This is not an MMO game copy

"You are not the goddess of 'shooting stars', you are actually the goddess of 'gravity'. Shooting stars are just a manifestation of your divinity."

"You don't have the priesthood of 'fate'. The reason you possess a certain degree of prophetic ability is because gravity exists between all things in the world, including between people."

In Xia Yan's impression, the JOJO series, which is famous for its stand users, actually has a similar setting, which can also explain why he was unable to react when Asthesia suddenly kissed him.

"Wait, that's not right. You're not the goddess of 'Universal Gravity'. Your divinity and ministry are more limited to the realm of 'Celestial Gravity'."

***Papapa...

Asthesia clapped cheerfully.

"I am increasingly certain that falling in love with you, my dear, at that moment was definitely the best decision I have ever made."

She said proudly:

"It seems my vision and luck are much better than those close friends and acquaintances I met in the [Heavenly Realm]~! Haha, even in the [Heavenly Realm], most fools still think I am the goddess of 'Meteor'."

"So, what do you want to do?"

Irena asked unhappily:

"I can 'believe' your claim of falling in love with Xia Yan at first sight, but I don't think you're just thinking about having a destined 'short-lived' relationship with him."

"It's simple... just like you."

Asthesia said softly:

"Although I'm not like some other guy who can directly see the color of a soul, I can tell that you're just like me now, a new entity formed by the fusion of two different 'individuals'... If I'm not mistaken, you were once the same as the previous 'Xingji', am I right?"

Hearing this, Irena's pupils shrank, and after seeing this scene, Asthesia seemed to confirm something and immediately looked at Xia Yan impatiently.

"I want to leave this boring world. I want to be with you forever, my dear. This is all I want now."

"Well, this kind of affectionate confession sounds a bit weird."

Xia Yan said helplessly:

"But unfortunately, the [Great Holy Grail] is currently unable to materialize and preserve a god's incomplete Third Law soul and bring it out of this world..."

In the Type-Moon Fate series world line, it can be said that except for the world line of the Moon Holy Grail War, no matter which Holy Grail War it is, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to summon a truly god-level Heroic Servant, even if it is a downgraded possession.

The reason why Gudako in the FGO world line can easily pull out a bunch of gods and downgraded Heroic Spirits from the Chaldea card pool is not because the FGO world line is an exception to the Fate series, but because Gudako, the crown succubus, is too outrageous.

At least, the [Great Holy Grail] that Xia Yan brought out from the F/A's 'copy' world could not summon god-level Heroic Servants, and naturally he did not have the ability to materialize the incomplete third-law soul, build a god-level spiritual foundation and make it materialize.

"Is this the [Greater Holy Grail] you're talking about?"

"Indeed, a goddess should be able to see that this place is not large enough to support a god, let alone transform one."

"That's fine, as long as I'm not a 'god', that's all that matters!"

A curve appeared on Asthesia's lips.

"What did you say?"

Xia Yan and Yirena were stunned.

"I mean, as long as I'm no longer a 'god' in the [Heavenly Realm], I can leave this world and stay with you from tonight onwards~!"

Asthesia suddenly came forward, hugged Xia Yan's left arm, put her head close to his ear, and said in a sweet voice:

"If you're confused, listen to me carefully. For example, why can't the gods of [Heaven] truly die? Even we can't kill ourselves..."

……

……

In the worldview of "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?", since the setting of "Gods are immortal" in the original Greek mythology is adopted, all the gods in the [Heaven] will not die, but the setting of the work is always just a setting. When the worldview of "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?" becomes a real world.

The gods of [Heaven] were born with an 'immortality' that even they could not do anything about, and had even become a kind of torture for eternity. Naturally, it would not come out of nothing.

And all this is thanks to the special dimension "Heaven" that lies outside of reality.

So, what kind of place is Heaven?

In the general perception of mortals in the underworld, it is the paradise where the gods live and the home of all dead souls in the underworld.

In a sense, this cognition is not wrong, but it is not comprehensive enough, and it also creates a kind of confusion - that is: why can only souls in the underworld return to heaven?

"It's not that mortals can't go to heaven, but that those who can go to heaven can't be mortals."

"Conventional laws of physics are meaningless in the [Heavenly Realm]. In other words, all the phenomena based on the concept of 'matter' that are commonly understood in the lower realms as being inherent in the world do not exist in the [Heavenly Realm]... It is a world of souls, a world of spirits, a world of the mind."

“A world where ‘I think, I am.’”

"Even the concepts of 'time' and 'space' are in a chaotic state. Without a strong observation effect, even the gods in the [Heavenly Realm] cannot meet each other."

Listening to Asthesia's introduction to the [Heavenly Realm] of this 'copy' world, Xia Yan suddenly showed a strange expression, and couldn't help but complain:

"Is the [Heaven] you're talking about also called the Warp or the Supreme Heaven?"

"what?"

Asthesia was slightly stunned.

"Because your introduction to the [Heavenly Realm] gave me a very strong sense of déjà vu."

Xia Yan rubbed his forehead and briefly described his impressions of the Warp/Supreme Heaven in the Medieval and 40K Warhammer series.

