"Even the Four Ancient Gods are like this if you look deeper, but I did mention that Harwin is different from them. What do you think is the difference?"
the difference……
Hitzfeld thought for a moment before answering: "Life level?"
"Oh?" Crow stared, "Can you tell me more about this?"
"My understanding... is roughly from the perspective of... structure." Hitzfeld frowned, "You said before that there was something called magic energy particles in the last era."
"Yes."
"Magic energy particles are similar to elemental energy. By arranging the particle structure, they can release so-called spells, which is what you mentioned about moving mountains and filling the sea."
"That's right!"
"You also mentioned that one of the advancement directions for magic controllers is to transform their bodies into elements, so I wonder if there will be some changes in their physiological structure at that stage?" Hitzfeld asked tentatively, "It is possible that... they are human in appearance and internal anatomy, but in fact, in a more subtle field... in the microscopic field, magic controllers who can transform into elements actually have many different organs?"
"Did you come up with this idea yourself?" The Blood Crystal Crow's eyes were full of surprise.
“…I can’t find any reference books either.”
"That means you are born to do this." Crow pointed at her and wrote the word "structure" on the blackboard.
"Indeed, as you said, when one reaches the level of a high-level magic controller, the physiological structure will change."
"It's not just as simple as having stronger organs and tougher bones. Some particles will fill into their bodies without them noticing, replacing the original composition."
"This is not a good thing! The more elements are used, the shorter the life span of high-level controllers will be! After all, their life level has not been broken through, and their flesh and blood bodies and energy particles cannot completely coexist and transform. If this continues, one day they will suddenly explode into a pile of minced meat, and it will be difficult to collect their bodies."
"So how can we break through this limitation? You should have guessed the answer."
"Yes, it means becoming a 'God Lord'."
"The Lord Gods are gods from previous generations. They actually rely on their bloodline. Strictly speaking, there is no way for mortals to naturally upgrade to Lord Gods, because Lord Gods also rely on their bloodline to control power. At most, they can pass this power on to their descendants. How can mortals get involved in this inheritance relationship?"
"This is a deformed system, and I know that... In the beginning, the mother tree gave the authority to the four gods, and the four gods then reproduced and created the second and third generations of gods. The Namiyans living on the earth today are nothing more than the creations of the later generations of gods, the 'creations of creations'. So you can imagine - as long as this inheritance relationship exists, the relationship of superiority and inferiority will never be broken."
"Gods are always gods, and humans are always humans. Even though they are not very different in terms of physiological structure, and can even intermarry normally, you just can't do what they can do."
"So there was resistance?" Hitzfeld listened carefully and wanted to analyze it.
"I'm not sure that guy was rebelling for that reason. I prefer to think of him as a complete lunatic."
The crow didn't look too happy.
Perhaps recalling some bad memories, she waved her wings to indicate that she wanted to skip the topic.
"In short, you just need to understand that this is why the Way of Flesh and Blood was once favored by the Mother Tree."
"Structure, physiological structure, microstructure, coexistence of flesh and blood and energy - these major topics studied to the extreme can not only allow mortals to break through the boundaries and become gods, but also solve the dilemma faced by the mother tree at that time - it didn't know who would be its savior, so it simply helped everyone... this damn thing!"
At this point she couldn't help but burst into curses.
Hitzfeld suspected that if the mother tree itself was not the embodiment of Namiya's will, and the mother tree had already been eaten by Amen-Haven, the crows would definitely find ways to kill the mother tree.
At the same time, she had a vague understanding.
Can't it be because of this... Because the way of flesh and blood and flesh and blood magic can really help solve these problems, my mentor let me keep the original blood species?
"Let's not talk about this anymore...let's talk about the Great One." The crow coughed.
"The Great Ones are those Gray Mist Evil Gods... um, Outer Gods."
"You may think that their way of explaining power is to eat, eat, eat. They don't understand particles or structures... Even if their consciousness contains knowledge that may be countless times more than Namibia, they are too lazy to use it. This is of course because 'eat, eat, eat' is the most suitable for them, and it is enough for them to devour worlds one by one."
"Humans cannot fight against them, and neither can the Lord God. So the 'God' we are talking about here must be like Harwin, that is, he must be combined with the mother tree, and his life level and body structure must have made several leaps, far exceeding the so-called Lord God. Only then can there be hope."
"That is to say," Hitzfeld added, "Xia and I are not real gods now. If we want to become real gods, we should eat the new mother tree? And combine with it?"
