Magic world

ykfany” two people’s rewards.

ps: It’s really hard to be a research party... I’d be crazy if I can’t find too much information.

"It seems that it appeared based on the ancient image, or the appearance of Hermes in the human body." Looking at the old man in the summoning circle, Ito Cheng guessed in his heart.

In ancient Greek mythology, the image of Hermes usually appears as a young and handsome young man with a pair of small-winged copper caps on his head and winged flying boots. The legend of the appearance of an old man with full beard.

"I didn't expect that there would be such a treasure on the ground." At this time, Hermes, who finally looked away from the Philosopher's Stone, sighed softly and looked up at Ito Cheng outside the magic circle.

"Hermes?" Ito Cheng, who was not sure whether the other party was the god he wanted to summon, said with a slight frown.

"It's me." Hermes admitted with a kind smile.

In Greek legends, Hermes was also the first god among the gods to show goodwill to humans. There are even legends that it was he who taught humans how to use fire, not Prometheus, so his attitude towards humans In other words, he is probably the most tolerant of all disobedient gods. However, now that he is the God of Taoism, it is hard to say how much good thoughts he can retain in this regard.

"If I'm not mistaken, you are the contemporary god-slayer." Hermes gradually calmed down his expression and asked softly.

"Not bad." Ito Cheng nodded and admitted. And began to stir up the magic power in his body, preparing to start the battle.

"Are you going to use me as a sacrifice in exchange for a harvest from that woman?" Hermes put away the Philosopher's Stone in his hand, and then took out a stone about forty centimeters long in the flickering light, consisting of two golden snakes interacting with each other. It wound up and finally spoke with the two snakes facing each other at the top.

The moment he saw the twin snakes appearing, Ito Cheng couldn't help but increase his spell power to the maximum to prevent him from falling into the trap of Hermes unknowingly. Because in Greek legends, Hermes used this weapon that could hypnotize humans and gods to hypnotize Argos, the hundred-eyed giant, and cut off his head with a knife to rescue the nymph fairy Io who was imprisoned by Hera. .

(In Greek, nymph refers to a bride. It describes a virtuous woman with a beautiful appearance. Another translation refers to an elf or fairy, similar to the sea nymph, the water nymph...the most famous one is the nymph. Probably the Lady of the Lake who gave the Knight of the Lake and King Arthur the sword.)

"That's right, so let's put aside the important nonsense and see the real chapter directly under my hands!" Ito Cheng said in a solemn voice. Then he chanted loudly and involuntarily the Powerful Word Spirit. And it is the most powerful ultimate move right from the start.

"Use the skill of my speaking spirit. Let justice appear in the world! These spells are powerful and eloquent. They are the swords of wisdom that call for victory."

This is the word spirit that summons the god-slaying word spirit sword possessed by the warrior incarnation among the ten incarnations of the glorious Victory Ursragna.

"Hermes. You were originally an independent god!" As these words fell, a dozen orbs of energy, about the size of tennis balls, emitting golden light suddenly appeared around Ito Cheng. It reflected him brightly.

"It is the natural god worshiped by the indigenous people living in the Arcadia region in ancient Greece. Its representative is wind!" Dozens of golden balls of light appeared in Ito at the moment when the words of the spirit fell. Around Cheng, the golden light field expanded outward.

"Oh? You actually know something that happened so long ago?" Hermes said with a gloomy expression, while waving the power in his hand. Lightning bolts immediately appeared from the clear sky and shot down towards Ito Cheng's body, but Immediately, it was blocked by a barrier composed of golden balls of light outside Ito Cheng's body.

"But with the mixing of foreign peoples who spoke Indo-European languages ​​from 3000 BC to 2000 BC, the people who believed in you were integrated, and the legends about you also changed for the first time!" Not at all! Ito Cheng, who was moved by thunder and lightning, continued to chant the words of the spirit in his heart.

"In this period, you began to transform from the powerful nature god to the god of the underworld. You were given the power to travel through the underworld! This can be seen from the obvious characteristics of the god of the underworld in your early myths and legends. Know."