"So there are similar places in other worlds!"

Asthesia couldn't help but sigh:

"However, there are still some differences. At least the gods of the [Celestial Realm] are definitely not as powerful as those Chaos Gods in the Warp and the Supreme Heaven you mentioned. Moreover, the situation in the [Celestial Realm] is not that chaotic."

"What's more, there are many gods in the [Heaven], and many of them have studied our immortality and the existence of the [Heaven] in the past, to understand the underlying principles. And now, the [God's Grace] in the lower realms... yes, that's what the gods in the lower realms use to create their own tribes and adventurers for fun. It's the result of their research into our immortality and the [Heaven], a special dimension beyond the veil of reality."

"Among the many divine essences, also known as priesthoods, the subjects studied jointly by the gods who possess wisdom are generally referred to as essences."

"Primordial substance?"

"Well, the essence."

Asthesia smiled and said:

"The origin of the gods, the essence of the heavens... That [God's Grace] is the answer to the research topic called Essence. Only by understanding how the gods were born can we discover the truth about their immortality and the heavens."

"But now, those gods who are still attached to the lower world will probably no longer pay attention to the original research topic."

"?"

"too difficult."

Asthesia gave a wry smile.

"The so-called [God's Grace] allows adventurers to 'level up' and 'become stronger'. Essentially, it's bringing children from the lower realms closer to the gods. Under perfect circumstances, there are only ten LV levels, as Essence only has ten stages, from LV1 to LV10... but it's incredibly difficult. Forget perfectly achieving every stage from LV1 to LV10. Even incompletely reaching LV7, LV8, and LV9 is a near-impossible miracle."

"Wait, you mean that the adventurer level starts at LV1, which means you've reached a stage of Essence, and leveling up means you move to the next stage of Essence?"

"Well, this is also why only the gods of the lower realm can grant grace with their own divine blood. Because only the blood of the gods can build the first stage of the essence, or the first essence, in the body of the children of the lower realm."

"In the Celestial Realm, we generally call this stage of the Prakriti the 'Kingdom'."

(PS: Sorry, the magic modification stage dragged on for a bit orz... In addition, this chapter gives the secondary creation magic modification settings, please do not substitute them into the original work, especially the LV upgrade part, which was purely filled in by me at random)

Fourth instance: 107. God's Grace → God's Path (4k+)

God's Grace

As one of the core story settings and combat system of "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?", in the original work it is something like a "game character panel" installed by the gods in the underworld to the adventurers of the clan.

All adventurers who hold a boon can obtain digitized ability values, can fight monsters to accumulate "experience" to improve themselves, and level up through the feat of "breaking through oneself". They can also use this set of "game character panels" to clearly understand where they are lacking, and develop [skills] related to their personal characteristics, and easily master [magic] by bypassing a series of prerequisites.

What to say?

This is an extraordinary power that has almost no entry threshold, consumes extremely cheap resources, and can be mass-produced and deployed.

If you ignore the various hidden dark sides and powers within this system.

It can be said to be the cheapest and most easily popularized supernatural power.

So, what is the significance of creating this system?

If it is just a story, there is naturally no need to dwell on this kind of meaning. It can be explained away by using reasons that are often mentioned and reiterated in the original work, such as: "The gods came down to the world to have fun" and so on.

It can even be said that it was developed by some responsible gods as a tool to help and save the underworld that was invaded by monsters in the dungeon maze.

But when this story becomes a real world, even if we uphold the argument that "reality is illogical", there are still some things that are completely untenable -

——That is, most of the gods in the lower world are pleasure seekers, and they will do anything to have the fun they want, just like the female Loki who appeared in the plot of "Diqu". Although she is on the friendly side of the protagonist in the main storyline and the side story, she is a true evil god in the [Heaven].

The reason why the Loki family formed in Orario is a lawful good camp is not because the female Loki has changed her ways, but simply because she loves the members of her family, starting from Finn. Because the family members themselves have relatively high morals and character, the female Loki changed the habits of the evil god and took the initiative to cater to the members of her family.

Simply put, for the sake of having fun and developing the characters they like, the destroyer who caused the Ragnarok in the original Norse mythology distorted his own nature and self in the worldview of the Earth's error, and really whitewashed himself.

The gods that came down from the heavens were basically there for fun, and humans wouldn't think anything of it.

As for the lower world in the Earthly Depiction, because of the culture of respecting and honoring gods for thousands of years, they would not consider this a problem.

But from a third-party perspective.

In order to find the fun he likes, the god who came down from the [heaven] became so crazy that he could distort his original nature and self, and he even enjoyed it. It is simply terrifying.

So, is it possible that this large group of potential psychopaths will obey the rules of the game based on [God's grace]?

Is it really possible that some lunatic would suddenly come up with the idea of ​​creating another set of systems and rules?

In the COC and DND group games, the host will also insert village rules, and even use secret dice to trick people into tearing up cards!

Do you expect a bunch of psychopathic people to not try to cheat outside the rules of the game of [God's Favor]?

