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However, that had nothing to do with Anos for the time being.
After sending Ingvild home, Anos opened the treasure chest from earlier.
[Ding.]
[Purple Treasure Chest opened.]
[Congratulations, host. Reward obtained: Advanced Potential Development.]
"Hm?"
Anos's eyes widened slightly.
Finally.
He had finally drawn something that strengthened his source.
"Use one Advanced Potential Development opportunity."
Anos felt this was one of the most useful things he could obtain.
[Ding.]
[Advanced Potential Development has begun.]
As a clear sensation spread through his mind, Anos felt changes occurring within his body.
A kind of conceptual perception formed in his thoughts.
[Ding.]
[Advanced Potential Development complete.]
[Congratulations, host. Ability usage time has been extended to ten minutes.]
[Congratulations, host. Development ability obtained: Probability Constant Change, Elemental Energy.]
[Probability Constant Change, Elemental Energy: The power to alter the probability of elemental energy.]
[As everyone knows, the probability of all quantum particles flowing in every direction is consistent, forming Brownian motion through countless forms of superposition.]
[Probability Constant Change, Elemental Energy can constantly alter the probability of elemental energy of all attributes, making the flow of probability no longer random.]
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"This seems a little interesting."
Anos felt this ability could be used in many different ways.
"Let me test its limits first."
Activating this ability would consume the daily usage time of [Absolute Dichotomy], but in exchange, its coverage range was quite large.
If he wanted to strengthen the degree of probability alteration, the coverage range would shrink.
Not long afterward, Anos tested the limits of this ability.
"If used on wind elements, making all wind elements move in the opposite direction of Earth's rotation, then in theory, the time it takes Earth to complete one rotation would become longer and longer."
"In the end, it would not be impossible for the planet to stop rotating, resulting in one side falling into eternal day and the other into eternal night."
"However, it still feels a little impractical."
Anos raised a brow.
To use the ability to that degree, he would definitely need to keep it active for a long time every day. Right now, he simply could not do that.
By the time he could keep it active continuously in the future, who knew how large the range would be? Perhaps covering the entire solar system or even the galaxy would not be a problem by then.
"It seems the main application should still be small-scale usage."
Anos sighed.
Large-scale usage could basically be ruled out for now.
Perhaps going to the other extreme was more feasible.
If he condensed the range to the limit, it would produce a terrifying single-point explosive force.
If he was already using magic and the surrounding elemental energy was abundant, the power would become even greater.
"It seems there should be quite a few interesting ways to use this."
Anos narrowed his eyes and immersed himself in researching the ability.
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The next day.
Today was a rest day, and there were many things to handle at night, so Anos temporarily had no intention of going out.
However, even though he did not intend to go out, someone came to invite him.
At Anos's door, two people met.
The blond young man looked at the silver-haired maid in front of him, and a drop of cold sweat rolled down his forehead.
Although he was Heaven's Joker, in front of this person, he was still slightly intimidated by the silver-haired maid's pressure.
"Oh my. Has the Queen of the Underworld also come to ask Mr. Kanzaki to take action? Amen."
Dulio Gesualdo asked Grayfia.
He was Heaven's strongest trump card, the wielder of the second strongest Longinus, [Zenith Tempest].
His position was Joker. He did not belong to any specific Seraph and instead existed as part of a special unit.
Because of that, he was also called the Joker, or the trump card.
However, quite unlike his overwhelming strength, his personality was frivolous and lazy. He loved delicacies from around the world. Overall, he was a loose, carefree person who enjoyed leisure.
In short...
A powerful slacker.
According to the original timeline, he was the strongest human exorcist. Later, he reincarnated as an angel, gained ten pure white wings, and became the captain of the special counterterrorism team [DxD].
However, the three-faction meeting had not yet begun, and after Anos declared his identity, Heaven temporarily had no intention of asking the devil side for the Evil Pieces technology to create the Brave Saints.
Therefore, the current Dulio was still human.
"Joker, you may go in first."
Grayfia spoke calmly.
She knew Anos's strength, and she also knew he was probably someone with a mischievous sense of humor.
So...
She would let Joker test the waters first.
That was Grayfia's extremely simple thought.
"Thank you for yielding, Queen of the Underworld."
Dulio revealed a polite smile.
As Heaven's second Sacred Gear user, the wielder of the second-ranked Longinus and possibly the strongest Sacred Gear user in actual combat, he naturally had the qualifications to know Anos's identity.
Precisely because he knew Anos's identity, he was so nervous.
After all, this was the god he had always believed in.
In truth, the high-ranking angels basically all knew that God had already passed away, but they had not lost their faith.
Instead, they wanted to continue carrying forward the original ideals and faith of the Biblical God.
They had not forgotten God. They were constantly working hard to complete God's goal.
And now, the goal he had suddenly been working toward all this time had appeared before him.
It was only natural that he felt somewhat uncomfortable.
"It seems... There is magic covering this place?"
Dulio noticed the situation around him.
He discovered that he could vaguely sense the existence of formations, but he had no way of knowing what effects those formations had or what power they possessed.
But that was also normal.
After all, it was only natural that there would be a great gap between him and God.
Hum.
The moment he approached Anos's villa, a beam of light shot out from the front.
Fire-attribute energy, powerful to the extreme, turned into a thin line and instantly pierced through everything in its path.
"What?"
Dulio instinctively reached out toward the incoming fire line, forming an ice shield for defense.
However, the fire line showed no sign of stopping. It easily pierced through the ice shield and left a shallow cut on Dulio's face.
"As expected."
Grayfia shook her head.
Last time, she had already felt that something must have gone wrong for her to be able to transfer here through a teleportation circle.
With that person's strength, how could he have allowed her to arrive so easily?
Sure enough, Joker had now stepped into the trap.
"I think perhaps it would be better if we waited here for him."
Grayfia suggested.
"It seems that may be our only option."
Dulio revealed a bitter smile.
He was certain that if the fire line had landed on his body instead of his face, there would already be a hole through him.
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