"It will be a success."
At the Third Training Ground, Caesar felt a surge of helplessness upon hearing Isaac's confident declaration. He wanted to advise Isaac against such arrogance, to urge a little humility—this was an Outer God, after all. But since he knew nothing about the subject, the words caught in his throat. All he could do was turn and look helplessly toward Cheryl.
But what he didn't know was, did Cheryl actually know any better?
While it was true that Arcanists were profoundly knowledgeable, they were, first and foremost, respectable Casters!
Rituals for trading with Outer Gods were the ultimate taboo, all of them sealed away by the Truth Association. She had little access to them herself; the only ones that circulated in the open were basic rituals that were impossible to completely suppress.
Those things had a sliver of an Outer God's power attached to them, making them impossible to completely prohibit.
