Murphy had long anticipated Apollo's shock.
Naturally, Apollo could not know that Murphy actually possessed no so-called divinity.
He was not a god at all.
His magic was still magic. It had not been tainted by faith and transformed into "divine power." It merely appeared vast in quantity and somewhat similar to divine power because he had absorbed a great deal of the divine power of gods such as Pan and the Three-Headed God as sustenance.
In fact, Murphy felt that although these gods used divine power, they understood nothing about its true nature.
The more fundamental a divinity was, and the more of them one possessed, the more it could improve the quality of divine power. In Murphy's eyes, this characteristic was still merely another manifestation of the magic-pay effect.
The so-called divinities and faith were actually a philosophical methodology and worldview for explaining the world.
The more complete this methodology and worldview became, and the closer they were to the laws and phenomena of the real material world, the greater the changes divine power could cause in reality. Divine power would naturally grow stronger, and its quality would appear higher.
But Murphy's magic contained no "philosophical concepts" or "world rules."
The "universe" that belonged solely to Murphy in Apollo's eyes had not been built from a "divinity," "concept," "image," or "law." It was not a "philosophical universe" or "mental universe," but another kind of "material reality" identical to the real external world.
This material reality was constructed upon Murphy's precise perception of the microscopic world and his control over magic.
Before traveling through time, he had already obtained atomic-level perception by connecting to electron tunneling microscopes and various other ultra-precision detection devices. Through ultra-precise magical probes, he had gained the ability to manipulate microscopic magic. The Quantum Slash