Chapter 428: Chain Reaction
“I used the sublimation method. It is not difficult to crush gold into rather long red crystals; many other methods can also be used to conceal gold, forming objects that are extremely different from the nature of gold and also very different from each other in properties.
“However, all these objects can later be restored to the same quantity of yellow, fixed, heavy, and ductile gold that existed before it became a mixture.”
Logan’s somewhat hoarse voice echoed in the hall. The wizards listened so attentively that no one noticed Ace quietly appearing in the hall.
The wizards frowned tightly. They seemed to comprehend something, yet it felt like looking through a layer of paper—unclear and hazy. Everyone stared intently at Logan, hoping he could give the best explanation.
Bayen stroked his short beard and continued after Logan:
“The research by Councilor Logan and myself has determined that particles of gold and mercury are by no means primary combinations of the smallest material particles, but rather obvious mixtures.
“They appear simultaneously in the composition of several extremely different substances without losing their nature or structure, nor is their aggregation destroyed by the separation of the components or ingredients they combined with!
“Just like copper nitrate: copper is masked within it, but we can drive out the nitric acid by heating, and the copper will precipitate out!”
Bayen’s voice echoed in the hall. A power seemed to be faintly brewing. Nearly six hundred advanced wizard apprentices and eight Official Wizards in the hall were all silent. They stared at Bayen, looking at his short beard as if it held infinite magic power.
Logan bowed slightly to everyone present and said in a slightly high-pitched voice: “We believe that an element refers to a certain primitive, simple, and unadulterated object.
“Elements cannot be created from any other substance, nor can they create each other.
“Elements are the ingredients that directly synthesize so-called perfect mixtures, and they are also the essential factors into which perfect mixtures ultimately decompose.
“I believe that so-called elements are indivisible particles. Although we haven’t been able to observe them yet, I believe they are indivisible and are the most primordial existence.
“Perhaps there are clusters of particles where the particles do not adhere very tightly together, but these particles can meet in another type of corpuscle and combine with some of those corpuscles more tightly than they combine with each other.
“I believe the Four Elements Hypothesis is not the truth for correctly understanding the world, but merely some fallacy of our senses. We have not yet approached the truth of the world, but the truth is definitely not the Four Elements Hypothesis. This world is not simply composed of Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water; this world is far more complex and wonderful!
“But one thing is certain: this world is composed of tiny, indivisible particles, which are elements with different properties and characteristics. This is the foundation of our world, and what we need to do is discover more elements!”
Boom!
The audience erupted. These earth-shattering remarks negated the Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water Four Elements Hypothesis, which was equivalent to negating the magic path of wizards based on this foundation!
At this moment, the advanced wizard apprentices and Official Wizards of the Elemental School turned pale. Logan’s words seemed to have established a mysterious connection with the world. The aura of the mysterious Great Source brushed past, and in everyone’s eyes, Logan’s momentum was rising continuously.
Through the Eye of Truth, Ace saw Logan’s mental power rising rapidly. His Soul Sanctuary also seemed to be expanding. All this reminded Ace of the moment he wrote the world’s first paper.
It seemed that this exploration of the world, this new theory closer to the truth, would receive real feedback from the world!
As for why the Four Elements Theory did not receive feedback, it was because this theory had existed for a long time. The wizards were not the creators, only the users. However, Logan’s horn of war declared against the Four Elements Hypothesis touched the Great Source.
Inside Ace’s mental imagery dream world, the land collapsed, rivers and oceans dried up, gales howled, and lava overflowed. The violent changes on the surface of the dream world brought it to the verge of dissipation and collapse.
At the bottom layer of the mental imagery world, inside the Rune Pyramid, the 4-ring spell model “Golden Element Ring,” which constituted the material cornerstone, fluctuated violently, its structure becoming increasingly unstable.
“Being half-believing and half-doubting of the theory in one’s heart, harboring doubts about one’s own path, will lead to the negation of one’s own spell models, and subsequently the negation of the path, causing the path to crumble? This is bad!”
Ace’s expression changed abruptly. In the hall, the bald and handsome Amid, wearing a white robe, was recording the speeches of Logan and Bayen in his Grimoire. This theory gave him a feeling of sudden enlightenment. Was this the power of magic?
Bang!
A young advanced wizard apprentice seemed unable to accept this theory that collapsed his worldview. The foundational spell model—the Fire Element Model—in his Soul Sanctuary collapsed. The explosion of flames completely shattered his Soul Sanctuary, and the overflowing Fire Element mana blew his head to smithereens.
“Jack!”
Blood, the smell of burnt flesh, and ruthless flames. A headless corpse fell limply, the head having exploded like a watermelon. Blood splattered onto the magic robes of a dozen wizard apprentices around him.
The subversive theory fiercely challenged the original path and plunged the advanced wizard apprentices into cognitive chaos. Jack’s death was like the first domino to fall.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
One after another, advanced wizard apprentices of the Elemental School could not accept the conflict between the two theories. Amidst intense self-doubt and non-acceptance of the new theory, they became completely lost at the fork in the road of the two theories.
Whoosh!
The expressions of the wizard apprentices and Official Wizards present changed drastically. Even Logan and Bayen on the stage, who were originally excited, instantly turned sallow. This situation was something they had never imagined.
New theories, theories closer to the truth of the world, often meant greater power. But they didn’t expect this power to kill their own people before killing others.
An advanced wizard apprentice in front of the bald handsome guy Amid laughed unconsciously a couple of times. Bang!
His head exploded. Watermelon juice splattered all over Amid’s face, dyeing his white robe with spots of red. Was this the farewell between the new path and the old path? How could it be so tragic?
At this moment, Amid felt a deep reverence for the unknown truth of the world. Exploring the unknown might mean paying a heavy price in lives!
The entire hall was in chaos. In less than a minute, nearly twenty advanced wizard apprentices had turned into headless corpses. The eight Official Wizards listening in the audience also turned pale.
Betty’s foundational path was the Morning Light Meditation, which also encompassed Fire Element magic. This choice made her twice as effective with half the effort in mechanical alchemy, but now it had become a life-claiming ring.
The Fire Element spell model in her Soul Sanctuary also fluctuated violently. Her face was pale yet flushed, and it seemed she was on the verge of losing control.
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