To clarify for our roleplay purposes, Seq3 rituals (and above) have to be physical. Seq3+ means: Seq3, Seq2, >!Seq1, Seq0!<.

u/Big-Anxiety-2596 (and others, if there are), why are you spreading misinfo about Seq3 rituals being allowed to be story-based?

They are not.

Spread more of it and yo ahh gonna ache more than after the war~

Now, try to guess who's who in the image~

(sor idk who I stole the u/Embarrassed_Cicada57 meme from >.<)

(the scene is right before Error and gang's attack on Avalon)

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Wheel of Fortune, still reeling from the damage, cast his prophecy and locked onto Avalon. Even if his luck had been exhausted, he still could do this.

Thus, all the Gods: The Error (u/Dry-Strawberry-3057), Paragon (u/Embarassed_Cicada57), Twilight Giant (u/Mister_Tentacle), and Wheel of Fortune (u/Big-Anxiety-2596) transcended speed and arrived before the illusory garden.

It’s an invisible, transparent sphere that doesn’t exist within reality. Even if they can’t see inside yet, they know Avalon is here, and there is no time to delay – quickly – the barrier separating it from the physical world is weakened. Hastily, they give u/Straight_Painter_846 control over their armies to advance towards the Black Empress alliance’s armies, and with an Error, all four are transported inside at once.

It was time for the devastation!

All four move with their prepared plans. Paragon activates the Dyson Sphere surrounding the Sun and lets Error jump in to control it. Ignition! Pure light fires from above, while the Twilight Giant directly confronts u/Gakamis Abyss’ pure black filth. Paragon meanwhile, unleashed their civilization to directly suppress the Hermit from interfering. The Fool, which appears alone, perhaps in fear of his marionettes being exploited, isn’t fast enough to help all of his allies at once, and thus the Four attacking Gods begin to overwhelm them-

This clash creates a cacophony! True Chaos descends upon the world-Empress

HOWEVER!

AND THEN THE JUSTICIAR ARRIVED!

u/Odd_Arrival_5789 broke through Wheel of Fortune’s luck to not encounter Him. He broke through Twilight Giant’s attempt to conceal his intentions. He broke through the Error’s trickery. But what enraged him most was Paragon's greed at monopolizing the Sun, which is supposed to sustain the world! He won’t be ridiculed so!

“Structures around the Sun are prohibited here!”

The Dyson Sphere malfunctions. The wave of blaze that was about to his the world, is reduced to a gentle blanket of light. Error too, is forced to abandon it, as it slowly begins to melt from the heat of the Sun.

And when Error returns to the battlefield…

“The Battlefield shall be divided!” The Second Declaration.

Invisible, Unstoppable force impacts all the Deities here. Justiciar remains impartial - maintaining the Law, but the other gods open their eyes and see their designated opponents.

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“Greetings, u/Mister_Tentacle. Do you wish to confess about your past?” Before the Twilight Giant stands the Hanged Man, u/Ezcu123.

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“Yo.” u/Gakamis, the Abyss, gently smiles.

“For real?” u/Big-Anxiety-2596, the Wheel of Fortune, shudders.  

For a Wheel of Fortune, who had long exhausted all his luck, there was no other opponent he could ever have gotten.

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“My Dyson Sphere!” u/Embarassed_Cicada57 cries out feeling the loss of his construct. But even the other constructs that relied on the energy of the sun had begun to fail.

“Knowledge injection: Justiciar has better control over laws than Paragon.” The Hermit u/Square-Wasabi1338 declares.

The two knowledge pathways naturally end up confronting each other.

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Finally, the u/Dry-Strawberry-3057, Error, finds himself still within Avalon.

Before him is the lone Fool (?). Error briefly feels out the laws dividing the battlefield, but the Justiciar is maintaining them too strongly for him to quickly shatter them. The only way forward is to defeat the “Fool” and quickly break the mausoleums before the Empress advances.

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No, this Fool is weak! Perhaps only a marionette! Is he really still hiding? Truly a fraud god - I can ignore him! The goal is only to stop the u/Stock-Bunch671*’s apotheosis!*  

Thus, u/Dry-Strawberry-3057, using the effects of devastation that he had stolen from Mister Tentacle, invoked an Error. His target was the mausoleum before him. And with the twist of his second hand, the damage spread to all the other mausoleums too! This projection, or whatever it was, of the u/Darkened_Sage stood no chance to stop him.

Yet the moment, the mausoleums began to break apart, u/Dry-Strawberry-3057 felt something was off. The buildings didn’t crumble as normal physical structures – no – it was more like they were simple daydreams, washed away by the wind.