"That's it."
Then this is almost a unique promotion path.
Hitzfeld understands it this way:
Under normal circumstances, there is a barrier separating humans and gods. Humans are lower than magic controllers and lower than gods. The controllers are close to the gods, and their body structure tries to transform into that of the gods. However, because the "key factor combining energy particles and flesh and blood" can only be passed on through blood, no one has succeeded in doing it before.
But because of the catastrophe, the way of flesh and blood appeared.
It breaks this limitation in a seemingly evil way, which may include "mimetic deformation". It skips the blood inheritance step and directly grabs the blood and gene of the Lord God for research and fusion. Among them, there are very few geniuses who can completely copy the structure of the Lord God. In this way, although they still "know the result but not the reason", at least the new body they create by imitating the Lord God can release the power that only the Lord God can release.
Of course, the power will definitely not be the same... The instructor also said that kind of spell requires the construction of a particle model, which is a work of thought and is not easy to imitate...
Next up is Emen-Haven.
Now throw the current Namiya's extraordinary knowledge into the mix of inequalities.
Human＜Extraordinary＜Master of Magical Power＜Lord＜＜＜The Great One≤True God (Aimen-Hawin).
It is indeed a leap...and in order to make this leap, one must first gain the recognition of the mother tree, and leave a mark on the mother tree, or be branded by the mother tree.
Xia and I have already completed this step, which is what the instructor calls "qualification".
The next step is to completely merge with the new mother tree. In this way, you can jump over several big steps in one breath and directly leap to a level that is enough to compete with the great ones.
In the past, this was the exclusive promotion route for Amen Harwin. After all, there was only one mother tree... Even if others knew this method, they couldn't imitate it. The only tree had been eaten by her. She had absorbed the power of the world into herself. This was an unrepeatable miracle.
Hitzfeld thought for a long time and asked, "How can I merge with the mother tree?"
"how could I know?"
The Blood Crystal Crow looked at her as if she were a fool.
How strange! You act as if I have experience!
"So if I successfully merge with the mother tree... I mean, is it still there?"
She actually cared more about this because the new mother tree contained Laurel. She could accept symbiosis with the mother tree, but she did not want the mother tree to disappear after this fusion and combination occurred.
"I can't give you an answer on that."
Blood Crystal Crow spread his hands.
"After all, there is only one successful case so far. You have to figure out the tricks and changes on your own. What I can do is to distill the principles and explain them to you so that you don't take too many detours."
Yeah.
Hitzfeld fell into thought again.
In that case, she felt that even if she and Xia Zhen completed the leap in life level and flesh and blood, they would not necessarily have as strong power as the Sun King.
Because no matter how you look at it, the reason why the Sun King is so strong on this promotion route is that she has gathered the power of the entire Namiia.
The original mother tree lived a long time, and the laws and causes and effects contained within it must be so vast and unimaginable.
The new mother tree is ＜＜＜the original mother tree.
To put it bluntly, the new mother tree that caused them tremendous pressure was just a seedling in front of the original mother tree.
Using this kind of thing as the "foundation of Taoism" is not as good as the Sun King who used the original mother tree as the "foundation of Taoism". It is very reasonable...
But our original goal was not to become as strong as Emenhaven.
She became firm.
The "becoming a god" I envisioned was just to avoid being too far behind those great ones, so that I couldn't even hide Namiya's location.
We don't need to be as strong as her.
As long as we can raise our life level to the point where we can face the Great Ones and resist the pollution from their radiation, we can then find a way to completely blind the outside world to Namibia's exploration and perception.
It is enough to achieve this level.
Chapter 4: Critical Hit and Physical Examination
It was a dreamless night. After finishing her class, Hitzfeld took time to take a bath. Even while lying in the bathtub soaking in hot water, she was still looking over what she had just written in her notes.
She watched it while taking a shower, lying in bed, and watched it until dawn. It was only when Xia Yibing turned over with a moan that she woke up.
"You can fool me sometimes, dear."
The woman was curled up naked in the quilt, looking up at Hitzfeld with half-open eyes, while he moved towards her, put his arms around her waist, and put his head on her lower abdomen.
"…It seems like your insomnia hasn't been cured at all."
Hitzfeld knew that Xia Yibing was putting pressure on him.
In the past, she stayed up late casually. Even if it overdrawn her health, the worst that happened was that it would only overdraw her health.
But now it's different, she's carrying a new life in her belly. Her overdraft will affect the baby, and staying up late all the time is really not good.
