Getting rid of the cultists in the wasteland and the Sentinels behind them was the real solution. Of course, Gwen knew this.
But the cultists' plan was also very obvious: they knew that the vast and dangerous Gondor wasteland was their safety barrier. If the army of the mortal world wanted to fight in the wasteland, they were bound to be in an extremely disadvantageous situation. Under the protection of this safety barrier, they seemed to be determined to develop in the wasteland to the end. They would not voluntarily come out until the 'big plan' was ready.
Now, Cecil's' 115 Project 'was not yet completed, Typhon's sorcerers were still gathering, and the Silver Empire's wasteland expeditionary force was not ready. Before the most powerful military force in the mortal world was ready, would the cultists complete their plan first? No one could say for sure.
"… Maybe we have to launch a counterattack ahead of time," Gwen said gloomily, rubbing his chin. "We can't let the cultists come out ahead of time, so we can only take the initiative to attack … Even if we just put some pressure on the Sentinel, it can also interfere with its judgment and preparation."
"Attack the wasteland without preparation?" Mirmina looked at Gwen. "This doesn't sound like a good idea."
"… This is one of the options." Gwen sighed. "I will communicate with Typhon and the Silver Empire, but if we have no other choice, we can only take action ahead of time without preparation."
"Well, I don't know much about war. Those who know war have died of stupidity." Mirmina shook her head and said with a trace of inexplicable emotion. Then, she sat back down. "I will find a way to decipher the technical secrets behind the cubes. Although they were left behind by the Voyager … but since a group of cultists with limited conditions can create them with their own craftsmanship, it means that the Sentinel has made adjustments to the technology. There must be parts in it that we can understand and use, but it will take time to find this part … If there is any progress, I will communicate with the technical department immediately."
Gwen nodded gently. Then, he glanced at the spot where Mirmina was leaning against the trunk. He saw that there were still many symbols and numbers floating in the air, and geometric figures that looked like abstract models appeared and disappeared in the air. It was dizzying. Obviously, Mirmina was not really resting with her eyes closed. Those rapidly calculating symbols and numbers were what she was really doing.
He did not know what the former Goddess of Magic was calculating, but he knew that it must be very important, so important that she needed to 'retreat'.
He could not help but ask curiously, "I heard that you have been studying the secrets behind the magic wave attribute recently? What were you calculating just now? Is it also related to that? "
Milmina looked back at the symbols and numbers floating in the air, and then turned back to meet Gawain's curious eyes. After noticing the thirst for knowledge in those eyes, a smile seemed to appear at the corner of her mouth. "You're really a person with a thirst for knowledge … Yes, I'm studying the secrets behind the magical wave attribute. I've been studying them these days, and I'm halfway done with my thesis."
Gwen's expression was a little strange for a moment. He always felt that the whole 'Goddess of Magic writing a paper' thing seemed to have something to complain about, but he could not find a direction to complain about it. He could only laugh dryly and quickly turned his attention to the serious and important academic problem itself. "I know about the experiment you conducted in the God of War's kingdom. In fact, part of the process of the experiment was designed by Kamel and me. Now we have finally confirmed that magic is a wave, or at least shows the nature of a wave. The academic community is greatly encouraged by this, and we finally have a real understanding of one of the natural phenomena that we are most accustomed to around us. "
"Yes, we have a better understanding of magic … but the world has begun to show its completely unfamiliar side to us." Listening to Gwen's words, Mirmina could not help but sigh. "You know what, in fact, what we confirmed that day was not only the nature of the magic wave, but I also saw something … even more incredible."
"I heard about your special experience, but the scholars are very confused about the phenomenon you described." Gwen frowned. "What did you see?"
"… Have you ever thought about such a possibility?" Mirmina looked into Gwen's eyes, as if wondering if she should unveil the veil of truth. But soon she abandoned this hesitation and said in a very solemn tone, "Perhaps … the so-called material world does not exist at all, and we and the whole world we know originated from a tremor at an ancient 'origin point.'"
Gwen fell into deep thought because of this sentence. He recalled the mysterious phenomena observed by Mirmina mentioned in the report before. Amber, who was standing next to him, could not help but exclaim, "The material world does not exist at all?! What does that mean?! "
It was clear that she did not understand what Milmina was saying, but she was greatly shaken.
"Strictly speaking, the so-called boundary between 'material' and 'immaterial' may have been a false proposition from the beginning. It is the one-sided truth of the world that we 'observers' who are limited by the rules see in the narrow vision of the world." Mirmina did not ignore Amber's question because of her reaction and her usual intelligence. She explained seriously, even though her explanation was like a heavenly book to Amber. "All along, we have thought that the world is clearly divided into various' parts' with mutually isolated 'layers', but maybe … the essence of the bottom layer of our world is actually 'unified.'"
"… Why don't I understand?" Amber blinked, trying to listen carefully for a long time, but she still said in frustration.
"That's normal. The deer next to you can't understand it either." Mirmina did not have the slightest intention of making fun of Amber. Instead, she said with a serious face, which made Amoun immediately dissatisfied. "Hey, just say it, but don't drag me into it! Do you want to compete with me in planting eggplants? "
Mirmina did not seem to hear Amoun's protest. She just thought for a moment before continuing. "At the end of the experiment, the moment I completely understood the nature of magic waves, I reorganized my 'existence'. I tried to use the nature of 'waves' to understand the magic that made up my body, but it caused an unexpected phenomenon … My avatar disintegrated in the special environment of the God of War's divine kingdom, becoming neither material nor energy. In terms of attributes, it was closer to the state of 'reverberation of thoughts' around me, and an unprecedented 'perspective' appeared in my perception …
"From that perspective, everything around me appeared different. Be it the bricks of the God of War's divine kingdom or the bodies of Kamal and the other explorers, everything in my field of vision was no longer a 'material object' with a definite form. Instead, it was countless' tremors' that overlapped, affected, and had an extremely complicated structure. I was also a part of the tremors. It was just that due to a temporary 'derailment,' I temporarily gained the ability to jump out of my own perspective and observe everything … That's right.
