131 'Abyss' Between Realms
"The Primordial Rune Of Origin?!"
Roy stopped, his tone flummoxed.
Runes are a very important branch of magic studies, and he has also studied them quite thoroughly in the Campione world, but–
"Where did you get the Primordial Runes of Origin?!"
"Isn't it an arcane secret, that is only grasped by Allfather Odin? Even the Runes used by the magicians are originated from Primordial Runes of Origin."
"Related to Odin? No, you shouldn't be, aren't you a character of Celtic mythology in the first place?"
Roy sighed with incredulous emotions.
He thought that Scathach would remain mum to his queries, but contrary to his thoughts, Scathach demeanour changed interously, donning a teacher like expression:
"So, there is also the subsistence of Odin in the foreign lands… do you know of 'Poetic Edda Ex'?"
"Of course I know, 'Poetic Edda Ex' is the most important Nordic literary magic classic of the Middle Ages and is the magic translation of common 'Poetic Edda', it is also the one of the sources of Western mythology outside of ancient Greece and Rome."
Roy answered in a unplumbed tone, it is impossible with his knowledge on history and mythology to not know of this famous magical classic.
"Then do you know of the second chapter 'The Lies of an Expert' of 'Poetic Edda Ex'?"
As if she was imparting her teachings to her student, Scathach used the demonic crimson red spear in her hand as a ruler as she pointed at him and asked.
"The Lies of an Expert?"
Roy was confused, but he just continued with the translation:
"…I have eighteen runes, and I'm determined not to vent anything inside, don't care about the daughter and the wife."
"Don't ask me to teach inside or outside, nothing is good if it's outside or inside, it's better than just me for I know what the end of this song is, only one woman sees the difference, and be an anomaly."
"Begone be thee, the eighteen of mine in not the world of this."
This poem is what the Allfather Odin wrote in 'Poetic Edda' if one goes by the sources.
It describes the eighteen Primordial Runes of Origin and it's lesser form, the Primordial Runes.
Allfather Odin personally wrote that he will never teach it to anyone, but the woman who has been mentioned as an anolomy is still vague till date.
If this woman is Scathach, it can explain why she possesses the Primordial Runes of Origin, as it fits with being an 'anolomy', and fitting for the runes to be 'not the world of this' as the Queen of Shadows resides Outside of the World.
But why does she has an interrelation with Odin?
Although there is indeed a goddess in the Nordic gods with her homology, are weird mythological changes already the law of this world?
His confusion didn't hold for the quarter of a second, after all, in a world where—
The King Arthur can become a female with the attributes of a foodie.
Da Vinci can change her gender to become a next door kind sister.
And, the Mad Tyrant Nero can become a cute 'umu' girl, nothing made sense in the first place.
Seeing Roy who seemed to have given up on understanding any further, the Witch of Shadows asked curiously:
"Scathach, does she also exists in the foreign land?"
While she was curious if her counterpart was as powerful as her and if she was suffering the same fate as her's.
Even her [Wisdom of the Haunted Ground] could not track down the secrets of a foreign land.
So, instead of beating around the bush, she directly asked to satisfy her curiosity.
"Scathach, does exist…"
Roy affirmed that, as a figure described quite commonly in the Celtic mythology, the Campione world's Scathach can definitely be summoned as a Heretic Gods, but–
"The Scathach in my world is definitely not as strong as you. No, you are just too strong for good!"
"In the mythological records, Scathach is the teacher of great heroes such as Cú Chulainn. At most, she is a powerful female warrior. Nothing in the least common with slaying countless gods like you, and even more less with surpassing the world itself!"
That's right, this Scathach is simply an existence that defies the word 'extraordinary'.
If it was really just the Scathach recorded in the myth, he is confident that he can definitely defeat her with a considerable ease.
"Don't stumped, foreigner. Because the Scathach in front of you is the most special one even among the countless parallel worlds here!"
The purple queen smiled solitaryly, her voice glorified in regality that was hard to defy, but at the same time, there was also a sad self-deprecating feeling in her voice.
The sensual queen of shadows seemed to be quite liking to undertake a teacher's role, tapping the crimson red spear on her other palm like a ruler, she continued.
"I couldn't cross the 'abyss' then, but when you look at the 'abyss', it is also looking back at you. Gautama Buddha is one such example who gained his 'self' and become a Enlightened One."
"Similarly, I got the 'wisdom of the abyss'. But, Scathach is still just Scathach, the one who guards the gate of the kingdom of shadows."
"Due to the cause and effect relationship, countless other Scathachs also got the lesser powered 'wisdom of abyss'."
Queen of the Kingdom of Shadow rejoined, proud of her achievements, but sad that she had strided too much and too fast, so there were no future generations who catch up with her.
'I remember Aiwass once said that Aleister also tried to cross the 'abyss', so he summoned the great demon Coronzon... hoping to achieve it with the power of the Great Demon of higher dimension.'
'But....'
'What is this "abyss"?'
Roy mused as he felt that he had really learned something new.
Sure enough, only by communicating and learning with people who have reached that state can you broaden your perspective and see a more broad and beautiful scenery!
Roy's heart was shaken, as if someone living in a remote mountain village suddenly came to a big metropolis and dazzled by the enormous prosperity.
The shock gave him a yearning for no befuddled reason.
Playing with the laws of cosmic phases in the palm of one's hands...
Thousands of stars falling with a single wave of the finger...
And, hundreds of billions of stars extinguished easily while talking and laughing...
Just those 'simple' thoughts made Roy unconsciously send out a yearn for it.
However, he also knows that even the Scathach in front of him is far away from that step.
In Aleister's Silver Star system, although this is only one realm's gap, the distance is like a moat that cannot be crossed, perhaps just like Scathach said....
There is an abyss in between!
As for the Enlightened One in Scathach's speech, it is actually Sakyamuni who defeated his other evil balance.
In the Aleister's Silver Star system, it is at least the perfect Magic God of the '9=2' level, and it may even have reached the '10=1′ denunciation.
It's no surprise considering that the transcendence consciousness of the 'self' can transcend the universe.
For that kind of existence, it is far from being understood by him right now.
"Don't be dejected, foreigner… This is not something you should understand now. Elementary students should learn arithmetic sided to elementary school students instead of thinking about topics that are only required for university research."
Scathach couldn't bear the 'brilliant' person in front of her who was caught in his own entanglement to get lost to the ultra impossible before solving the impossible first, she kindly comforted him and reassured softly, like a soft and comforting big sister.
Roy came back to his senses and smiled helplessly:
"Listening to your highness Scathach using metaphors like this makes me a little confining."
A proud Queen of the Kingdom of Shadows located outside of the world, using the modern vocabulary terms like "elementary school" and "university".
Of course, he will feel a sense of unreality.
However, he found that the atmosphere between the two seemed to have eased a lot, not like the murderous postulatious arrow drawn at the beginning.
Was he gradually meeting Scathach's expectations?
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