He hurried looked at the “Fool” he was fighting. It too was simply phased out – like a figment of imagination.

Error’s eyes opened wide.

“THE FOOL AND MAUSOLEUMS HERE WERE ONLY ENVISIONED?! BY WHOM?!”

And thus the world shifted.

Dream and reality began to overlap in unstable layers. The boundary between imagination and existence degraded into something unreliable. And as the final mausoleum faded out, the person who stood there simply gazed into Error’s eyes and gave a gentle smile.

u/Thanatrome! The Visionary!

Then where is the Real Fool?! DryStrawberry was only permitted a single thought before a vast Divine Kingdom descended.

Error reacted immediately, and the confrontation began without hesitation. Trickery met Envisioning. Each attempt made by Error was suppressed under the overwhelming Authority of the Visionary, for which he had not prepared! Every stolen opening collapsed before it could be completed. Every distortion was rewritten before it could stabilize. The two were locked and Error couldn’t separate himself

Then, suddenly, the Visionary stopped, and all attacks ceased abruptly. Silence expanded across u/Thanatrome’s Divine Kingdom. For a brief moment, the Visionary’s gaze moved beyond Error, beyond the battlefield itself, as though observing something already completed elsewhere.

“The deed is done.”

He then turned away, and a single motion followed. Both the Visionary and his Divine Kingdom vanished. The battlefield warped in their absence.

u/Stock-Bunch671 is advancing somewhere else!! Error realized!

But before Error could reorient himself, he quickly realized that he was no longer on the battlefield. He stood within Avalon, and the Justiciar ~u/Odd_Arrival_5789~ was already present.

Now this curly-haired baboon! I don’t have time!

And indeed, The Justiciar deprived the Error of their time-related powers. And before any further Trickery could form, a void opened below the Error. With a command, the Justiciar exiled Error for as long as the Void could maintain him.

Long enough for the remaining sequence of events to proceed without interference.

Far from Avalon, the Visionary ~u/Thanatrome~ reappeared. His attention rested on the horizon when a pen was produced, and a page was written upon. “Having safely avoided confrontation with Error, the Black Emperor could finally rise.” The statement settled into reality without resistance as Mysticism converged, and the ritual reached completion-

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Let’s pause here for a moment. Was this a plot twist? Or a reasonable development?
Before the conclusion, let’s turn back time, part the curtain, and witness what really happened. The moment is right before the Four attacking Deities invaded Avalon~

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The scene is: The mythical island of Arthurian legend – Avalon. This Fictional environment couldn't be seen from the outside as it was outside reality and the Spirit world leaving it untraceable to its adversaries. 

Within the depths of the magnificent Garden was a clearing which was the center of the island. What stood there was a singular tree and a large structure colored in coal. The Fool was sitting on a tree branch outside the entrance of a black emperor mausoleum playing a flute. Such a scene was as what priests would immortalize on the stained church glass. 

Avalon has a invisible bubble barrier that is transparent to those inside you can't see through. But one can see the outside from the inside. Thus, the Fools stops playing his flute and stares at the bubble barrier in alarm. His Spiritual Intuition was going off the charts 

"Ohh, my goodness!! They actually did it huh? That strawberry and his team found a way to locate home base."

But a Magician never performs unprepared.

Darkened Sage leapt up and jumped straight towards the approaching enemy gods. The Fool reaches the border of the bubble at the same time as they break in... and THEN!

GRAFTING!

The two sides switch positions at the same second! At the same moment, The Fool left. At the same moment, the Four Gods entered. No one perceived this, no one realized this. After all, all four had their bloodshot eyes directed towards the Mausoleums inside~.

They begin raining havoc upon the mystical Island, but it doesn’t matter.

Why?

Because within his palm, within his realm of mysteries, rest the Eight Mausoleums along with the Black Empress u/Stock-Bunch671 that is undergoing apotheosis. As for the ones inside Avalon… they were merely envisioned by the u/Thanatrome.

“It will certainly take time for them to realize the truth. After all, they were embarrassed by u/Gakamis so much, so they can only focus on destroying the mausoleums as payback. Thus, it is a reasonable development that they will ignore some inconsistencies. At least, that what u/Thanatrome had written in his book.” The Fool jumps higher and higher, deeper and deeper into the fog of mystery.

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Along the way he passes u/Straight_Painter_846’s army. Fool snickers to himself briefly.

“Heh, that too was a conspiracy that u/Embarassed_Cicada57 missed.”

u/Straight_painter_846 was given full control over Cicada’s army. It was put under his command. Thus, he now wields this army completely.

