"I need to kill a god," Murphy said, looking at Miriam. "Its divine power can't be too weak, but it can't be too powerful either. Ideally, it shouldn't preside over any combat-related domains. If possible, it should live in isolation, and its death shouldn't alert any other gods."
"Do you have any thoughts on a god like that?"
Murphy still had several Time-Turners on him. But there was no Magic Web in the world now, and powering these Time-Turners required an enormous amount of magical energy. In this world, the only thing he could think of was a god itself.
He wanted to kill a god, seize its magical energy as a battery, and send himself back to an even earlier timeline.
Since he was going to deal with gods, he at least needed to know how these gods had appeared. Perhaps only by grasping the secret of their birth could he glimpse a way to destroy them.
"There are many weak gods," Miriam said. "Many spirits, even things like brownies, may possess a trace of divinity because of human belief."
Britain itself had a polytheistic system, and in its mythology, all manner of nameless strange beings such as spirits and fairies held a certain place as well. They were like angels in the system of Christ, beneath the gods, but they also possessed some divinity.
But that clearly was not what Murphy needed.
"If you mean a true god, one that meets the conditions you described..."
Miriam pondered for a long time, then suddenly seemed to think of something. "Perhaps there really is one god with powerful strength, extremely ancient, a true deity, who does not preside over combat-related domains. More importantly, it lives in isolation and does not even deal with humans. Even if it died, it might