The expectation of the hobody witch didn’t have to wait long before the atmosphere in the banquet hall suddenly quieted down, and then the ceiling opened up.
Yes, literally opened up.
It was as if a giant had opened the entire banquet hall like a box, with the ceiling’s structure sliding to the sides, revealing the starry night sky outside.
"What a beautiful starry sky."
The hobody witch was not particularly surprised by the transformation of the banquet hall. After all, for soone from the School of Transmutation Fortress Architecture under Noelle Rose, such a simple transformation of a house was entirely trivial and hardly worth making a fuss over.
However, the dazzling starry sky overhead did astonish her.
She hadn’t seen such a pure starry sky in a long ti.
It’s not that the air pollution in the Witch World is severe and you can’t see stars at night; in fact, the starry sky in the Witch World is quite beautiful, just that witches with high spiritual sensitivity should not gaze recklessly.
After all, the night sky in the Witch World doesn’t only have the light of unknown worlds, but more so the magical projections of powerful witches from the Spirit Realm.
These projections are called the Witch’s Fate Star.
Humanity’s stars shine brightly.
This phrase is taphorical for mortals, but for witches, it is quite literal.
The material reality and the Spirit Realm overlap and interrelate, theoretically allowing every creature in the real world to have a corresponding spiritual projection in the Spirit Realm.
But the strength of this spiritual projection is often tied to the creature’s own strength.
For instance, the spiritual bodies of most ordinary mortals might not have a definite shape and are rely like a mass of floating amorphous spirit fire.
By contrast, the spiritual bodies of Golden Races like witches are much stronger; their spiritual bodies are often complete human forms, similar to their physical forms, with distinct manifestations of their talents and specialties.
Previously, when Dorothy and others took a spiritual journey on the White Dragon Warship, their appearances had undergone slight changes, revealing the forms of their spiritual bodies. (Chapter 396)
For the powerful witches, their spiritual bodies are, of course, even more formidable. And when the spiritual body becos strong enough, the power they emit can even transcend the boundaries of the Spirit Realm and the real world, becoming visible to people in the material world.
This is what’s referred to as becoming one with the stars.
Or to use a more common phrase, it’s what the weaker races refer to as igniting the Divine Fire, elevating the Divine Throne, becoming a deity.
The stronger the witch, the more radiant her Fate Star.
Just like the three suns ford by The Third King.
The power of these three suns has completely transcended the scope of spiritual bodies; their brilliance and power are powerful enough to directly affect the material world.
When the king’s authority traverses the sky, all beings must bow, as the brilliance of those three suns is enough to eclipse the light of other witches’ stars.
Only when night falls, and the moon ford by the Mother of the World cos out for a stroll, do the witch stars have an opportunity to showcase their presence.
A sage’s Fate Star is often more than one; they can transform into constellations, and in the School of Prophecy’s astrology magic, these commonly used divination constellations borrow the power of these sages.
And the strength of those beneath the sages, at the level of the Peak, can transform into brilliant stars, with the brightest lone stars in the night sky usually corresponding to a Peak Witch.
Below them are so title-level sorceresses, who in the eyes of mortal races are akin to deities; they can naturally also have their own Fate Stars, but not being strong enough, their stars often appear dim. Without a professional astrolabe, they might not even be visible.
Thus, the night sky of the Witch World is undoubtedly beautiful; it symbolizes the strength and prosperity of the current witch civilization.
As for the real stars in the sky that are not Witch’s Fate Stars.....
This isn’t necessarily a good thing for those stars.
Even in Dorothy’s previous life, in a mortal world where technology wasn’t advanced enough, humans yearned to conquer the starry sea they could see, let alone the more ruthless witches.
The Witch World, ever fed by the relentless wars of the witches, continues to expand, causing worlds previously considered distant to now be within reach.
Thus, whenever a new star appears in the night sky of the Witch World, it typically indicates one of two possibilities.
Either it suggests a new sister has lit up her Fate Star, becoming more powerful, or it hints at the appearance of a brand-new another world near the Witch World, signaling another spree of warfare.
For the witches, these are good things.
However, despite the beauty of the Witch World’s sky, Dorothy didn’t dare to gaze randomly. Her inspiration is sotis frighteningly high, and those Witch’s Fate Stars might appear as ordinary stars to others, but in her eyes, after looking at them for too long, they would transform into various strange entities.
Like centaurs with bows and arrows, massive amorphous dark slis, purple-skinned beauties with three different expressions, or faux won with a hundred eyes and a thousand hands.
Hmm, these are indeed the true forms of witch spiritual bodies concealed behind the starlight.
If this were an experience of directly looking at the "deity" in a tabletop role-playing ga, it would require a round of sanity checks. However, Dorothy didn’t feel a loss of rationality; rather, she felt like she could sotis gain even more insight.
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