After his return from the grey fog, Hector stood up and left the study. He felt as if a weight had fallen from his shoulder.

He knew that he would have that conversation with Klein but he thought that it would be longer, he did not expect that he would ask only one question.

Hector sometimes wondered what he would do if Klein would cut him off from gathering. While at this time it was not that special when Sun will join his opportunity to get beyonder ingredients would skyrocket.

But if it would come to it he could attempt to still get there through one of the members. Audrey, Alger wouldn't be good candidates as they could find out as he already met them. In the end, it would boil to Fors or Xio. But Hector thought that even then he would be found out.

The only way he could think of was to kill Klein and make someone else to take Sefirot Castle. There were still seven more candidates.

Fortunately, his staying in the gathering was ideal for him and everyone else as he was not forced to go on a killing spree, innocent people like Audrey and Alger would live as they would question the sudden disappearance of Fool, maybe even investigate him. Even if there was nothing to find he could still not risk them accidentally informing someone who would know about it.

But now all was well so he went to drink some red wine that he brought from Street Rats' gambling den.

While drinking he thought of the ritual that the Fool wanted them to perform and so he went to prepare the ingredients. When he was done he prayed and spoke about how he is performing the ritual. Understandably he got no response as of now he went with his business.

When the sun fell behind the horizon and the crimson moon had taken its place as a dominant celestial body in the sky Hector went to his room so he could take a proper night of sleep, While being beyonder does give a person more strength and willpower it still does not make them immune to humans basic needs for food and rest.

Well until they would be far enough in their sequence that is. When he slept he was woken up as he felt a shift in his room. When he opened his eyes he could see illusory grey fog descending all around him, then he saw the shape of Fool and heard him acknowledge his success at ritual after which he and the grey fog disappeared.

When everything returned to normal he went back to sleep as if nothing happened. The next morning after eating his breakfast he went into the study room and locked the door behind him as he had something on his mind.

He thought of an honorific name for himself. He thought about how him being ego of sefirot would influence it.

Should he just try the name that would represent sefirot or make a new one?

"Lord of Abyss... No, I have no dominion over Abyss yet. Why not take inspiration from Kleins then, Devil from beyond? Well it is not incorrect and I don't know that there would be many people from the different universes who are on the Abyss pathway, but it lacks something.

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"Devil from beyond the void. He did travel from one universe to another...no that's not it.

"Father of Devils... that feels right. And it is also true, it's weird to be sefirot.

"Strangeness from beyond the void... better but... wait for a second I infected the sefirot and became its ego, it is similar to when divinity infects people after advancing and they call it madness, so why not?

"Madness from beyond the Void. ha ha ha

"Source of Corruption and Desires... yes as of now my body does not have powers from the adjacent pathway. It's strange as he needs to make it true for his true being and also for the body for him to have full use of sefirot wherever he was."

While he could take full sefirot name he wasn't sure if his human body would be able to withstand it. And even then he is not complete as even if he is sefirot he could not just use the Law of Beyonder Characteristics Convergence and simply tear or infect the Dark side of the Universe... or could he?

That is for much later, even if he could do it his mind would not be able to withstand it. So he needs to take a slow but much safer path.

"So how was it... Oh yeah

"Father of Devils;

Madness from beyond the Void;

Source of Corruption and Desires."

"Yes, that shall be my honorific name, and f*ck the consequences.

"Now all that remains is to confirm that such a name will be effective."

Hector started to prepare a slightly changed version of one that he made yesterday to the Fool, which was in actually a slightly changed version of another ritual.

A certain image of three people reading of each other test and copying the answers came to mind which made him chuckle. Then Hector started the ritual.

"Father of Devils;

you are Madness from beyond the Void;

you are a Source of Corruption and Desires.

"I pray for your help.

"I pray for your loving grace.

"I pray for you to cleanse me of sin.

"Moon flower, an herb that belongs to the red moon, please bestow your powers to my incantation!

"Fingered citron, an herb that belongs to the sun, please bestow your powers to my incantation." Hector used the same herbs as he used previously for Fool's ritual and right now hadn't any other at hand. He thought of changing them depending on the location of his believers would be, for example when he will start his cult in Gargas Archipelago he would use herbs that commonly grew there so his cultist wouldn't have that much of a hard time performing rituals in his name.

After finishing the ritual Hector waited for something to happen, after a few moments he felt something in his thorny vines. It was as if a breeze had passed between them.

When he concentrated on his vines his perception started to shift and he found himself standing in Tenebrous World. It is always a such strange feeling to stand inside oneself, even if one is not human.

Hector then looked around until he found light in Chernobog Wisdom, so he walked to his throne and willed it to move so he could overlook the well.

Then he willed for the well to extend while he looked at the light in the water. When he willed for those waters to show the content of the light he could see as the water had risen and Hector could see a 3D image of what happened.

He could see himself praying, "So it worked... When I will be sequence 7 its usefulness will be great as I will get much of knowledge about Devil rituals.

Hector could not wait but he also knew that he needs to be careful as to not overestimate himself too much, which could lead to disaster.

After a few more tests he thought if he should try to bring someone here but then he realized that to do that he would need some connection as he saw no red stars that Klein had.

"Maybe if I would corrupt them with my flowers from thorny vines I could bring them here."