Xue Dili: "..."

Old Deng, were you doing something quite impolite just now?

"May I take a look at your glasses?"

"Uh... okay." The old gentleman was a bit flattered and handed over his monocle, then immediately turned his head away again.

Xue Dili picked up the glasses and took a look. Wow, the old gentleman's facial features completely disappeared, turning him into a faceless person, and when he took out his phone to use the front camera to look at his face, he too became faceless behind the lens.

What a magical pair of glasses. Didn't he just add a gear to them physically? How did this unscientific phenomenon suddenly occur?

Not only is it unscientific, but it's also not magic. Xue Dili couldn't feel any magic power fluctuating from it.

Is this mysticism? Interesting.

Just by observing the gentleman's attire, Xue Dili felt he seemed to be a modern person or not too far from modern times, so Xue Dili returned the monocle and asked, "Sir, how many years has it been since the birth of Jesus?"

The old gentleman was taken aback, and then realized what Xue Dili was trying to express, and quickly said, "It's been 2026 years since the birth of Jesus."

Boston in 2026?

Wait, 2026?

Where did the time traveler come from?

Xue Dili immediately realized that things weren't simple; this old man might not be from his timeline but from the future. It felt too tiring to chat with the old gentleman like this, pulling for a long time just to get some intelligence.

So he immediately stopped acting and laid it all out. The next moment, fantasy manifestation was displayed; from thin air in front of them appeared a set of table and chairs, and then a werewolf stood in front of the table, holding a tray with one hand and the other hand behind his back, like a butler.

The werewolf wasn't life-given; it could be seen as a flesh and blood robot at this moment.

This scene of fantasy manifestation immediately stunned the old gentleman. He seemed too shocked to speak, and after Xue Dili gestured for him to sit down, the old gentleman sat down in a panic, saying, "Sir, could it be that you're the legendary mage? Completely different from us trick-playing mystics."

"You can think so, sir. I now want to roughly know what happened on your side, and the situation of mysticism." Xue Dili decided to be honest about his purpose.

At this point, the old gentleman seemed relieved, and he immediately began pouring out information like spilling beans.

...

The old gentleman was a mystic scholar, part of a group researching folklore, ancient cultures, and various strange knowledge, and it seems they did figure out some things.

Mysticism, through specific rituals and preparations, can create "tricks" that reflect at specific times.

He called his ability a "trick." Indeed, Xue Dili found mysticism incredibly demanding in terms of ritual complexity, precision, and requirements, and the achieved effects were generally weak.

So, after seeing real magic, he naturally realized his mysticism knowledge was just some trickery.

But Xue Dili was quite impressed, as these mystics really managed to come up with rituals that don't require magic power on a magicless Earth and have established it as an independent discipline that spreads.

Essentially, mysticism exploits a loophole in Blue Star, an approach to magic rituals that doesn't rely on magic power.

That's why Xue Dili found it fascinating; he learned a lot about mysticism from the old gentleman's mouth, including a lot of "ancient gods" and folklore, hypotheses about the disappearance of the classical divine era, and the birth of mysticism.

He wasn't from Boston, but a famous mystic scholar from Wudu, who received an invitation and went to Boston Salem Town in the Land of the Far West to prepare for a large-scale mystical ceremony, seemingly related to some war.

But his memory stopped there. He only remembered participating in that super-large mystical ceremony, but the specifics of what he did and all subsequent memories were completely gone.

Xue Dili leaned back tactically.

He might have died in that super-large mystical ceremony, but seeing his current clueless state, being confused even about himself, Xue Dili confirmed he couldn't get more details about the mystical ceremony from him.

But since mysticism is just a discipline for using magic rituals in a magicless context, specific to Blue Star, it shouldn't have overly outrageous rituals, or else even Mom wouldn't allow it.

So the upper limit of mysticism was probably just that.

However, the old gentleman's abundance of hidden knowledge deeply impressed Xue Dili, especially the folklore knowledge of various civilizations and those ancient little stories that seemed more like "unofficial history," opening Xue Dili's eyes.

Until the old gentleman said, "We've been researching the disappearance of the divine era. It's strange that globally, around 1000 BC, the divine era disappeared. That was precisely the end of the Ancient Greek divine era, the end of the Shang Dynasty in the East, aligning roughly with the time myths disappeared in civilizations worldwide."

"Even King Solomon, the future mystic king, is just the mystic king, not the Magic King."

"But later, we found decisive evidence!"

The old gentleman became very excited, and Xue Dili was afraid the monocle would poke into his eye socket.

"That's the discovery of Homer's Epic. We roughly understood the reason for the end of the divine era. According to the epic, the end of the divine era stemmed from Zeus's failure to steal God's authority. According to the epic, the hero Xediles defeated Zeus with a stone, ending the apocalypse, and terminating the divine era..."

"Pfft!"

Tea spewed from Xue Dili's mouth onto the werewolf butler beside him. The werewolf butler remained expressionless, faithfully executing his commands like a real robot.

But Xue Dili choked directly, continuously coughing, not even caring if, to the mystic scholar, his image seemed to have collapsed.

"Sir, is there some problem?" the old gentleman immediately asked with concern. He couldn't imagine why this "god," who could create things out of thin air, would choke on tea.

"No, nothing... the epic records in your world are truly ridiculous..." Xue Dili complained.

Hearing "Epic of Xediles" seriously mentioned by someone from Blue Star, rather than jokingly like a movie character, gave him a bad premonition.

"Your world's Homer's Epic, tell me more about it," Xue Dili urged.

He couldn't imagine what mythical creatures were in this world from the future. Now if they mentioned a giant sitting on a golden toilet, Xue Dili would be inclined to believe it.

The old gentleman adjusted his monocle and began to speak slowly about the ancient epic he had collected: "According to the epic, the hero Xediles led the Celestial Thunder in a final battle with God King Zeus and defeated Zeus with a stone, ending the divine era. From then on, the Great Source Magic Power became invisible, and we mystics could only use small-source magic power to perform rituals."

Xue Dili: "..."

The place I came to is definitely not the historical Blue Star, but the future of a parallel world where Xue Dili changed history...

But wasn't that world merged by Mom? It should have disappeared already.

Xue Dili's eyes were full of confusion, believing only half of the old gentleman's intelligence because the other half might be due to his unreliable source of information.

And how does this epic seem to have the flavor of gratitude essay, could the records of the divine era passed down to the present really be so ridiculously distorted?

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