Seeing that his attack failed to work, Hermes frowned. A bright white flash began to appear from his hand, and then the double snake rod in his hand suddenly changed into a thin weapon with several small holes on the surface. The long recorder was placed in front of Hermes' mouth and played.

In an instant, a burst of melodious music that disturbed people's minds, seemed to calm people's minds and make them want to sleep, reverberated in the sky and spread into Ito Cheng's heart.

Ito Cheng, who felt himself in a trance for a moment, concentrated his mind. While maintaining the maximum operation of the spell power, he accelerated the reading of the words in his mouth.

"It's just that as time went by, due to war and national integration, your identity changed again, and you completely lost your identity as a god of nature. Then, you retained some of your functions as the god of the underworld and became a person who was mainly engaged in animal husbandry at that time. The god of animal husbandry who was widely worshiped in our social environment! Even so, you were still one of the main gods at that time!"

At this time, the number of golden light balls around Ito Cheng had exceeded one hundred and began to evolve towards the thousands. At the same time, Hermes was already instigating the divine power in his body, playing music that could break people's will and make people fall asleep. Under the influence of this, Ito Cheng's spirit indeed began to become trance-like. However, knowing in his heart that he could not relax, he still gritted his teeth and resisted the influence of hypnosis, trying hard to maintain the completion of the Sword Word Spirit.

"But soon, your identity changed again in a larger national war, and you almost became a fringe god that no one believed in. But this kind of thing happened in Greece where gangs expanded from the eighth century BC to the sixth century BC. There was a change in the ancient period, and you were once again integrated into the foreign belief system. You became the son of Zeus, the largest belief god at that time, which is now widely circulated Hermes." As these words fell, Ito Cheng The number of light balls around him instantly exceeded a thousand, slowly coiling around him like a golden river.

"The most ironic thing is that the myth formed by Zeus is obviously mixed with the characteristics of your original nature god period, that is, the story of being born in a cave!"

"And as a Hermes period, you were left with various myths and legends, so you were widely spread during this period, and you also had the God of Eloquence, the God of Stealing, and the God of Deception!"

"Then the Roman Empire rose. Greek culture was widely introduced into the Roman Empire, and the Roman Empire, which was extremely tolerant of foreign beliefs, accepted and assimilated it. In the process, you had other people besides Cyrene and Hermes. The third name---Mercury. At the same time, Zeus and Maia also married Mercury's parents, the sky god Jupiter and the moon goddess Rhea, respectively, and became the main gods of Roman faith!"

"Because you were originally introduced to Rome by Greek merchants, during this period you were given the power of the protector of travelers and the power of the god of commerce obtained after mixing with Mercury." The second paragraph has been basically completed. The polished sword light began to fly out from Ito Cheng's side, forming a sword sea of ​​light and shooting towards Hermes, whose expression changed.

at this time. Hermes' entire body began to glow with a bright white light. Then in Greek mythology, the young and handsome Hermes flew out of the light wearing a small winged bronze cap and feathered boots. With great speed, he shook off the pursuit of the Sword Sea of ​​Light, walked to Ito Cheng's side, and hit Ito Cheng with the double snake stick in his hand.

Ito Cheng turned around. Turning around to face Hermes, he faced the double snake power fight from Hermes with the glorious sword that appeared after a verbal statement.

"Block!" The crisp sound of gold and iron rang out immediately.

"Following that, the Roman legions who went on an expedition to Egypt spread their faith to ancient Egypt, and became one with Tot, the Egyptian god of wisdom. You were regarded as the protector of magic, which is the god that modern magicians believe in! "Now that Hermes is no longer using music to hypnotize himself, Ito Cheng, who is freed from mental pressure, reacts even more sensitively. While summoning the sword ball of light to form a barrier to protect the whole body, he continues to chase Hermes with the extra sword ball. Sri Lanka.

As the messenger of God in myths and legends, Hermes, who can freely speak about the underworld, the human world, and the heaven, moves very fast, completely unaffected by the sword's light ball, and rotates around Ito Cheng at high speed, looking for opportunities to attack. .

