Among blessings, Spirit Primacy stood opposite to the so-called Pillar of the Wasteland Ruins: Physical Primacy.

The names alone made their relationship obvious; they were utterly irreconcilable, like fire and water. The two had never once appeared together within the same Chosen One.

Physical Primacy emphasized that physical matter was the fundamental existence of the world, and all spirit had to submit to physical matter. The essence of Spirit Primacy, meanwhile, was the complete inversion of that relationship, placing spirit before the world itself. It denied that consciousness depended upon material objects, instead emphasizing the priority of spirit above all else.

Physical Primacy at least sounded scientifically reasonable, but Spirit Primacy sounded insane the moment you heard the description. Then again, considering it belonged to the Ascension Path, that was perfectly normal.

The core doctrine of Ascension revolved around the transcendence of the soul and liberation of the will. It focused entirely on absolute subjectivity, with not a shred of objectivity involved. Ideas and theories such as “The world exists because of me,” “All things are already contained within me,” or “Life is but a fleeting dream, where the butterfly and I are one and the same[1],” were absurdly common among Chosen Ones of the Ascension Path.

Merely placing one’s subjectivity above objective reality was considered beginner-level...