"In that state, I also paid attention to the magic observation device at the center of the test field. I saw the pure, high-intensity arcane ray bombarding a quaking wave that was denser and higher in frequency than it was, triggering layers of ripples that spread in space. And that … was the bright and dark stripes that we observed in the material world."
Mirmina paused for a moment before continuing. "That's everything I observed, but it's not the most accurate description. Unfortunately, the information that words and words can convey is limited, and many things that I saw and sensed at that time were beyond the cognitive habits that people take for granted. "
Mirmina described a scene that was simply unimaginable to mortals in this era. She tried her best to choose words that were accurate, fitting, and not ambiguous, but she was still worried that Gwen, Amber, and the few royal mages who were listening attentively with their eyes wide open would not be able to understand what she said. In fact, she was mentally prepared that no one could understand what she said, because she knew that the truth she discovered was … too early for most people.
But Gwen fell into a thoughtful state as she described. Those bizarre words triggered some associations in his mind, and after a few minutes of contemplation, he suddenly broke the silence. "So, you think that everything in our world may be formed by fundamental 'waves', and that our material foundation, at a level that is closest to 'Origin', is actually non-physical and amorphous?"
Mirmina could not hide the surprise on her face. She looked at Gwen in surprise. "Well … from a certain point of view, it could be described as such …"
"So, it's not just magic that shows the nature of waves. Theoretically, everything in the world is actually a kind of wave, but due to the existence of a certain limiting condition — let's assume that it is a critical point, a critical point in the microscopic realm. Because of this critical point, only magic will show the nature of waves that we can observe, while the waves of other things are hidden outside our 'observable zone' …"
Gwen said as he pondered. Although he was not a magical expert comparable to Kamel and the rest, he had accumulated another kind of wisdom in his mind. This wisdom allowed him to understand what Mirmina had witnessed in the test site of the divine kingdom from a special perspective, and even gave him a further theoretical deduction.
"The most critical part of this theory is that 'we' will also be limited by this constantly trembling wave system." He looked into Mirmina's eyes. The 'ruler of all laws' had bent down again. Her body was majestic and oppressive, but her posture was completely that of a beautiful lady who was intoxicated in discussion and exploration, dominated by curiosity. Under the gaze of those mysterious eyes, Gwen's mind became clearer. "If everything is a wave, then we, the 'observers', will be fixed to a certain 'ring' in the universe due to the constraints of our own 'frequency' or 'wave'. Our vision is the same, and even the observation tools we can touch and use will also be limited by this, and we cannot cross the critical point in the microscopic realm …
"From a certain point of view, this problem will not be proven or falsified for at least a long time. Therefore, out of rigorous academic rules, it can only be a conjecture …"
"Yes, it can only be a conjecture now, unless we find evidence to support it or disprove it," Mirmina said frankly. "Although I observed some phenomena that seemed to prove this theory from a special perspective, my observation cannot be reproduced, and there is no evidence to prove that what I 'saw' at that time was real and undisturbed. It cannot be used as evidence."
Amber looked at Gwen and then at Mirmina. She felt that her head was heating up, but she still managed to keep up with the topic and understood a small part of it. An expression of shock and disbelief appeared on her face. After pondering for a while, she pulled out her little dagger and looked at Gwen blankly while weighing the dagger. "Hey, wait a minute. According to what you said, even my dagger is fundamentally composed of 'waves'? It's that kind of 'humming' feeling. If that's the case, why would this dagger stay in my hand? Wouldn't it fuse with me, or fall out of my hand, or simply dissipate? "
The more she spoke, the more confused she became. She then looked up at Gwen's caring eyes and suddenly shrunk her neck. "Well, my brain is not suitable to think about this. Just pretend I didn't say anything …"
"Thinking is a good thing. You have thought more deeply than most ordinary people, and you have pointed out a key point, that is, 'everything vibrates just right to make our world appear like this'." Gwen smiled. He felt that he should comfort Amber. At least she was much better at using her brain than before, and what he said was not entirely comforting. "What Mirmina and I are talking about is that 'the fundamental level of matter is waves', not 'something is a wave'. This is a different concept. In the realm of 'matter' that we know, this kind of wave property may only appear at the microscopic level, but your dagger … this thing is macroscopic."
Mirmina's voice came at this moment. "If our theory is correct, then the boundary between 'microscopic' and 'macroscopic' is actually blurred. As' observers', our understanding of macroscopic and microscopic, matter and non-matter is limited by our own 'foundation'. But if some kind of external force changes this' foundation ', then the whole world may appear different before our eyes …"
Gwen pondered and suddenly said softly, "If that's the case, then the various phenomena caused by magic, the paradox of matter behind the transfiguration spell, the blurred boundary between spiritual power and matter … and even the Mana Tide seem to have an explanation … If everything in the world has achieved the ultimate unity at the bottom level, if all of this is the result of the interference and superposition of various waves, then all of this seems to be reasonable …"
Mirmina was a little puzzled. "Did you think that all these things were unreasonable before?"
Gwen smiled. He could not explain this to Mirmina, so he just said perfunctorily. Then he said seriously, "Don't you think we should give this conjecture a name now?"
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