I am God LSLCCF

”The sky messengersʼ Mythical Organ is the Angel Stone, which was modelled upon Godʼs Grace Stone. Your Art of Godʼs Grace descends from the art created by the second-generation Sage of Truth in the primordial age, and among the arts of the Second Era, it remains the closest to the original.”

”When you reach the step of the apostle, however, you do not deify your own brain. Instead, you take the Angel Stone directly as your Mythical Organ.”

”You should know that all who walk the road of the apostle must possess a Mythical Organ.”

”The bond between an imp and its contract holder is similar. It resembles the bond between sky messengers and the Angel Stone, alchemists and the Lamp of Covenant, or beast knights and their magical beasts.”

Lomier was stunned. Never had he imagined the bond between an imp and its contract holder was this.

”Then the contract holder is actually the impʼs Mythical Organ, or the Mythical Organ it will possess in the future.”

”Then would they not...”

Lomier feared that something bad might eventually come of it.

The God of the Witch Doctors shook their heads.

”If the imp cannot break through the third rank, the two will appear little different from an ordinary imp and contract holder. Once they reach the station of an apostle, however, they can merge completely into a single whole.”

”An apostleʼs form has long since passed beyond ordinary life. At that point, the contract holder may seem to have become the Mythical Organ of the impʼs Godʼs Form.”

”In truth, each has long since become an inseparable part of the other.”

The method had a drawback. If the two ever fell into discord or open conflict, the direct clash between their consciousnesses would drive them both mad.

As companions, they formed a single whole.

If their paths diverged and their wills turned against each other, they would fall into something resembling a split mind.

Lomier saw the danger at once.

”What if they should one day turn against each other?”

The witch doctors had foreseen that possibility long ago.

From the very beginning, however, imps and their contract holders had been two parties who saved each other.

An imp came into the world flawed and in need of a contract holder.

A contract holder came into the world maimed or ill and needed an imp to carry their life onward.

From the outset, each had redeemed and needed the other.

They chose one another in the City of Old Things and sealed their contract together.

The witch doctors answered without evasion.

”A witch doctor of the Second Era is formed from two beings, a contract holder and an imp, who walk hand in hand toward the future.”

”They sealed their contract in the City of Old Things, and each became part of what sustains the otherʼs life.”

”If they cannot walk hand in hand toward the future, then those two beings who once completed and saved each other shall merely return to what they were before.”

”To forms that have no future.”

For a long while, Lomier said nothing.

This mode of existence, this profession born from a contract of mutual redemption, filled Lomier with wonder.

He also marveled at the breadth of spirit shown by the God of the Witch Doctors.

Only after some time did Lomier ask his next question.

”O God of the Witch Doctors, am I qualified to receive the divine technique knowledge of the Bestowing of Power!”

The mythical witch doctors nodded. The Bestowing of Power had never belonged to them alone.

For one, Ray, whom Lomier knew, possessed the divine technique of the Bestowing of Power.

”That presents no difficulty. But if you hope to use the original Bestowing of Power to remedy the flaw in your own gift, we can tell you now that it is impossible.”

Lomier frowned in confusion.

”Why is it impossible?”

The mythical witch doctors answered, ”Because the Bestowing of Power is a divine technique belonging to the descendants of the primordial age. It came from the Creator and from the authority the Divine King of Wisdom granted His sons.”

”None save the beings who have survived from the primordial age can use it.”

Lomierʼs eyes widened.

”Neither the winged people nor the snake people can use it?”