“ | The essence of the divine pathway is to transform Beyonders into deities. At Sequence 4, we can assume our own Mythical Creature Form, albeit incomplete. For those below Sequence 4, merely witnessing this form can inflict harm. They might even lose control. |
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— Aurore Lee to Lumian Lee on Circle of Inevitability, Chapter 73 |
Mythical Creature Form (神话生物形态, Shénhuàshēngwù Xíngtài) is a transformation and a species category introduced in the Lord of Mysteries. Every demigod, including Saints and Angels, have their own Pathway's Mythical Creature Form. A Mythical Creature is the divine form of a Sequence 4 or higher Beyonder. Beyonders at Sequence 4 and 3 only possesses an incomplete Mythical Creature Form; only at Sequence 2 and above does a Beyonder become a true Mythical Creature.
Description[]
“ | He just needs to reveal his Mythical Creature Form |
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— Pallez to Leonard about his chances against Ince Zangwill on Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 906 |
A Mythical Creature Form is not something that could be described superficially or in three-dimensions, as apart from quantitative terms like length, width, height, they're also a potpourri of complex knowledge, godhood characteristics, and secret symbols. Ordinary people and Beyonders below Sequence 4 will suffer tremendous damage from a simply glance at a Mythical Creature, without any godhood they will be corrupted by the spirituality, having their minds thrashed. A common outcome would either be death on the spot or going completely mad. And as the demigod grows in strength, the damage only grows more potent and irresistible. Therefore, creatures at this level have to constantly control themselves to not expose this form, or just from their very existence alone, it can bring about a catastrophe to their surroundings.[1][2]
The insanity and mutation from witnessing a Mythical Creature not only produce the symptoms of losing control of one’s pathway, but it also comes with the traits of the other party’s Sequence.
- For example, observing the Mythical Creature Form of a Beyonder from the Sun Pathway will cause the observer to combust, and observing a Beyonder of the Demoness Pathway will cause the observer to become a Demoness.[3]
However, those who survive the impact from witnessing the Mythical Creature Form directly can learn corresponding potion formulas and understand the Beyonder powers of this existence.[4]
Form Differences[]
The Mythical Creature Form of Saints (Sequence 4 and 3 Beyonders) is incomplete. They only possess some racial characteristics of their Mythical Creature Form. Only Beyonders at Sequence 2 and above possess a true Mythical Creature Form.
Before becoming a complete Mythical Creature, a Saint will still be hungry and thirsty, but for a Sequence 3 demigod, it is bearable for ten and a half days without supplementary food and water. As for the complete Mythical Creature Form, eating is just a hobby rather than a necessity.
A complete Mythical Creature can die of old age, but rarely, such as exhibited by Sequence 2 Discerner, Edefana.
When Beyonders switch their pathway, their Mythical Creature Form will adapt to combine their former and current pathways. For example, the Mythical Creature Form of Ince Zangwill was the combination of the Darkness and Death pathway forms: a strange monster with eight legs and white feathers, it was a spider or some deformed feathered wolf.[5] The Mythical Creature Form of Hawick was the combination of the Twilight Giant and Death pathway forms.
