Pirates: It's not a mythical beast, it's a phantom god

"Then I'll take my leave first."

"Well, let's go. Be careful on the way back. I, old man, also need to take a nap."

Taking off his glasses, Old Cook covered his face with the newspaper and gently rocked in his rocking chair.

Listening to the snoring sounds coming from under the newspaper, La gently put the stool and glasses back into the house and left quietly.

Chapter 38 Divine Power and Authority (Two in One)

When he arrived at the training ground, Osi and Obei were already standing there obediently. He calculated the time in his mind and realized that he had arrived five minutes early.

I guess these two little guys are still feeling guilty about what happened this morning, so they came here early to wait.

[Was I a little too harsh on them before?]

Looking at the two people standing straight without even making the slightest movement, La couldn't help but reflect on himself in his heart.

"Don't be so tense, relax a little." She deliberately slowed down her tone.

"Oh, I see. No, I'm not afraid of being punished later!"

Ossi waved her hands hastily, a faint blush on the tips of her ears. Ou Bei sighed, holding his forehead, clearly frustrated by his step-sister's attempts to conceal her guilt.

"Alas, what happened this morning has already been exposed, so I will naturally not pursue it further.

If you two fight again in the future, I won’t interfere as long as it’s not too extreme, and I will give you more freedom in the future.

After all, this world isn't safe either. More combat experience is always good, and I won't interfere too much."

This is also the reason why La is anxious to teach the two of them personally. Whether it is domineering power or the control of the power of the phantom god that he is about to teach, the sooner you learn it, the less chance of accidents.

"Is it true, sis?" Ossi asked carefully.

"Of course." La nodded.

"Great! Now we can have a good fight!"

The red Ossi seems to have a mysterious interest in fighting strong people.

"Okay, let's get back to the point." La walked over to the two of them. "What I'm going to teach you this afternoon is the control and application of divine power."

"But we already know this, right? Sister La."

As Osi spoke, a thunderclap appeared in the palm of her hand. Now she was very adept at releasing this simple divine power.

Looking at the golden lightning, La shook his head.

"The control I'm talking about isn't just about releasing divine power, but about understanding the essence of divine power and authority.

Let me give you a simple example. The clothes you are wearing were woven by me using my divine power. Now, can you weave a set with your own power? "

"Ah! Hehe~ Sister La, if you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten.

"Sister La, how did you do that? Why does the flame have this texture? Before, it was just blocking the view."

Osi tugged at the hem of her skirt. It felt delicate and warm like the finest silk, and the fluorescent dots scattered around as it swayed made her look even more dreamy.

As he became more and more proficient in controlling his power, La recently upgraded the "clothes" of the two of them. Now Osi and Obei are wearing the same "real" clothes as La.

"It's very simple. I simply used my divine power to control the temperature and shape of the flames and attached them directly to you. That 'clothes' is essentially just flames.

This garment is made from pure divine power, first spun into silk thread, then woven into a garment using warp and weft. It is truly a 'divine garment'."

She opened her hands, and the golden particles twinkled in her hands, looking magnificent.

This is the purest divine power before it is transformed into power.

"You should have noticed this morning when you were learning Armament Haki. The divine power in our bodies is essentially a 'universal particle' with extremely high 'plasticity'.

Its properties can be modified almost in any way we want."

"Just like programming, everything originated from C language?" Ober quickly understood what La said in his own way.

"So doesn't that mean we can rely on divine power to accomplish almost anything?

Like nuclear fusion in the palm of your hand... It's not impossible as long as you find the right code!

Going further, can our powers actually be considered as a built-in program, where we only need to input divine power to directly obtain the corresponding wind, fire, thunder and lightning? Is that right, Sister La?"

This kind of logical divergence based on certain assumptions is exactly what Oubei is good at.

"Well... yes, but that's not entirely true. In theory, our power should be something even more incredible. I'd rather compare it to a 'crowbar' than a 'program.'"

"Ah, ah? Crowbar?! Why a crowbar?" Obery was a little puzzled as to why the other party mentioned the name of the Holy Sword of Physics.

"Because 'He' is the foundation for us to change the laws of the real world." La said calmly.

"The universal particle-like nature of divine power can certainly be called a miracle, but its products still fundamentally follow the physical laws of the real world.

Just like the nuclear fusion you mentioned earlier, even if you combine those divine force particles in a way that is suitable for a fusion reaction to occur, they won’t actually start fusing right away.”

"Is it because the physical conditions cannot be met?" Ou Bei reacted quickly.

"Yes."

"The physical laws of the real world are always an insurmountable shackle, and power is the 'holy sword' that forcibly pries it open."

"[Divine Power] and [Authority], we are at the intersection of these two miracles, and thus possess the power to create 'miracles'."

She stretched out her hand, and a small 'sun' quietly floated in the palm of her hand, steadily emitting light and heat.

!!!

"This, this can't be...!" Ou Bei stared at the small ball of light on the handle in amazement.

