At the beginning of July, Year 825, the temperature was as hot as fire.
On the thirty-first floor of the Allyn magic tower, Onore, who had successfully passed the examination and entered the Holt Magic College, observed the Sky Radio Station of the first district with great interest with his classmates. He said regretfully, "It's a pity that the radio station is broadcast at night, and the school closes at six in the evening. Otherwise, I would've been able to ask Miss Lark and Miss Nightingale for autographs. Their voices are so pleasant. They must be very beautiful."
The other districts on the thirty-first floor of the Allyn magic tower were chosen as the teaching areas of the Holt Magic College because the high-level laboratories in the magic tower could be directly used and did not need to be rebuilt. The students' residences were in other places in the city.
"You can apply for magic experiments at night." Clark, another student, said in amusement.
Onore said gloomily, "I've only started my studies for two months. I'm still building the foundation for many arcana and magic courses. How can I apply for magic experiments at night?"
The Holt Magic College was opened at the beginning of May. Students could choose their courses and graduate in two to five years. There was a New Year's holiday but no summer holidays.
"Yes, I'm still confused about Mr. Evans' matrix mechanics. I've grasped the matrix and learned how to calculate, but I don't understand why it works at all. It's like a pure mathematical work. If I don't understand the arcana implications behind it, I can't understand the whole theory at all. I'm often dizzy." Said Clark bitterly. Matrix mechanics was truly cold and unapproachable.
Onore shook his head and tried to ease his feelings with a joke. "Is it like what Mr. Evans said? You can understand every word and every calculation, but you don't understand anything when they are connected?"
"More or less. It's the same for the special theory of relativity. I can understand the premises and the logical deduction, but I'm at a loss about the specific space-time relationship and how to apply it to analyze magic." Clark sighed. As for the general theory of relativity, there was only a general introduction and no specific courses. It was said that no more than ten people in the entire Congress of Magic had grasped the general theory of relativity. All the teachers in the college were probably not qualified for the course.
Onore opened his hands and was about to talk, when he discovered that the teacher from the office of academic affairs had been standing there like a statue after he came out of the magic elevator, with a journal of 'Arcana' in his hands.
"Mr. Ernesto?" Onore greeted him curiously.
Pa. Ernesto's' Arcana 'fell to the ground. He looked at Onore, Clark and the rest of them in fear. "No classes?"
"Yes. The selected courses for this week are over. Mr. Ernesto, is it this issue of 'Arcana'?" Asked Onore curiously.
There was a rule in the Holt Magic College. Whether or not the students could understand Arcana, Magic and Nature, they had to read them to learn the latest arcana and magic research in case they were abandoned by the times. The three journals were all ordered by the college and distributed for free.
Ernesto stared at Arcana on the ground as if he were looking at a devil. He hesitated and said, "It's this issue of Arcana, but don't believe it yet. You'd better test it yourself."
"Subversive theory? Experiment? " Onore also widened his eyes at the 'Arcana' on the ground. The head-exploding torrent during the battle of the light quantum left a deep impression on him.
"'Electron Diffraction Experiment with Single Crystals' …" Clark read the title of the opened page of 'Arcana', his face full of confusion. "Electron? Diffraction? How can the two things be related? "
Because of the secret preparations for the exploration of the World of Souls, Lucien's electron diffraction experiment was postponed for another two months. It was not submitted to the Arcana Review Board until the departure.
Onore could not help but pick up 'Arcana' and mumble to himself, "Clark, do you still remember the previous issue of 'Arcana'? The issue where the Highest Council discussed Mr. Dieppe's paper? "
"Mr. Dieppe's paper …" Clark's face was extremely twisted, as if he had thought of a terrible monster.
Onore read the paper greedily, excited, and scared. He saw the preparation of the experiment materials, the specific experiment process, and the experiment pattern at the end, which was the familiar and classic pattern of diffraction!
"It's … It's true. Electrons do have the nature of waves …" Onore's eyes seemed to have lost focus, and he blurted out his feelings subconsciously.
Thankfully, Lucien's speech and example that cleared the fog in his mind made him accept that electrons were an unknown thing that had not really been explored yet. What he blurted out was that electrons had the nature of waves, not that electrons were waves. That was why his worldview was not disordered and he did not suspect the objectivity and existence of the real world.
Clark shook his head hard. "It must be verified by experiments! It must be verified by experiments!"
Ernesto nodded hard too. He led the few students to the advanced magic laboratory and prepared the experiment materials according to Mr. Evans' method.
After a long time, when the dreamy picture was unfolded in front of their eyes, Ernesto sat on the chair in frustration and rubbed his head hard, as if he were in great pain.
Onore was rather shocked. He suspected that Mr. Ernesto's head would explode all of a sudden, and the red and white would be splashed everywhere.
Thankfully, Ernesto gradually returned to normal. He looked at the world before his eyes in confusion. "It has the nature of particles and waves. What about the real world? I feel that I don't understand the things that I was familiar with at all. "
Fearing that he would continue hesitating, Onore hurried to change the topic. "'Arcana' has the joint paper of Mr. Evans and a few students. It's a paper on matrix mechanics that deals with the classic mathematical tools in the past. It looks much simpler."
