Chapter 229: A Great Stir
Translator: Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion
Sitting beside Vaharall, Varantine looked very serious. There was still a layer of light covering his clenched fist. Clearly, he was very mad at Lucien Evans, the vicious sorcerer who showed no respect to the deity.
Seing that, Philibell, the cardinal who had a thick white mustache, presented them with another two pieces of newspaper, "What you two just read was the first-day newspaper, and these are from the second day and the third day. Lucien Evans’ not worth much attention, I’d say, as it’s just synthesizing carbamide, and no one would believe that any life ingredients could ever exist in those dirty excreta."
The members from Episcopal Conference all understood arcana papers to some degree thanks to the several popes contribution to the improvement of divine spells.
Taking the newspaper from Philibell, Vaharall, the tough-looking, red-haired guy started reading it carefully. The newspaper was filled with discussions about how to define carbamide, about the validity of Life Force Theory, and it was obvious that those necromancers were in a more favorable position, as those arcanists from the school of Element still lacked further decisive evidence.
"This is not as bad as we thought. It is the blessing of the Lord." Philibell drew a cross on his chest.
When he finished reading the newspaper, Vaharall also nodded, "How come that Carbamide, something contained in filthy excreta, can be a life ingredient, a blessing from G.o.d? We should define life ingredient better in Cannon, with regards to the chapter the Origin of Life."
"This is something that we definitely need to improve," agreed Varantine. "But right now, we don’t have to take the risk by sending those devout Night Watchers to kill Lucien Evans. My suggestion’s that we have the the Inquisitions in Holm and Colette keeping a close watch on him, and when there’s a chance in the future, we take action. After all, there’s no need to rush."
Although Varantine was sent here by the pope to eliminate vicious sorcerers, he understood well that the Church was overpowered by the Congress of Magic in Holm and several other countries around it. Although they might have a chance to win if the Church sent most of their cardinals here, their biggest concern was that this might give the North Church and other dark creatures as well as sorcerers from the north a great chance to avail themselves of the opportunity to get in their territory. Therefore, both Vaharall and Varantine agreed with Philibell that they should take on a more conservative manner with this issue right now.
Although they all wanted to defend the dignity of their G.o.d so bad that, facing Lucien’s disrespectful findings, their blood was boiling with anger, they still knew that they needed to be careful with every step they took.
"Like what Vaharall just said, those arcana geniuses hardly leave Allyn and Rentato before they reach middle-rank, so we have to wait." Philibell nodded, as he was the one among all the cardinals who understood the congress the best.
At this time, they heard abrupt knocking at the door.
"Come in." Using G.o.d’s Eyes, Philibell already saw through the door. On the other side of the door stood a pastor who looked very anxious and scared, and his holy light power was in a very unstable status, as if the power was going to devour him at any time.
The pastor hurriedly pushed open the door, and he was too scared to salute the three cardinals, instead, he said urgently, "Lord Philibell, this is the newspaper that arrived from the Congress this morning. They risked a lot to be able to send this newspaper."
"Calm down first." Philibell’s voice was soft and it comforted this pastor in panic, "Do not doubt the Lord. Do not doubt the mighty power of the Lord."
The pastor kept crossing in front of his chest to control and calm down his holy power.
Philibell had some bad feeling about the newspaper, but still, he started reading the first page in a calm manner:
"An Experiment Synthesizing Fatty Acid with Several Non-life Ingredients Including Charcoal through A Series of Alchemical Reactions, from Felipe Carneiro."
In the abstract of the paper, Felipe put it proudly and straightforwardly, "Through this experiment, I can announce to all of you that Life Force Theory has been completely overthrown, and it will no longer play any role in the development of arcana!"
After quickly going through the experiment design, Philibell, although he was always quite calm, shouted angrily, "Blasphemy! This is blasphemy! This is a direct and shameful provocation of the Lord"s majesty and dignity! Felipe must be eliminated immediately!"
His chin covered with white beard was trembling fiercely while he was shouting, as if he wanted to set off right now to kill Felipe. In his eyes, compared to Felipe’s experiment, now Lucien’s paper did not matter at all.
Vaharall, who was a harsh and bold guy, directly gave Philibell"s desk a fierce punch. Instantly, the desk was totally destroyed and there were not even ashes left after his power burst forth. At the same time, Vaharall also felt lucky that he was a legendary knight and his power came from his Blessing, or his soul would have been damaged by his belief being shaken, "How dare those mortals even try to pry into the realm of G.o.d. A blasphemer must be cleared at all costs! "
"Before that, we need to make sure whether the experiment is real." Varantine did not read the newspaper, and right now he was crossing in front of his chest.
There was no way that the Congress of Magic could just destroy the cardinals’ belief by a paper, and, if the cardinals had the right experiment equipment and divine power circles, they could verify the validity of the paper by conducting the experiment themselves.
"Lock away this paper. Make sure that other pastors do not learn about the existence of this paper. The last thing we want to see right now is this turning into the same situation when those sorcerers claimed that holy light was electromagnetic wave." Philibell closed his eyes, feeling a bit tired, "This is the test of the Lord to us, and our loyalty to our faith shall be manifested and examined again. We shall find the flaws of the experiment as soon as possible."
Philibell, the cardinal of the parish of Holm for almost a hundred years, had been through a lot, thus he still managed to control his power and prevent the idea of the paper from hurting his soul after reading Felipe’s research design.
"All glories go to the Lord. Only truth lives forever." Vaharall, Varantine and the other pastor prayed together, telling themselves that even if Felipe’s finding was true, this was still from the Lord’s mighty power, which was still beyond their understanding.
