233 The True Devil (2/2)
Therefore, Nicolay needed to have someone to distract Felipe at that moment when he launched his attack.
When Nicolay was moving to the isle, he was still calculating the distance. Before he arrived at the best spot for assassination, if Vern could not offer him further support by distracting Felipe, he had to take all the risk in a sink-or-swim way to kill Felipe, even if it meant that he needed to run through the narrow seat gaps to get closer to Felipe.
Nicolay was ready to sacrifice himself.
Meanwhile, Walter, while putting down the cup of water for the arcanist, was also calculating his distance from Lucien Evans, but he would not take any chances before Felipe was attacked.
Vern took a deep breath, and just when he was about to draw people’s attention to himself, an arcanist in the front shouted in sharp voice, ”The reactor! Something’s changing in the reactor!”
All the arcanists looked at the reactor, including Larry.
In the glass bottle at the bottom on the right, inside the tube for condensation, something light red appeared in the pure water!
What was it?!
The arcanists almost felt that they didn't dare to ask, but their hearts were filled with the question. Several of the arcanists in the front even stood up to see clearer. Nicolay’s vision was blocked, but he was encouraged - from the chaos, he could have enough time to kill Felipe. However, he was also a bit distracted subconsciously, wondering what the light red stuff was.
Raventi, who was sitting in the front, directly flew onto the stage, deactivated all the magic circles and took out the light red substance. He hurriedly activated the magic circle, Identification, to see what it was.
At the same time, more arcanists also used their own Identification magic circles to check the substance, including Felipe.
However, what they had all ignored was that Identification could only check things that were not unknown, as the spell was continuously improved by the congress.
Seeing that many arcanists were busy with casting the spell, Nicolay knew that this was his best chance to kill Felipe. Under his long robe, he grabbed the replica of the sword tightly, and then he took a solid step forward. He walked faster and faster. He did not care anymore if any arcanists had noticed him. In his eyes, there was only Felipe.
Within a few second, Nicolay had shortened his distance between him and Felipe quite a bit.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Walter also started to take action.
Nicolay was one step away from Felipe now!
He fiercely ripped off the amulet that he was wearing for hiding his divine power with one hand, and took out the sword with the other hand.
When he was about to hack the sword at Felipe, someone shouted in a hight pitch, ”Aspartic acid… There’s Aspartic acid in there! Something originally found in asparagus! Oh… Arcana’s above… What I’ve found here…”
”And some other life ingredients! Although two of them have never been successfully refined yet, they are parts of the foundation of life!” On the other side, another level five arcanist was shocked, as if he just saw the real God.
”And lipid and carbohydrate…” Pesor and Tina-Timos all stood up. Although they were not some kind of followers, they still wanted to say that this could only have been done by God.
It was a miracle that an environment that was made up of several of the simplest factors, including lightning, gases, pure water and a mini replica model of a volcano, could just generate life ingredients!
Felipe was also astounded. In his eyes, they were now in the realm of God. He wondered who designed this model—was it Professor?!
Every single one of the arcanists knew what this experiment meant—it had revealed the fact that, even though it could not completely deny that the God of Truth could create life, at least God was not the only entity that could create life. In other words, Creationism was facing a great threat.
When the arcanists were exclaiming in front of the experiment finding, Nicolay, who was only one step away from Felipe, was still shocked.
He could not remove his eyes away from the reactor, which was surrounded by many different identification magic circles. The light of the tree symbol above the reactor representing all kinds of life ingredients was so pure and bright that Nicolay, when staring at it, had forgotten his purpose for being here.
He could not believe what was in front of his eyes. He could not believe that there was aspartic acid in the reactor.
Lots of thoughts flashed through Nicolay’s mind. He recalled how the experiment was built up: high temperature and methane gas brought by volcanic eruption, magic lightning used to recreate natural thunder and lightning, pure water to simulate prehistoric ocean, the main gases including hydrogen… In the whole experiment, there was no intervention from God, but life ingredients were still created.
Nicolay was more than regretful that he had learned something about arcana before. He wished that he had never known what life ingredients were and how important they were.
Nicolay’s head was buzzing with thoughts:
”Can natural environment also create life? So it isn’t something that is only controlled by God?
”But… but life should only be governed by the almighty God…
”Creating life… is within the realm of God…
”Does God even exist? Does Mountain Paradise exist? After I die, where will I go?
”They are devils, true devils! They’ve made me doubt God!”
In a flash, Nicolay’s thoughts shook the foundation of his belief, and thus his divine power started to go out of control. And as a quick reaction, Nicolay started to pray.
However, as soon as he started praying, his power directly exploded. From the inside out, the divine power devoured him with dazzling, beautiful light.
At the same time, Walter was overwhelmed by the same holy light.
Both Nicolay and Walter exploded with their power and turned into two beautiful beams of light, just like dreamlike firework.
Seeing the light beams, the arcanists were astonished but also confused.
Before the arcanists could figure out what was going on there, Vern’s head exploded. White brain tissue and fresh blood scattered everywhere.
The rest of the arcanists hurriedly tried to stabilize their own mediation environments. They were too shocked to comprehend the whole situation, and they only shared one common thought:
”This was crazy!”
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”So, the two experiment subjects have proved the great impact that the experiment finding can bring to the Church,” said Hathaway emotionlessly. Her silvery-gray eyes were cold.
The grand arcanists knew the Church’s plan from the very beginning, since Vern’s suggestion of putting Nicolay and Walter into the meeting was actually made up by Thanatos and was put in Vern’s mind.
Vaharall and Varantine never thought that the grand arcanists would show up for this meeting.