Free Web NovelChapter 128: Chapter 128 Divine Decrees_1
Late at night, after resolving various miscellaneous affairs, Aiden came to the dungeon below his office.
When he opened the massive dungeon gate, Aiden found that Melifilia was not sleeping as usual but was staring at him with her silvery-gray eyes.
"I’ve been waiting for you for a long time, my jailer," she said with a grin to Aiden.
"Did you know I would come to find you?" Aiden wasn’t surprised.
"Ah yes, of course, because you and I are attuned to each other..." Melifilia said in a mocking tone.
But Aiden didn’t take this as a joke: "Tell me, can you read my mind?"
He had long felt that Melifilia possessed some ability to obtain external information and suspected she might have the ability to read minds.
"Don’t worry, mind-reading is indeed one of the powers of the spirit authority, but I can’t use it now that I’m nailed down by the Holy Nail. So as I said, we are merely attuned, you see? We are linked by an invisible red thread, hahaha..." Melifilia teased Aiden.
It seemed that she wasn’t willing to elaborate, but Aiden could at least be certain of one thing, that there was some peculiar connection between Melifilia and himself. This connection might have been established when he was summoned to this world, probably a result of the corresponding Divine Decrees.
He could vaguely sense that, even outside this dungeon, Melifilia would still be able to "observe" him through this connection.
But from Aiden’s experience, Melifilia didn’t know everything he knew. This "observation" was at least not to the extent of full surveillance over him.
"I can sense that you have quite a few questions to ask. So today, let’s not play around. Just ask what you want to know," said Melifilia, suddenly broaching a serious topic with ease.
Aiden went silent for a moment. He had been through a lot these past days, solving the issues with Rebecca and Presia, blending into the witch assembly, learning about divinity and the Divine Decrees, the witch assembly... the Blood Moon Cult...
He did have many questions, but the one he most wanted to ask was indeed: "The divinity in me, you gave it to me, right?"
"Of course, aren’t you happy? You’ve always carried ’the first blessing’ I gave you. Knowing about divinity also means..." Melifilia’s eyes narrowed, "you’ve mastered the Divine Decrees, correct?"
"Divine Decrees? So that thing has a proper noun?" Aiden retorted.
"Yes, the thirty-six Divine Decrees that represent the authority of the ruler, each one symbolizing a unique power." Melifilia smiled cheerfully, "To think you’ve actually managed to master it, you haven’t disappointed me."
"Why are you so happy? Why did you divide the divinity with me?" Aiden asked bluntly.
In the face of this question, Melifilia simply raised her eyebrows: "Have you ever had pets?"
"I understand," Aiden answered instantly.
Melifilia showed a knowing smile.
Aiden understood, Melifilia meant that she, with the mentality of feeding food to pets, had given a part of the divinity to Aiden, just as humans feed fish, lizards, insects, and give them food as one would to these lowly beings.
For Melifilia, the idea of Aiden, who was fed divinity, being able to use it successfully to master the Divine Decrees undoubtedly brought the pleasure of watching a pet grow rapidly after feeding.
Although this explanation was somewhat irritating, Aiden didn’t say anything, as he did benefit from it, after all. Besides, he had long understood that in Melifilia’s eyes, humans like him were no more than ants. freёwebnoѵel.com
"So, which of the Divine Decrees have you mastered? Tell me about it," Melifilia asked.
"It’s a Decree that can disperse magic and automatically organize things that are in disarray..."
Aiden chose not to speak the Decree outright but rather simply summarized its effects, unsure of the risk of saying the Divine Decrees to Melifilia.
"I see, it’s the ’Return’ from ’Order.’" She immediately understood, "This Decree can revert things altered by external forces back to what the ruler considers a ’normal’ state. But with your current amount of divinity, you probably can only disperse simple magic, repair a broken thing, or tidy up a room."
"The higher the divinity, the stronger the effects of the Divine Decrees?" Aiden inferred from Melifilia’s words.
"You’re only half right. It should be that the more Decrees of the same category one masters, the closer one approaches the corresponding authority, and the stronger the effects of the Decrees become," Melifilia explained calmly. "But the upper limit of Decrees an individual can fully master is determined by the level of their divinity. For example, even if you learned a second Decree now, you would be unable to unleash its effects due to the limited divinity."
"This sounds a bit like... skill points?" Aiden associated it with a similar concept.
"Hmm, you could say that," Melifilia agreed with the analogy. Aiden had played some RPG-themed board games with her, so she understood the concept. "Like skill points, you can allocate the divinity you acquire to the Decrees you master. To master more Decrees within the same category, the required divinity would increase exponentially."
Aiden started to grasp it more clearly: an individual’s divinity is like skill points, and each Divine Decree is like a skill, with Decrees from the same category forming a skill tree. The deeper one goes into a particular skill tree to illuminate skills, the higher the skill points required, but at the same time, the level of each skill on that tree would also rise. If one could illuminate an entire skill tree...
As if seeing through Aiden’s thoughts, Melifilia continued to fill in the information.
"If you can gather all the Decrees of one category and then meet certain conditions, an individual can ascend to the rank of ruler. How about that? Are you interested? This is a glorious path to godhood," Melifilia suddenly spoke with a tempting tone.
"To say I’m completely uninterested would be a lie, but this sounds troublesome," Aiden responded.
Divine Decrees... Divinity...
The witch assembly and the Blood Moon Cult, these two dangerous groups, were clearly aiming for this so-called path to godhood, and there were likely many similar organizations in this world. Frankly, Aiden had no desire to get involved in this sort of thing.
"But you’re already deep in this trouble, aren’t you?" Melifilia sneered, "Don’t forget how your predecessor died."
"I see," Aiden nodded. "That person... he could use Divine Decrees, right?"
