has extremely high...value?

　Just by appearing in the real world, the forbidden knowledge it contains causes spiritual pressure to burst out.

　This is really scary...Xing Mo muttered, and his eyes fell on the first line of those characters.

　And it was this first line that almost made her heart skip a beat:

　Angel Ascension Ceremony.

　""

　The Slate of Truth showed Xingmo the way to be promoted to an angel.

　Whose will is this?

　The fallen Dark Moon Dragon?

　Or was it...the Star Sea Goddess who killed Him?

　""

　Xingmo took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down.

　Then she continued reading:

　"...to be elevated to an angel signifies a complete reshaping of the soul, a transcendence of the ordinary..."

　"...Unlike the duality of demigods, who are half mortal and half divine, angels are the seeds of gods. Any living being who ascends this ladder has the opportunity to devour authority and thus ascend to the temple of gods..."

　"...Therefore, if one wishes to ascend the throne of an angel without collapsing...or if one wishes to avoid becoming a crippled angel destined for destruction...the preparations required are quite complex..."

　So, what follows is a list of lines.

　Just by looking at it, Xingmo realized that this was far more than the materials needed to upgrade to a demigod.

　"...core material...supernatural essence sufficient to support the existence of an angel...such as the human soul..."

　When Xing Mo's gaze fell on the words "human soul", the blue characters flashed for a moment, and then replaced the description:

　"...a transcendent essence comparable to a golden branch that has absorbed the power of a fallen kingdom..."

　The Slate of Truth is affecting reality...Xingmo frowned, realizing that it was not simple.

　Based on the actual situation, it corrected the description and replaced the material with the golden branch that Xingmo already had.

　In other words, this is a manifestation of its certain self-awareness.

　Golden Branch... As expected, just as Aurora said, the extraordinary essence contained within it does have this level of power...

　...another part of the goddess's layout.

　Since its growth, this golden branch has successively assumed the roles of "opening the gate to the kingdom of God", "pulling back the fragments of Serena's personality", "connecting Serena's fate with God", and "allowing Xingmo to help Aurora complete the ceremony of accommodating authority".

　And now...it is even going to become the main source of extraordinary raw materials for Xingmo to be upgraded to an angel.

　The puppet of fate walks on the stage towards the end set by the script.

　""

　With mixed feelings, Xingmo continued reading.

　This time, she read through the entire content quickly:

　Core material: Golden Branch.

　Necessary conditions:

　A feat that has etched itself into history needs to be celebrated for more than a thousand years, whether for good or ill fame.

　Know one of the ultimate secrets of paranormal history without falling into madness.

　ceremony:

　With at least ten thousand anchor points and with the permission of a deity holding specific authority, the core materials are absorbed in a kingdom dimension that belongs only to it.

　Then, engrave your respected name known to all into history.

　Note: The above steps are not a single truth. Even if these rules are not followed, creatures can still rely on devouring large amounts of extraordinary essence to upgrade to extraordinary species on the same level as angels. However, there is no way to maintain spiritual intelligence and self. There is also a great possibility that due to the incompleteness of the upgrading ceremony, they will become "incomplete angels", thus destroying their original souls.

　""

　After reading these words, Xingmo let out a breath and rubbed his temples.

　She could feel the stinging pain as this knowledge was engraved into her brain. Even though she was already a demigod, reading the above information still made her feel intuitive pain.

　This just goes to show how credible this information is.

　If it was a fake, or incomplete, Xingmo would not have been eroded by this information while reading it.

　""

　Xingmo closed her eyes, then read it again, trying hard to memorize every line.

　The discomfort she felt the second time she read it was not as strong as the first time, and it was because of this that Xingmo began to examine the meaning of these conditions.

　First... there are these two strange requirements.

　In the demigod's ascension ceremony, the main problems faced are "spiritual stability" and "sufficient extraordinary source quality". In the ascension method used by Xingmo, her spirit eventually stabilized and did not suffer much impact.

　The ceremony for ascending to angel status... added two special conditions on top of the previous ones:

　A feat that will be remembered for millennia.

　Know an ultimate secret.

　After a brief thought, Xing Mo could only roughly figure out the meaning of the latter condition:

　In this world, "knowledge" itself has extraordinary significance in mysticism. Deep-level secret knowledge can be lethal to the human spirit.

　This has different explanations in various major schools of thought. Some schools believe that "information" itself is a kind of supernatural source, so it is normal that knowledge with a large amount of information can cause harm to people.

　Other schools of thought believe that some secret information has been "cursed" by certain gods or secret beings in history, which may mean that they hope that the information will remain secret and not be known. If mortals want to know the information cursed by high-level supernatural beings, they naturally need to have a higher supernatural tolerance, which is the so-called "personality".

　Among the conditions mentioned on the Slate of Truth, one needs to know "an ultimate secret."

　Xing Mo doesn’t know what the “ultimate secret” means yet, but as far as she is concerned, being able to “know” this secret without “collapse” requires extremely strong extraordinary tolerance and mental stability.

　Only when she has extraordinary tolerance and mental stability can she know the ultimate

　Secretive" without collapsing.

　And with such a powerful body, there is naturally a higher possibility of being upgraded to an angel.

　Of course, the upgrade here means upgrade "with complete spiritual intelligence".

　Looking at everything Xingmo has experienced recently, whether it is the sad evil Omnimnos who is sealed in the string fire of the earth's core, or Salina who is promoted to an "incomplete angel", the common point of these beings is that they either have no intelligence, or cannot become complete angels while retaining a certain level of intelligence.

　In this stone tablet's interpretation of the word "angel", the premise should be "possessing a complete soul, intelligence, and personality."

　Including the subsequent "Ten Thousand Anchor Points" and "God's Permission", these are all conditions provided for the stability of the soul.