It was all going to Cicada’s plan… up until Straightpainter met with the army of the Black Empress. The two sides merely exchanged smiles, then they united into a single unit, and ran straight towards Cicada’s civilization!!

Straightpainter was never on Cicada’s side (source1, source2)! He had already launched attacks on Cicada’s civilization, and now it was going full force ahead! This massive avalanche of two armies united broke through all the barriers that Cicada had used to defend their civilization and unleashed a rampage within.

u/Embarassed_Cicada57 felt it instantly. Their civilization began to crumble, and along with it, Paragon’s powers!

“Knowledge Injection: Paragon relies on the level of civilization to utilize their powers. Without Civilization, Paragon weakens” The Hermit’s words resounded.

But now they grated against Paragon’s ears. No longer was Cicada so resistant to Hermit attacks. No – it wasn’t just through Cicada’s ears! The information flood began to seep in throughout every pore in the Paragon’s divine corpus!

And then the final nail in the coffin!

High in the cosmos, by the Sun.

“Kaboom?” u/The_Twilight_Trick asked himself.

“KABOOM!” u/The_Twilight_Trick answered himself.

And the Dyson Sphere erupted! Not just part by part, but ALL. AT. ONCE! The infinite bombs Twilight Trick had accumulated tore the sphere instantly – not even the Paragon was able to prevent it, being busy so with the double whammy of Hermit and Straight Painter. 

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Unfortunately, for the u/Darkened_Sage, he no longer was there to witness it. He had already wandered through history and landed in a historical place known only to him and the empress which was her childhood home in the countryside. 

And thus within delay, he commenced the final plan.

With one hand, he draped the cloak of realm of mysteries over this land.

The second hand, he grafted the mausoleums with u/Stock-Bunch671 upon this land.

Thus, the mausoleums once again manifested in reality and the apotheosis could proceed safely! All within the Fool’s divine kingdom: the Marionette Circus.

Before making his final move, u/Darkened_Sage lampooned:

“Heh, the audience mocked me for being a “potential god” and a “fraud” - ridiculing my lack of participation in the war. How is being prepared and keeping myself at the peak of my power considered fraudulent behavior?”

“Have they forgotten who I was? And what does my pathway represent?. Symbolizing Misdirection and confusion? My Miracles and Wishes?!”  

So, who was the real fool here? They were nearly actors, mere spectators in this play the gods on u/Stock_Bunch671 side weaved. None of them could understand, could comprehend what was about to unfold.

All this time, when the mausoleums were being constructed, hidden marionettes wandered the halls and were granting wishes of the citizens - accumulating them.

The accumulation of all these wishes among the large populous was able to coalesce into a single Grand Miracle for the Fool to use during the War. Upon using this Miracle, he will be comatose and unable to participate for the rest of the War's duration. But that was fine.

"The stage is set and it's time for me to perform!" u/Darkened_Sage laughed gleefully, and in a Deep voice radiating Divine Command he shouted:

"I WISH FOR THAT THE MAUSOLEUMS AND APOTHEOSIS OF THE EMPRESS WILL GO UNDISTURBED FOR AS LONG AS THIS KINGDOM STANDS"

Thus, the wish resounds, is accepted, and granted.

Thus, the greatest miracle descends upon this world!

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Immediately after, the Fool slumped to his knees. Lethargy spread throughout his body, and he yawned, as the backlash of the wish caught up to him.

"It seems like I won't be able to see Strawberries' reaction to fighting a fake Fool and destroying the fake Mausoleum. What a shame, I was looking forward to that." 

The Fool's body slumped on the outside wall of the mausoleum, which was vibrating as a consequence of the mighty apotheosis shook its foundations

" Good luck... I will see you later... At your palace, having... A v.. victory feast" 

The fool had fallen asleep outside the mausoleum, unable to intervene anymore. But when they wake…  

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The Black Empress will have already be Born~

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(This has been collectively written by u/Gakamis, u/Darkened_Sage, u/Thanatrome. Thank you for letting me post this.)

Part 1: The Divine War, the Countdown to Apotheosis (You are here)

Part2: Interlude: Bestowement of Fate

Part3: People of the Sub, Your Empress has been born!

My laughter resounds.

The Error (u/Dry-Strawberry-3057) and Paragon (u/Embarrassed_Cicada57) have fled away, running with tails tucked neatly behind, back to the Twilight Giant to beg Him to purify them. Hilarious ^^

And a fatal mistake.

With two Gods temporarily incapacitated, the gods supporting the Black Empress (u/Stock-Bunch671) begin commencing their grand plan to recreate the mausoleums and allow the Princess to advance to Godhood.

