When Lin Qiye asked, Thor did not hold anything back and answered truthfully:
"I am still investigating his exact identity, but judging from his ability to assassinate Loki yesterday and the Power of Law he wielded when he struck, he is very likely an extremely ancient survivor of mythology."
"A survivor of mythology? Which mythology?"
"That mythology has no name." Thor shook his head. "It was the embodiment of humanity's most primal fear and reverence for nature, back when humans had not yet fully evolved into humans. It was also the foundation from which all later mythologies emerged."
At those words, Lin Qiye immediately pictured a vast wilderness, where a group of primitive humans who had not yet mastered language or writing knelt on the ground, worshipping the flames born when lightning struck a tree.
To primitive humans, nature was both their faith and the source of their fear.
They feared thunder, so they prayed to it in their hearts. They craved fire, so they revered it as the origin of life.
In other words, the ancient mythology Thor spoke of was actually the most primitive embodiment of nature?
"As humanity gradually gained wisdom and mastered language and writing, these ancient primal myths began to be replaced by more developed mythological systems due to differences in region. The primal gods gradually withered away, and their laws began to be divided among the gods corresponding to different divine kingdoms. That was how the many divine kingdoms of today came to be."
"So all these primal gods have disappeared?"
"Most of them have, but there are a very few exceptions. As human wisdom developed, some gods began actively transforming the primal laws they governed into relatively modern laws, allowing them to exist in the world through another form of recognition. For example,