"Whoa! Am I really this strong?"
Looking at her own handiwork, even Jibril was shocked.
If before she had relied purely on her massive energy reserves to surpass the gods, then now, after receiving the shared Authorities from Su Mo, her strength had undergone a qualitative leap.
Energy that surpassed that of a typical god, coupled with an Authority capable of severing divine power, had brought her strength to its absolute peak.
With such an all-out strike, not even the Divine Protection of Steel was enough to ensure one's safety.
"As expected of my Master's power!" Jibril was utterly convinced.
No wonder Su Mo had said she didn't understand power. Who could have thought that the effect of a god's Authority was so ridiculously potent, achieving ten times the result with only one portion of energy.
With her current strength, she felt she could probably take down a Dragonia on her own. Of course, compared to the gods of her own world, there was still a bit of a gap. After all, even if their Authorities were similar, the gods of her world had far more energy than she did.
But regardless, she now had the qualifications to slay a god. Even her Master God, Artosh, would probably not be able to take her strongest blow head-on without moving.
She was now one great step closer to fulfilling Artosh's wish and granting him defeat!
As Jibril was delightedly pondering these things, Uriel, who had been watching from the side, suddenly showed a look of joy.
"The heretical angel is exhausted! Let's go!"
After unleashing Heaven's Strike, Jibril had, as expected, reverted to her childlike form.
Anyone who saw this change and noticed her weakened aura would naturally understand that the previous attack had consumed the vast majority of her strength.
Realizing this, Uriel's heart was set. As expected, such a tyrannical power must come at a corresponding price. Although they had suffered heavy losses, as long as they could capture the enemy, it wasn't a defeat.
At Uriel's call, several archangels who had escaped with Godspeed rushed toward Jibril together.
Uriel drew his flaming sword, its tip aimed directly at the small Flügel girl.
"Thou hast committed the great sins of pride, wrath, and greed! In the name of the Lord, I shall punish the sinner!"
As the angel who ruled over Hell, his mastery of judgment and condemnation surpassed even Michael's. Seeing that he was making Jibril even weaker, his confidence surged.
"Six against one! The advantage is mine!"
Just as the six angels were about to surround and annihilate the weakened Flügel…
At this critical moment, the young Flügel smiled sweetly.
"You guys are so easy to bait!"
The moment her words fell, to Uriel's astonishment, she once again returned to her twelve-or-thirteen-year-old loli form.
The magical energy in the Holy Grail was more than enough for her to transform several times!
Seeing the deathly smile on Jibril's lips, some angels wanted to use the same trick and escape again with their Godspeed Authority.
But to their surprise, Jibril simply raised a hand slightly, directly sealing the surrounding space.
As a Flügel, manipulating Elementals and space were her innate instincts. The Godspeed Authority, while swift, was nothing before the ability to manipulate space.
"Don't worry, you all aren't worthy of me using Heaven's Strike. Come, let me properly test the power Lord Su Mo has given me!"
With a chilling laugh, Jibril condensed a silver scythe of light in her hand. Then, with a physical prowess that surpassed even divine beasts, she launched a ferocious pounce on the angels before her.
In a single exchange, an angel's chest was pierced through. Not even holy light could heal the wounds inflicted by a god's Authority.
Seeing Jibril slaughtering the angels, the fallen angels and demons exchanged glances, growing restless. However, before they could act, they were stopped by their leader, Azazel.
"Instead of the angels, perhaps we should be more concerned about the Godslayer on the other side."
He locked his gaze on Su Mo, who appeared to be completely unguarded.
"To catch bandits, first catch the king, no?"
Azazel clearly hadn't noticed that the moment his gaze fell on Su Mo, Jibril's eyes had already locked onto him. Su Mo's task for her was not to be disturbed. Therefore, anyone who tried to disturb Su Mo was her enemy.
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While Jibril was clearing out the legions of angels and demons, Su Mo was studying the Primordial Divinity.
Using his material body, aether body, and astral body simultaneously, under this triple interference, the core of Michael's Primordial Divinity was completely exposed, held in Su Mo's palm.
On the surface, the so-called Primordial Divinity was just a golden polyhedron, about the size of a fist. But in Su Mo's eyes, this fist-sized object contained more complex information than the game of Go.
The oppression of heretics, the blood of believers, the crucifix of the Son of God's suffering, the slain dragons and serpents, the wails of the righteous, the resilience of saints…
Countless fragments of historical images, in the clearest possible way, surged into Su Mo's mind through the resonant interference of his astral body.
