Picking Up Divine Authorities in Indian Mythology

College student Lin Ye touched a Shiva stone carving engraved with Sanskrit in a museum. When he opened his eyes, he had become a Chandala, an outcast in ancient India, and was clutching a talking bronze fragment: a Vedic Fragment that could absorb shards of the divine essence of mythological figures.

While others were worked like oxen under the caste system, he secretly learned Vishnu's Illusion Art through the fragment, setting up a fortune-telling stall by the roadside. Even kings had to wait in line to ask him about the fate of their kingdoms.

When the Asura King wreaked havoc in the mortal world and the gods were helpless, he secretly absorbed Indra's Thunder Divine Essence, grabbed an iron rod, and beat the Demon King until he howled in pain, nearly enraging the Emperor of Heaven enough to overturn the Heavenly Palace.

When Brahma slept for a thousand years and the laws of the universe fell into chaos, he pieced together the Creation Divine Essence with the fragment. On a whim, he fashioned a divine bird, which unexpectedly became Garuda, the legendary creature of later ages.

Just as he slipped a fragment of Shiva's Destruction Divine Essence into his pocket, the fragment suddenly warned him