Act 126. The end of the unexpected

Reiner guessed that at this time, Fina's father had already received feedback from the world, because the element he had discovered should be an element with extremely special properties, and it was also an element like a noble gas that had not yet been discovered.

In this way, there are many doubts that can be explained, such as why Fina's father was able to hold on for so long even though his health had become so bad, because he had received feedback from the world.

However, there was no in-depth research, and the effect of the feedback was not obvious, and according to the experimental records, he found a special mineral in the Sur Mountains when he first discovered this new element.

The Sur Mountains are deserted and inhabited only by wild beasts, but seven years ago, there were many strange deaths of wild beasts, and the corpses of these beasts flowed downstream with the streams in the mountains, causing panic among the townspeople of Sur Town.

Fina's father ventured into the mountains several times, and finally discovered a beast's graveyard four years ago.

It was recorded as a valley, but the surrounding vegetation had withered and withered, surrounded by the bones and decaying corpses of countless animals, and in the center, in a small crater, a stone with an obsidian hue lay silently.

Fina's father did not rush to the stone, for there were indications that it might be the culprit responsible for the killing of the beasts.

But the stone was so similar to the ore rumored to cure Fina for a similar ailment, and Finah's father was reluctant to give it up.

He chose to build a hut at a certain distance from the stone and continue his experiment.

Through research, he found that this stone has the property of constantly exerting energy outward, this energy can be captured by the electromagnetic array, showing traces that are completely different from other elements on the receiving plate, and at the same time, these energies are also extremely destructive, able to kill and injure living tissues, Fina's father used some small animals in cages to do experiments, and found that the lethality rate is almost 100%, even if it does not die under the irradiation of energy, it will produce serious lesions, and soon lose its life.

Fina's father gathered all this information and prepared to go to a larger city to find professional equipment to verify it, and his diary wrote that he met a mage who came on a business trip in a nearby city of Sur, and he explained his findings to the other person, but the man didn't seem to care, and soon left.

Later, he visited several alchemy workshops, but these places either did not have the experimental equipment that Fina's father needed, or thought that he was talking a fool's dream, so Fina's father ran into a wall, and after collecting more data, he wrote directly to the Rainbow Tower.

That's when the change happened.

First of all, even though he kept a considerable distance from the unknown stone, Fina's father was still affected by years of research, and his body had developed many diseases, and a person who was originally only in his thirties had become indistinguishable from an old man in his sixties and seventies.

Then, Fina used an electromagnetic circle and a special container made of heavy metal to block the energy emitted by the stone, and he sealed the stone in preparation for finding a suitable research institute to take it out.

But the people of Sur didn't give Fina's father this chance.

A group of young men who often saw Fina's father in and out of the Sur Mountains, thinking that he must be doing some evil research in the mountains, these young people, who had been taught the evil of mages since childhood, naturally could not let him do so, so they secretly followed Fina's father, and while he was not looking, hit him in the back of the head with a stick and a stone, snatched the stone that had been sealed in his hand, and fled.

When he woke up, he first found that the box containing the stone was gone, and then he remembered the human face he saw when he was attacked, and he dragged his badly injured body back to Sur Town step by step, knocking on the door of the young man's house, hoping to find the sealed stone.

But the townsfolk paid no attention to Fina's father's arguments, and beat him to his injuries, so that Fina's father returned home and wrote them down, and prepared to go to Monsieur Baron, who was in charge of the management of the place.

Seeing that Fina's father was not dead, the young men snuck into the tower and tried to kill the people, but before they could commit the crime, they were interrupted by Dr. Phyllis, who had come to visit him, and they could only lie that they had come in to take the risk and hand over the fainted Fina's father to Dr. Phyllis.

The above part is actually Reiner's reasoning, because after being shot in the back of the head, Fina's father is actually not very conscious, and the contents of the diary are messy and scribbled, and Reiner restores things to this according to what he sees.

At least one thing is certain, that is, the stone with its outward energy-emitting properties should still be in the young man's house that attacked Fina's father that day.

Reiner walked around the town without noticing any signs of energy overflowing, which meant that at least the box hadn't been opened, but according to Fina's father's research, if it were to be opened in a densely populated place like the town, the consequences would be dire.

Seeing this, the sky was already dark, Reiner raised his head, looked at the sky showing the white belly of the fish, and sighed.

In the space of one night, he lived through the life of Fina's father, and he resented the unworthiness of the buried mage, and the malice of the town.

Reiner got up and began to sort through the materials of Fina's father's experiments based on the records in his diary, preparing to take them away, he didn't know if the Magic Society could publish papers in the name of the deceased, but he knew that these things should not be buried in this way.

He went out again, visited Dr. Phyllis, and advised him that it was best to leave the town as soon as possible.

Dr. Phyllis smiled and told Reiner that he was actually retiring too, that he had stayed here because of some friendship with Fina's father, and that now that the only deceased was gone, he was also going to apply to return to his hometown to spend the rest of his life.

Reiner explained to Dr. Phyllis about the dangerous box, and told him that it was best to leave Soultown for the next two days, Dr. Phyllis wanted to say something, but he looked outside, at the quiet town in the morning light, and finally nodded silently.

When she returned to the tower, Reiner found that Fina had woken up, and she saw the experimental materials she had put together, as well as the diary she had left behind by her father.

The girl burst into tears at this time, and the remorse and regret that she had never felt before overflowed her heart.

Reiner didn't know how to comfort Fina, so he could only touch her head lightly and say softly.

"Let's go home, Fina."