Su Mo's mastery of mythological history need not be elaborated on here.
In short, with his power, he could easily communicate with the mythological history engraved on the planet's annals and freely call upon its records. If he used a Solar Sovereignty, he could even directly call upon the Akashic Records.
And in the world of Little Garden, to avoid the situation of duplicate gods, among the same divinity, Little Garden would only recognize one divinity as the true god.
Therefore, there was only one god of the same name in Little Garden. The god recognized by the Central Hub of Little Garden was equivalent to having completed the convergence in all worlds within Little Garden's scope of interference.
Therefore, even Su Mo, when he wanted to call upon the power of other gods, could only do so in the form of a simulated divinity. Even if the simulated divinity he created was no less powerful than the original, it could still only be considered a replica.
The Indra's phantom and the Brahmastra he had summoned earlier had appeared in this form. So, when Su Mo was preparing to do an experiment and test the faith of the archangel before him, he had originally expected to condense the Gift in the form of a simulated divinity.
However, when Su Mo actually made a move and communicated with the mythological history of Little Garden, he suddenly noticed something was wrong.
Corresponding to the Brahmastra and the Light of the Right, the Gift that carried the Zoroastrian cosmology of certain victory was the sword of the Zoroastrian war god, Bahram. Bahram, also known as Verethragna, was a guardian god of the same status as Indra, and could be considered one of the prototypes for many myths of the New Testament Michael.
This had been introduced when he had subjugated Verethragna in the Campione! world. The so-called invincible Golden Sword, which was later made into a mythological ritual of the victory sword by Su Mo, was named Khvarenah, meaning "the embodiment of divine glory."
Later, when Su Mo initially mastered the Zoroastrian cosmology, the victory sword was promoted to the "Radiance of Kingship", which was the carrier of the cosmology that good would surely triumph over evil. As a senior who had also been bestowed with divine glory, Verethragna also had a myth of being invincible after being bestowed with divine glory.
In comparison, the related legends of Michael were extremely similar.
As a Cosmic Truth, the power of Khvarenah that Su Mo mastered was not discounted. And as a Gift, the sword of Bahram that Su Mo summoned should have manifested in the form of a simulated divinity, just like the Brahmastra.
However, before this, Su Mo had successfully subjugated the Asura King. This made the result different.
As everyone knows, the Aryan people of the Indo-European language family originally came from the same race. It was only due to migration that they evolved into different myths. Therefore, there were intricate connections between the origins of the gods of the Indo-European language family.
Among them, there was a very obvious mirror-image relationship between Zoroastrianism and Hinduism. The evil gods of Zoroastrianism were the good gods of Hinduism, and vice versa. Indra was a typical example.
The Asura King, who did not have a very high status in Hindu mythology and basically appeared as an evil god, had a very respected status in Zoroastrianism. In fact, his spiritual rank's origin was the same as the supreme good god of Zoroastrianism, Ahura, and they belonged to the same god.
Su Mo did not know much about the decline of Zoroastrianism in the world of Little Garden. But he did know that after subjugating the Asura King, he had also captured the original divinity of this Three-Digit god, and had filled the part of the original codex of good with the side of the Ahura divinity.
With the endorsement of Ahura's spiritual rank, the sword of Bahram that Su Mo condensed was upgraded from a simulated divinity to an original divinity. This was also the reason why Su Mo had said earlier that the Radiance of Kingship might be a bit stronger.
Possessing Ahura's spiritual rank, the Radiance of Kingship he created was equivalent to the Radiance of Kingship created by Ahura himself. This was naturally the most genuine of genuine articles, and even the Central Hub of Little Garden recognized this power.
What was truly strange was the Light of the Divine Right bestowed by the one and only God. No matter how you looked at it, this power should not, and could not, be an original divinity!
Looking at the Christian Cosmic Truth in his hand, Su Mo then glanced at the blood-red longsword in Michael's hand. "If what I'm holding is the genuine article... then the Gift you possess is a simulated divinity?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Michael's expression suddenly changed. It was clear that he had hit the mark. As the Vice-Regent of Heaven, what he held was actually a counterfeit.
"So that's why we're evenly matched!" Hearing this, Jibril showed a look of realization. The blessing she had requested from Su Mo was naturally a simulated divinity. She hadn't expected the other party to be the same.
"How do you have the Lord's Gift?" Michael immediately questioned.
"I wanted to ask you the same thing!"
"Let's not talk about why a dignified archangel is holding a counterfeit. After all, the power of a simulated divinity is not that much weaker than an original divinity. But even so, it's impossible for me to create the genuine article out of thin air, right?"
Su Mo had a very clear understanding of his own power. In mythology, the Light of the Divine Right was a Gift bestowed upon the Archangel Michael by the one and only God. Therefore, to forge the corresponding original divinity, two requirements had to be met at the same time.
First, there could not be a corresponding original divinity within Little Garden. There could only be one genuine article at any time.
Second, to create this Gift, one must have an identity that could legally possess this Gift.
When Su Mo had forged the sword of Bahram, he had used Ahura's original divinity. To forge the genuine Light of the Divine Right, he had to use the original divinity of the one and only God or Michael.
Among them, Michael was naturally impossible. Although the power of a simulated divinity was not necessarily inferior to an original divinity, its rank would generally be a step lower. Since Michael was a Three-Digit Full Authority Domain, he himself could not be a counterfeit god. He was the original, so Su Mo could not use the original's power.
And the method Su Mo actually used was the same as with the sword of Bahram. He had forged the Light of the Divine Right through the divinity of the one and only God.
And since what he had created was the genuine article, then by reverse deduction, what he had borrowed through mythological history was not the simulated divinity of the one and only God, but the original divinity.
"Wait! Doesn't this mean that your Christian God?!"
At this moment, Su Mo finally realized the problem.
In Little Garden, there was always a joke. The one in charge of Christianity was the Son of God, not the one and only God. In a sense, this was a subversion of the natural order. The god himself was surpassed by his own son, and even the position of the head of the pantheon had been changed.
However, although it was a joke, everyone understood that there was no way around it. The omnipotence paradox's suppression of the one and only God was too great. After all, the Son of God was a Two-Digit, and the one and only God was a Three-Digit. The competition among the pantheons of Little Garden was fierce, so it was natural for it to be allocated this way.
Since the Dystopia Devil King was subjugated, the one and only God seemed to have been living in seclusion and had never appeared. All matters, big and small, were handled by the Son of God and the archangels. This was actually very common in the heavenly realm. Many Primordial Gods and Buddhas were actually unwilling to interfere in the affairs of the human world, and many even fell into a deep sleep.
But according to Su Mo's discovery at this moment... the previous joke seemed to have become horrifying.
For him to be able to use the original divinity, didn't that mean...
...the Christian God was already dead?