novelraw #184 - Section 184
#184 - Section 184
The complex formulas were no simpler than the equations those physicists wrestled with.
The wizards present were no longer young, their bodies radiating immense magical power that indicated at least legendary status. Yet, they listened to the Eternal Night Empress with the earnestness of elementary school students, completely oblivious to the arrival of Roger and Aisalie.
A certain duke strutted about in utter solitude.
Magic, explored to their level, progressed with each step, just like science, based on reality and empirical summaries.
While the Eternal Night Empress might seem reckless in battle, she had always excelled at analyzing and reconstructing magic, discerning its rules, and possessing an almost intuitive grasp of how to break conventions.
This was why, even at a young age, the anti-magic field of the Truth Salon couldn't suppress her.
But seeing her display such a scholarly, scientific demeanor for the first time, after witnessing so much of her goofy side, Roger was astonished that even legendary mages, many times her age, listened attentively.
These academic researchers didn't care about combat prowess; only genuine knowledge could impress them.
Clearly, the Eternal Night Empress had achieved this. Her status as a shared idol among mages wasn't solely due to her fighting ability.
Of course, her fighting ability was a major factor, which wasn't contradictory.
Roger and Aisalie arrived together. The Eternal Night Empress merely glanced at them, her eyes flickered slightly, and she gestured for them to sit wherever, without pausing her lecture.
The solemn atmosphere here made even Roger, with his grievances, hesitant to cause a scene.
Listening to the arcane content, his movements unconsciously became gentler, and he even felt a bit drowsy.
It seemed he truly couldn't comprehend the world of mages…
He and Aisalie sat at the end of the round table, careful not to distract the attention of these bigwigs, acting obedient.jpg
Roger admired the Eternal Night Empress's effortless command at that moment. As a mage standing at the pinnacle of this world, her confidence in her area of expertise made her charm even more alluring.
Slightly less domineering than in her Empress state, but full of vigor, sharp and confident, facing all questions with composure, and then refuting them one by one with her extensive knowledge.
She really had the air of a master.
[Of course, if she were wearing certain uniforms and stockings, it would be even more appealing… ]
The completely clueless Roger's mind wandered to strange thoughts.
As for Aisalie, the brown-haired girl beside him, after listening to the Eternal Night Empress's lecture for a while, she quickly grasped her train of thought and then looked down at the ground:
“Amazing, it turns out this is a spatial channel, but infinitely slowed down, turning into a method to quickly scan large planes… How high a level of magical manipulation is required for this… ”
And so, the little assistant who had sneaked into this meeting room was lost in thought, staring at the ground.
The Eternal Night Empress's explanation lasted about twenty minutes. As she stepped down from the platform, the old men present applauded softly.
Then, the elderly gentleman at the head of the table, his hair and clothes meticulously arranged, stood up:
“I’ll add a few simple points.”
Roger had seen magical portraits and knew that this was the chief advisor of the Arcane Council, Lord Nicola Galilei, known as the Observer, one of the empire's foremost experts in the study of planar operational laws.
The Celestial Sea Tower was built by the Arcane Council specifically for his observation, and it was a very peculiar non-fixed demiplane.
Although called a tower, its fully expanded form resembled a fortress, its main body being a floating continent in the astral plane, free to roam the astral plane for movement and observe the operational laws between planes.
When needed, the Celestial Sea Tower became the empire's forward base for attacking some astral forces, and the previous investments here had been fully recouped.
The mages stationed in the Celestial Sea Tower included two of Galilei's disciples, as well as researchers in related fields, all of whom were high-end talents.
Even the World Wanderer, Dean Hall, was present, his seat far back.
This was probably equivalent to a summit of theoretical researchers, while Hall was a practical type, rich in experience, but with little groundbreaking innovation, so his status was not high.
However, his presence here indicated that the relationship between the Eternal Night Empress and him had been repaired after she took the initiative to talk to him, and the differences arising from 《New Arcana》 had been eliminated.
After all, Hall had personally verified the correctness of important theories in 《New Arcana》.
Later, after eliminating the relevant memories due to confidentiality, he invented many arcane devices of great practical value because he disliked 《New Arcana》, and now he can be called a representative figure in the fields of magic and science…
Faced with such a contradictory result, Hall could only sigh helplessly, submit to the guidance of fate, become a supporter of 《New Arcana》, and naturally there was no longer any contradiction between master and apprentice.
Now, the Eternal Night Empress wanted to explore the location of the Source Sea, and the first person she thought of was Galilei—
He built the Celestial Sea Tower so strong that it completely exceeded the strength that a detector should have, and its hidden ultimate goal was to find the Source Sea, hoping that the Celestial Sea Tower could resist the legendary terror of that mysterious plane.
