Chapter 130: Schadenfreude (Part 2)
Alinge, the Magic Tower of the Parliament's headquarters.
Rachel, who has always been vigorous, turned her magic robe into a dark color to show her mood, heavy and depressed, nervously waiting. Yesterday I didn't hear about the submissions of Lord Brooke and Mr. Roland, will they pass the review before the publication of the Arcane journal? What are the results of the experiment? Does it negate Lucian's hypothesis of light quantum?
Even under the influence of her friend Samantha, Rachel's cognitive world has changed a lot in the past three years, and she is not a firm supporter of the wave theory, and even more inclined to accurately predict the optical quantum hypothesis of various photoelectric effect experimental phenomena, which can be influenced from the beginning of her apprenticeship, and the classic double-slit interference images and Brooke bright spots are reminding her that light has an obvious wave nature!
"Is it really like Lucien said, we should look at the problem of waves and particles from a higher level and perspective?" Rachel, who was a little confused, retracted her right foot before stepping on the elevator and turned to the exchange area, although she waited for half an hour at the teacher Isabella, she should be able to see the latest issue of "Arcane", but she was eager to know the final result.
The pace increased slightly, and when she approached the exchange area, Rachel noticed that there were people crowded in front of her, and she couldn't help but sigh secretly: "The wave-particle controversy has really attracted widespread attention, usually when "Arcane" is released, how can so many magicians rush to buy it?
Thinking so in her heart, it did not prevent her from squeezing towards the exchange table where there were fewer people, but the layers of people did not make a sound at this time. Presents unspeakable depression and despair.
"What's going on?" Curious, Rachel turned around, relying on a few non-offensive four- and five-ring magic aids, to squeeze in front of the surrounded exchange table.
Yes...... The short, short-lived screams only halted abruptly, and the shattered heads, splattered brains and blood all over the ground, and the corpse clutching a copy of the Arcane spread out, all met Rachel's pupils in a terrifying way.
There are not a few arcanists around who have killed people with their own hands, but suddenly someone falls in front of them in such a way, and it is still a little unbearable. After all, it is a matter of knowing that the world world will be subverted and it will cause a headshot. Although they were familiar, in fact, there were not many examples in the last hundred years, except for the middle and high level magicians of the Elemental Will and the Pale Hand, who had witnessed it once, and no one else had ever seen it. Occasionally, priests and bishops are transformed into torches of light and fireworks.
Those low-level magicians and apprentices who had not yet accepted the mandatory mission to go out showed even more shocked and frightened expressions. He kept babbling words like "Lucien Evans" and "Skull Crusher". It was as if it was the Demon Lord who was about to pop their heads.
"The "Chicken Soup for the Soul" column is very popular with magicians, but few people look for teachers and illusionists like me for psychological counseling and crisis intervention, after this time. It seems that the situation will change a lot...... "Rachel is extremely depressed, but her thinking is quite derailed.
However, the main reason for the oppressive and desperate atmosphere is not this terrifying picture, but the few lines of words written in bold black font on the unfolded "Arcane":
“...... Although I conducted the experiment to negate the optical quantum hypothesis, the experimental results and images were in perfect agreement with the optical quantum characteristics, and I have to admit that my 'negative attempt' preliminarily proved the optical quantum hypothesis......"
"—Edwin Brooke, Grand Arcanist, Legendary Class 'Emperor of Control' Level 4"
Rachel raised her head slightly, looking at the silver ceiling of the hall at a forty-five degree angle, as depressed and quiet as the surroundings: "Since the day I entered the magic school, I never thought that there would be such a day, shouldn't it stand forever like this magic tower, like the theoretical system of His Excellency Speaker Douglas and Lord Brooke?"
"It seems that this world has become unrecognizable......"
Rachel was rarely sentimental, then crept out of the crowd in a strange mood of sadness, returned to the hall of the Magic Tower in a daze, and then stepped on the elevator to the Arcane Review Committee, knocking on the door of Teacher Isabella's office, as if a child looking for the warm embrace of "mother" for comfort.
"Come in. Isabella's voice came from behind the door.
Hearing Isabella's answer, Rachel suddenly woke up, how did she get here? Shouldn't you go to the "Brain Wave and Hormone Center" next to the "Atomic Research Institute" to wait for the teacher? Shouldn't the teacher leave the magic tower at nine o'clock?
Gently pushing open the half-hidden door, Rachel saw that the teacher's magic robe had turned into a long black skirt and a white flower on her chest, and immediately asked in shock, "Who died?"
"Roland, Crestelle......" Isabella said with a sad face. She wasn't a high-level mage who had only recently been promoted, and she had more or less a friendship with those stubborn old mages.
"Ro, Archmage Roland?" Rachel remembered the image of the tall, thin, stubborn old man, but what impressed him the most was the row of badges on his chest, which were dazzling halos.
