Chapter 234: Action
Translator: Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion
In the demiplane, seven fine silver chairs floating in the darkness formed a semicircle, and the five grand arcanists sitting on the chairs looked like Gods overlooking the mortals from high above.
A senior elf was right now sitting on one of the two chairs that originally belonged to the other two grand arcanists who did not attend the meeting today. Right now, he was staring at the reactor down there as if he had forgotten everything around him. The senior elf was staring at every single change happening in the reactor—lightning, vaporization, condensation… There was light in his pupil.
After a while of silence, Brook, the Emperor of Control, with his fingers crossing as usual, said to the rest of them in a voice that somehow mixed with calmness and excitement, “The experiment revealed a brand new possibility of how life was originally born and how life can be born, and this has provided us with a new direction in our research. Before this experiment, we arcanists tended to treat this topic in a too complicated way.”
“Are you trying to say that we can synthesize a baby in a lab merely using carbon and some gases?” Fernando, Lord of Storm, disputed directly, “I admit the great importance of this experiment, but I also believe that the truth is way more complicated than this, maybe even more complicated than we thought? We have no clear idea how life ingredients managed to evolve into life foundations, how other life ingredients were born, how body and soul are connected…”
Brook was already used to Fernando’s bad temper, so he pressed his hands downwards a bit to calm Lord of Storm down, “I did not make it clear enough. What I was trying to say was that the original environment pictured by us before, for giving birth to life ingredients, was too complicated. In arcana study, sometimes being simple and direct is also very important.”
“Then, have you asked yourself, what is hydrogen? Why do volcanos erupt? Why are there oceans and the reason behind the tides? Why is there lightning and thunder? Before those things were born, how did the world look like? Why does the world look like this now?” Douglas, the president of the congress, looked around at the rest of the grand arcanists, “The experiment is surely simple, and the process of synthesizing life ingredients is surely not complicated, but what hides behind the experiment is not simple. We shall never take them for granted, and we shall always ask why.”
“One hundred thousand whys…” Lord of Storm murmured.
Hathaway nodded slightly, “The ocean of arcana is boundless, and we’re fishermen who have just set our sails. We are still far from understanding the essence of the world, and we must hold the world in awe.”
“That’s why arcana’s so charming.” Brook smiled, pushing his glasses a bit upward.
Thanatos also grinned, “Although we have just set our sails, the Church must be more than shocked. What we are watching now, in the Church’s eyes, is something that is totally unacceptable and beyond offensive, in the forbidden zone of God and divine power. I’m looking forward to seeing how the pope and those cardinals will react when they hear about the experiment. I bet that they’d still find some excuses with something related to soul. But one day, when we thoroughly understand soul and divine power, it will be the end of them. What a pity that the experiment needs to take so long to reveal the findings, or we could directly show it in front of the Church… Think about it… How destructive that would be to those pastors.”
Every grand arcanist present understood that not every cardinal or pastor from the Church would be destroyed by their own divine power when seeing the experiment. The reason that Walter and Nicolay were devoured by holy power right on the spot was that they had spent seven days staying here, witnessing the very beginning of the experiment when the reactor was being built, and after a long time of wondering and feeling insecure waiting for the final answer, the research finding was too shocking for them to keep adhering to their belief.
Without this gradual, building-up process, most of the pastor and cardinals would definitely first doubt the validity of the experiment, and they might even say that the experiment was fake. Then, they would find any possible reasons or pieces of evidence to fight back and to comfort themselves, so they could continuously stick to their belief.
However, of course, those grand arcanists would not waste this great chance to give the Church a hard time. Although the experiment, of course, could not completely wipe out the Church, many pastors would start to doubt their belief to some extent, and their chance of breaking through their levels would be slim to none.
“We’ve turned our blind eye to some people for quite a while, and now it’s time to let them show their value,” said Hathaway in a cold and ambiguous way.
Lord of Storm agreed, “The Church shall still suffer from this finding. I really wonder how many pastors and cardinals will be devoured by the light.”
The grand arcanists soon reached an agreement, and Douglas started to give orders to the Affairs Committee.
At the same time, Hathaway turned around and looked at Thanatos, “Do not use Invade Brain to investigate who designed the experiment from the Will of Elements. I don’t want them to be chased around by the Church, and thus not be able to go to other dimensions.”