Or you can simply put aside [God's Favor] and not play it. Anyway, it only restricts you from using divine power directly, and there is no restriction on creating an agent or a champion chosen by God. Even three thousand years before the main storyline, when the dungeon maze just appeared in the netherworld, there was already an example of divine power bestowed upon mortals to create an immortal demigod (a mobile game spin-off story written by the original author).

Therefore, if we follow the normal history and development, after suppressing the world-destroying catastrophe caused by the invasion of monsters in the dungeon maze, the underworld should develop in the direction of Warhammer.

Unless there is some reason that can make the gods in the lower world feel that instead of wasting time and effort to create another private server, it is better to continue playing within the rules of the game of [God's Grace] and have more fun.

And now.

Through going from a lunatic to actively integrating with intelligent NPCs, Xia Yan truly transformed himself into Astesia of 'Xingji'. He then understood why the gods of this 'copy' world all played their character development games based on the rules of [God's Grace].

"So, this [God's Grace] is actually a divine path called [Essence] in essence!?"

“That’s certainly understandable.”

Asthesia nodded and then began to explain in detail.

The Adventurer Level 1 stage is actually the first stage of the [Essence] path, or the first Essence - the Kingdom (Malkuth, Kingdom), which can be understood as the 'Kingdom of Matter' or the 'Kingdom of the Body'.

The divine curse is written with the blood of God, and the adventurer's physical body is "integrated" with his own spiritual (soul) level, constructing an "administrative agency" and "state machine" that spans the material (flesh and blood) and the non-material (soul).

The ability values ​​generated by parameterizing the grace system include strength, durability, dexterity, agility, and magic. The value of each dimension is 0~999, represented by letters from I to S. There are a total of 10 levels of basic abilities, which are the grassroots and people's livelihood of this "kingdom".

The adventurers gain 'experience', which means the 'kingdom' gains population. Only with a large enough population can the 'administrative agency' and 'state machine' grow and develop. The closer the basic value is to S's 999, the better the grassroots and people's livelihood of this country will be.

However, most adventurers at LV1, which is the "Kingdom" stage of the Essence, cannot approach the theoretical maximum value of S999. Moreover, the later the LV, the more difficult it is for the adventurer to improve.

"In theory, whether one can truly 'approach' the gods, and possess the qualifications and potential to embark on the divine path known as [Essence], will be revealed at the Level 1 stage of the first Essence - Kingdom (Malkuth)."

"Of course, S 999 isn't true perfection, it's only theoretically perfect. But if you can't hone all five basic abilities—strength, endurance, dexterity, agility, and magic—to S at level 1... then it's impossible to achieve [Essence]."

"On the contrary, if you refine all the Ss at this stage and perfect the first Essence - the Kingdom - the more you can, the faster and more perfect it will be to build the subsequent Essences, that is, upgrade the LV."

"But that's almost impossible."

Asthesia spread her hands.

"Even if one were to receive the goddess of fate's blessing, and perfectly construct every essence from LV1 to LV10, ultimately achieving the envisioned transformation from human to god, the probability is incredibly low. From what I know, even the most exceptional geniuses in the lower realms can only hone two or three basic abilities to theoretical perfection. Achieving even four is a miracle. The probability of achieving perfection in five basic abilities starting from LV1 is incredibly low."

It's indeed very low... But there's something called the 'protagonist', it's really unreasonable. No matter how low the probability is, the probability of it happening to someone else is 1000%.

Xia Yan silently complained in his heart.

After all, although he didn't have a deep understanding of the original work of Dicuo, he remembered that the protagonist Bell Crany had all five items exceeding 999, exceeding the theoretical perfect basic S, reaching SS or even SSS... and it was from LV1 to LV3, and every time he upgraded the five basic abilities were SS or SSS. When he reached LV4, he simply stopped pretending, and all five basic abilities were SSS, which was blinding.

Of course, we can't say that the male protagonist is cheating... You have to know that the [God's Grace] system has all kinds of hidden dark dealings and powers, and Bell Crany is the darkest of the dark dealings and the most powerful dog among the powerful dogs.

His 'soul' in the previous life was in this 'copy' world. Three thousand years ago, before the gods of [Heaven] descended, Agor, the pioneer of the heroic age who relied solely on the strength of mortals to resist the annihilation of the monsters in the dungeon maze, was suspected of having established a soul bond with Hestia in that life (mobile game plot).

Not to mention, if the movie "- Arrow of Orion-" is included, Bell Crane may not know which life's soul is still connected with Artemis in this world - pulling out the spear (arrow) made of Artemis's divine power, he was immediately pounced on and hugged by Artemis in the form of thought body and called Orion (Orion).

All I can say is that at least two goddesses had labeled Bell Crane's 'soul' beforehand... Oh, and that's not even counting the fact that he was adopted by Zeus in this life...

"It's black, so fucking black~!"

Thinking of this, combined with the previous life plot of the mobile game, Bell Crany had already been connected with the previous life's Sword Lady, and later that cheat-like skill [Devoted to Oneself], Xia Yan subconsciously sighed.