NOVPUBEvery time she watched Lanci making cards, he was mostly fiddling with Transformation Magic.
She remembered Hyperion’s most adept attribute was Concealment; her innate Demon Race magic that erased her own presence originated from her main attribute, the Concealment series.
Lanci’s gaze followed the attribute cycle.
The Concealment and Spiritual Attributes they had discussed were respectively on the second and third rows.
To the left in the second row was an attribute, [Poison], which was closer to an elemental type but was already a special type, corresponding to the eleventh chapter of the "Genesis Record". On the right, there were still nine attributes, [Identification], [Enhancement], [Heal], [Regeneration], [Alchemy], [Curse], [Corrosion], [Scouting], [Concealment], corresponding to the twelfth to the twentieth chapters of the "Genesis Record".
Starting from the third row, the prevalence of attributes was evidently lower compared to the second row, with rarity increasing towards the right.
On the left of the third row were two attributes, [Mechanical] and [Link]. On the right, eight attributes, [Spirit], [Psychic Power], [Illusion], [Barrier], [Slash], [Seal], [Counterattack], [Undead], corresponding to chapters twenty-one to thirty of the "Genesis Record".
And in the final fourth row, on the left side were [Space] and [Divination], the most unstable and rarest attributes. Even in the vast majority of eras, the number of world powerhouses with these two attributes have been few.
On the right side of the fourth row was the lone attribute [Destiny], standing there alone, an attribute that creatures could not master and with no corresponding Original Stone Slab, but corresponding to the last chapter of "Genesis Record", "The Chapter of Fate and Reincarnation". It seemed to be both an end and a beginning, creating a space and a misalignment on the chart that seemed to continue on the top left corner with the attribute [Basic].
"No one can control Destiny."
That is the reason there are thirty-three attributes, "Genesis Record" has thirty-three chapters, but there are only thirty-two Original Stone Slabs.
Talia watched as Lanci closed the book stamped with the Cerryti Empire edition of the Attribute Periodic Table and said beside him,
"Or perhaps Destiny is actually in everyone’s hands, after all, the Goddess of Destiny has already merged with the world itself, handing the scepter of Destiny over to the world."
Lanci smiled and muttered to himself,
"You don’t believe in gods, do you?"
Talia asked him with a puzzled expression.
"I don’t believe in gods, but I respect those who do. Some of the people who are faithful to good-aligned gods are indeed sincere and constantly adhere to their principles. Isn’t that a good thing?"
Lanci put the book aside and turned to look at Talia,
"After all, I think those who earnestly pray to the benevolent gods are not bad people."
He said with conviction.
"Indeed."
Talia agreed on this point.
Xiu Bao was the most angelic girl she had ever seen, and Xiu Bao prayed to the Lady Goddess every day, Talia saw it all.
Wait.
Talia suddenly remembered that Lanci had also worshiped the Goddess of Destiny.
But his way of praying, with his hands together and raised above his head, always seemed a bit strange.
"The sister of Landry, Elsa, also appears to be a devotee."
Talia stopped thinking about Lanci’s peculiar way of worshiping the gods and said,
She was worried that to continue such thoughts might be disrespectful to the gods.
"That child said she would go to the Temple of Gods at noon, and only in the evening go to the theater. Young people willing to travel all the way from Saint Kray Monastery to the Temple of Gods are few."
Lanci agreed with her.
This point made Elsa and Hyperion very similar. Hyperion would also specifically travel from the Ichrite East District’s Ichrite Academy to the Ichrite North District’s Church of the Goddess of Destiny to pray each week.
Apart from the Church of the Goddess of Destiny’s headquarters located in Ichrite on the South Continent, there are many churches that worship other gods across the vast lands of both the South and Northern Continent, such as the Temple of Love previously visited in Floral City Pariel.
"If Hyperion were here, she would definitely frequently visit the Temple. It’s been a long time since I accompanied her to the Temple."
Talia had actually fantasized about accompanying Hyperion to the temple in a foreign land.
Hyperion also admired the Krytan Pantheon, a famous ancient relic of the South Continent.
To Talia’s surprise, her last visit to the temple was with Lanci visiting the Temple of Love.
"Here in the Cerryti Empire, people actually worship the God of War and Sword. There’s really not much to see in the battle temple of Brilda, but aside from the War God’s Temple newly built by Krytan in the past century, there’s also the Temple of Gods where most priests and believers can engage in activities."
Lanci pulled out another book on the history of the Tei Empire from the stack beside him and casually flipped through a few pages,
"If you ask me, Dean Loren from the Ichrite Academy is the one who most resembles a priest of the War God, but he’s actually a priest of the God of Fate and Reincarnation, not the God of War and Sword."
On this side of the Cerryti Empire, there is no dedicated Church of the Goddess of Destiny. To find a Statue of Goddess of Fate, one can only go to the Temple of Gods, where statues of all the divine beings stand, as well as the empire’s priests devoted to various gods who maintain it.
For all churches, Divine Arts stem from scriptures passed down from the Divine Era. Even if the world were to be obliterated multiple times, traces of the "Genesis Record" could not be destroyed. It is the existence of this book that has led to the position of priests, and their work is inseparably linked to the gods.
The "Genesis Record" comprises thirty-three chapters total, with the first chapter as the Original and Void Chapter. The last chapter is "The Chapter of Fate and Reincarnation". Neither of these two chapters left behind any Divine Arts. The remaining thirty-two chapters are all recorded with Divine Arts that can be deciphered.
The difference between Divine Arts and Spells is that Divine Arts rely more on resonance with the world or resonance with gods that exist on the conceptual side, while Spells rely on oneself. As a result, Divine Arts consume very little mana, but the number of daily uses is limited. 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓹𝓾𝓫.𝒸ℴ𝓶
