Chapter 544 - Official Open Beta Test (1/2)

The life of a traditional Mage could be very boring, especially one like Roland.

What he did 24 hours a day was the interminable repet.i.tion of inferring magic data, experimenting, charging the “solar system,” recovering his mana with the Magic Power Affluence, and confirming the magic data when he was free. However, such a life was boring only for certain people.

Those who didn’t like magic would find this life monotonous and unexciting, but Roland couldn’t have enjoyed himself more.

It was the greatest joy to update the magic data, slowly lift the skirt of the G.o.ddess of Magic, and pry into the forbidden knowledge of magic.

The bigger sense of achievement came when he fixed errors or updated his knowledge by doing experiments with his current magic knowledge.

These days, Roland observed the “solar system” whenever he had time.

At first, Roland thought that the Magic Power Affluence was why the “solar system” was attracting the magic power nearby.

But then he realized that it wasn’t the whole reason.

After staying in the area of Magic Power Affluence for a while, Roland gradually sensed the flow of magic elements. About sixty percent of the elements were attracted from outside, but the other forty percent emerged out of thin air.

Among many elements, some new elemental particles would suddenly pop up, which was weird.

At first, Roland thought that the magic elements were reproducing. He wondered if they were alive.

But very soon, he gave up the thought.

That was because the elemental particles carried a distinguishable vibe when they appeared. They kind of felt like Roland’s own magic elements after he used Elemental Embodiment.

It meant that those elemental particles had a master before, but they had somehow jumped to this place.

Roland named them “Void Elemental Particles.” He remembered a rumor, or rather, a speculation, about the planes of elements.

According to the Mages who were adept with elements, this world contained a few planes of elements apart from the main plane: the Realm of Devils, the Netherworld, the Realm of G.o.ds, and the Astral Plane.

For example, there might be a plane of fire elements, or one of water elements.

In those planes of pure elements, everybody was made of particles of the same elements, including the elemental lives that resided in those places.

Of course, those ideas were pure speculations, because n.o.body had ever visited the plane of elements.

As for the elemental lives in the main plane, most of them didn’t have the intellectual faculty to communicate with other creatures.

Even those who could talk were mostly born in the main plane and didn’t know anything about the elemental planes. Even the G.o.ds didn’t know much about that.

According to the G.o.ddess of Magic, all the G.o.ds only knew what their believers knew.

They weren’t even capable of creation. It meant that, while the G.o.ds were powerful and more knowledgeable, they hadn’t yet transcended the limits of human beings.

They knew all that human beings knew, and they didn’t know what human beings were unaware of.

That was why the G.o.ddess of Magic wanted Roland to wors.h.i.+p her so badly. The Life G.o.ddess had bet on Roland for a similar reason.

All the G.o.ds wanted an erudite and creative believer as long as he could understand their doctrine.

Getting back to Roland, he sensed that the elemental particles that appeared out of nowhere weren’t right. However, those particles would be a.s.similated into other particles nearby and turned into free unowned particles in the area of Magic Power Affluence.

Was there really a plane of elements?

The idea popped up in Roland’s heart.

Then, he began to set up a net of mental power to capture the momentary spatial wave when the Void Elemental Particles popped up.

If those particles had really jumped here from the elemental plane, energy waves related to s.p.a.ce would’ve definitely been triggered.

After establis.h.i.+ng the net of mental power, Roland had to retract it every five hours to recover his mental power because it was very exhausting

After more than ten days of fis.h.i.+ng, Roland got nothing

He didn’t sense any quake of spatial energy at

all.

There could only be two explanations for that.

First, Roland’s guess was incorrect.

Second, the elemental particles were so small that the energy waves they caused were too insignificant for Roland to feel.

Either way, Roland temporarily gave up the idea of confirming the elemental plane’s existence, and focused on expanding his “solar system.”

Then, an unexpected change happened during the second month of his stay in the bas.e.m.e.nt.

The “solar system” suddenly collapsed.

The culprit was the sun, which quickly vaporized and expanded from solid form, turning from a blue ball into a gigantic ma.s.s of blue elements fifteen meters in diameter. It swallowed the eight planets and quickly collapsed inwardly to Roland’s surprise. Also, it crazily absorbed the surrounding magic power and drained it in no more than three minutes. The area of Magic Power Affluence rapidly became a magic power desert.

The enormous blue energy ball eventually self-collapsed into a small white ball floating before Roland.

Roland extended his hand for it and suddenly felt that this white ball was somehow connected to himself.

With his thought, this white ball was stretched and transformed into a brick.