Harry Potter: BE a GOD

"Deities are essentially a concept. An imagination. A manifestation of humanity's fear of the unknown."

"Thus, as a collective, deities cannot be killed."

Along a long staircase, surrounded by countless corpses, Murphy ascended with a blood-dripping greatsword in hand.

"Yet, your individual selves can still die, be consumed by other beliefs. The human psyche is like a depression in the ground; even if the water within is drained, the next rainy season will inevitably fill it with a pond again, but surely the fish and shrimp that once lived in that pond will perish in this change."

"I've heard many stories about you, how you've killed many gods. They say you wield a weapon that controls fate," spoke a giant with three faces from the throne at the top of the stone stairs, "You are indeed as arrogant as they say. Referring to deities as fish and shrimp, then what are you? A fisherman? A godslayer?"

"Me?"

"I'm just a traveler who's lost his way, looking to earn some travel expenses," Murphy said, as he gently waved his greatsword.

The blade oscillated between quantum and material states a hundred and thirty-seven times, precisely hitting the tri-faced god who seemed to be frozen in fear, effortlessly slicing through the deity's skin, tough as metal, as if cutting through air.

All three faces showed fear and disbelief.

"I made a hundred and thirty-six prophecies, fleeing to different locations each time, but you struck me down in every one. Why..."

Murphy lifted the head with three faces, letting the giant's body collapse with a thunderous crash, its blood flowing down like a stream, laying a red carpet down the stairs behind him.

"Magic is useful, especially when it's in the hands of someone who knows how to wield it," Murphy said. "The atomic structure of this sword has been adjusted and formed by magic; it's a flawless nanomaterial that possesses both microscopic and macroscopic properties under the influence of magic."

"When adjusted to its microscopic state by magic, all its atoms are within the uncollapsed probability cloud around me, covering all space around me for about ten meters. When it consolidates into a macroscopic state, it can appear anywhere."

"The decision of where it will collapse is not my guess, but the quantum in your body that has entered into an entangled state with some of the material in the sword."

"Your one hundred and thirty-six prophecies, to me, are just one hundred and thirty-six possible probability collapses. But no matter where you choose to appear from, this sword will inevitably sever your neck."

"The Blade of Fate," the tri-faced god murmured, "So this is the Blade of Fate."

"Fate?" Murphy mocked with a laugh, "It's just a trick of probability."

Saying so, Murphy completely obliterated the tri-faced god, extending his right hand as if forming a vortex, stripping the deity of its divine power.

As he said, he was just gathering travel expenses for time travel.

After turning a group of wizards into deities in the ancient times, Murphy made several jumps through the time converter, though these trips were all time travels along the flow of time.

Murphy hadn't given up on the plan to eliminate deities; he was just constantly trying various schemes, but none turned out as expected.

For instance, in his last time travel, he tried spreading scientific thinking among Muggles, but it was merely treated as another form of magic. Even though he painstakingly nurtured a few individuals capable of scientific thought, once they passed away, their knowledge was indeed passed down as something useful, but the methodology of science was still drowned in endless ignorance.

This made Murphy realize that without a broad educational foundation, it was almost impossible to promote scientific thinking, which requires extensive practice and sufficient mental training, making it a skill only a minority could master.

This time, Murphy decided to take a step back. He traveled the world, trying to awaken people's ability to understand themselves, guiding them to abandon worship of others, not externally but internally, seeking liberation of the soul by turning towards the true self, becoming their own god.

He had spent five to six years ensuring his "Self-Awareness Way," based on Buddhism and modern psychology, spread over a not insignificant area. Now, he was prepared to push time forward by a hundred or two hundred years to see the results of this experiment.

Now, having gathered "divine power," he once again took out a time converter.

His supply of time converters was dwindling, but as he absorbed the material from each time travel, Murphy was becoming more adept at wielding the power of time. This manifested in his daily life as he could now accelerate himself through time without relying on a time converter.

Even in the battle against the tri-faced god, to counter its prophetic abilities, he had indeed used a portion of the power of time.

From the perspective of time travel, prophecy, especially precise prophecy, can be regarded as an "observation" of the future.

And once observed, the observed phenomenon will inevitably change to some extent due to the act of observation, especially in the quantum realm, where this change becomes very apparent, potentially significantly altering the probabilities of various possibilities.

To prevent the tri-faced god from "observing" a certain future through prophecy, thereby changing the probability and "fixing" that future to some extent before adopting different methods to avoid being killed, Murphy also used the power of time when striking with his sword, keeping himself in a state of being superimposed across several seconds to resist the collapse effect brought by the other's observational actions.

Now, Murphy once again infused divine power into the time converter, and the same thing happened again; the time converter merged into his body, and he arrived two hundred years later.

He immediately began to search for the results of his last experiment.

However, he soon realized that he had failed again.

After he left, his "Self-Awareness Way" had morphed into a religion. His disciples preached in his name everywhere, and his image gradually transformed from a proponent of self-enlightenment to a deity who came from the divine realm to save the world.

Seeing the newly born "Enlightener God," which bore some resemblance to him but had begun to accept worship like other deities within just a hundred years, Murphy, in a fit of anger, cut it down.

After several attempts ended in failure, Murphy couldn't help feeling disheartened.

But this also made him fully understand a truth: the overall "awakening" state of humanity changes with the level of material production and life. Given the current capabilities of the human group, there are too many things in this world beyond their control. It's impossible for them to achieve a higher level of ideological enlightenment by detaching from the reality of a low-productivity society.

Only when productivity is highly developed, technology is highly advanced, and humanity has pushed the unknown beyond everyday experience—around the year 2000 or even further into the future—is there a chance to completely eliminate deities.

But by then, if the goal is to eliminate deities, it requires a long development of technology, and with the existence of deities, how could humanity have many opportunities to develop technology and civilization?

This seems to become a chicken-and-egg paradoxical spiral.

"No, that's not right."

Murphy suddenly realized he had entered a fallacy.

His original purpose in

 time-traveling was just to find a way to restrain deities.

The return of the gods in the future had already shown that from around the 5th century to about the year 2000, deities had only temporarily left the stage, not been annihilated.

Under the laws of time travel, a future that has already occurred, even if one goes back to the past, cannot be changed.

That is to say, he should abandon the idea of completely resolving the gods at this stage and instead focus on a more pragmatic approach of restraint.

The important thing is to find a way to keep them off the stage for this one or two thousand years, giving human society time to develop technology and civilization, that is, giving humanity time to accumulate the real resources needed to annihilate them.

But how to do it?

Murphy pondered for a long time.

Suddenly, an idea emerged.

He now had a rough understanding of the birth process of deities and had sufficient experience with faith and divine power.

He knew that humans are the creators of deities, but at this stage, due to the limitations of productivity, it's not realistic for humans to extinguish faith in deities through such a direct method from their perspective.

But what if the perspective is changed?

Humans can't deal with deities, but what about deities themselves?

They have always been absorbing and evolving from each other, with numerous contradictions among them.

Is there a possibility, by using these contradictions, to make them attack each other, to restrain each other?

Moreover, deities are born from legends.

Although once they develop consciousness, deities often enslave their believers in reverse, due to the presence of mental contamination, believers can actually influence deities to a certain extent.

Then, if legends about deities are deliberately spread, is it possible to change their behavior, thereby manipulating them?

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