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I’ll leave that to them. I have a much more entertaining game to play~

After all… I am still inside someone’s Heart!

ISN’T THAT RIGHT, WHEEL OF FORTUNE?!

u/big-anxiety2596, did you forget? YOU DID FORGET! I didn’t :D

Remember your “apotheosis”, that feeble attempt to advance?

You just drank the potion and did no ritual. Of course, the Wheel loves to gamble, and a little luck did spare you from instant loss of control. But do you remember what happened next?

Yes, you met me.

The Abyss approached you. My filth seeped into your ritual. We spoke. My filth seeped into your body. I confronted you. My filth seeped into your soul.

You didn’t even defend. You just tried to run away.

Lovely!!! <3

And you even forgot to seek purification! ^^

Day after day, the abyss has been c̷̟͐o̸̰̿r̶̬̍r̵̲͗ũ̴͕p̷̢̈́ṱ̸̏i̷̭̓ṅ̸̜ǵ̶̝ ̴͓͗ỳ̶͉o̵͉͒ú̵̠,̶͍̈́, tainting your fate from within. It stained your body, ____ _____, your history,y̸̧̏ȍ̴ͅu̶͔̍r̶̝̍ ̸̳̀l̸̖͆u̸̞͝c̵͚̈́k̴̻̈́, your misfortune, blackening you _____ you __ y̵̢̎ö̶̙́u̶͔̎ ̷̰͊_̸̫͊_̶̢̆_̶̹͌_̷̠͘_̸̯͗ ̸͙̉y̴̭̑ō̸͖u̷͖͒ ̸̹͛_̴̡͗_̴̬̿ ̵͎̒y̵̰͆o̸̺̚ũ̵̢-̵̱̓

̵̨̍ỳ̶͜ò̴̲u̶̯͌ ̷͑ͅ you

̵̺͝y̵͙̅ó̸̹ù̷͇ ___ ̷̫̈́y̴͇͆ȍ̵̱u̶̗͊ ̶̨̂

̴̫͊_̸̲̈́_̵͕͐_̶͖͒ ̴͓͝ __

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Even if my corrosion is weakened now, it doesn't change the past. And now a whole month has passed.

You, so inexperienced in God Level battles, even used up the last remnants of your luck helping Error ã̴̮n̴̡͠d̷͍̏ Paragon destroy the mausoleums, and t̴̼͝h̵̆͜e̴̱͌n̷̮̈́ to let them escape.

And… in just… what state… do you think it left you~?

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My blather crosses fate and ̸̖̕t̶̖̋i̸͔̿m̶̟̈e̵̠̅.

You hear my words. And instantly erupt in pure black filth. Of course, even if a fraud of a god you are, you still have some p̴͍̈́o̷̼͝w̶̘̓e̶̖̔r̷̫̚s̴͕̕ ̵̖̈remaining. You create your cycle – and rewind time.

Only to go back a couple se̵͈̚c̵̰͝o̶͙̿n̸̘̏ds, and erupt in BLACK BLOOD again!

Another cycle! FILTH! Another cycle! ROT! C̵̭͝Ô̸̠R̶̡̒R̵̗͑U̸̇͜Ṕ̶̬T̶̹̀I̶̧̔N̸̬̒G̷̫͆. MUD. SLUDGE. GRIME. LITTER. SOIL. FOULNESS. It erupts and erupts! ROT FILTH BLOOD DARK ABYSS FILTH You can’t even stop your reincarnation.

After all, the corruption has poisoned you over a whole month ago. ^^

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G̴̰̍o̵̞͠ỏ̷͈d̵͖̀ ̶̲̀l̵̯͋u̴̡̾č̶̣k̴̭̃,̶̢͆, "Wheel of ̶̭͛F̶͎̒ô̸̦r̶͈̄t̴̟̔u̵̻̐n̵̯͑ẹ̶̿". Perhaps Twilight Giant ̶͔͛ẘ̶̭i̸̝̽l̵͖̾l̷̺̓ come save you ̸̩̊ĭ̸̳f̷̦̍ ̷͔̊y̸̥͘ö̷̱́u̴͖͗ beg. I am ready to confront them as well if needed.

But with the mausoleums being rebuild and The Black Princess ready to advance…

<3

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Part1: Rebuilding

Part2: End of Wheel of Fortune

Part3: The Princess imbibes the potion

"Yo, Error u/Dry-Strawberry-3057."
"Hello, Paragon u/Embarrassed_Cicada57 as well. Didn't expect to see me here?"

Within your "concealed" realm, my Pure Black Filth manifests. I rise from the water, from the air, from your bodies, from your souls, from your hearts. I corrode your divinity itself.

