Chapter 619 Keeper of the Horses Is Useless?

Astraea scrutinized the magic formation in Charlie's hand. A faint crease appeared across her delicate brow before she finally spoke.

"Charlie, although I have to admit that this so-called Keeper of the Horses has a powerful effect, I feel that its power is still insufficient to accomplish your ambition of completely sealing both the Lower World and Heaven."

"Let alone facing the combined might of all the gods currently in Heaven, even a single god using the power of their Arcanum would undoubtedly be able to destroy this sealing spell with ease."

"..."

Charlie himself had already realized this fatal flaw and major problem even without the Goddess of Justice pointing it out.

Deep down, he knew that at best, the Keeper of the Horses spell could only work effectively to seal a Heretic God.

That was because there was a huge difference between the Heretic Gods of the Campione World and the true gods of the DanMachi World.

The so-called Heretic Gods were physical manifestations of myths and legends themselves, brought into reality. When they descended to Earth, they brought their entire divine essence with them. If they were killed in the human world, the continuity of their existence would be severed, and they would return to the Domain of Immortality for a long period before they could manifest again.

On the other hand, the gods of the DanMachi World were pure, absolute true gods who descended directly and completely from Heaven into the Lower World simply because they had grown bored with their monotonous immortality.

Completely different from the Heretic Gods, the existence of the gods in DanMachi was singular. If their physical forms were killed in the Lower World, their essence would not return to merge with the narrative of mythology. Instead, their divine essence would immediately return to Heaven permanently, trapping them there so that they could never descend into the Lower World again for all eternity.

If Charlie had to compare the power scales between these two types of divine entities, he firmly believed that the gods of DanMachi possessed a far higher and more terrifying level of power than the Heretic Gods of Campione.

DanMachi gods who unleashed their Arcanum stood on a far higher level because they were never bound by mythological narratives or human imagination, whereas the powers of the Heretic Gods in Campione were still heavily influenced and constrained by the perceptions, history, and words of human mythology that had shaped them.

"You're right, Goddess Astraea." Charlie confirmed the other's doubts with a calm expression. "Although Keeper of the Horses is an extremely legendary high-level sealing spell from another world, this magic has a conceptual weakness of its own."

"That is precisely why it cannot work effectively on a god of this world who has completely released the seal on their Arcanum."

Pausing for a moment, he swept his gaze across his women before continuing his explanation.

"This spell from another world operates exclusively by utilizing the laws of mythology."

"Its absolute locking effect is possible only because the magic manipulates the target's identity based on the historical records of human civilization—for example, forcibly lowering Sun Wukong's exalted status from an invincible God of War into a lowly Heavenly Horse Keeper who is forced to obey the rules."

Hearing this explanation, Mahiru and Kei, who were essentially exceptionally intelligent model students in their original world, immediately understood where the fatal weakness of the Keeper of the Horses spell lay.

"Ah, I understand what you mean, Charlie-san." Kei explained her thoughts. "When the gods release their Arcanum, that means they are accessing their true forms of existence as entities embodying natural laws, completely unbound by human narratives, fairy tales, or perceptions."

"Because the power of Arcanum does not originate from a human-created, mythology-based power system, the concept of mythological status manipulation in your Keeper of the Horses spell would have no legitimate foundation in the laws of the universe with which to bind them."

Charlie smiled broadly, looking at Kei with a gaze filled with admiration.

"Exactly! That was an incredibly intelligent explanation, Kei. Your guess is one hundred percent correct."

Hearing his confirmation, Mahiru, who was sitting beside Kei, furrowed her brows, her expression becoming deeply anxious.

"If that's the case, then what is the point of manifesting Keeper of the Horses right now, Charlie-kun?" she asked, her voice filled with genuine concern. "Wouldn't that mean activating this seal now would simply be pointless?"

"Even worse, your actions would immediately alert the other gods in Orario, causing them to regard you as a genuine threat to their pursuit of pleasure in the Lower World."

"I completely agree with Mahiru's thoughts, Charlie." Astraea quickly added, reinforcing the warning with an expression more serious than any she had shown before. "Never underestimate the gods who are willing to do anything to protect their playground."

"If the gods discover your insane plan, they could act extremely ruthlessly and mobilize the strongest adventurer factions to destroy you before you even have the chance to act."

The atmosphere inside the central room of the Empyrean Citadel suddenly became extremely tense.

Except for Aishia and Est, who had possessed absolute faith in their contractor from the very beginning, the other three women—Astraea, Mahiru, and Kei—were now genuinely overwhelmed by fear and deeply worried about Charlie's safety.

Charlie smiled reassuringly, looking gently at Astraea, Mahiru, and Kei in turn to dispel the anxiety hanging over their faces.

"You don't need to worry."

"I am not using Keeper of the Horses as the sole foundation of this plan. It is merely one of the initial foundations in the large-scale sealing structure I am currently designing."

"How could the process of sealing both the Lower World and Heaven simultaneously rely on a single type of seal? Of course, I will combine it with other techniques to create an entirely new and far superior seal."

Besides the Keeper of the Horses from the Campione World, Charlie actually possessed dozens of other high-level sealing techniques originating from Konoha's Sealing Scroll in his personal collection.

He had acquired all of those secret techniques some time ago through a highly profitable trade with Wang Jian.

Within his collection were the names of legendary sealing techniques from the Naruto World, all ready for him to use at any time:

Five Elements Unseal, Evil Suppressing Seal, Enclosing Sealing, Reverse Four Symbols Sealing, Four Symbols Seal, Eight Trigrams Sealing, as well as the ultimate soul-sacrificing technique, Dead Demon Consuming Seal, along with countless other variations.

Of course, even if all those various sealing techniques were combined and fused into a single new sealing technique that had never existed before, Charlie was still firmly convinced that they would not be one hundred percent sufficient to meet his needs.

However, if they still weren't enough, then the solution was actually very simple. Just add another powerful sealing technique!

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