After praying, Vaharall said to Philibell in a low voice, "I request to send several devout night watchers to a.s.sa.s.sinate Felipe. If there is a chance, we shall kill Lucian Evans as well."
The reason he mentioned "devout night watchers" specifically was that they all knew that those night watchers of the task were basically doomed to die. If they could kill Felipe, they were already very lucky. If they did not select carefully who they would send for this task, some night watchers who did not want to sacrifice their lives might fall onto the Congress" hands.
"Vaharall and Vanrantine, you two will take care of this." Philibell nodded, "I’m gonna talk to the n.o.bles and other cardinals to make them stay alert."
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Holding the newspaper in his hand, Menshaque’s body, which was a.s.sembled by different dead body parts, was falling apart and all these parts were turning into rotten flesh. However, the two cl.u.s.ters of soul fire in his eyes were still flickering strongly.
"Life Force Theory… not right? It is… wrong? Even Felipe has abandoned it…"
Although Menshaque felt that there were some problems with Felipe’s research design, he had lost his control over this body. He could not believe that his hundreds of years of study were built on a mistake.
But if all his life was built on a mistake, why did he still manage to "live" this long? Why did he still manage to turn himself into a lich? Why he could still learn so many different spells?
In the end, only a white skull remained floating in the air. Before Menshaque lost all the flesh and bones, he finally managed to stop this process. He did this by continuously telling himself that Felipe’s study might not be valid, and even if what he said was true, if Felipe, a person who used to follow Life Force Theory in a very loyal way, could s.h.i.+ft his understanding successfully, why he, Menshaque, could not do this?
Menshaque believed that there was still great hope in the school of Necromancy, as its foundation theories had been overturned for three times in history, but Necromancy still thrived after that, and it had even evolving all the time. Thus, Menshaque would rather have the theory to be overthrown by necromancers themselves. He believed that Life Force Theory was not a completely wrong one, and at least it had some connections to the ultimate truth.
After releasing a sigh, Menshaque turned the newspaper to its second page, and he saw the comments from Pesor, Tina-Timos, Rogerio and other influential arcanists from the Hand of Paleness on Felipe’s paper:
"Pesor: This is a great and outstanding experiment. Felipe, a genius, has led us to step into a new, correct path from the wrong one with Life Force Theory. "
"Tina-Timos: Without doubt, Felipe is a real arcana genius, as he managed to drive away the black clouds shading our path over our heads for so many years. Think about it, necromancers, why arent"t we making any progresses right now? Felipe has revealed the reason—it is because our foundation is problematic. If we can correct it in time, our future is going to be promising and bright!"
"Rogerio: This is an experience of great significance and meaning. It is groundbreaking, creative and definitely shocking. Felipe has shown us the great spirit shared by necromancers, proving that we never give up exploring the world further to find the truth. We are okay with accepting the fall of the Life Force Theory, with admitting that we were wrong before, and thus we can have a better future!"
With all those important people’s positive comments on Felipe’s finding, many necromancers started to accept the fact.
This was the power of authority.
However, despite the fact that many necromancers’ meditation got a bit more stable again as they had gradually accepted the fact, not everyone could discard the past so quickly. Many stubborn necromancers knew that they might not be able to move forward anymore in their whole lives because their meditation environment had been destroyed completely, so they hated Felipe very, very much.
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In a magic tower in Heidler, an old man wearing an ancient-style robe was shouting angrily, holding a newspaper in his hand, "This is impossible!"
Then, with a big bang, the man’s head just exploded, and the remains of his body fell down onto the floor. At the same time, inside of the tower’s secret chamber, a life box made of countless precious gems cracked, and then the same man’s voice came out from the box viciously, "Luckily I got to know from Traquair that Felipe’s experiment was already very close to the last step, or I would not even have the chance to resurrect through the life box… Felipe, Rogerio, Professor, Lucien Evans… Let’s wait and see…"
At the same time, in a manor in Sariva, Felipe and Rogerio were sitting opposite to each other and sipping their wine. Looking at the direction of Heidler, they sneered at those old, stubborn guys in the city. Rogerio and Felipe were certain that those people had learned their lesson.
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"I wish we could have put forward some decisive evidence, so the loss of the Hand of Paleness could be even greater." Morris sighed a bit disappointedly.
"It’s not bad. We still all belong to the congress, and we don’t want to see the congress suffer too much of a loss overnight." Raventi did not really care, but rather felt happy because a wrong theory had been overthrown. Then, he turned to Lucien, "Evans, seriously, did you really know nothing about Life Force Theory?"
"Yes, nothing," answered Lucien honestly, then he took out the Holm ring from Natasha, "I had finished the experiment before I arrived here."
After being recognized by Felipe, Lucien had decided to tell the senior-level people from the Will of Elements the truth, in case Felipe would threaten him with it, and also, he was too tired of hiding around as well.
Now that he was already a member of the Will of Elements, he wanted to be more straightforward.
"Professor?" Gaston was a bit surprised. As he once tried to kill Felipe because of this, he immediately connected Lucien to Professor.
Morris, looking at the ring, sighed a bit emotionally, "It reminds me of Meredith… Evans, did you start learning arcana when you were in Aalto?"
"Yes, I learned about it from a witch, and I got some materials and knowledge from her." Lucien nodded, and through his observation, he noticed that Raventi, Morris and Gaston still all looked quite calm and pleased, which showed that they would not give Lucien a hard time for hiding his ident.i.ty from them for so long. After all, in order to protect himself, what Lucien did was totally understandable.
Then Lucien continued seriously, "And I’ve actually completed another experiment."