And in the relevant intelligence of the Source Sea, they did have more in-depth results than others. Although it was still far from finding the Source Sea, combined with the new intelligence of the Eternal Night Empress, they did have many new explorations last night.
Before Roger arrived, they had applied the new discoveries and conducted five deep space explorations, and at this moment they were running a branch of the Celestial Sea Tower here for the sixth exploration.
This was also the reason for the instability of the magic beacon, and it also showed Galilei's attainments in teleportation, which was applied to his magic tower:
Obviously, they were already in the spatial channel of teleportation, but they could still superimpose teleportation doors here and teleport Roger and his companions in.
This operation was like walking a tightrope on a fighter jet performing a cobra maneuver, and the difficulty was self-evident; otherwise, Aisalie would not have been so amazed.
However, compared to Roger's lack of feeling, it also showed that Aisalie's ability to see this point itself far exceeded that of ordinary graduates. Being selected by Frankenstein as an assistant, her talent was extremely good, and she was forced to grow by the environment.
Galilei began to lecture, and the others still listened very carefully, constantly supplementing and improving their new theories. The Eternal Night Empress then teleported to Roger's side, glanced at Aisalie, who was still in a daze, but did not suspect the relationship between the two.
This kind of appearance would not make Roger take the initiative, and with the other party's focus on the academic world, she would not be interested in men.
So it should just be a guide, and then a coincidence, bringing up a passerby who was listening.
In this regard, the Eternal Night Empress still had enough self-confidence, and knew how annoying women who suspected for no reason and made troubles were.
Thinking of excluding all the opposite sex around the other party, this was obviously a stupid operation that would hurt the enemy eight hundred and damage one thousand, and no emotionally intelligent partner would try this dangerous operation.
The Eternal Night Empress sat next to Roger, summoned a plate of snacks at random, crossed her legs elegantly, and asked while eating.
Roger thought for a while, also picked up a piece, and couldn't help frowning: "Your Majesty, sugar is not used like this."
He swore that what he ate was not a snack, but probably a solid sugar cube, so greasy that he almost vomited.
The Eternal Night Empress ate another piece: "Supplement after overthinking."
“With your strength, one night is not enough for you to be so short of sugar, right?”
“Psychological comfort, understand?”
The Eternal Night Empress said with confidence.
Even if my physical strength can support it, do you really understand how much psychological pressure and mental exhaustion there is from such high-intensity thinking?
You can’t explain ice to a summer insect, stinky brat.
Roger was speechless for a while, whatever makes you happy.
He felt that he was frequently encountering academic discrimination today, are mages so amazing?
The Eternal Night Empress pointed to Galilei, who was drawing “Plane Operation Deduction Model” while calculating and correcting.
Roger instantly retreated.
Okay, okay, I don’t understand, and I can’t understand, you guys are amazing…
“Your Majesty, have you found the Source Sea?” Roger silently changed the subject.
“No, but we have a direction to look for.” The Eternal Night Empress briefly explained their gains.
Previously, Galilei had contacted fox friends and dog companions from different planes… ah, no, it should be said that they were like-minded friends, and everyone discussed the existence of the void plane and the disasters spreading by the Seven Gods.
As a kind of warning, the top beings in many planes have learned about the extinction-level disaster that the world may face.
It’s just that it’s more difficult for these planes to unite than for primitive tribal chiefs to build the United Nations across the four oceans, so for the time being, they can only fight on their own, and mutual assistance can only be limited to intelligence.
Good news, this level of information exchange is also very useful. Galilei has mastered an incomplete march map of the Seven Gods.
This is an interesting thing discovered by those plane nodes that are being attacked and those that have been destroyed:
In the information they have, in the past two hundred years or so, the Knowledge God has shot much less frequently than the other six gods.
This is abnormal. Because of his own business strategy and Naline’s assistance, Zhang Wei’s belief power is the most and his strength is the strongest. Direct shots will definitely greatly speed up the conquest process of the Seven Gods.
However, the frequency of his shots is getting lower and lower, and he should be distracted by other things.
The Eternal Night Empress brought the information of the Source Sea, and it became clear at a glance what the Knowledge God was distracted by.
Only the Source Sea.
Chapter 161 I admit that I have a special inheritance
“Looking at the Knowledge God’s shot records again, they are actually concentrated in one area. We can boldly speculate that the Knowledge God is shooting incidentally when he travels back and forth between the God Kingdom and the Source Sea. Conversely, it can be proved that the Source Sea is very likely to be within his range of activities in recent years.”
