227 The Stir Caused (1/2)

Chapter 227: The Stir Caused

Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

In a magic lab.

Staring at the white particles with a light touch of red color in the reactor, Gaston cast Identification in a serious manner. When he got the result, his weird-looking dark-yellow eyes narrowed and he murmured, ”It’s really carbamide… Carbamide could be synthesized without using any life ingredients…”

After staring at the particles for a while, a sarcastic smile appeared on Gaston’s face, ”Those guys who play with bodies all the time in Hand of Paleness are in trouble now…”

Because of their different beliefs and competing interests, there had been a long history of friction between the Will of Elements and the Hand of Paleness. As the director of the former, Gaston had a poor relationship with many senior-rank sorcerers from the latter. Now, seeing the evidence that Life Force Theory might soon be overthrown, he was certainly in a schadenfreude mood. Gaston’s own meditation environment only had a very limited connection to Life Force Theory, so he did not need to worry about himself at all.

He wondered why Lucien put such an important experiment in his project paper. He wanted to know whether Lucien had ever heard about Life Force Theory. In Gaston’s mind, he tended to believe that it was more likely that Lucien knew nothing about it, or he would definitely be influenced by this classic theory, and he would not be able to conduct his experiment outside the theoretical framework. As for Lucien’s gift in arcana, Gaston had no doubt toward it at all. In Gaston’s mind, Lucien had a rigorous way of thinking, the courage to make bold hypothesis and the spirit to seek for proving. Furthermore, now Gaston felt that Lucien’s ability in doing experiments was also impressive.

”Bang!!”

When Gaston was about to leave the lab, the lab door was broken open, and the magic circles on it were broken as well.

”Who is that?!” asked Gaston in an alert way. Instantly, he was covered by a colourful spherical shield.

Seventh-circle spell, Magic Reverse Enchantment.

”Gaston! Did you see the paper from Evans? The last part! The experiment of synthesizing carbamide!” Raventi was really loud.

After staring at Raventi for a few seconds, Gaston sighed, ”Knock before entering, please.”

”I’m too excited for that!” Raventi did not really care, ”I asked you, did you read the paper… Wait, you’ve tried it as well?!”

Raventi saw the reactor on the other side of the lab and the white particles in the magic glass tube.

Gaston made a gesture to ask Raventi to lower his voice, ”Yes, Mr. Raventi, I’ve proved the validity of Evans’ experiment, but I think that there’s still lack of a piece of decisive evidence, as the Hand of Paleness might not admit carbamide to be a life ingredient. By the way, Mr. Raventi, did you show the paper to anyone else?”

”No one except you.” Although Raventi had a pretty bad temper, as a level-nine arcanist, he was not an idiot. He instantly understood why Raventi asked it, ”You want to hide the paper from those necromancers first until there are any decisive findings?”

Gaston nodded seriously, ”The keywords for the paper are Element and Alchemy, so technically speaking, the paper does not have much to do with the school of Necromancy. In other words, most likely, those necromancers haven’t read the paper. My only concern is that, on Evans’ side, he might have talked about it with other people already.”

Gaston was more than happy to have this chance to attack the Hand of Paleness with some decent research findings.

”I do not agree with you, Gaston.” Raventi shook his head seriously, ”This is an overturning finding. Unlike some unique spells being created, this kind of finding should be revealed to the public as soon as possible, so more arcanists can join the discussion, and thus the decisive evidence, if there’s any, can be found in the shortest period of time. Gaston, you still remember the fundamental spirit that the Congress of Magic builds on? Exploration of truth and candid communication!”

After thinking a bit, Gaston nodded, ”All right. I’m just concerned that the upcoming great debate might put Lucien in a dangerous place.”

”Let Lucien move into the house between ours,” answered Raventi quickly, ”But before that, I need to talk to the druid leaders to test validity of the first part of Lucien’s paper, so they can see some hope in increasing grain yield.”

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