Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 306 My Enemy is a God?

Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg.

An Orthodox priest is praying before an image of the Virgin Mary in a church.

Viktor Letov, a devout believer, made it a daily ritual to pray before the statue of the Virgin Mary. The content of his prayers was always the same: asking for salvation and forgiveness. This time, as usual, he murmured the prayer and made the sign of the cross on his chest.

But then he heard a voice, "Victor..."

He opened his eyes and was astonished to find that the Virgin Mary in the painting was looking at him.

A hazy glow descended from behind the Virgin Mary, and the unparalleled holiness brought tears to his eyes.

He knelt down with a thud, overwhelmed by an unprecedented honor that nearly made him faint with happiness.

But he still heard the Virgin Mary's gentle, loving, firm, and unwavering voice, "Victor, calamity. Calamity is coming..."

"Calamity, calamity?!" Victor finally recovered from the great shock of the Virgin Mary's apparition, and was immediately terrified by those words.

As an Orthodox Christian, he was naturally very familiar with the miraculous appearances of the statue of the Virgin Mary.

The Virgin Mary saved the Soviet Union three times, sparing it from the hands of the Mongols, Napoleon, and the Nazis.

Without a doubt, she will only appear when the Su Kingdom faces a major crisis of life and death.

The calamity she spoke of must have been such a terrifying event.

Is the Soviet Union about to face another enormous crisis of national subjugation and annihilation?

"Where is the calamity? Mary, the birth of God, please guide me..."

The Virgin Mary turned her gaze to the southeast and repeated the terrible prophecy once more, "Calamity is coming..."

Suddenly, the light disappeared, and Victor found himself still standing in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary, without moving an inch.

He looked southeast, trembling.

Southeast of St. Petersburg lies Moscow, Kyrgyzstan, and an ancient East Asian country…

What exactly is the calamity that the Virgin Mary refers to?

……

Almost the same scene played out in countless churches and Orthodox homes throughout the Soviet Union.

Overnight, the entire nation of Su knew that the Holy Mother had appeared again and revealed the coming of a calamity.

……

When Murphy arrived at the Spring Palace, Grandma Yaga and Sophia were already waiting in the reception room.

In front of them was a statue of the Virgin Mary.

Murphy spotted the portrait immediately and instantly understood the meaning of what Granny Yaga meant by "Mary's appearance".

"This is..." Murphy asked, somewhat uncertainly.

"Yes, this is the Maria you were talking about," said Grandma Yaga.

Murphy frowned; this was truly unexpected.

He thought Mary was the name of some wizard, but it turned out to be the Virgin Mary.

"My enemy is a god?" Murphy asked incredulously. "She really exists?"

Logically speaking, since magic already exists, the existence of a god isn't so unacceptable. But if she exists, why do wizards, who have more contact with mystical forces than Muggles, mostly seem to be atheists?

You can tell from their catchphrases that they don't say Christ, but instead use "Merlin".

And in the various documents and records of the wizards, there was not much discussion about gods.

“I don’t know if she exists,” said Grandma Jaga, “but she certainly showed power through the statue of the Virgin Mary.”

"What happened?" Murphy asked.

"Al-Qaem also has some Muggle-born wizards who receive their education in the city and may then settle down. Some of them are religious. Therefore, some wizards in the city are Orthodox and may have statues of the Virgin Mary in their homes."

"About ten minutes ago, several wizards discovered that the statue of the Virgin Mary in their homes suddenly appeared and revealed a prophecy to them."

"The Virgin Mary said that calamity is coming, and that the calamity is related to the north."

At that moment, Murphy also received an urgent communication from Barty Crouch Jr. in the mind network.

"Master, something terrible has happened! The statues of the Virgin Mary in churches and Orthodox homes all over the country are showing signs of impending doom."

"Based on their feedback, we drew the direction the 'Statue of the Virgin Mary' was pointing in on the map. The location where they converge is in the suburbs of Moscow, which is exactly the site we just decided on for the construction of the 'National Laboratory'!"

National laboratory?!

Is Maria here for the national laboratory?

No, he had previously used the fairies to sabotage his own plans; his goal seemed to be to stop them.

Murphy looked at the statue of the Virgin Mary in the room, activated his magical vision, and a layer of dazzling light lingered on the painting, "Green, blue, purple..."

Purple... The residual magic on the portrait appeared almost blackish purple in Murphy's eyes.

Color is actually something that the brain processes based on the intensity of signals transmitted by visual cells. Murphy's brain directly borrowed the pattern of distinguishing light visual signals, using the same color difference as optical vision to label different magical signal intensities. Because Murphy has tetrachromatic vision, he can see ultraviolet colors that are deeper than purple.

At this moment, the magical colors in the portrait have almost reached Murphy's color vision limit.

Most ordinary wizards have magic power at the yellow or green level, and very few can reach the blue level.

Murphy glanced again at Queen Sophia and Granny Yaga in front of him. Sophia carried many items with high magical power, the strongest of which was purple, but her own magic was a bright yellow-green—not much different from that of an ordinary Hogwarts graduate.

Grandma Yaga's magic color is basically the same as her own, a deep blue that is almost purple.

But the magical color of the portrait is ultraviolet—which means that the "thing" that left the magic on the portrait—whether or not it is a god, at least, its magical power far exceeds the level of ordinary wizards, and is even stronger than his own and Grandma Yaga's.

This may be proof that his "realm" is higher than his own.

"The owner of this portrait must be an Orthodox Christian, right? Can I meet him?" Murphy asked.

Soon, a male wizard was brought into the reception room; he was the first wizard to report the miraculous event to Lady Jaga.

The wizard had barely entered when he saw Murphy and exclaimed, "Evil, a demon?!"

After saying that, she turned to run away, but was caught by Granny Yaga. "What's going on? What did you call him?"

"A demon! He... he has horns, and... and black wings... goat... goat hooves... his whole body is wrapped in green lightning... God, there really are demons in this world..."

(End of this chapter)