General Reynold fell silent, allowing him time to absorb everything.
Orion also learned that a Divine Archetype could not only be forged by oneself but could also be influenced by external factors.
It made sense.
After all, becoming an anomaly meant breaking away from the chains of fate and opposing the Divine Mysteries. Not everyone could carve a path to divinity alone.
If it were that easy, then Naka wouldn't have relied so heavily on the Vylkr armour ascend, especially considering its inherent limitations.
Orion didn't dare boast, but even with General Reynold, Oberon, and the Mysteries of the Twelve-Step Stairs, he knew that if not for him, the villagers would never have tasted divinity.
The other inhabitants of Paradise would have had no choice but to ascend through the path of the Divine Apostles. Others would have been lucky just to become demigods.
But at the end of the day, everything in this universe was built upon the past.
