Arcanum: Chaos Path

Chapter 388 Roland Finally Becomes a Demigod
"...Okay, thank you for your cooperation."

Lucifer's voice finally rang out at a certain moment, and Pallas broke free from his memories. He looked at the gentle and refined man before him, gazing at one of his only remaining descendants in this world, and asked, "Can I know what it will be used for?"

"I can't tell you the specifics, but I can say it will play a rather important role," Luo Lin said with a smile.

"That's good!" Pales smiled, seemingly relieved. "It seems I'm not so useless after all, and I can still do something for you."

Rolin glanced at Pales. He knew why the other man had said that. Pales hadn't yet recovered from his emotions, so he felt an instinctive sense of indebtedness and a desire to make amends to him, a descendant of the Zoroaster family.

Rowling didn't feel guilty about this, after all, he had also helped this ancestor, so he simply said, "Do you remember Mobert Zoroaster?"

"You know Mobert?" Pales looked surprised.

Mobert Zoroaster, a member of the Zoroaster family who disappeared in the Fourth Age, was a descendant highly valued by Pales. He was not even that distant from Pales by blood, and could be considered his great-grandson.

“He’s still alive, though not in good condition, and he may die soon.” Rolin looked at Pales and briefly explained Mobert’s situation, finally saying, “If you want to save him, you can contact the Fool. They will contact you when the time is right.”

The Fool's contact information was no secret to Pales, who had witnessed the Silver City incident.

“…I understand, thank you.” Pales nodded. He knew this was the reward, and this time He offered “sadness” as the reward.

Although Pales had not intended to ask for payment for this, He really couldn't refuse it.

……

After getting what he wanted from Pales, Rolin didn't linger and chose to take his leave, returning to one of his safe houses.

While humming a little tune, Rowling finished washing the beakers needed to mix the potion, then took a deep breath and prepared to mix the "Pleasure Believer" potion.

With a flick of his wrist, the main ingredients for the "Pleasure Believer" potion appeared in his hand. The moment he grasped the main ingredients, some information flooded into his mind. Rolin raised an eyebrow, already knowing how to use these abstract auxiliary ingredients to concoct the potion.

Rowling put the "Joy Believer" trait into the beaker, and then a small bottle containing Antigonus's Tears of Joy appeared. Rowling unscrewed the cap and dripped the tear onto the "Joy Believer" trait.

Originally exhibiting a peculiar white color, it underwent a wondrous transformation upon contact with tears, instantly changing from a solid to a liquid state, even bubbling and gurgling in the beaker, its color turning a deep red.

As Roland watched the potion change, he raised his hand without changing his expression. Two different colors gathered in his palm: one was deep black, like mist or clouds, and the other was blue, forming a shape like a water droplet.

They are the embodiment of desperate memories and sorrowful emotions.

Without Rolin doing anything, the two blobs of color surged into the deep red potion. The next second, it seemed as if a million colors were blooming in the potion at once, but it didn't feel dazzling. Instead, it had a breathtaking beauty.

At that moment, Rowling raised the cup of "Pleasure Believer" potion and drank it all in one gulp.

This advancement felt different from the past. Roland saw neither the familiar chaos nor the original body that tried to lure him back. All Roland felt was peace and nothingness. It was as if everything in the world was insignificant at this moment. Roland's will floated in the boundless pure white. He could not muster any spirit, nor did he have any other thoughts. All he could feel was peace and nothingness.

But Rolin didn't reject this; on the contrary, he felt a sense of familiarity, as if a long, long time ago, He had been quietly watching from a void, observing all the things in this world and witnessing everything that happened.

Just as Roland was almost lost in this void, a burst of color suddenly appeared in this pure white space, instantly capturing Roland's attention.

Almost instinctively, he reached out to touch the mass of color. In an instant, intense joy, despair, and sorrow erupted simultaneously. Roland was stunned for a moment, his face covered in this emotion, while his own memories and feelings also revived in his heart.

At that moment, Roland suddenly understood the significance of the abstract auxiliary material of the "Pleasure Believer" potion. The Celestial Venerable and Nyarlathotep had a certain mystical connection, so symbolically, the angels of the Gou family were also inseparable from him, this little Nyarlathotep.

Therefore, their most intense emotions—the most intense joy, despair, and sorrow—can influence them in reverse through this symbolism.

At the same time, a cacophony of sounds filled Rolin's ears, so loud that they were almost indistinguishable.

But Rowling still chose to listen attentively. He heard people praying for him and expressing gratitude, people cursing him and wishing he would die immediately, and people simply discussing him with undisguised admiration.

Those were people who knew about the Rose School incident, those whose fates were changed by Rowling, and those who either loved or hated Rowling.

Their presence, their voices, their emotions, filled the pure white space completely at that moment, breaking the silence and replacing nothingness with existence.

Luo Lin suddenly smiled. He already knew where the difficulty in advancing to demigod lay. It was not the interference from the outside world as before, but rather the emptiness within his own heart.

Whether it's the ritual or the supporting materials, it's all for the purpose of resisting this emptiness.

The next second, Rowling opened his eyes in the real world.

"Ah, finally..." Rowling breathed a sigh of relief, put down the beaker in his hand, and revealed a genuine smile:

"I'm finally a demigod!"

Even Rolin was very happy about finally being promoted to Sequence 4, the Believer of Pleasure.

After a brief period of joy, Roland then began to experience with great interest the abilities granted to him by the "Pleasure Believer" potion.

First, Roland's spirituality has undoubtedly improved dramatically, far exceeding the increase from previous advancements. Second, the abilities of the previous sequences have been strengthened. For example, the "Rule Tales" ability, as Roland predicted, has lowered the requirements for generating rules. Furthermore, the upper limit of the "Avatar" ability has been raised to Sequence 1, and so on.

Almost all of the previous abilities have been enhanced, but this time these old skills have not continued to generate new abilities. Basically, there have been some changes in the strength of the ability, the requirements for use, or the number of times it can be used.

Besides that, what Rolin was most concerned about was the core ability of the "Pleasure Believers".

(End of this chapter)