The little surprises foretold by astrology arrived, and Selene finally made a decision, and Hecate was in a good mood.

She casually cooked the strange-looking sea monster, extracted its flesh essence, and took the Moon Goddess to an island not far away.

There, she cooked dinner for the two of them, accompanied by drinks made from various plant fruits.

Although Hekate had learned how to make wine, she admits that many of the wines taste good, but she doesn't like them very much.

The gods who relied on instinct and authority may have liked this drink that dulled their minds and left their worries behind, but Hekate avoided it.

In contrast, the so-called 'tea' is a little more interesting.

After enjoying a sumptuous dinner and turning a branch into a set of tables and chairs, Hekate began to happily become a mentor.

In the past, she has always been the object of teaching, that is, in recent years, she has begun to discuss with Baby Slate. But now, it's her turn to teach others.

"So, Selene, before I begin to study witchcraft, let me ask you, what is witchcraft in your understanding?"

Tapping on the table, recalling what the slate had taught himself in the first place, Hecate had learned the same.

The effect of simply instilling knowledge is not necessarily good, and only by letting the listeners think in learning can there be better results.

"Well, it's a way to use spiritual power to combine with the particles that exist in everything to form a power that you call 'magic power', or to directly use the spirit itself to harm others."

After thinking for a while, Selene said with some hesitation.

The flow of the elements can be directly observed by divine vision, but the Moon Goddess knows that witchcraft should not be so simple.

Directly drive those elemental particles all over the space, and she can do it with her divine power. Hekate, however, was able to use what he called 'witchcraft' to unleash their power even more.

The wonderful trajectories outlined by those spirits seem to contain some deeper secrets.

"It's just appearances, Selene. Using the spirit to influence the elements, that is the simplest and most crude way. As long as the spirit is strong enough, has not learned any witchcraft, and has not mastered the method of refining magic, he can also influence the elements to his own use. ”

"Just like directly wielding divine power and using authority, the gods amplify their power thousands of times through the laws of the world, so whether there is authority or not is the key to dividing the true gods and the regional gods, and the same is true of witchcraft."

There was a rare seriousness on the little face, and Hekate finally concluded:

"The essence of witchcraft is to borrow power, to borrow power from mysterious sources, to borrow power from great beings, to borrow from the past and the future, and of course, the simplest is to borrow from the world itself."

"By understanding the laws of the world, imitating and learning, and then making the rules of the world think that you are a part of it, then it will naturally give you feedback. It allows you to pry feedback a thousand times more with a single point of force, and unlike those who are self-conscious, the world itself will never reject you as long as you follow the rules. ”

Suddenly, although Selene heard witchcraft, he was contrasting with his own divine powers.

Although his own [Moon] priesthood is weak, it is also part of the laws of the world. Before, she only knew that under the influence of the priesthood, the effect of divine power would become stronger, and at the same time, it would have different characteristics. She didn't know what the reason was, and most of the gods didn't know either, but they didn't care.

Just as mortals don't know why exercising makes them stronger, they don't understand the logic behind this behavior, but that doesn't prevent them from taking advantage of it.

"I see!"

"Whether it's witchcraft or priesthood, it's actually close to the roots. The closer you get to the rules themselves, the more powerful the impact that a single energy can have on the world! ”

With some excitement, Selene felt for the first time that the secrets of the world were being revealed before his eyes.

"Yes, even that's the direction of the gods' promotion."

Nodding slightly, Hekat remembered what the slate had told her.

Even the gods use authority to control the rules, not the rules themselves. Only the great divine powers of legend can be directly integrated with the power behind the authority, the origin of all things, which is why they are powerful, because they themselves are part of the root.

However, it is not possible for a normal mind and will to maintain this 'integration' without guaranteeing the integrity of one's personality. So even the primordial gods, when they appear in personified form, can no longer fully manifest their power.

And in the guesswork of the slate, 'making something out of nothing' is the higher realm, which is the one that becomes the definer of the rules by the rules themselves, and it is the world of Kaos itself that can do it. Just as the primordial chaos is empty, because of the hazy instinct of the world, which defines the concepts of "earth", "darkness", and "abyss", the existence of the world.

The deity, or the ultimate of all power, is to become the being equal to the world, to be the source of all things, the first one, to rearrange all things by their own will. The practice of a shaman, on the other hand, is to imitate the gods, to follow the rules as they do, and then to return to the same path.

According to the slate, this is called 'thousands of avenues, different paths to the same end'. But how to make a wizard become like a god, with the ability to rule the rules first, this is something that Slate doesn't know.

It could only guide Hekate to become a god by weaving a magic web, but it couldn't make her do it in a way other than a god. In this regard, it expects that future generations of human beings will be able to complete this step with wisdom.

Although the red-haired witch didn't think that humans had this ability, since it was said by the slate, she agreed with it.

"After talking about witchcraft, it's time to get to the most fundamental power of wizards, meditation and magic."

After a momentary thought, Hekat came back to his senses and continued to explain to his friend:

"Do you know where the magic comes from?"

"A mix of spirit and elemental?"

