Pirate: It’s not a phantom beast, it’s a phantom god!

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 this problem. And they both knew what the second half of La's unspoken sentence was.

"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."

"You'll have to explore the area ahead on your own~"

As La spoke, he raised the corners of his mouth with his fingers and showed the two of them a smile that was deeper than usual.

It can be said that it has evolved from a 'smile' to a normal 'laugh'.

"But, damn it! This smile... my heartbeat, and my missing... thing! Kwaa ...

The unsinkable ship named Osiris was sunk once again.

Finally, under the attack of La's appearance, the two little ones with red faces gave up continuing to entangle.

……

"By the way, how's your Haki training going?"

"Forehead……"

There was an awkward silence.

Looking at the two little ones' hesitant expressions, La guessed something.

But in the end, it was Oubey who spoke first.

"How should I put it, sis. It's the kind that can be used, but only to a small extent."

As she spoke, she stretched out her thumb and index finger, making a gesture of losing the market in a certain country.

"Hmm? Don't beat around the bush, Ossi, you say it."

Osi, who was called, also shuddered suddenly.

"Um... that's right, I use my Haki at the very beginning, but after that I can't react at all. Hmm... how should I put it..."

"It's like you just got familiar with the skill keys, and then you're asked to play in a professional game, and then you can't press them because the pace is too fast?"

La repeated the meaning of her words again in a language that Ossi could understand.

"Yes, yes, yes! That's right! That's the feeling!" Osi nodded repeatedly.

"It's that frantic feeling of having to fumble with dozens of keys to activate a skill while someone's about to hit you in the face.

In any case, I will subconsciously give up my Haki and directly counterattack with normal attacks."

"I think it might take us a while to get used to joining the Haki battle, sis," Oubey said helplessly.

Even for someone as gifted as they are, it is still somewhat unrealistic for them to reach a level that others would need several years of hard work to reach in just one morning.

"Okay, I was too impatient.

I heard from Jin and the others that it took them several years to master Haki, so asking you for half a day is really asking too much."

"Yeah! Yeah!" Osi nodded in approval.

"Then let's change the teaching from now on to practical exercises. I've already taught you the theory, so the rest will be mastered through combat."

"Ah?!"*2
"Sister La, are you going to fight us yourself?"

"That's right. Of course, I will keep it within the proper limits and won't let you get hurt."

Theoretically, neither Osi nor Obei had ever seen La actually fight, so objectively speaking, he was just changing his sparring partner.

But instinct is very subjective. Fear is fear...

"Sigh! I refuse." Osi went up with the last glimmer of hope.

"Hmm↓hum↑"

"Okay, okay, I get it." Ossi typed GG.

"In that case, let's end today's teaching here.

By the way, I have an assignment for you - use your own divine power and authority to make a set of clothes. The deadline is one week.

When the time comes, I will take away the skirts I have knitted for you, and those who cannot do it will be left naked."

La was still staring at Ossi as he spoke.

[Okay, so petty! Is it because I just rejected her?

Sister La, you are really despicable right now!]
Of course, Osi only dared to think about the above in his mind. If he said it out loud, the time when he would be exposed would probably be brought forward to tomorrow.

When Ou Bei heard this "homework", he lowered his brows and began to think, as if he had already come up with an idea.

"Hey, what should we do, Obe? Do you know how to deal with this?" Osi elbowed Obe, but the other party did not respond.

“man?”

"The smallest unit, power, God... Osi, don't disturb me, I'm thinking."

Obe dodged Osi's elbow and continued muttering.

"You don't already have an idea, do you?! No, you can't! Even if I'm naked, you have to come with me!"

Osi opened his eyes wide and clung to Obei on the shore like a water ghost in the river.

"What are you doing! I don't want to be with you, you idiot! Let me go!"

"Quack! I won't let you go, even if you kill me! Either you help me find a solution, or we both die together!"

"you!"

La looked at the two people arguing with each other, left a sentence "Don't forget dinner time" and left the training ground.

(End of this chapter)