[Ryuga: "To be precise, it's to make you master true ether of the same nature as divine power."]
[Ryuga: "However, with your level of understanding, it's not wrong to roughly comprehend it as divine power."]
Ryuga corrected Erica's statement.
And this correction was essentially an acknowledgment of what Erica had said.
If one could master this technique, they would truly be able to wield power equivalent to the gods!
[Erica: "Incredible! Is this just a tiny bit of insight from Master Ryuga—no, Grandmaster Ryuga... no, God Ryuga?"]
[Erica: "This completely overturns my worldview!"]
[Tohsaka Rin: "Worldview overturned +1."]
[Tohsaka Rin: "Forget about father, even master, the legendary Second Magic user, might not match Ryuga-san in terms of talent."]
In the Type-Moon world, young Rin felt crushing-level shock for the first time.
However, as a magical prodigy, she didn't feel defeated by this.
Not because she couldn't see the gap between herself and Ryuga, but because she understood this gap too clearly to harbor any competitive thoughts.
Faced with a gap larger than heaven and earth, she could only look up in awe.
On this point, Erica's thoughts aligned with Rin's.
Perhaps someone too young might look down on Campiones, but she would never underestimate Ryuga, who could create divine power within minutes.
Issues of strength might be solved through luck, but academic problems could not.
Just like mathematics—if you don't know it, you don't know it.
[Erica: "Compared to you, even the unprecedented Campiones on my side are nothing more than beasts indulging their instincts."]
Like gazing up at towering mountains, she sighed with such admiration.
Meanwhile, though Madoka couldn't understand what Ryuga's words meant like Tohsaka Rin and Erica could, she grasped from everyone's attitude just how shocking Ryuga's so-called "small insight" was.
Thus, the innocent girl couldn't help but wonder:
[Madoka: "Such an amazing big brother was really just an ordinary person before?"]
It seemed inconceivable no matter how she thought about it.
An ordinary person achieving in their first contact with magic what others couldn't reach in decades.
Was this reasonable?
As soon as she said this, the others became curious as well.
Wasn't this just some max-level boss pretending to be a newbie to tease them?
Soon, Ryuga's answer dispelled such unrealistic speculation.
[Ryuga: "I am indeed an ordinary person."]
[Ryuga: "I just know a little bit more about mystical materials and have slightly higher comprehension."]
As soon as he said this, the chat interface showed unified replies.
[Erica: "?"]
[Kanae: "?"]
[Tohsaka Rin: "?"]
[Madoka: "?"]
[Tohsaka Rin: "A little? You call this a little?"]
[Erica: "Oh! I get it, it's a hundred million little bit!"]
[Tohsaka Rin: "A universe at your fingertips, right? The difference is way too much."]
[Madoka: "Big brother is being too modest."]
After feeling speechless about Ryuga's answer, everyone began teasing him.
As for Madoka's question, thinking about it carefully, it was completely impossible.
Ryuga's strength was verified by the chat group—ordinary world, ordinary person, this was undoubtedly true.
As for why an ordinary person could be so amazing, they could only attribute it to their luck in encountering a rising big shot.
The possibility that Ryuga was some big shot who could shield himself from the chat group's detection wasn't worth considering.
If it were such a big shot, they wouldn't be able to see any flaws.
Seeing the chat content shift from Q&A to meaningless chatter, Ryuga immediately left the chat interface.
He didn't mind relaxing through conversation, nor did he mind answering others' questions.
It's just that today was his first contact with the supernatural world, and he had more things he wanted to verify.
Seeing he didn't surface, the others continued chatting without disturbing him.
What a joke—who would dare waste such a big shot's time?
With Ryuga's demonstrated wisdom, a casual deduction would be enough to optimize their world's skills to the extreme. Whatever he did casually would be enough to change their strength or even fate.
In this situation, the best strategy was to build good relationships with the big shot.
Even if only scraps fell through his fingers, it would be enough to change their own fate, or even their entire world's destiny.
After exiting the chat interface, Ryuga reopened the group store.
Having solved the initial magic power problem, he finally had the foundation and energy to study those abilities with various effects.
After all, techniques and dao were inherently interconnected.
Even the simplest magical skill might contain the crystallization of an entire magic system.
"Since it's the magic power extraction method from the Campione world, let me first study the magic system of the Campione world."
Thinking this, after observing for a while, Ryuga quickly selected his target from the many skills Erica had put up for sale.
An auxiliary magic costing only two hundred points, unranked level—[Hermes' Boots].
Originally, Ryuga's point balance after purchasing the magic power extraction method only had single-digit leftovers, but after Erica bought the[Magic Power Extraction・Master Version], his points had exceeded a thousand, more than enough to purchase such a small skill.
After successful purchase, the usage method of[Hermes' Boots]immediately appeared in Ryuga's mind.
After successfully mastering this magic at the first opportunity, Ryuga didn't rush to try it, but began analyzing the underlying principles as before.
"Word spirit chanting in Hermes' name—this doesn't seem to be just psychological suggestion, but utilizing idol worship to gain power?"
Ryuga immediately understood the principle behind this magic.
In mysticism, idol worship was quite common behavior. Just as most temples enshrine divine statues, people don't believe the carved statues are the deities themselves, yet they naively think that even if replicas don't have the exact same power as originals, they should at least have one percent of the power, right?
The[Hermes' Boots]before him was the same. Even if this magic didn't have the deity's original power, it should at least have one percent, right?
This type of magic constructed with the law of similarity as its core existed widely in major religions worldwide and wasn't unusual.
The only thing Ryuga found amusing was that this magic was actually one of Erica's commonly used spells.
"If it were just the Cross's prohibition against idol worship, that would be one thing—they hardly follow that rule themselves anyway. Strictly speaking, worshipping crosses, the Holy Son, and Holy Mother should all be branded as heresy."
"But Erica is, after all, a descendant of the Templar Knights, a believer in Christianity. To so brazenly borrow power from heretical deities like Hermes, and the church has no objections?"
The moment this question arose, Ryuga remembered the basic setting of the Campione world.
"Oh right! With heretical gods appearing from time to time and Campione demon kings existing, they probably don't have the ability to express opposition."
Combined with the Protestant Reformation wave, the church in the Campione world had probably weakened to the point of not daring to assert its presence.
Then never mind.
Shaking his head and casting aside these miscellaneous thoughts, Ryuga devoted himself wholeheartedly to researching magical theory.
Idol worship itself was just the most basic principle of the technique. Identifying this point wasn't enough.
True technique construction must be a complex technical problem.
"If I can successfully master this spiritual equipment construction method, perhaps I won't need to purchase other magic of the same type in the future..."
Under the wafting tea fragrance, thousands of models were constructed in his mind.
To be continued...