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Aaron accepted his mother's praise with a wry smile. After breakfast, he went upstairs, intending to return to his room to meditate and continue recovering his spirituality.
Just as he reached the first floor, his spirituality was touched, and Aaron felt like a little tail was following him.
Turning back, he found it was Avonie. Her golden hair was simply tied back with a light blue hairpin, and she was following closely behind Aaron.
Upon realizing Aaron had seen her, she proactively caught up, saying to Aaron with a mix of excitement and disappointment, "I told Father that I also want to become a Beyonder. He agreed that I can take a potion after I turn 15."
"Father asked me which pathway I wanted to become? I don't like Lawyer or Arbiter. I originally wanted to follow Father's pathway and become a Hunter. Father just smiled and didn't agree, telling me to go back and think about it slowly."
"Aaron, which pathway do you think I should choose?"
Aaron looked at the little girl beside him, her eyes full of longing, and said to Avonie in a slightly teasing tone.
"Do you know why Father is unwilling to let you choose the Hunter like him?"
"Why?" Avonie asked, looking puzzled.
Aaron showed a strange smile, leaned close to Avonie's ear, and whispered, "Because the name of the Sequence 4 of the Hunter pathway is Iron-blooded Knight."
"Ah, Iron-blooded Knight. That name sounds cool too." Avonie's eyes sparkled.
Aaron glanced at his naive and innocent sister, suppressing a smile, and said in a calm tone, "One of the costs of becoming an Iron-blooded Knight is turning into a male, even if you were female before advancing."
Avonie slightly opened her mouth, not very ladylike, "That's... that's too unbelievable..."
Looking at his sister's incredulous expression, Aaron smiled with a hint of mischief.
He then fell into thought. Originally, he hadn't considered the issue of his sister's pathway because she was only 12 this year, not yet old enough to take a potion. However, considering he might be going to Backlund soon and might not return for a long time.
It was indeed necessary to plan Avonie's future path in advance. Although she wasn't old enough to take a potion yet, determining the pathway early would allow her to start acting early, reducing the risk of losing control.
It was very necessary to plan a suitable pathway for his sister in advance. Moreover, with the apocalypse approaching, becoming a Beyonder was a good choice, whether she wanted to do something when the apocalypse arrived or simply protect herself better.
However, the Hunter pathway was indeed not very suitable for women. Having to change gender to achieve Sequence 4 was truly a bit difficult to accept.
What about switching pathways at Sequence 5 to become a Sequence 4 Demoness of Despair? No, absolutely not. That name sounds very dangerous. The distorted pathway of the Witch, he couldn't let Avonie jump into that fire pit.
Since Avonie didn't like the Lawyer and Arbiter pathways, among the remaining pathways, the ones he was most confident in and most familiar with were only the three pathways corresponding to the Lord of Mysteries and the Darkness Pathway corresponding to the Goddess.
The Darkness Pathway was quite safe, but the pressure to advance was too great. As the Church of the Evernight Goddess, which controlled the complete path, there were a large number of Beyonders and bishops of the Darkness Pathway within it.
However, Beyonder characteristics are conserved; there are only so many Beyonder characteristics in the entire pathway. Advancing is difficult and requires a large amount of contribution. Although Aaron felt he had an ally relationship with the Evernight Goddess, this was clearly not enough for Avonie to advance to the level of a Saint, let alone an Angel.
In comparison, the three pathways corresponding to the Lord of Mysteries offered more opportunities. They didn't require waiting in line to accumulate contributions, making it easier to advance, and there was also the possibility of becoming an Angel.
For the Seer pathway corresponding to "The Fool," Aaron was very clear about all the rituals and formulas from Sequence 9 to Sequence 0, which was equivalent to mastering a complete pathway.
For the Apprentice pathway corresponding to "Door," although Aaron didn't master the complete pathway, he could seek out the Abraham family and exchange the corresponding potion formulas and Beyonder characteristics for helping to lift the Blood Moon curse, revitalize the family, and eliminate traitors.
He could even bring the Abraham family under his control, laying a solid foundation for the future establishment of his Divine Kingdom on Earth.
As for the Marauder pathway corresponding to "Error," the situation was both troublesome and complicated.
Although potion formulas and rituals could be obtained through a transaction with Pallez Zoroast, who was parasitic in Leonard's body, the pursuit of Beyonders of the entire Marauder pathway by that Son of the Creator, King of Angels Amon, made the Marauder pathway an extremely dangerous and difficult path to advance in.
Aaron originally wanted his sister to become a Seer. After all, Klein's experience was right there; he had a general understanding of both the potion digestion principles and the dangers that might be faced during advancement.
But considering the advancement ritual for Sequence 3 Scholar of Yore—completely detaching from reality for three hundred years and taking the potion after one has become history and no longer belongs to the current era.
With the apocalypse approaching, there was simply no opportunity for Avonie to become an Scholar of Yore.
Moreover, according to Mr. Azik's reply to Klein, which vaguely mentioned "vaguely remember being able to switch at 3," it should be possible for Avonie to switch pathways to the adjacent two pathways at Sequence 4, becoming a Sequence 3 Wanderer or Mentor of Deceit.
But Aaron always had doubts about the practice of switching pathways, suspecting that switching pathways might increase the risk of losing control.
Aaron couldn't help but worry. The known Beyonders who switched pathways, such as the Blood Emperor and Night Emperor among the Four Emperors, Emperor Roselle, the former Chief of City of Silver, and later Ince Zangwill.
Especially his own ancestor, the Night Emperor, who switched from the Lawyer to the Arbiter pathway but ultimately did not become a winner among the Four Emperors. Logically speaking, the Night Emperor had the support of the Seven Deities and switched to a similar pathway, making him more stable than the Death Emperor, who benefited the most from the War of the Four Emperors, but he did not have the last laugh;
The final outcomes of these Beyonders who switched pathways were not good, which made Aaron instinctively dislike switching pathways, believing it might not be the optimal choice.
Furthermore, jumping pathways itself is an extremely dangerous matter, especially now when high-level materials are scarce and most high-level Beyonder characteristics contain low-level Beyonder characteristics, which will conflict with the low-level Beyonder characteristics of the user themselves.
Even if the low-level Beyonder characteristics can be gradually precipitated out through sealed artifacts of the Sun pathway's high Sequences, switching from one path to another is likely inherently extremely difficult.
After much deliberation, Aaron still felt it was best for Avonie to take the Apprentice pathway. The two core abilities, Opening the Door and Recording, were sufficient for Avonie to face enemies and protect herself.
Moreover, whether it was the two Sealed Artifacts of Grade 0 from the Abraham family, the Box of the Great Old Ones in the hands of the Saint of Secrets, or the Beyonder characteristics after Mr. Door's fall, these were all traceable.
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