Isabella bowed her head slightly, her eyes glinting: "Yes, an archmage has fallen, an archmage who has received the highest honors in the fields of electromagnetism, light and darkness, and heat has fallen, and has been eliminated by the development of arcane and magic......"
"This ......" Rachel suddenly felt that this world was so bleak and cruel.
Isabella "laughed" without much emotion and comforted: "Don't despair, don't be confused, it's normal." It reminds me of my childhood, when every once in a while I could see proponents of particle theory pop their heads, which is why there are so few supporters of particle theory now. You should be glad that this time there was a three-year buffer and foreshadowing, so the three members of the Light and Dark Domain who reviewed Lord Brooke and Roland's paper did not die, but their souls were traumatized and needed a few months to recover. ”
"Yes. "Rachel has seen this history from the history of magic, when Lord Brooke blossomed his talent and subverted the particle theory of light, he stepped on the throne of the Grand Arcanist with dense broken skulls and brain blood, became the second legendary pinnacle of the council, and it is even said that a good friend of Speaker Douglas, a member of the Supreme Council at the time, the legendary magician was destroyed along with his half-plane.
However, it is one thing to read about this history from a book, and it is another thing to experience the "reappearance of this history" in person.
Seeing that Rachel's face was still pale, Isabella walked up to her, stroked her hair, and comforted her like a mother, "This will also be a time of growth." In the decades since Lord Brooke brought about the changes, the Council has added two Grand Arcanists, Lord Helen and Lord Vicente, as well as four other legendary magicians, which has almost doubled the strength of the Council's upper echelons, and the number of archmages and high-level magicians has become far greater than before after nearly a hundred years of development, I remember that when I was a child, the Council was about twenty archmages, and now there are sixty-two ...... Sixty-one. ”
"This is our chance, and we must remember that we can't blindly insist on it, we can't easily waver, everything is based on facts. ”
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Holm Glorious Cathedral.
"Roland, 'Lightning of Destruction', seventy-sixth in the purification sequence. Inquisition magnate Bahá'u'lláh said with a smile on his face, "Cristel, 'Bloody Thunder', the twenty-sixth in the purification sequence...... I would like to present the 'Angel of the Night' medal to Professor Lucien Evans for his outstanding service to the elimination of evil magicians. ”
After spending a long time in the Kingdom of Holm, he also learned the standard language of the Crown Award as a way to mock Lucian.
Holy Knight Stoneha laughed, "One archmage, three high-level magicians, twenty-seven middle-level magicians, and many more people who recognize the shattered solidification of the world, if Lucien Evans is willing to become a night watchman, with this feat, he can rank in the top five among the night watchmen!"
There are only three legendary powerhouses in the Inquisition, and one of them is an ancient mage who has been attached, so he has also entered the Night's Watch ranking, and since he has killed the top thirty legends in the purification sequence, he is undoubtedly ranked first. Although there are many high-level in the night watchman team, there are no more than ten at the nine-ring level, and even fewer have purified high-order ninth-level arcanists and nine-ring magicians like Roland.
Philippel was also smiling, this was the most pleasant news in the last decade, for the clergy, light is a wave or a particle does not matter at all - someone was swallowed by the Holy Light because Brooke proved that light is an electromagnetic wave, stripped of its sacred properties, which caused the tragedy, as for the light quantum hypothesis, Philippel said that there is no pressure.
He touched his thick white beard and said with a smile: "It's a pity that Brooke didn't fall because of this, otherwise His Majesty the Pope would have to confer the title of 'saint' on Lucien Evans!"
"It was suggested that Brooke be called a 'saint' directly, but unfortunately Lucien Evans seems to be a little worse than him. ”
Hearing this obvious teasing and mocking remark against Lucian, Bahá'u'lláh and Stone laughed heartily, their voices filled with schadenfreude.
"However, it is said that Brooke was also seriously injured, and I don't know if the Dao of the Devil has recognized the shattering and solidification of the world, if so, it is really a very ironic thing, it seems that the Lord arranged the punishment of the Brooke. At that time, how beautiful he was, he ruined the faith of many magicians who knew the world and the clergy, but he didn't expect that there would be a day when his own understanding of the world world would be broken and solidified. "Philip was at this moment extremely religious, believing in the existence of the God of Truth as never before.
"Only the truth endures. Hearing this, Bahá'u'lláh and Stone both drew crosses and prayed.
After praying, the three of them looked at each other and smiled again, and Philippel humorously said:
"Do you want us to pray again for the 'Saint' Lucien Evans, that he will survive the rebound safely and continue to work for the glorious cause of the Lord?"
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"New, alchemy, art?" Fernando read the title of the thick paper in his hand word by word, his bright red eyes full of suspicion as he stared at Lucien, who was calm and calm in front of him. (To be continued......)