This time she answered quickly, after all, she had seen Hekate refine magic more than once.

Although it was her first encounter with witchcraft, the weak Moon Goddess became more and more interested in it. These contents related to the nature of the gods and the world did not directly give her power, but it seemed to open a door for her.

In the past, the power of the gods was inherently constant, and only a few beings like the god of the sea were able to increase their divine power by expanding the area of the realm, so that Selene was not interested in many things.

Finding a powerful guy and living happily under his protection is her only wish. But now, it suddenly occurred to her that, if possible, she wanted to be like Hekate, hanging up and beating a guy as impudent as the golden retriever last time.

"You're right, but in reality, the key to magic is the special sublimation of the spirit and the elements. Just like witchcraft, magic is also an imitation of divine power. Perhaps the end of its continuous sublimation is an alternative divine power. ”

She didn't notice the thoughts of her friend in front of her, but Hekat felt the enthusiasm of the other party somewhat, which also made her a little more motivated.

"As a god, you should know that in fact, divine power is an all-powerful power. It's just that if there is no corresponding authority, the gods will consume tens of millions of times their power before they can reach the level where those who have authority can do it at will. ”

"Hmm."

Nodding, Selene knew that the divine power was indeed like this.

Just like in the myths of later generations, many gods can make mortals old or rejuvenated, give living properties to dead things, or turn people into other monsters, which all reflect that divine power itself is actually omnipotent.

It's just that this omnipotence is based on ignoring attrition. Aphrodite, who loves and beauty, can spare no divine power to make a sculpture a living person, but has no authority to live, at most a few more, which is the limit of what she can do at one time.

Let a city have a good harvest or a drought, many gods can do. But to stop all the plants in the world from growing, that is a right that only Demeter can exercise, and not even Zeus can stop her. If he wants to rejuvenate the earth, he can only negotiate a compromise with his sister, who is in charge of harvest and growth, and cannot forcibly terminate her will.

"I see, the particles that float through everything, what you call 'elements', each of them has its own characteristics."

"But the magic that you use to mix them with the spirit and sublimate them can manifest different natures. You want it to burn, and it's the 'fire' side. If you want to create a stream of water, it shows the 'water' side, which is a kind of 'omnipotence' in the elemental realm. ”

Shocked again by the magic of witchcraft, the moon goddess's eyes lit up.

"Yes. Using magic to imitate divine power, witchcraft imitates priesthood, and the original witchcraft was originally an imitation of the innate sacred. It's a pity that it can only go so far at the moment. ”

"After all, what is imitated cannot be compared with the source. Divine power comes from authority, but magic comes from itself. ”

"How can the power of the individual be comparable to the laws of the world?"

Shaking his head, Hekate said, "Okay, let's not talk about that, the next step is meditation, which is the most useful part at the moment." After all, without the help of the [Complete Book of Ten Thousand Laws], my most powerful method is also spiritual witchcraft. ”

"As an authoritative god, you don't need to be like me and use the celestial bodies in the spirit world as the source of meditation. On the contrary, mortals can actually use you as an object and create a 'Selene Meditation Method' or something, haha~"

Laughing a little, Hekate turned puzzled and said, "But your moon seems a little strange, its presence in the mysterious realm is surprisingly weak. If it's the same as the sun, you just have to meditate on your own priesthood symbol. ”

“.”

There was a moment of silence, Selene knew the reason, it was all a promise made by his father and the god-king. One of them was generous to others, and the other was that they didn't expect the moon to become their daughter, which eventually led to today's results.

For some reason, few gods mention this, so it's normal for Hekate, who doesn't make much friends with other gods, not to know.

But after all these years, Selene is now a little happy. If she is a moon goddess with medium divine power, then it is estimated that she will either be like her brother, doing things for the god king with a silver chariot, or just like her father, she is sealed in the moon and cannot come out.

Then she wouldn't have had the opportunity to travel the world, let alone make a good friend like Hecate.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, as the goddess of the moon, although the moon in the spirit world is not under your control, it will definitely be very close to you."

Looking at her silent good friend, Hekat thought that the other party was secretly sad, so she quickly changed the topic.

Take a special incense from your pouch and light it with a fire, and a special aroma comes from it.

"Acacia gum is mixed with sandalwood in equal proportions, which helps to relax the mind during meditation, which is also a useful knowledge point for beginners."

"Let's take a look at the spiritual world of July, which is also one of the greatest sources of spirituality in the world. As for the rest, I'll tell you later. ”

After thinking about it for a while, I feel that Zeus belongs to a state where he can write a lot, but it is inevitable that there is no distinction between priority and priority, and if he doesn't write, he doesn't know if many people understand. However, given that Zeus is best known for becoming a god king, the growth record should not have much sense of existence, so I will skip a little bit of bells and whistles. And there are a lot of bugs in the myth about the Titan Wars, timeline conflicts, like in some versions, he has time to have children while fighting, causing family conflicts, and I don't know if the war is fierce or not. So in order to be reasonable, many events have to be a little later, such as a bunch of sons of Zeus, who will be reborn after he is hammered by the 'protagonist'.

(End of chapter)