Harry Potter: BE a GOD

The gods were killed.

These guardian spirits were merely the earliest deities, with weak divine powers and still chaotic consciousnesses. Moreover, their magic was attached to the steles, which naturally perished after the steles were destroyed.

But Murphy became the new god.

Destroying those steles did not shatter the shamans' faith. Instead, due to the formidable power displayed by Murphy, they developed a different kind of faith in him.

As Murphy traveled and destroyed nascent deities everywhere, a legend gradually spread through the mouths of the shamans: the one true god descended from the heavens, smiting the false gods with divine thunder, leaving only one great being in the world.

Thus, when he returned to that original valley, he found the fragmented steles gone, replaced instead by a statue resembling him.

Wisps of psychic energy gathered from the shamans and worshipers onto the statue, and as Murphy approached, it returned from the statue to him.

He was filled with an immensely uplifting sensation, as countless emotions, fears, hopes, and desires mixed within that psychic energy passed through his mind like a variety of seasonings, causing him a moment of dizziness.

He felt as if he truly became a god, seated high above and overlooking all beings.

Fortunately, he quickly realized that these were impurities within the psychic energy transmitted by the believers, their "definition" of a god in their minds, their imagination and shaping of a deity.

It took some effort to suppress the influence of these impurities.

He was somewhat amused by the situation.

Psychic energy, or another dimension of magic, could be transformed into magic power, which explained why these deities possessed immense magical power. Having this magic was certainly beneficial. The time converter had almost exhausted the magic obtained from Pan, and he was planning to accumulate some magic for the next time conversion, so he wouldn't have to worry about being trapped in this era.

However, the irony of becoming the only true god, when his intention was to annihilate deities, was not lost on him.

He could, theoretically, take this opportunity to develop followers, using his knowledge and magic beyond this era to become the sole deity.

Imagine, if he could maintain the belief in himself as the only god for tens of thousands of years, until a future with billions of people, how immense would his magic power be?

This was entirely feasible. All deities were still in their infancy, and he had a significant first-mover advantage. Knowing better than any god what could bewitch people's hearts and attract followers, coupled with the miracles brought by immense divine power, unifying global faith was not a difficult task.

Yet, this thought was fleeting and quickly discarded by Murphy.

Firstly, he disliked such manipulation of people's hearts, especially over tens of thousands of years.

Magic is wonderful, but if it means doing something unwillingly for ten thousand years for the sake of magic, is it you who controls the magic, or the magic that controls you?

Moreover, the magical power brought by faith, though immense, is not without its cost.

Believers' faith in gods is often very utilitarian, mixed with countless personal obsessions, desires, and fantasies and shaping of the deity itself. Accepting too much of this kind of psychic energy, the deity itself would inevitably be tainted.

Furthermore, destroying deities was meant to make humanity embrace rationality, to bring more knowledge and development, essentially to awaken humanity from the worship of deities, to stand up and face the reality of the world, not to have more people kneel before him.

Perhaps the path of faith could reach a high limit, leveraging immense magical power to perform truly miraculous magic, but a world where only he possesses free will, with everyone else reduced to dependents and NPCs, living in adulation, would be utterly empty.

That would merely be a solipsistic world centered on himself, and even if he became the ruler of that world, new knowledge could not be created. It would only iterate on existing knowledge, leading to a closed and ossified self.

That was not the future he wanted.

However, this matter served as a reminder that merely destroying the deities and idols was meaningless. What needed to be broken was the "god" in people's hearts.

Otherwise, no matter how many times he destroyed these deities' shells, they would always find a way to return.

In this process, Murphy also clarified the elements of deity birth.

He visited various places, realizing that the birth of deities could not do without wizards. 

Ordinary Muggles' psychic powers cannot coalesce, only wizards can, through the power of imagination during prayers, outline the image of deities and gradually endow their worshiped idols with life through long-term continuous mental projection.

In other words, deities are actually created by wizards.

However, those wizards are unaware of this fact.

Due to the absence of the magical network in today's world, converting wizards' magical power into magic is quite difficult. Although their amount of magical power is not much less than that of future wizards, they lack sufficient knowledge, systematic training, and the standards and assistance of the magical network. Hence, the probability range of "wave function collapse" their magic can cause is very small, making it extremely difficult for them to cast a spell.

Only under coincidental circumstances could they possibly release one or two spells with their own magical power, and those spells often appear more like a "coincidence," "good luck," or "miracle." They find it difficult to summarize the rules of magic, making it hard to replicate.

In contrast, the spirits born from their prayers, receiving more psychic energy, possess much larger magical power, allowing these nascent deities to complete a magic spell merely by "imagining," and their success rate is much higher than that of wizards. To wizards, these deities naturally appear to possess a higher stature.

They could never imagine that these deities, far surpassing their abilities, were actually created by themselves.

Thus, Murphy decided to try teaching some wizards how to cast spells. Perhaps, if humans could wield magical power on their own, they would no longer need deities.

But this process was much more difficult than he anticipated. Without the magical network to help wizards organize and guide magical power, casting a powerful spell with the wizards' inherent magical power required much more precise "pathway imagination." The closer this "pathway imagination" of a spell is to physical reality, the more likely it is to succeed.

Therefore, to teach them magic, Murphy had to impart a more systematic range of knowledge.

But even some common knowledge taken for granted by modern people might seem like an unheard-of scripture to ancient people. To enable an ancient person to freely cast some simple spells with their own knowledge, Murphy might need to spend years, if not decades, teaching.

He lacked such patience, so he chose a more efficient method. He gathered the most knowledgeable and wise shamans from various tribes and "copied memories" directly into their minds, imparting basic knowledge of various disciplines.

Then, he left it to them to teach the rest of the wizards.

After living off the worship of his followers for half a year to ensure the knowledge he passed on had not deviated too much, he used divine power to activate the third time converter, sending himself two hundred years into the future.

He did not go to a more distant future because he wanted to verify the results of his attempts.

However,

 when he returned to that valley, he found a magnificent city had been built.

Within the city, several large statues stood tall, some of which bore a vague resemblance to the shamans he had taught.

With knowledge and magic, they indeed no longer needed to create other deities.

Because they had become deities themselves.

"Ha ha..." Under the shadows of those statues, Murphy couldn't help but laugh out loud.

He finally fully grasped the ultimate meaning of Cernunnos's words "deities do not die."

It's not that people's belief in a particular god will not disappear, but humanity's overall belief in the concept of deities will not vanish.

As the Christian God said, people are inherently lazy and prefer to entrust their thinking to an authority stronger than themselves.

And there will always be those who, for power, benefit, or various reasons, exploit these weaknesses in others to build themselves up as gods.

Gods are immortal, unless humanity as a whole abandons its illusions, unless every individual becomes conscious, introspective, self-loving, self-improving, willing to take responsibility for their fate without blaming others or shirking responsibility.

However, that is an incredibly difficult task.

For the first time, he felt that in this war against deities, he truly had no chance of winning.

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