Myth: The Ruler of Spirituality-Chapter 937 - 385 Fear and Revival_2

Chapter 937: Chapter 385 Fear and Revival_2

“What ‘minor Divine King,’ Mr. Aiven is really overestimating me.”

“The power of a Divine Artifact has its limits, not everyone can call upon its influence… just like the Great Serpent of the Central Court, I cannot summon even a trace of it.”

It doesn’t seem like he is lying, Hermes speaks earnestly.

But Laine just smiles, not taking it too seriously.

After all, even in the Mythic World, many things must be logical, which is also why he’s not too concerned about Hermes’s secrets.

Even if an object has not reached the domain of a Genesis Artifact, and really summoned the Great Divine Power, it would not allow the holder to immediately possess the corresponding strength.

So if Hermes really did call forth the shadow of the Great Serpent, it might actually be a good thing.

“Alright, Mr. Hermes.”

“Whether you can do it or not, now you have crafted the Wise Man’s Stone with the help of my lord.”

“For a mortal to forge a Divine Artifact, this achievement is enough to be sung about for ten thousand years.”

“But everything is mutual, Mr. Hermes, since you have already felt the greatness of my lord, isn’t it time you did something to show your gratitude to Him?”

“…Of course.”

I would like to refuse if you’d give me the chance.

Shaking his head secretly, Hermes was mentally prepared for Laine’s request.

No one would help him for no reason; the cost just depends on whether it is openly stated or implied.

Aside from the expected request, there is another matter that leaves the Great Alchemist somewhat frustrated.

The Divine Artifact was perfected, and before he had a chance to name it, someone had already self-appointed it with the title “Wise Man’s Stone.”

Although it resonates with him when he hears it, the fact that it first came from someone else’s lips still bothers Hermes.

However, after pondering for a while, the Great Alchemist ultimately can’t think of a better name.

Therefore, he can only reluctantly decide to give the Wise Man’s Stone another name to signify his existence.

“Memory Stone?”

“Eye of Illusion and Reality?”

“Star of Athens?”

“…”

Related or not, name after name flashes through his mind, each rejected one by one.

After much contemplation, Hermes recalls his previous introduction to the functionality of the Divine Artifact.

‘To the uninformed, it may seem like an artifact for awakening the dead, but it’s merely a response to yearning’…

If the alias of the Divine Artifact is to be widespread, isn’t it meant for those superficial mortals to see?

“Let’s call it ‘Resurrection Stone’.”

Even though he considers himself a true Sage for creating the Wise Man’s Stone, the ‘Resurrection Stone’ can’t actually resurrect anyone, and the two don’t seem quite equivalent, but Hermes feels this doesn’t matter.

Compared to the elusive Sage, for most people, resurrection is more relevant to their lives.

…

Although he’s spirited after completing the Divine Artifact, it can’t overcome the exhaustion of his body.

Laine has more to say, but there’s no need to choose this particular moment.

So, taking a temporary break, Hermes finds a secluded stream to recuperate.

Holding the newly acquired Divine Artifact in his hand, Hermes feels a bit proud of his luck.

Even in the Fantasy World, each Divine Artifact he possessed came at a considerable cost, and their powers might not even surpass the strength of the Wise Man’s Stone.

If Hermes’s winged shoes and the lyre gifted by Apollo are considered the lowest tier of Divine Artifacts, akin to the Weak Divine Power among deities, then the newly created Wise Man’s Stone could probably already touch the edge of Intermediate Divine Power.

Especially this special authority, it further enhances the value of this Divine Artifact.

But these abilities could more accurately be attributed to luck rather than one’s own power.

Just as Laine felt surprised, Hermes himself was also aware of how terrifying it was to be able to borrow their powers, not just to conjure projections of Deities.

In the previous description, the Great Alchemist deliberately avoided a detailed explanation of this, as if the power he borrowed was just a trivial part.

But in reality, he found that he could achieve more than 30% of the actual Deities’ effects.

30%, it seems low, but for the Deities wielding authority, they often only need a fraction of their strength to achieve what others cannot accomplish even with a hundredfold effort.

From this, one can see how rare it was for Hermes to borrow this authority.

It was a distortion of inherent concepts, a subversion of the world’s order… If he had the strength of Great Divine Power Level, then the ‘minor Divine King’ Laine jokingly referred to might even be an understatement.

If he could also overcome the limitation of summoning only one type of projection at a time, then people should probably start referring to the Divine King as ‘minor Hermes’.

However, such ability is obviously not what he should possess, and even the Primordial Gods would not create a Divine Artifact that so blatantly violates the world order.

Thus, the only explanation is the same as the reason for the law’s resonance that led to his complete refinement of the Fates’ Divine Artifact—Hermes attributed the cause to his own past.

There were three people related to the Chaos World, the Lord of the Spirit Realm took all the strength that could be gathered and used it to deal a fatal blow to Hemenu.

What Athena gained was unknown, but she clearly had her own plans.

Compared to the former two, Hermes was far from their equal in power.

He was merely a native being of the Fantasy World, and even his counterpart in the outside world was unlikely to be born.

Perhaps for this reason, he received the favor of this shattered world.

In his memory, lay the information left behind by this world.

Touching upon the Creation Domain, even the faint traces left by the Fantasy World were miracles beyond the imagination of mortals and many Deities.

It attracted the favor of the laws, as well as the birth of the Wise Man’s Stone.

Although Hermes was not very clear about this point, he could roughly guess.

Idly touching the immaculate stone, the Great Alchemist felt a hint of hesitation in his heart.

When he faced Laine before, he did not lie, but he did not tell the whole truth either.

He still harbored apprehensions regarding the so-called ‘Lord of Hell’.

For instance, he indeed could not summon the projection of the Great Serpent of the Central Court, but it was not because the latter was too powerful.

The reason he couldn’t do it was that the Fantasy World had no record of the other party.

Yes, the power of the projections made by the Wise Man’s Stone was so potent, it even exceeded the limits of a Divine Artifact.

Its only non-defect defect was that it could only manifest beings that had no authority or those Deities that once existed in the Fantasy World,

just like the Lachesis Hermes summoned; she was actually not the projection of the Fates from reality, but that of the Fantasy World.

Perhaps this is also why the ‘borrowed’ authority only had a 30% effect—the artifact may have perfectly replicated the other’s power, but the Fantasy brought into reality, even in the same world, had only 30% effectiveness.

In a way, this was actually a good thing.

For instance, in Hermes’ memory, the Moon Goddess of the Fantasy World was distinctly more powerful than her real counterpart, and there were many similar examples.

But there were also shortcomings, such as the Serpent of the Central Court, a being absent in the Fantasy World, Hermes was unable to summon.

Furthermore, although he had not tried it, Hermes could probably be sure that he might be able to project even the Primordial Deities, just with unknown consequences.

The unknown answer was precisely what he hesitated over now.

Great Divine Power and True Gods are different, but whether they are still different in front of the Fantasy World, Hermes was not sure.

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He wanted to try but feared attracting misfortunes… and deep down in the heart of the Great Alchemist, even the Primordial Deities were not the ones he wanted to summon the most.

Compared to that figure who occupied his thoughts day and night, even the so-called Primordial Deities didn’t really matter.