"Holy shit..." Isaac's eyes widened as he followed Olisti into the laboratory in the Magic Capital. At its center, a multicolored crystal floated inside a transparent cylindrical glass tank.
There was no mistaking it. This was definitely godhood!
And artificial godhood, at that!
As a Mad Witch with extensive experience researching gods, Isaac knew this stuff well. He would never mistake it for anything else.
However, unlike conventional godhood or artificial godhood, this thing was more properly called simulated godhood. It had emerged in the Wizarding World in recent years as regulations on god-related research grew increasingly strict.
In essence, it was still god research. In practice, however, the research used neither divine power nor godhood. Instead, it relied entirely on magic power and spells to simulate gods' abilities, skirting the rules.
That was understandable. Although today's wizards were far stronger than gods, it was precisely because they had grown so powerful that they consciously established rules to keep the world from descending into chaos.
The emergence of something like this was therefore inevitable.
Yet even simulated godhood encroached on the domain of the gods. In fact, it went even further than genuine god research!
It stripped divine power of its last shred of concealment. Once it succeeded, gods would lose their [mystery] entirely!
They would have been better off letting wizards experiment with true godhood!
But although the gods were furious and afraid, they dared not voice any objections.
First, the Wizarding World had already made a public concession, giving them plenty of face. Second...
That had to do with the technology behind simulated godhood itself.
Replacing divine power with magic power and the source of divine power with magical technology was no simple matter. The barrier to entry was exceptionally high. Only at the fourth tier could one