It was these histories, etched into the planet's chronicles, and the people who lived them, who had shaped the guardian angel Michael with their prayers.
He held the sword of judgment, slaying the evil dragons that persecuted the faith, debasing pagan gods into demons, protecting every believer who dared to resist, and guarding the future of humanity from the temptations of devils.
It could be said that the image of Michael was the phantom of a rebellious hero, jointly constructed by Christian believers in the face of persecution and despair.
The one true God did not need to contend with devils, so the combative aspect of the good god was entirely bestowed upon him.
The sleepless angel, the holy spirit who loathed evil, the hero who slayed dragons and serpents…
Prayers from all aspects had piled up to create the Divinity of Michael, to condense the Primordial Divinity that symbolized this god.
"So much information…"
Feeling the massive flood of fragments washing over his mind, even with Su Mo's comprehension ability, he felt a momentary pressure.
"As expected, the core of a Primordial Divinity is Stardust Particles and mythological information."
At this moment, Su Mo had completely unraveled the structure of Divinity.
The material basis of a Primordial Divinity was Stardust Particles.
That was why Su Mo could use the resonance of his own Stardust Particles to transcode it, allowing him to absorb and master the astral body of the Primordial Divinity with his own, just as he was doing now.
Once the absorption was complete, as long as he had enough energy, Su Mo could mass-produce the Divinity of Michael.
The informational structure of a Primordial Divinity was the myth itself.
If the Stardust Particles formed the basic structure of a Primordial Divinity, then the myth was what determined the differential structure between different Primordial Divinities.
Overall, a Primordial Divinity was a dual structure that encapsulated specific mythological content and used Stardust Particles to realize that information.
The mythological conceptual information determined the content and effects of the Divinity.
The Stardust Particle body was responsible for turning the informational blueprint into a physical entity that could interfere with energy and matter.
To master a Primordial Divinity was to master the related mythological concept itself.
"If I incorporate Primordial Divinities into my Mythological Thaumaturgy, I will gain a higher degree of matching freedom and be able to exert more comprehensive control over myths!"
Previously, when Su Mo constructed his Mythological Arts, the basic unit of construction was still the Divinity, at most broken down to the level of an incarnation.
This was because his mastery of Divinity itself only went that far.
But now, by mastering a Primordial Divinity, Su Mo's grasp of Divinity had become precise down to the level of the shifting beliefs of humanity.
If a Divinity was software, then the previous Su Mo was just familiar with all of its operations. The current him had delved into the level of its source code.
Under this level of microscopic control, Su Mo could maximize the power of a Divinity, and also disassemble and reassemble it to the greatest extent.
If so, the power and scope of his Mythological Arts would explode, reaching a level that ordinary gods could not comprehend.
At that point, Su Mo would no longer be a wielder of Divinity, but a Master of Myths.
If he could reach that stage, ascending to Tier 5 Star-Busting would be effortless. Even Tier 6 Galactic might not be out of reach.
"Transitioning from Divinity to Myth—this is definitely the right direction."
Su Mo was very certain of this point.
"But before that, there's one important problem to solve…"
As he thought this, he focused his gaze on the shrinking Primordial Divinity in his hand and absorbed it all in one go.
A massive torrent of information once again flooded his mind. Instead of a myth, what he felt he was receiving was the entire history of a myth, equivalent to the hyper-compressed lives of a million people.
"Even with my brainpower, it takes this long to completely absorb one Primordial Divinity."
Thinking this, Su Mo glanced at the army of light that Jibril had instantly killed, where Primordial Divinities were scattered everywhere.
"To absorb all of these, won't it take at least a few months?"
To absorb a Primordial Divinity, its mythological core had to be translated and understood in Su Mo's mind through astral body resonance.
Only after understanding it could Su Mo interfere with his own astral body and fully absorb the Primordial Divinity's power.
If he didn't interfere, these Primordial Divinities would eventually return to mythology and then give birth to new gods.
But if he tried to absorb them now, his absorption efficiency couldn't keep up.
For Su Mo, the difficulty of absorbing a Primordial Divinity wasn't in comprehension—be it human prayers or the evolution of faith, these were easy enough to understand.
The real problem was the sheer volume of information.
It was so vast that even with his computational power rivaling a quantum computer, he still needed a certain amount of processing time.
Against a single god, it wouldn't take much effort. But to completely absorb the Divinities of an entire pantheon this way would be too difficult.
"It seems I must solve the problem of my computational power."