"Quite the grand spectacle you pulled off. There is just a teeny tiny issue. By attacking the cradle within my abyss, you opened the Abyss of your Heart as well. The Abyss of your Heart is quite radiant after all~"

My word blather to you. You perceive ____ form. You do not perceive my ____. I am Filth. I am Corrosion. I am Purity. I am _____ ___ ___. I am the World. My Red-Black-White-______________ eyes. Corruption ________ Seed of Malice has already _________ your soul.

"The Malice of You has ̸̡̊b̶̯̄e̷̹̎e̴̝͒n̶̥͌ ̶͖̒p̴͙̋ȅ̸̫ŕ̷̠c̶̨͝e̷̥͌i̵͇̎v̸̱̅è̷̟d̴̤̐ ̶̬͝l̶̤̈́o̵͉͗ň̸̩g̶̨̑ ̵͍̽ā̴͕g̶̛͚o̶͎͝. And it was you who opened the corridor for me to enter. _____ Thank you." ^^

I smile and take a step.

>All things can be corroded.

Sin. I devour. Paragon's ______ do not exist. Error commits another Sin. G̸̡̛̬̱͇̲͉̥̮̊̂̿͂̉͑̽͋̿̎̀r̶̡̡̫̬̰̱͇̙͔̬͍̭͋̾͗̈́́̍͋̚͜͜͝ȩ̷̛͍̝̜͚͇̃̔̓͆̆̈́̒̊̍͝ē̷̥̦̺̙͉̪̭͇̞̥̞͈̬̙̜͆͜͝ͅd̶̢̺͎̫̲͍͇̯̗̯̊̓͜͜ͅͅ Another Seed of M̶̅͜ä̷̪́l̴͇̈́i̷͈̕c̴̡̓e̸͚͌.̶̢̾ ̴̰̌T̷̥̈́he Error proclaimed themselves capable of fighting all the gods? Ṗ̷͓̘̪̉̆̉̉͗͊͛̈́̔̀͘͝͝ŕ̷̬͖̩͆̓̋͋̏̃͒̂͐̇͑̇͝ͅį̶̖͍͉̮̰̮̳̟̫̭̗̹̹̝̰̈̉̒̂̕̕͝d̵͉͙̭̤̭̦̜̦̟̗͓̮̤̪̓̓͐́̂͜͝ê̵̢̨̨͕̗̗̬̜̜̣̙̝̦̋̋̒̔͜͠͠ - Arrogance. pRIDE~

>"It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud." (Jacob 41:34)

‎And your body is falling down, falling down....

Somebody's civilization is _______ down, falling down....

Deeper, deeper, the ________ are cutting y̴̋ͅó̸̭u̶̖̎ ̴̞͑ḓ̶̔e̵̙͠ḙ̴͛p̶͖̄ȅ̶̪r̴̠͝. Y̸̼͘o̶͈̕u̵̯͒r̷̥̋ blood blackens. The blathering still corrupts ̶͍̏y̴̪̾o̷͈̊u̴͔͠r̵͚͘ ____s. And the Seed of Malice - ______________

Ä̶͙́͒̅͝B̶̞̪̖͔͚̏̾́͗Y̶̛̲̫̺͓͉̓̊͌S̶͖̃̌S̴̲͇͉̋̒̀͝͝ ̶̛̠̯͉̤̼͌I̵͍͕̹͉̿̅S̶̛̬̦̯̏͂̈́̀ͅ ̸̗͊Ĥ̷̳̂͊E̶̮̗̘̊͑̌R̵̢̻̯̓̈E̵̝͓͗͛.̷̻̃͑͝ ̷̣̜̹̞͈̈́͂͆̾

Killer Queen Chained pathway has already entered your eye.

You will think about Chained.

You will vote Chained.

Outer Gods' reaction to when they hear CW died in the First Epoch:

One of the two goats that survived the massacre!

Pride is a Sin.

The Seat of True Gods is reserved only for those who have proved themselves worthy and are truly able to contend with the burden of Godhood.

Sloth is a Sin.

The Sequence 0 ritual is not the only trial you need to pass.
To climb the towering stairway of godhood you must climb each step individually. Perhaps the lower rituals you can accomplish in some hidden location, yet without passing the Sequence 2 and Sequence 1 stages there will be no acknowledgement.

Maintain your Purity to not fall into Corruption.

Maintain your Temperance and don't be tempted by power to advance too quickly.

Maintain your Diligence, climb each step... and perhaps you too shall reach the Throne one day.

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Else, Abyss will devour you whole.