Seeing someone completely ignore their barriers and brazenly teleport into the headquarters of the Copper Black Cross, the members of the association felt more astonishment than alarm.
After the astonishment, they felt no fear.
Not to mention that the Copper Black Cross was a renowned and prestigious name among the many magic associations, nor that the association's head, Saint Paul, was a famous Paladin.
Even setting aside these advantages, just looking at Erica, who happened to be present, the members had no reason to panic.
Although it hadn't been fully confirmed, their young miss was a suspected God-Slayer-level existence. Who would be so suicidal as to come and tweak the tiger's whiskers at a time like this?
Under their slightly proud gazes, as expected, Lady Erica walked towards the newcomer.
Is she going to teach him a lesson, or take him in for questioning?
Under the expectant gazes of the members, Erica... Erica... she knelt!
Huh?
The magi of the Copper Black Cross were stunned on the spot.
When had their young miss ever shown such a humble attitude? Even if she wasn't a God-Slayer, she wouldn't be so servile, would she?
Such doubts vanished in a puff of smoke after hearing Erica's words. It wasn't servility, but the basic etiquette towards the liege she had sworn fealty to.
At this moment, the identity of the strange man was no longer in doubt, and the reason for Erica's reluctance to reveal the truth was exceptionally clear.
The members immediately scrambled to kneel on one knee and salute.
"We welcome Your Majesty the King!"
"Mhm."
Looking down at the sea of kneeling people, Su Mo gave a faint nod, not particularly surprised.
The magic world of Europe had been thoroughly disciplined by Marquis Voban, and most had a considerable psychological trauma when it came to God-Slayers.
Although there was no shortage of fools who wanted to test a God-Slayer, most were more obedient than the magic world of the Far East.
Su Mo had no need for pomp and circumstance, but their attitude was convenient for communication, so he had no intention of changing it.
"Everyone except Erica, withdraw!"
With a casual command, the other magi, as if granted a great amnesty, immediately accepted the order.
Even though this was their magic association's headquarters, in front of a Demon King, no one dared to assert any so-called sovereignty.
Soon, everyone filed out, leaving the entire hall to Su Mo and Erica.
"Lord Su Mo, the news of you becoming a God-Slayer will likely not be kept secret for long."
Although she knew Su Mo probably didn't care, Erica still gave him a reminder. With so many eyes and ears, this news would almost certainly be leaked.
"It doesn't matter. There's no need to deliberately hide it." Su Mo shook his head. If he had cared, he wouldn't have teleported here directly.
"Compared to that, didn't you say before that you had the magic association collect magical materials in advance?"
"Yes!"
Hearing that Su Mo seemed to care about this, Erica immediately became excited. She spoke in a tone as if asking for praise.
"All these collections are now arranged in a sealed library upstairs. If you wish to see them, you can go now!"
She knew Su Mo might be interested in these things.
"Well done." Su Mo was not stingy with his praise for his subordinate's efforts.
However, he was not currently interested in ordinary magic. After a deep analysis of divinity, what he needed most now was a specific type of magic.
"Among these materials, are there any rituals related to summoning gods?"
"Magic related to god summoning?" Erica reacted quickly. "Are you planning to use it to summon Heretic Gods?"
"Correct." Su Mo nodded.
"I made a discovery while studying divinity. I need a large number of divinities to confirm my hypothesis."
Through his self-experimentation, Su Mo had gained more insights and information than through purely theoretical research. After dismantling and fusing divinities multiple times, Su Mo confirmed one thing.
That is, within a divinity, there indeed existed a material structure that carried mythological information. It was this structure that determined the specific attributes of the divinity.
After multiple experiments, Su Mo discovered that in its normal state, this unknown structure only exhibited a basic gravitational effect and was not affected by electromagnetic or strong/weak interactions.
But when activated, this structure would, like DNA expressing itself, capture and interfere with the free energy in the outside world, turning it into divine power.
According to Su Mo's speculation, if this structure could be completely isolated from the existing divinity, it was highly likely that this structure could not only gather divine power but also process and transform it into divinity.
If this hypothesis was correct, then as long as he could master this structure, he could very likely replicate, and even mass-produce, divinity!
If gods were energy life forms that descended from mythology, then this structure was the key bridge connecting mythology and the material world!
Just like a mold in a foundry, as long as one mastered this structure, divinity would hold no more secrets. Even controlling mythology would no longer be impossible.
After discovering this structure, Su Mo naturally wanted to master it as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, after designing several experiments, he realized that the number of divinities he currently possessed was still too small. The errors and interference caused by the differences in divinity attributes were too great.
To obtain more reliable data, he had to acquire a large amount of data from a large number of divinities, and only then could he perform data processing and effective analysis.
After confirming this, Su Mo paused his research and left the Netherworld. In this world where Heretic God disasters were frequent, there should be a similar summoning magic.