[Su Mo: "To be precise, it's about allowing you to grasp True Ether, which shares the same nature as divine power."]
[Su Mo: "However, given your understanding, it's not wrong to roughly equate it with divine power."]
Su Mo corrected Erica's statement.
In fact, this correction was equivalent to acknowledging Erica's point.
If she could master this technique, she would truly be able to wield power on par with the gods!
[Erica: "Incredible! Is this just a little bit of insight from Master Su Mo, no, Su Mo Grandmaster... no, God Su's?"]
[Erica: "This completely shatters my worldview!"]
[Rin Tohsaka: "Worldview overturned +1."]
[Rin Tohsaka: "Forget Father, even the Grandmaster, the legendary Second Magician, probably wouldn't be able to match Mr. Su Mo's talent."]
In the world of Type-Moon, the young Rin experienced a shock that felt like being utterly crushed for the first time.
However, as a genius of the magical arts, she didn't feel discouraged.
It wasn't because she couldn't see the gap between herself and Su Mo, but because she was too aware of it to even consider competing.
Faced with a gap wider than the heavens and the earth, she could only look up.
Erica shared the same sentiment as Rin.
Being too young, she might look down on Godslayers, but she would never underestimate Su Mo, who could conjure divine power in a matter of minutes.
The issue of strength can perhaps be solved with luck, but not academic problems.
It's like math; if you don't know it, you just don't.
[Erica: "Compared to you, even the unparalleled Godslayers on my side are just beasts who indulge their instincts."]
As if looking up at a towering mountain, she sighed.
On the other hand, although Xiao Yuan couldn't understand what Su Mo's words meant, like Rin Tohsaka and Erica, she understood from their attitudes just how shocking Su Mo's so-called small insight was.
Therefore, the innocent girl couldn't help but ask a question.
[Xiao Yuan: "Such an amazing big brother, was he really just an ordinary person before?"]
It's unbelievable, no matter how you think about it.
A regular person, upon first encountering mana, achieved something others couldn't in decades.
Is that reasonable?
As soon as he said this, the others were also intrigued.
Was this really not some max-level expert pretending to be a newbie and messing with them?
But Su Mo's answer quickly dispelled their unrealistic speculations.
[Su Mo: "I really am just a regular person."]
[Su Mo: "I just know a little more about esoteric materials, and my comprehension is a little better."]
Upon hearing this, a unified response appeared on the group chat interface.
[Erica: "?"]
[Kanae: "?"]
[Rin Tohsaka: "?"]
[Xiao Yuan: "?"]
[Rin Tohsaka: "A little? You call that a little?"]
[Erica: "Oh! I get it, it's a tiny bit!"]
[Rin Tohsaka: "A universe at your fingertips, huh? That's quite the understatement."]
[Xiao Yuan: "Big brother is being too modest."]
After being speechless at Su Mo's answer, everyone started to tease him.
As for Xiao Yuan's question, when they thought about it, the answer was obvious: completely impossible.
Su Mo's strength had been assessed by the chat group, confirming he was an ordinary person from an ordinary world.
As for why an ordinary person could be so powerful, the only explanation was that they were lucky enough to meet a rising big shot.
The possibility of Su Mo being a big shot who could block the chat group's detection wasn't even worth considering.
If he were that kind of big shot, they wouldn't be able to see through him at all.
Seeing the chat turn from answering questions to meaningless banter, Su Mo immediately left the chat interface.
He didn't mind chatting to relax, nor did he mind answering others' questions.
Just, today was his first time coming into contact with the extraordinary world, and he had a lot more he wanted to verify.
Seeing that he hadn't responded, the others continued chatting, not disturbing him.
Are you kidding me? Who would dare waste the time of such a big shot?
With the intelligence Su Mo had displayed, a casual deduction would be enough to optimize the skills of their world to the extreme. Anything he did would be enough to change their strength, even their destinies.
In this situation, the best strategy was to build a good relationship with the big shot.
Even if he just let a few scraps slip through his fingers, it would be enough to change their own destinies, or even the fate of the entire world.
After exiting the chat interface, Su Mo reopened the group shop.
After solving the initial mana problem, he finally had the foundation and the energy to study those abilities with different techniques.
After all, the relationship between technique and the Dao is one of mutual dependence.
Even the simplest magic skill may contain the essence of an entire magic system.
"Since it's the Mana Refinement method from the Godslayer world, I'll start by researching the magic system of that world."
With that thought, Su Mo observed for a moment and quickly selected his target from the many skills Erica was selling.
A non-ranked, auxiliary magic skill costing only two hundred points – Hermes' Boots.
Originally, after purchasing the Mana Refinement method, Su Mo's remaining points were only a few, but after Erica had bought the Mana Refinement - Master Edition, his points had exceeded a thousand, more than enough to purchase such a small skill.
After the purchase was successful, the method of using Hermes' Boots immediately appeared in Su Mo's mind.
After successfully mastering this magic at the first opportunity, Su Mo didn't rush to try it out, but instead, as before, began to analyze the underlying principles.
"The incantation named after Hermes doesn't seem to be merely a psychological suggestion, but rather a way to gain power by utilizing idol worship?"
Su Mo understood the principle behind this magic immediately.
In the field of the occult, idol worship is a very common practice. Just as most temples enshrine statues of deities, people don't believe that the carved statues are the gods themselves, but they naively believe that even if the replica doesn't have the exact same power as the original, it should at least have one percent of it.
The Hermes' Boots before him were the same. Even if this magic didn't possess the power of the deity himself, it should have at least one percent.
This type of magic, built with the principle of similarity at its core, is widespread in major religions around the world, and is not uncommon.
The only thing that made Su Mo laugh was that this magic was actually a common spell of Erica's.
"If it were just the rule of Christianity forbidding idol worship, that would be one thing, as they themselves almost never abide by this rule. Strictly speaking, the worship of the cross, the Son, and the Virgin Mary should all be branded as heresy."
"But no matter how you look at it, Erica is a descendant of the Knights Templar and a believer in Christianity. How can she openly borrow the power of Hermes, a heretical god, without the church having any objections?"
The moment this question arose, Su Mo immediately recalled the basic setting of the Godslayer world.
Right! In a world where Heretic gods occasionally appear, and with the existence of Godslayers, they probably don't have the ability to voice their opposition.
Coupled with the religious reform wave of Protestantism, the churches in the Godslayer world were probably so weak that they didn't dare to have any presence.
That's fine then.
Shaking his head and casting aside these distracting thoughts, Su Mo devoted himself to the study of magic theory.
Idolatry itself was only the most basic principle of a spell. Figuring this out wasn't enough.
The actual construction of a spell was bound to be a complex technical problem.
If I can successfully master this method of spiritual equipment construction, then I might not need to buy other similar types of magic in the future...
Under the gentle fragrance of the tea, countless models took shape within his mind.