Although Invade Brain and Weaving Memory usually did not work well with senior-rank sorcerers, Thanatos, as a master of these two spells, once before managed to invade a level eight cardinal’s brain. He read most of the cardinal’s memory, and even changed part of it, leading the cardinal to hate the pope, in order to make the cardinal kill the pope. Unfortunately, the part of changing the cardinal’s memory also changed his cognition of this world, and the cardinal’s belief suddenly got destroyed, and, in the end, he was devoured by the holy light, bringing failure to Thanatos’ plans.
However, the congress gained a lot from Thanatos invading the brain of the cardinal, and most of their first-hand materials of divine power came from this. This was why Thanatos ranked eleventh place on the Church’s Cleansing List, even higher than Hathaway and Lord of Storm.
“All of your senior-rank aranists from the Will of Elements are on the list already. Why would this matter?” Thanatos was a bit confused.
Hathaway did not answer him.
Thanatos put on a slightly embarrassed smile, as he did not want to speak against Hathaway in front of other grand arcanists, and then he nodded, “The mage who designed this experiment has combined belief and one’s own cognition world together… quite interesting.”
At this time, Malfurion finally sobered up from his tons of thoughts and said loudly, “Mind of Nature! This is the mind of nature!”
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Down below the demiplane, staring at the holy light and the blood, all of the arcanists were shocked. They all of a sudden felt that the lightnings in the reactor looked fabulous but cruel.
The future of arcana was further lit up by the experiment, but behind the experiment, there was blood and darkness.
After quite a while, Timothy asked loudly and confusedly, “Is this holy light?”
“Are those people… from the Church?” Larry heard of something like this before, but he had never witnessed people being devoured by the light.
The crowd started to feel nervous.
“Be quiet!” Raventi looked quite pissed off, and he spoke to the crowded loudly, “Do not panic! Right now, we have to figure out why the Church’s people were here!”
Hearing Raventi’s shouting, the rest of the arcanists all started to look around alertedly.
Noticing that the person from the Church was only one step away from him, Felipe answered gloomily, “They came here to kill me. And the sorcerer whose head exploded… should be the traitor.”
After the holy light disappeared gradually, there was nothing of Nicolay or Walter left, but a silvery-gray blade lying on the floor.
“This is the replica of the Sword of Truth!”
“This thing is of research value!”
The sword from Holm parish was so famous that most arcanists recognized it immediately.
Lucien knew that the Church’s second target was him, but in the Church’s eyes, he was not as important as Felipe at all. Lucien also wondered whether the Church would rank him the top fifty on the list if they knew that this experiment, the Miller-Urey experiment, was put forward by him.
Lucien felt lucky that, when he submitted this experiment to the Will of Elements, he requested to be behind the scenes.
Rogerio from the Affairs Committee came up to the stage and started to direct sorcerers to take different actions.
Those who did not get any tasks stood on the other side and were talking to each other, “It’s unbelievable that a simple experiment designe like this can generate life ingredients…”
“And what’s also unbelievable is that two pastors turned into holy light right in front of us! The light is even more beautiful than new year fireworks, ha.”
“Those necromancers should feel lucky that the previous studies from Lucien Evans and Felipe had overthrown Life Force Theory first, or today’s experiment would for sure be mind-bugging enough to explode their heads directly.”
“If there wasn’t those previous studies serving as a buffering thing at the first place, they would not just show this experiment right in front of us over the meeting. Those grand arcanists know how shocking this thing is and they know that they have to ease us into it.”
“I know… I wonder who designed this experiment… It’s seems like ‘God’ is revealing the truth in front of us.”
“But making people’s heads explode is still too cruel…”
In the corner, Lucien listened to their conversation silently, and at this time, Iristine’s voice came into his ears, “Mr. Evans?”
“Yes, your highness?” Lucien turned around and asked.
Unusually, there was a sincere smile on Iristine’s face, which made her look even more beautiful. Her faced blushed as she spoke to Lucien, “You people have proved the greatness of nature. And I think you guys are not all bad.”
“Mr. Evans, please forgive my rudeness before. Sorcerers can see the greatness of nature as well, and you guys can use arcana to show the miracle.” Arcelion also agreed, “After witnessing this experiment, I’m deeply shocked.”
Although Lucien did not really understand why the elves could change their attitude toward sorcerers because of one single experiment, it was always not a bad thing to have allies, especially with druidic elves.
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Radiance Church, Holm.
Three cardinals were waiting for the result of their assassination plan in Philibell’s study.
At this time, a pastor came into the study, with a confidential letter in his hand, “My lord, here’s the result. It’s secretly sent by a sorcerer that we bribed from the congress.”