The Eternal Night Empress finally summarized their gains this night, “Now we are trying to search, model, and calculate in this area to find the Source Sea, which is very likely to be imperceptible and unobservable. Now this kind of space channel non-point-to-point mobile search technique is the idea that I first proposed!”
Excluding a large number of calculations, theories, and logical reasoning that normal people cannot understand at all, Roger can barely understand the “simple” overview of the topic progress that the Eternal Night Empress gave him.
“It’s a surprising progress.” Roger was quite surprised by the speed of the Eternal Night Empress and the others.
In just one night, they circled a range, and it should be soon to find the real location of the Source Sea, right?
But immediately the Eternal Night Empress gave a head-on blow, because the range of activities of the Knowledge God is very small compared to the entire multiverse, but from a human perspective, it is at least a range of millions of light-years.
In such a vast space, finding a special spatial coordinate that may only be a “point” is still a difficult task comparable to finding a needle in a haystack.
Otherwise, she would not propose a new search method to try to speed up the process.
“Don’t even think about hitting it directly, we still need to model this entire space and then calculate the anomaly points to objectively detect the location of the Source Sea.” The Eternal Night Empress stopped here.
Because if she continues to talk about it, Roger will enter a state of complete incomprehension, and these information has already made him dizzy.
“Then I will also report on the progress of my faction.”
Roger nodded as if he understood, at least it’s a good thing that the Eternal Night Empress has made progress.
He hinted that the Eternal Night Empress should keep the next conversation secret. The Eternal Night Empress temporarily distorted the space where the two were, and the conversation and images would not be detected by others by conventional means.
Regarding the Source Sea exploration suit rewarded by the system, Roger also wanted an explanation that could be considered reliable:
“Your Majesty, I want to be honest with you, I have actually obtained a special inheritance and inherited some things that may be useful for exploring the Source Sea.” Roger said seriously.
“Um, and then?”
“Then… wait, Your Majesty already knew?”
Roger looked at the Eternal Night Empress in surprise. Her reaction was too calm, so calm that she heard one plus one equals two, which made Roger feel creepy.
[I was already exposed? She has never done anything, just silently suspected, is she ready to catch everything in one go? ]
Roger thought wrong in an instant, and at the same time began to reflect on how he was exposed.
The Eternal Night Empress has always disdained using mind-reading magic on her subordinates, and she also has mental thorn observation to prevent memory-type intrusions, so the only thing left is the abnormality in her words and deeds?
And the abnormal increase in strength, some strange skills and items, being observed will also cause suspicion, right?
Roger was terrified, his back was covered with cold sweat, how much did she know about his details?
Looking at his expression, the Eternal Night Empress, whose IQ was suddenly online in the academic world, realized that there was a huge flaw in her response just now.
Time stops!
A legendary magic, she quickly bought herself more buffer time to think about how to repair the flaws she had just revealed.
Actually, it’s not a big deal, it’s just that her reaction was too calm, exposing that she had known for a long time that Roger had a special inheritance.
This is easy to explain, but if she further exposes that she can hear Roger’s inner voice, then the scene will be difficult to handle.
The name of the earth, strange knowledge, suddenly possessing and highly skilled skills, these definitely do not belong to the category of being born with knowledge.
The Eternal Night Empress had already arranged various methods to investigate Roger, but the results were fruitless.
Countless great abilities of the Arcane Council, the highest level of prophecy magic, have been used, and Roger's true details cannot be detected, so she slowly gave up.
The only thing that can be certain is that Roger must have some inheritance and heritage from his predecessors, otherwise he would not have such a performance.
It's just that the Eternal Night Empress initially valued it quite a bit. However, as the strength of the enemies she faced continued to rise, she discovered that Roger's "legacy" offered no additional help when it came to matters involving gods and the Source Sea. Gradually, she cast these things to the back of her mind.
If the level isn't high enough, it wouldn't even warrant the Empress's attention.
So, at this moment, when Roger suddenly personally admitted to this matter, she was still very pleased.
Could this perhaps represent that he trusts her more, and is willing to reveal the secrets in his heart?
Then, should she also confess her secret of being able to hear someone's inner thoughts?
After a brief moment of contemplation, the Eternal Night Empress determined that now was not the time.
Her premature understanding of his information had already made Roger uneasy. If she were to expose that she could hear his inner thoughts and had collected many of his embarrassing moments...
The relationship that had just improved would probably explode instantly, right?
To tell the truth would carry too many risks. She should continue to conceal it for now, explain away her earlier excessive composure, and then consider the matter further.
Better to remain still than to make a move.