"Yeah, that's right." La nodded again, confirming the other party's guess.

"This is what is called 'divine power' and 'authority'." The ball of light extinguished and disappeared in Ra's hand, leaving no trace.

"What you are doing now is to increase your control over divine power and your understanding of authority. Do you understand, Obei, Osi?"

"Ossie?"

"Ah! Um...that...Sister La, when did you change our clothes? How come I didn't notice at all?"

Ossi, who had been pretending to be thinking, raised his head and asked shyly.

pull:"……"

Oubey: "..."

"Haha, the main thing is what you guys were talking about, the process, the fusion, I really don't understand~"

The girl rubbed her red hair a little embarrassedly.

……

"In short, the change in the nature of divine power is not as simple as you think.

Although we can knead it as we please, we ourselves are not skilled craftsmen, so the final product may not be what we want.

At least currently, the only available transformation is Haki."

La used facts to pour a bucket of cold water on the two little ones who were eager to try, so that they would not be too ambitious.

"That's not right, Sister La. Aren't the clothes we are wearing also transformed by your magical power?" Osi rarely interrupted.

"That's just the most common change in the spatial position and arrangement of particles, a fairly superficial change.

And the power of domineering power, which directly changes the properties of energy and thus integrates it into a new system, is the true control of the essence of energy.

It's like the difference between a clay embryo and a finished piece of porcelain, understand?"

"I understand, I understand..." Ossi said reluctantly.

Realizing that his tone was not convincing, Osi quickly changed the subject.

"Then...then what should we do?"

Perhaps realizing that Osi was not very good at these theoretical things, La continued talking about the topic she had changed.

"It's very simple. Find the smallest unit of energy you can control, and then use it as a foundation to continuously increase your energy level while maintaining control."

It is a fairly classic incremental method, and it is indeed very simple.

What a ghost!!!

Even someone as confident as Ou Bei couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.

"That is, we need to use every bit of divine power within us as we would an arm, and we can no longer just throw it all away like before...

This, this is impossible!"

It's like saying, "You're good with bullets, now go build ballistic missiles."

And they even asked for it to be smaller than the size of a bullet!

"Is this, is this something a human can do?" Ou Bei touched the hem of his skirt tremblingly, feeling the warmth coming from it, and he felt a little dazed.

For the first time, she clearly realized what kind of "monster" this elder sister who seemed to know everything was.

"People may not be able to do it, but aren't we already not people?"

The golden girl said this calmly, her tone no different from before, as casual as if she was saying 'The weather is nice today'.

Ou Bei and Osi were both stunned when they heard this.

This was a question that they had been ignoring or perfunctorily discussing before. Even when they had told Burfat and the others that they were members of the "Phantom God Clan", it was only half-joking.

But now, La said it in a casual and irrefutable tone, forcing them to face the problem.

And they both knew what the second half of the sentence was that La didn't say.

"We are... Gods!" Ober murmured. This simple sentence had a greater impact on her than everything she had encountered before.

Ossi also fell into a rare deep silence.

"That's right. No matter from which aspect, it's hard to call us human beings. Be it physically, mentally, or even spiritually." La coldly stated the current situation of the three people.

"Sister, do you want us to abandon our human concepts?" Ou Bei obviously couldn't adapt to his current identity in a short time.

"No, it's your own choice what kind of beliefs you hold. It doesn't matter whether they are gods or humans.

I mean to let you jump out of the limitations of your original thinking as a human being. Many things that were impossible for ordinary people before can now be easily done by us. "

For example, the three of them now no longer have a theoretical "lifespan." If they wanted to, they could live until the day the world was destroyed.

"Don't let yourself be trapped in the cage of 'human.' Remember that we are now wielding the power of God in the body of God."

[Beyond the constraints of 'humanity'... Is this why you're always ahead of us, leaving Ossi and I far behind?]

Ou Bei looked at La, who was very calm from beginning to end, and felt half admiration and half bitterness in his heart.

……

"It means that we can be not human beings in terms of being human, or not be human beings in terms of thinking, but be human beings in terms of behavior." Osi's understanding is still so clear.

"What kind of weird tongue twister is this?"

"Na~"

"What happened? Did they steal the navy sonar..."

Oubey turned to look at Ossi, only to see her looking like DIO.

"I'm not a human being anymore, Ouba!"

Sure enough, Osi would not pass up the opportunity to play a meme.

But thanks to her, Ouba's mood improved again.

……

"Oh, right, Sister La. You were just talking about how to cultivate divine power, but what about authority?"

Study committee member Little Ossi raised his hand and asked a question, causing the ends of his crimson hair to sway gently.

"do not know."

"Eh?"

"I don't know." La repeated it again to make sure the other party heard it correctly.

"So-called power is like instinct to me. I really don't know how to teach you something as natural as breathing."

"And each of us has different powers. This time, you can only rely on yourselves. Only the method you find out on your own will be the most suitable for you."