Seeing this, Ito Cheng couldn't help but frowned slightly. If this situation continues, the sword you create will not be able to cut Hermes' body at all, and even if the sword spirit is compiled, it will be in vain! With a thought, he began to use the light balls of the Sword Word Spirit to lay out a three-dimensional square array.

"In the first century AD, a Greek named Hermes appeared in Alexandria and vigorously promoted the theosophy and alchemy he founded, as well as the core dualism. Because the timing of his appearance coincided with historical needs, he Theosophy was widely accepted by the upper-class people at that time, and became the most important knowledge in society at that time, which was widely disseminated and promoted!" Ito Cheng organized a phalanx of light to surround Hermes, who was flying around. Continue to build the final God-Slaying Spirit.

"But the lower class people who don't have much knowledge can't tell the difference between the scholar Hermes and the god Hermes, so they gradually mix the two into one. So far, in addition to the magic guardian, you have added the power of alchemy. The power of God has become the originator and is widely believed by the alchemists of later generations!" With these decisive words, Ito Cheng finally polished the sword of words and spirits that he used to sever the godhead of Hermes.

"Hermes, you have so many illustrious identities, do you know how to run away!" Ito said to Hermes with words.

"I have seen through your weakness. This golden sword that brings me a dangerous aura has a fatal weakness. As long as it is not struck by it, it will be a useless piece of scrap metal, a ferocious beast that has lost its claws. It will have no impact on me." No threat! So I will not be agitated by your words." Hermes, flying at high speed, said with a mocking look on his face.

"Do you think I can't do anything to you like this?" Ito Cheng said with his eyes following Hermes. Then, after roughly estimating Hermes' flight speed, flight lead and other relevant data in his mind, he suddenly activated teleportation and disappeared from the place, and appeared in front of the defenseless Hermes the next moment. , swung the golden sword in his hand and slashed down.

In an instant, an extremely dazzling golden light suddenly lit up between the sky and the earth. It did not gradually disappear until about ten seconds later, and the situation in the light was reappeared. I saw Hermes, who was flying at high speed, falling to the ground with his clothes torn and covered in dust. He stared at Ito Cheng who was standing opposite him with an unfriendly expression.

"It seems that after you have returned to the true form of Hermes, you have not only become younger in appearance, but your personality is as out-of-the-box, confident, and slightly arrogant as the legend says. It's really an unexpected discovery." He waved his hand and was distracted. Ito Cheng of Daotian Congyun walked slowly towards Hermes, who had his power cut off by the golden sword. At this time, he was like an ordinary person and said.

"And to be honest Hermes, you are so weak!"

After saying that, without waiting for the angry Hermes to speak, Ito Cheng suddenly stepped in front of him, raised the knife in his hand, and chopped off Hermes' head with one knife.

"Poof!" With the sound of blood spurting out, Hermes' head rolled and flew two to three meters away before falling to the ground with a loud sound. At the same time, that familiar feeling of superimposed power emerged from Ito Cheng's back.

"I don't know what kind of power I will get this time..." Looking at the corpse of Hermes on the ground that began to gradually appear actinic, Ito couldn't help but secretly thought.

Then Ito Cheng looked around again, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong, he slowly walked towards the second-floor defense line where Maya and others were, and joined Maya, Aye, Yuanyuan, Erica, and Lily who were guarding the surroundings. Yana and Yuri Banrigu set off back to the city.

However, not long after Ito Cheng and others left, Athena, dressed in modern clothes, appeared on the battlefield where Hermes died. After quietly commenting on the direction of Ito Cheng's departure for a moment, the figure disappeared suddenly into the void just as she appeared.

After returning to the city, Ito Cheng and others visited Greece for a few more days before taking the plane back to Japan together and lived their daily lives leisurely.

During this period, Ito Shigeya finally vaguely understood the power gained after killing Hermes. It is also unclear whether it was because he used the Philosopher's Stone, an alchemical treasure that should not appear on the ground, to summon Hermes. The power he obtained from Hermes was not the most likely one. The protector of magic is the power of the God of Alchemy, an auxiliary power that gives Ito Cheng the feeling that he can create and decompose divine tools.

"Well, it's not bad." Ito Cheng, who vaguely understood the effect of power, sighed in a low voice. (To be continued...)