Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "That Holy Angel blood turned out to be considerably stronger than I expected!"
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "It didn't just strengthen my physique—even my Angel form has grown noticeably more powerful."
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "On top of that, healing arts, Angel Judgment, and other secret techniques have just appeared in my head out of nowhere. This has been an incredible windfall!"
After Roxie Vale absorbed the blood of the Twelve-Winged Holy Angel, perhaps because the Angel-type Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit she had previously used had already attuned her physique so thoroughly to angels, she managed to absorb not only the vast majority of the blood's capabilities but the Angel's sacred arts as well.
Beyond a handful of foundational healing, defensive, and offensive techniques, she had even obtained something as formidable as Angel Judgment.
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "The only issue is that Angel Judgment is kind of useless. It turns out it's activated through faith in angels."
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "In my world, after angels first appeared among the Fierce Beasts, there was actually a following. Angels even developed into an entire race after a while—until one angel flew from the West to the East and had its wings severed. Its blood was drained completely dry. The wings were forged into ritual implements."
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "After that, nobody believed in them anymore."
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "It got even worse once people in the West discovered that angel blood was effective in the production of Radiance Elixirs. Quite a few angels were slaughtered outright by Western powerhouses."
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "So this technique seems pretty useless in my world."
Faith, after all, required strength to sustain itself. If the object of one's belief was weaker than oneself—who would bother believing?
Richest Man: "If it were in my world... the power would probably be terrifying."
Tony thought about the reverence angels commanded in his own world. With the faith of that many people combined, putting down a purple potato head should be no problem at all, right?
Dried-Fish Sister Xiao Mai: "My world might work too, I think—though the chances of actually encountering an enemy that would require using this technique are basically zero."
Dried-Fish Sister Xiao Mai: "Daily life suits me just fine."
Electromancer: "It should be useful in my world too, I'd think."
In some worlds, angels were nothing but fantasy. In others, they were very, very real.
As it happened, hers was the latter.
The only unknown was whether the strength of the believers would affect the technique's potency. The magical side of her world probably had quite a few people with angels in the back of their minds.
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "Let's not bring up your world."
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "I genuinely don't want to be noticed."
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "Gods or Aleister—just thinking about them makes me instinctively recoil."
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "My strength isn't anywhere close to enough."
Kasumi Shiko: "So here's the question then. If one day a crossover traveler task appeared in Misaka Mikoto's world—would you risk being discovered by the Gods and cause a scene? Or would you give up on the task entirely?"
Richest Man: "???"
Richest Man: "Does it really have to be this extreme?"
Boil the Ancient One into Soup: "This genuinely is a question worth thinking about."
Boil the Ancient One into Soup: "If none of us possessed the strength to confront a God head-on at that time, I think the answer would have to be to give up."
Dongfang Buchi: "That question is for them to consider, not us."
Dongfang Buchi: "I don't believe I had the ability to participate in a task like that at the time."
Richest Man: "True enough."
Richest Man: "@Child of Nature, @Uchiha Dance King, @Most Ancient God-Slayer, @Wuxia King—@who else do I need to tag again?"
Holy Lord: "What do you think?"
Come Be My Son: "What do you think?"
Sacred Guardian Left Wing: "What do you think?"
Richest Man: "Minor thing, minor thing."
Richest Man: "So—what are your thoughts?"
Holy Lord: "I don't care either way. They can't kill me anyway."
Holy Lord: "Even if they seal me, at worst I buy a Traversal Talisman and come straight back."
Most Ancient God-Slayer: "Two lives. That's enough."
Uchiha Dance King: "The enhanced Reincarnation Eye can see three seconds into the future. That's more than sufficient."
Come Be My Son: "Observation Haki—predicting the future. That's sufficient."
Wuxia King: "..."
Are you all targeting me on purpose?
Child of Nature: "Setting aside whether the chat group can shield our information from detection, the Gods aren't monitoring Earth at all times."
Child of Nature: "If a crossover traveler task from the Magical Index World truly did appear—"
Child of Nature: "We might be able to call in outside reinforcements."
Child of Nature: "Turn a passive situation into an active one. Prevent the Gods' attention from concentrating on us."
Richest Man: "???"
Most Ancient God-Slayer: "Outside reinforcements? From where?"
Zhang Sanfeng: "I looked into the definition of a God. It truly does live up to the name."
Casually warping every law of the world at will. Planets were nothing more than things that shattered at a touch.
Even the legendary Immortals wouldn't be any different, would they?
The chat group actually had someone capable of fighting a God?
Child of Nature: "@Glory of the Northern God"
Child of Nature: "I don't think I need to say anything more."
Glory of the Northern God: "Woof?"
Glory of the Northern God: "Shiba Inu confused.jpg"
Richest Man: "I genuinely forgot all about this dog."
Richest Man: "Now that I think about it, we really haven't heard from it in days."
Zhang Sanfeng: "It?"
Ordinary Mortal Zhang Zhiwei: "It?"
Zhang Zhiwei, just like Zhang Sanfeng, had looked into the definition of a God. Good heavens—the hype was staggering.
Though it was still within an acceptable range. Mythologies that could blow even harder weren't exactly rare.
It was just that once fantasy became reality, it had a habit of making people's mouths twitch involuntarily.
Richest Man: "Exactly as you're imagining. This guy really is a dog."
Richest Man: "There are a hundred thousand cold jokes stored in the memory copy. Read through them and you'll understand."
Richest Man: "I really did forget about him."
Richest Man: "No—it would be more accurate to say my instincts made me deliberately forget."
Glory of the Northern God: "Don't call me a Shiba Inu. Call me Thor, the Thunder God!"
Glory of the Northern God: "I am Thor, the Thunder God—for the Glory of the Northern God!"
Thor, for its part, flatly refused to accept the Shiba Inu label.
Especially after having eaten so much dog food over the past few days. It had seen the future—so why had it kept eating dog food?
Counting the memory copy's version, it had eaten a double portion.
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "Ten Cold and Magical Index, then?"
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "I can't even begin to imagine Li Jing using 100% Bare-Hand Sword Catch, and a God kneeling down to catch the blade."
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "That scene would have to be incredibly intense."
There was, however, one issue.
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "The rules of the Ten Cold World are obviously different from Magical Index, aren't they?"
Perfectly Ordinary Group Owner: "If they went to the Magical Index World, would they still be able to use concept-based abilities like that?"
(End of Chapter)