Luo Wei had divined long ago whether she was Queen Isis's daughter, and the divination showed she was not.
However, when the God of the Dead claimed she was Queen Isis's daughter, Luo Wei overturned her divination results out of trust in divine authority.
She even found a justification for herself - during the divination, she had asked about "I", and this "I" might have referred to her soul rather than the original host, hence the "no" result.
What if she had asked "Was the original host Queen Isis's daughter" instead? Would the result have been different?
But even if the original host was Queen Isis's daughter, Otilette, the God of the Dead, could not possibly be her mother.
First, "True Gods are born from light," which correspondingly means Dark Gods are born from darkness. The God of the Dead never denied this statement. When she questioned why Dark Gods would follow True Gods' covenant, He avoided answering and changed the subject.
His silence revealed the answer - Dark Gods had no need to use human bodies to descend to the mortal realm.
Moreover, He himself said He had been guarding that door for a thousand years, meaning He had descended to the mortal world a thousand years ago. So why would He need to borrow Queen Isis's body?
Secondly, if the God of the Dead borrowed Queen Isis's body to give birth to her, why did she end up in a fishing village?
As a deity, surely He could have protected her?
Why had the God of the Dead never shown any care for the original host while she was alive, only blessing her after the original host sacrificed her soul and she transmigrated into this body?
His words were full of contradictions and plot holes. He was lying to her - this current body was not Queen Isis at all.
But why would He lie to her?
What benefit could He gain from this?
Luo Wei reviewed their conversations again and discovered the God of the Dead had two objectives, carried out in two phases.
In the first phase, after she claimed to be the God of the Dead's blessed one, He played along while disguised as a witch, luring her into the underground cave with the goal of having her obtain the Life God's divine core.
In the second phase, after she destroyed the Life God's divine core, He immediately changed his approach - not only revealing his identity but also lying about being her mother, aiming to build a closer relationship with her.
The shift in the second phase was abrupt, indicating even He hadn't anticipated how things would unfold.
Though she had destroyed the divine core and failed to become the God of Life, the God of the Dead's attitude toward her had actually grown warmer.
Why? Had she become more important to Him?
But she held no more bargaining chips than before - she had no power, no divine core, low magical ability, and couldn't even provide much faith. What benefits could He possibly scheme for from her?
The answer was none.
Therefore, His re-evaluation and elevation of her importance wasn't due to any potential benefits she could provide.
If a superior suddenly shows goodwill to their subordinate, there are only two possible reasons: either the subordinate can bring them enormous benefits, or the subordinate has obtained something they fear but cannot eliminate.
The first reason was already ruled out, leaving only the second - the God of the Dead feared her.
Luo Wei pondered carefully what about her could inspire fear in the God of the Dead. Gradually, the image of a giant clock emerged in her mind.
The power to modify time - she seemed to have gained the ability to alter time and traverse through space.
-- If her encounter in the clouds before destroying the divine core wasn't just a dream.
Luo Wei suddenly frowned as she remembered she had also dreamed of a clock once before, when she was in the Misty Plains.
In that dream, she had prevented a Dark Elf from committing suicide.
Could it be that she had also intervened with time then?
Luo Wei's heart raced. This meant she had truly saved that Dark Elf, and the elven prayer she saw in her last dream was real!
At this very moment, thousands of miles away in the Misty Plains, there was an elf wandering through the vast primeval forest!
What she had searched for tirelessly had come to her effortlessly.
Luo Wei had been worried that her teleportation magic rune might fail, making it impossible for her to reach the Misty Plains again, but now her heart was steady.
She had saved the Dark Elf, and when the elf prayed, she had playfully written down "God of Death and Time."
She thought she was playing a prank on others, but she had actually played it on herself.
The Dark Elf had become her believer. Once she learned how to issue divine edicts, she could communicate with the Dark Elf.
Even if she couldn't physically go there now, she could remotely command the Dark Elf to build cities and cultivate land in the Misty Plains, awaiting her arrival.
It was unfortunate that the Sea Serpent tribe couldn't stay away from water for long and despised humans enough to avoid stepping on land. Otherwise, she could have had the Dark Elf lure them ashore to help with the cultivation.
However, Luo Wei felt deeply puzzled about something else.
Could divine power really be obtained so easily?
She had fabricated a deity based on Chronos, the God of Time, and Cronus, the Titan King, yet it had actually granted her authority over time.
Wasn't this too simple?
Or was it because she was a transmigrator, and heaven had given her a cheat code?
Luo Wei pondered for a long while but couldn't figure it out.
She decided to focus on whether she was really Queen Isis's daughter or not.
This was important - if she truly was, she could use this identity to recruit more workers and believers from the Wastes.
Queen Isis was a princess of the Wastes; there must be many talented individuals among her maternal relatives who could be recruited.
Why not divine again?
Luo Wei pulled out her turtle shell from her pocket, closed her eyes to meditate, and entered her spiritual realm.
The stars were brilliant as she looked at the star chart.
"Is this body the daughter of Peggy Isis?"
The stars dimmed, indicating the answer: No.
No? So the original host wasn't Queen Isis's daughter either?
Luo Wei felt increasingly confused. Then who was she?
Why did both Axina and the God of the Dead say she was Queen Isis's daughter?
After calming down for a few seconds, she tried a different question.
"Am I a descendant of either Isis, the God of Life, or Otilette, the God of the Dead?"
Suddenly, the star tracks spun wildly, countless stars fell from their orbits and crashed toward her. A thunderous boom exploded in Luo Wei's mind as she was ejected from the spiritual realm.
The divine could not be scrutinized.
This reason again.
It took Luo Wei a long time to recover from her headache, her face as pale as paper.
The gods held such lofty positions that she couldn't even look at them or ask about them, just as she couldn't directly gaze upon the Sun and Moon Gods. For mortals to try to shake the divine was more difficult than an ant trying to shake a huge tree.
She needed to increase her power as soon as possible. She couldn't possibly follow the regular path and spend decades training to become a mage - that was too slow, she'd be long dead by then.
She could actually feel her magical power growing. At first, her spells could only produce a tiny flame, but now she could create basketball-sized flames and cast them more than a dozen times in succession.
She could also draw twenty-seven magic runes at once now - that was her limit.
But her astrology seemed to have made no progress at all. She had felt her divination skills improving before, but now they seemed to have stagnated or even regressed somewhat.
Luo Wei was certain her feeling wasn't wrong, because when she first started practicing astrology, each divination would leave her dizzy and unwell for a long time.
Later, there were several times when she felt much better after leaving the spiritual realm, showing significant improvement.
One time was when she divined about her identity, just like today when she asked if she was Queen Isis's daughter. Her dizziness had noticeably decreased then.
Another time was when she asked if she could return to her original world, when she asked three questions.
The third time was when she divined whether the Holy Knight would go to Siria Magic Academy and whether it would bring good or bad fortune. The divination results had come unusually quickly then.
Was there something these three divinations had in common?
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