great-warnovel Chapter 196 The Wisdom of Beasts
Chapter 196 The Wisdom of Beasts
Chapter 196 The Wisdom of Beasts
As it turned out, Maria did indeed share some power with her.
But perhaps because Oborozuki is only in its initial form, and Hermione is not like Nee and Marika, who are at least gods who have mastered some of the rules, the power she can share with the werewolf is too weak.
A layer of hazy, moonlit mist, like dust or fog, clung thinly to Maria's body. Tests showed that this could enhance the power of her claws and teeth to a certain extent, while also increasing her resistance to blows and making her body stronger.
Hermione tried to teach her the Levitation Charm and the Glowstone Shard, but there was no response.
It seems she has only gained a new supernatural ability, but still lacks the talent to use magic, not even starlight, which has the lowest magic requirement.
Hermione guessed that perhaps she would have to master a certain level of magic or completely understand a certain rule before she could share greater power with Maria.
While she can do a lot of things now, she doesn't specialize in anything, unlike Ni, who, before becoming a god...
Her research into ice magic is quite in-depth, and her unique Dark Moon is a combination of coldness and the moon.
This made her even more curious about the shape of her moon and what the next stage would be like.
This world doesn't have a second Dark Moon for her to witness, and she doesn't specialize in any one type of magic. Instead, she develops all the magic she can research. With the addition of this world's unique magic system, there will likely be some new changes.
Since I can't share more power with the little wolf girl, I'll try praying!
The release prayer must have a holy mark, because Mary believes in herself, so she cannot simply copy the claw mark holy mark of the beast sacrifice Qulang, which represents Qulang's own anger.
I happened to be reading "An Easy Introduction to Ancient Runes" recently, and Hermione drew inspiration from it to carve her own holy mark, referencing the shape of a hazy moon, with a small wolf head howling at the moon below it.
The entire holy mark is made of pure silver and hangs on a thin silver chain, so it can be worn around the neck or wrapped around the hand.
This amount of metal wouldn't have cost Hermione much; she asked Mr. Arthur to buy it when he went out.
Although the fear of silver by werewolves is a Muggle fantasy, it is true that only by mixing silver with white cinnabar can the wounds from werewolf bites be healed, otherwise they will not heal and will continue to bleed. The holy mark made of silver can, in a sense, suppress the werewolf's cursed blood, allowing her to better maintain her sanity.
Maria's education level is very low; it's already a miracle that the White Mountain Village can teach Muggles to recognize all the letters. Hermione feels that teaching her how to focus her mind and how to pray will be a very difficult task.
So, following Lockhart's idea, he used the Memory Charm to infuse the Beast Stone Prayer method into the Holy Seal.
This is a prayer that can quickly release a large number of sharp stone fragments, and the Beast series has a very low requirement for faith attribute. It is said that before the Golden Tree Age, stones were the earliest weapons of the beasts that gained wisdom.
Maria can quickly activate Beast Stone Prayer by holding the Holy Seal tightly in prayer, which can compensate for her lack of ranged attack methods to some extent.
The Beast Stone itself symbolizes the initial wisdom gained by wild beasts, and thus can also help her suppress brutality.
After an initial attempt, the Muggle girl successfully initiated the prayer. Sharp stone fragments were lifted from the ground and shot out in a burst, embedding themselves several centimeters deep into the rock wall, clearly demonstrating considerable power.
The tips of these stone fragments also carried specks of moon dust, making them even more powerful than the original version from the border area.
She looked at her hands with excitement—this was power beyond that of a Muggle! She no longer needed to secretly envy her friends; she could do it herself!
Of course, this form of War Ash was just to help her get started quickly; it wasn't her own power after all. Hermione promised that once she could release the Beast Stone without the help of "Memory War Ash," she would teach her more prayers.
However, the essence of prayer is to ask for strength from the object of faith. Hermione herself does not possess the power of beasts, so in fact, Maria is still using her werewolf beastly power, with the moon playing a role in suppressing and mobilizing it.
If Hermione is to teach Mary how to pray with fire in the future, she must first master the laws of fire herself. Otherwise, she can't very well send a ghost owl to the evil god of fire in the borderlands and ask him to lend her some power.
She figured that with the werewolf's stubborn and powerful bloodline curse, most beast prayers should be able to handle it completely. If the beastly power was really exhausted, as the little wolf girl's source of faith, she could also use magic to "recharge" her, achieving an alternative kind of continuous perpetual motion.
Imagine a werewolf imbued with the strength and vitality of a wild beast, so tenacious that it is practically indestructible, healing rapidly from injuries, unleashing energy blades several meters long from its claws, and hurling massive boulders faster than solid cannonballs. Isn't this the best meat shield for a traditional mage?
She painted a picture of the future for the werewolf, a tactic Hermione had used countless times to manipulate the situation.
The children were very receptive to this approach, and Maria, inspired by her, devoted herself wholeheartedly to the study of faith and prayer.
Granting Muggles limited spellcasting abilities was a huge breakthrough, but considering Maria's werewolf status, Hermione didn't have her friends publicize it. Instead, she secretly found trusted Muggles in the village and had them try holding the holy mark, but it was completely ineffective.
Even though Hermione showed them the Moonlit Night, which amazed and inspired their worship, it seemed that pure Muggle faith could not activate their prayers.
"Does that only those with a certain 'extraordinary' quality can use prayer?" Hermione wondered. But that made sense. Given the fanaticism of those Muggles who believed in Christ, if it could trigger extraordinary phenomena, wizards would probably have been wiped out long ago.
But this is also a breakthrough, at least other Muggles who become werewolves don't have the ability to cast spells.
If in the future a safer and less side-effect-prone way is found to grant ordinary people a slight degree of "superhuman ability," perhaps through prayer, the gap and divide between wizards and Muggles could be narrowed.
Even without the minor side effects, even with the current werewolf curse, as long as one can gain the ability to cast spells, there are plenty of people willing to let a werewolf bite them. After all, this is the biggest difference between Muggles and wizards. If the boundary between them could be blurred, it might even eliminate the war between the two. However, Hermione does not want countless more werewolves in the world. It is better to keep this method of giving ordinary people extraordinary powers known to a small group for the time being.
Seeing Maria transform from a Muggle into a spellcaster, the boys were also eager to try it out. They borrowed her "Wolf Moon" Holy Mark and, relying on the beast stone memories within, tried to replicate it.
Unfortunately, they were just Hermione's classmates and never considered her as a figure of faith, so they were not qualified to inspire prayer.
"Does it have to be faith? We're good buddies, so it's not okay?" Ron asked, still unwilling to give up.
"You don't have any beastly power within you, so even with faith I can't unleash the Beast Stone," Hermione said helplessly.
Neither the source of power nor the attribute of faith do the young wizards possess.
However, assuming a wizard truly has a devout faith in Hermione, I wonder if it's possible to unleash high-level brilliance magic through prayer? For example, could an ordinary person unleash a full moon through prayer?