Ah... welcome to my next ramble.

So, based on what transpired from COI ch.1088, something that I've only speculated before was indeed the truth:

CW had also accommodated River of Eternal Darkness (and Nation of Disorder)

That's how mixed pathways ancient gods, particularly Flegrea and Gregrace were born.

(not sure about Aurmir, tho... He didn't seem to be mixed with Marauder pathway, put perhaps mixed with either Black E or Justiciar)

As for Soniathyrm... As it has been speculated that Primordial God Almighty had also accommodated City of Calamity, then likely, he was a mixed pathway of tyrant and hunter. Considering his tendency for war and conquest.

... Also, the sealed dragon under CoC, won't this hint that at some time a certain imaginary dragon also had mixed pathway of Visionary and hunter?

While the uniqueness and 1 seq-1 BC(?) of hunter pathway gave birth to Medici,

Now I really wanted to know what happened to demoness pathway seq-1 BCs -where and who they got mixed to at the time.

Next,

One line that I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY found sus was:

The first beings nurtured by the great mother.

Don't tell me, those beings refer to the certain ancient gods, if not all of them who appeared after the fall of the two pillars.

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Edit:

Wow... my imagination was still to tame compared to Fors' educated guesswork. The non-pillar GOOs were her first beings?? even tho it was a mere speculation currently, the mere thought of it was extremely horrifying.

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Then, about apparent godhood -their manifestation.

Can I simply understand it as the strongest aspect a beyonder/true gods utilize to contend with essential godhood, thus it manifisted as their remaining-identifying character(s)?

Next was about Cattleya's and Xio's advancement trouble.

(Well, this topic was quite a topic in the telegram channel, before Lumian's took over the readers' attention)

I shall assume that the two have completely digested their potion.

For ma'am Hermit case, I can only compare it with Bernadette's case.

If we talk about it, Bernie had two cases/attempt:

1. the first was when she acted as Klein accomplice to foil the ascension ritual of a Black emperor. The result was she "failed". Reason: even their plan had succeeded, it had not fulfilled the requirement ritual for seq-2 of Hermit pathway.

2. the second was when she "visited" Roselle's last mausoleum only to end up with her sealing him with some of mr.Fool's help. This time, her action had sufficed the requisite for the ceremony.

So, I could only deduce that the degree of involvement was crucial for the ritual: it had to be a direct confrontation -face-to-face, not as helping hand, but the protagonist of the event. Or the predicted disaster was not enough.

Therefore, even tho ma'am Hermit had been frequently involved in dealing with higher beings, it was not enough(?).

Tho, this way another question came to mind:

How did the Moses Ascetic order had at least 3 angels in their ranks?

I do have some guess about this, but it's not that reliable: They used their member choosing Destined Madness as catalyst/tool and directly dealt with him/her for the ritual.

As for Xio? I'm in the dark.

Last would be the topic of Lumian's "thievery" and speedrun on the path of the divine.

Some people said that Lumian had stolen Alger's part of the treasures in that ship.

I must say that it was not intentional robbery.

Lumian had deliberately sought revelation from the fool about the "unclaimed" W.Warlock BC location, thus he went to Bansy to ascertain its coordinate, there he indeed sensed it,

but then he was dragged into a secret mirror realm, that was suspected connected to the mirror on the ship, and met with the remnant of Blood E, even tho it was only a seq-2 level.

Unknown to most, that remnant could broke free himself or that actually he was never been sealed beyond the mirror.

After that got out of the mirror, it directly headed to Lumian.

So? Did Lumian pilfered it from Alger? Morally saying, yes, but not really

I have to agree that it was similar to his case in Morora.

Morora was a place owned by the Church, and the church also had partial control over the place, but no actual ownership over 0-01 one of the things inside the place. Then 0-01 "chose" lumian as proxy.

Blue Avenger. It was found by Alger and his mates, then owned by him, but it was only in name. He had no actual authority over the ship, as he couldn't unravel its mystery. Then one of the mystery was targeting Lumian.

It was like you buy a second-hand laptop only to find that it had an advanced AI and you couldn't do anything about it in fear of ruining it, and that AI chose a person whose biometric suited its core program and giving that person some access.

Then, about the speedrun.

I can only say it was all about that sentences:

All prices have already been exacted for what fate bestowed.

fate was not something that never be easy to bear.

If we consider his fast potion digesting speed as "rewards", then his price was tumultuous life.

The actual problem was whether it was work first wage later, or paid upfront first then suffer later.