"However, no matter how simple and straightforward it is, it cannot be understood or grasped. Without figuring out the arcana significance behind the mathematical calculations, it will still be like a 'matrix maze' that cannot be walked out." Clark looked at the journal in his hands and frowned deeply.
The room immediately fell silent. Onore couldn't help but recall the weird features of electrons. They both showed the indisputable nature of particles and the familiar and shocking pattern of diffraction. According to Dieppe's paper, not just electrons, protons and neutrons should be the same. Then, did the elements, the matter, and even the world that they made of had two properties too?
Looking at the touchable alchemical platforms, chairs, floor tiles, and magic lamps before his eyes, Onore also shook his head. "I don't know the real world anymore, either …"
Clark, on the other hand, struggled to say, "We have to change the arcana textbooks again."
Onore was immediately amused. He recalled the scene when he took the College Entrance Exam of Advanced Magic in April. The textbooks of the new alchemy were only confirmed in the morning, and they had to be changed after the exam at noon. Right now, the textbooks had to be changed again after only two months of classes.
"This is truly a crazy era, but also a beautiful era …"
In his own laboratory in his magic tower, Dieppe looked at the pattern of diffraction in disbelief and remarked in the same way.
The moment he completed the experiment, he sensed the feedback of the real world, which improved his cognitive world. However, he said to himself in confusion, "Why is the feedback much less than I expected? Did Mr. Evans, who completed the diffraction experiment, take most of the feedback? "
That was the only explanation!
What he didn't know was that Lucien ran the experiment in a hurry to reverse the changes of his cognitive world and did not complete the theoretical deduction at all. That was why he left some feedback.
… …
In the gray background, Rhein's red coat was particularly eye-catching, but Lucien was not careless. Dangers were everywhere in the Temple of Spirits, and Mr. Rhein had always been mysterious.
"I almost attacked you just now. Thankfully, I sensed my remaining Origin of Blood in your body." Rhein said with a casual smile. His behavior was elegant and relaxed, as if he were going to a concert instead of an adventure in the dangerous area deep inside the World of Souls.
Lucien also confirmed Rhein's identity from his scent, the senses of the Origin of Blood, and the secret magic methods. He asked in confusion, "Mr. Rhein, why are you here? Are you trapped again? "
Rhein shook his head. "At that time, Sardes perished in the battle against Benedict II, but a mysterious piece ran out of his body and hid in the World of Souls. I followed it all the way and came to this place."
As he spoke, he pointed at the blood stains on his chest. "But in the world of the black gate and the gray hall, I lost the clues and encountered a transparent and illusionary monster. I was heavily wounded and had to borrow the power of the Primordial Ancestor to beat it back."
"It was not destroyed? What's the strength of the monster? " Lucien asked in surprise. Rhein was equal to a top legend when he borrowed the power of the Silver Moon, but the monster was not killed but only beaten back temporarily.
Rhein was still wearing the same relaxed smile. "I found it strange too. After I was trapped in the World of Souls, my strength improved and reached level three of legendary. When I fought it, it was only close to the peak level at first and could heavily wound me but could not kill me. However, after I borrowed the power of the Primordial Ancestor, its strength suddenly soared and reached the real peak of legendary. So, it was only beaten back temporarily."
"Did it intentionally lure you to use Alterna's power?" Lucien analyzed. Rhein's borrowing of the power of the Silver Moon was like 'Ivan's' God's Grace, which had a long buffering time.
Rhein smiled. "It's very possible, but it's not so easy to kill a vampire prince. Why are you here?"
Lucien briefly told him what happened earlier. He also mentioned the remaining patterns of the magic circle and the gray pieces on which the word 'demon' was written.
Rhein pondered for a moment. "I've seen a similar pattern before … Let's take a look. Maybe we'll find something else."
Therefore, he pushed open the black gate through which Lucien came in again, but the gray hall behind them had changed. What appeared before their eyes was a gray chamber.
The chamber seemed to have been sealed in time. Everything was fresh and real. However, after the gate was opened, time suddenly flowed, and the papers, tables, and objects quickly decayed.
Different from the gray hall, this chamber only had two black gates.
"Alchemy circles? Is this the remains of a magic laboratory? "Lucien was slightly behind Rhein. His curiosity and desire to explore were aroused.
In the decayed mud, two objects were still intact. One was a broken notebook that had been specially treated with magic, and the other was a puppet arm with weird patterns on it.
Rhein picked up the puppet arm and examined it carefully, while Lucien also opened the notebook with magic. The broken pages of the notebook made crisp noises as they were turned over.
At the front of the notebook were some notes on alchemy experiments. They might be precious for the ancient sorcerers, but for the arcanists in the Congress of Magic, they were nothing but things that had been simplified and improved many times. However, the weird way of making a substitute puppet in the middle of the notebook intrigued Lucien. He memorized it in the Library of the Soul.
When the notebook was almost finished, and there were no clues about the current environment, suddenly, two lines of dark gray words appeared in front of Lucien's eyes before he had time to react.
"A ghost, an unimaginable ghost, is wandering around here!"
"Several companions have gone missing. Maybe I'm the next one."
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