"I won't do that again." Hitzfeld assured her, "This is the last time...it's your fault for inviting so many people."
"But aren't you happy too?" Xia Yibing smiled. "I know you don't like so many people gathering just for you, but think about it...besides this reason, what other excuses are there to make them all come?"
Hitzfeld was stunned and realized that this was indeed the case.
Some of her friends were of extremely high status, but it was absolutely impossible for them to invite everyone else to the party on the pretext of a birthday.
Just because they have a good relationship with Hitzfeld doesn't mean they have a good relationship with each other.
So it's really just me.
They are only willing to come when it’s my birthday.
This feeling of unknowingly becoming the center of attention once again made Hitzfeld feel a sense of unreality. She really didn't think she should be treated so well, but she couldn't say the words of rejection she said last night.
After getting up and washing up, Hitzfeld saw that the Blood Crystal Crow had returned to the locket to sleep, so he took the opportunity to talk to Xia Yibing about the content of last night's class.
"Oh~ So we have to find a way to integrate that thing... into ourselves?"
Xia Yibing wanted to say "eaten" at first, but then she remembered that Aisuen's mother was also in there, and saying that would inevitably violate taboo.
And isn't this terrifying? If Laurel really still exists, for Aisuen, it would be like being with her mother, and she wouldn't reject it, but for me... I would have to get along with that woman every day... I would definitely be driven crazy by her!
Shivering, Xia Yibing felt it would be better not to do this.
Then they talked about the sublimation of life and exchanged ideas about the subtle differences in their lives since the return of the ice lake.
"I sleep more comfortably now." Xia Yibing said first, "At first I thought it was because 'Changxia' was reforged, but it's impossible that I don't have nightmares at all. I guess I still have nightmares occasionally, but I am generally immune to their effects."
In fact, she never had nightmares again - not even when she wasn't sleeping with Hitzfeld. It seemed that as long as she didn't want to have nightmares, she would definitely not have them. In this regard, she seemed to be able to make her wishes come true.
"...The power of the white whale and the ice needle have both increased." Hitzfeld was more concerned about strength.
"I've checked the materials. If I and Hu Tao use the same ice bombs made of the same materials and the same gun, there's a 50% chance that my results will be 1% to 2% higher than Hu Tao's."
"What's the reason?" Xia Yibing frowned.
After she came back, she did handle official business, but she was the director after all, and there were many things she didn't need to do herself, and she hadn't touched a gun for some time.
"Coincidence." Hitzfeld smiled playfully.
"If the conditions and factors have not changed, the only explanation is coincidence."
"It seems that my luck has improved. As long as I use it, there is a greater chance of triggering some low-probability events."
Because the real lethality of ice bombs is actually the explosion of ice crystals. How the ice crystals explode in this process, whether they explode in one direction or dispersedly, or whether they explode unsteadily or not to the extent expected, are all possible probabilistic events.
Hitzfeld discovered that after returning from the ice lake, she could turn some of the low-probability events into high-probability events. Combined with the Blood Crystal Crow's theory, the so-called "qualification", it was hard for her not to think too much.
Think about it from another angle. The new mother tree is also a mother tree. It is roughly equivalent to the embodiment of the world's will. If this thing favors me, then it means that the world's affinity has increased, and it seems reasonable that my fortune has improved?
Because you are loved by the world, your critical hit rate is improved.
Critical Hit Rate: 5% → 50%
Moreover, this critical hit rate is not limited to the use of ice bombs. Hitzfeld has tried it privately. Her success rate in mixing perfumes and potions has greatly improved compared to before.
Her cooking skills have also become more sophisticated: she doesn't know the detailed proportions and recipes of many dishes and seasonings, but even if she tries randomly, the things she makes may be more delicious than what she remembers.
Overall it was a good thing, but Hitzfeld was used to being cautious about everything. She felt that this kind of preferential treatment was very "floating". As long as she didn't really complete the sublimation of life and hold the fruit of power in her hands one day, she would always feel nervous to enjoy this preferential treatment.
"Look at it from a bright perspective. We have already begun to sublimate~"
Standing behind the mirror, Xia Yibing reached out and rubbed the girl's face.
So tender.
Theoretically, she shouldn’t be called a girl at 20… but I just can’t help it, she is the embodiment of this term…
"And didn't Yusilian make you want to be a god?" the woman asked again, "What did you say?"
"I haven't thought about it yet."
Hitzfeld slapped her hand away and began to apply ointment to his face.
