I corrected my post above but that still leaves the issue of why was >6 power MC worth his time (to kill) when 300+ power mc is only worth very vague statement and not killing despite him being able to "pull" him back in against MC will.That means "not equals zero". It means you have trained, not that you haven't. The reason that specific power level gets you Dead End #3 is because it lets you fight Ella and have a good enough showing against her that she realizes you have potential, so she calls the 4th Apostle to manifest its avatar to do something to you. But the Lord of Dark also manifests his avatar, to kill the 4th's and then, presumably, Ella. You run, but it then hunts you down and does...I don't know. I'm really not sure what happens in that ending to kill you, and I suspect I won't have the context to understand it until much later in the game. It binds your legs so you can't run away, then shows you a weird glowing orb that it has concealed inside it. You reach out to it, and then game over. No explanation given. There's a graphic that kind of looks like an explosion of energy. Did you destabilize the orb by touching it and that killed you? Was that intentional on its part? I have no idea.
IMO Ella killing MC for being better at memory until her 5th level makes way more more sense than the lord of Dark killing you randomly at >6 but then talking to MC despite the fact that MC is multitudes stronger but still (presumably) way weaker than any apostle
Edit: unless (like ella) the lord of Dark learned something about themselves/MC and then went from "I'll kill him when he is still a very fresh level 1 noob" to "please MC head these words I'm putting in more work than any other apostle to do this"
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