According to the author, those who reach Sequence 0, can change the Mythical Creature Form of "Their" respective pathway. For example, the Death Pathway, which changed from the Phoenix to the Feathered Serpent.[6]
Known Mythical Creature Forms[]
Standard Pathways[]
Pathway | Mythical Creature Form |
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Lord of Mysteries | |
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Tentacled spiraling vortex of Worms of Spirit. A Worm of Spirit looks like a transparent maggot with three-dimensional patterns. |
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Ancient stone Clock with Worms of Time hands, or a Worm of Time composed of twelve knot patterns.[7] A Worm of Time looks like a strange worm with about 8 circles, the transparent rings of has many three-dimensional patterns as though time is swirling through them. |
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Huge humanoid figure composed of balls of light formed by Worms of Star and constructed by layers of Doors.[8] A Worm of Star looks like an insect formed from resplendent starlight, its body is bent into a semi-circle, forming a magical glow that resembled illusory doors.[9] |
God Almighty | |
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Golden-Eyed Dragon with Gray Scales, known as a Mind Dragon.[10] |
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Flowing shadows with eyes hidden behind the curtain of shadows. |
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Unknown Feathered Creature burning in Golden Flames. |
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Unknown Sea Creature with Tentacles surrounded by Lightning. |
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Illusory Bookshelves. In different places of the bookshelves, there are pools of black, liquid shadows hidden.[11] |
Eternal Darkness | |
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Eight-legged Demonic Wolf. Can stand upright and act as a six-armed humanoid wolf. |
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White-yellow Feathered Serpent[Note 1]; The former form was a black-pale Phoenix. Feathers are covered in a oil-waxy substance. |
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Cyclops, a one-eyed giant with black and blue skin. |
Calamity of Destruction | |
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Gorgon, a woman with snake hair.[12] |
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Flaming Calamity Giant, a dark-skin giant of flame and other atmosphere disaster phenomena as well as covered with a purple flame-clad iron-black skeleton. |
Demon of Knowledge | |
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Countless cold, eyelash-less eyes on the body.[13] |
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Key of Light | |
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Scaleless Silver Snake covered with various mysterious patterns and symbols. |
Goddess of Origin | |
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Flesh mountain of Reproductive Organs.[14] |
Father of Devils | |
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"Their" true Mythical Creature Form is a collection of various Curses, it is invisible and intangible, but outward manifestation of it depends on "Their" own self-awareness and choices made during "Their" advancements.[15] |
The Anarchy | |
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Curly Haired Baboon, a black curly hair primate with an exposed bottom.[Note 2] |
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Non-Standard Pathways[]
Pathway | Mythical Creature Form |
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Three-headed, six-armed giant. The heads show different statistics of time: the past, present and future. |
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Time Giant with a left hand of decay. |
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Dimensional Shadow: a shadowy figure traversing different dimensions |
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Exchanged Pathways' Combinations[]
Pathway | Example Beyonder(s) | Combined Mythical Creature Form |
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Ince Zangwill, Hela | Sequence 4: A spider or some deformed feather wolf.[17] It had ink black eyes, additional four skinless arms covered in white feathers, and sharp long teeth. The body seemed to be embedded with numerous blurry, tiny faces. A strange monster with eight “legs” and white feathers.[5] |
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Hawick | Sequence 3: A nearly four meters tall body with long limbs. It was covered in white feathers that were tainted with faint yellow oil.[18] |
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Lumian Lee | Sequence 2: Calamity Giant with long blood color hair in form of venomous snakes, some rotating black and white eyeballs at the top, others opening jaws with venomous fangs. |
Notes[]
- ↑ In real-life, the Feathered Serpent is widely spread in South American ancient culture. "Quetzalcoatl" is a deity in Mesoamerican culture and literature of the Aztecs whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and means "feathered serpent". It is "Kukulkan" of the Yucatec Mayans'.
- ↑ Initially the author set it to be a human-like/humanoid form. However, Chinese fans started self-proclaiming it as Curly Haired Baboon, so the author changed it to Curly Haired Baboon.[16]
References
- ↑ Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 902
- ↑ Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 705
- ↑ Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 835
- ↑ Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 1072
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 943
- ↑ Archive:Cuttlefish's WeChat Comments and Answers#Question 20
- ↑ Official post on Weibo, 2021-02-28
- ↑ Official post on Weibo, 2021-02-27
- ↑ Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 1199
- ↑ Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 1256
- ↑ Official post on Weibo, 2021-03-10
- ↑ Circle of Inevitability, Chapter 1024
- ↑ Circle of Inevitability, Chapter 1067
- ↑ Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 514
- ↑ Circle of Inevitability, Chapter 1147
- ↑ Interview with the Author
- ↑ Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 944
- ↑ Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 901
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