352 The Truth (2/2)
It was obvious that Douglas loved philosophy very much.
The words discussing the absolute truth and the relative truth made many senior-rank sorcerers think, but also, they still felt more or less suspicious towards the claim, because many theories and laws in the arcana system looked so valid and solid that it was hard for them to doubt it.
After a round of short discussion, the senior-rank arcanists started to leave, as they needed to go back and tell their students and friends the problem of atom theory as soon as possible, and thus gradually enabled Lucien's new finding to spread out, hoping that the most of the sorcerers could change their viewpoint slowly.
”Lucien, when your paper is published… I will talk to the senior levels… about your next Holm Crown prize,” Morris said to Lucien word by word. And the look on Morris's face was sophisticated, but there was definitely sadness in there.
”I am totally fine with it.” Lucien did not want to further upset him.
Morris nodded, and when he saw that Raventi had already left the meeting room, he put on the smile again and said, ”In fact, Miracle Experiment is enough to win you the Immortal Throne award… I mean, you don't really need another ring, right? Ha, I'm just joking. Don't mind me.”
Morris hurriedly walked away when noticing that the Lord of Storm was approaching.
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A few days later, in Cole's magic tower.
A gas servant was about to give its master a letter, but found the message left by the latter, ”I'm doing an experiment with my teacher. Leave the letter following the keywords.”
Therefore, the gas servant opened the envelope and started to read the letter to get the keywords:
”…Cole, it's really hard to believe that my teacher, Lauren, has discovered the conflict between the periodicity of the elements and the atom theory. He said that there was going to be something even smaller than an atom, which goes the opposite way with your belief! Atom is very possibly not the most fundamental unit of all of the substances. In fact, the substance is just people's illusion. Energy should be the essence of everything!”
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In Heidler, the headquarter of the Hand of Paleness, over the meeting among the senior levels.
”Recently, there are rumors spreading out that the theory of atom is problematic, and many senior-rank arcanists have pointed out many problems in atom theory.” Rogerio gently knocked on the table with his knuckles, ”It is weird.”
Pesor sneered, ”What is weird about it? Obviously, there has been a new experiment showing that atom theory might be wrong. The Congress is trying to slowly change the viewpoint of the arcanists. We have done the same things before.”
”Very possibly. Unfortunately, we don't know what kind of experiment it is, or we could really teach the Will of Elements a harsh lesson,” said a senior man in a venomous way in the corner.
Felipe, sitting in another corner quietly, looked up and said sarcastically, ”Mr. Sousa, you think right now we could really do this without letting the Congress know? You think they are all idiots?”
Under the great pressure from the Congress, at least in Allyn, the conflicts between the powers and parties remained relatively reasonable.
”But if somehow we get to know what the experiment is, it is going to be their fault.” Sousa put on a cold smile.
The meeting ended earlier after the task of figuring out what the experiment was given out.
When getting back to his own magic tower, Felipe said to his servant directly, ”Bring the recent papers from Lucien Evans to me.”
When Felipe started to read the papers again, the look on his face became more and more serious, ”They are all about cathode ray… Particle stream… negatively charged?”
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In the Radiance Church in Holm.
A secret piece of information was sent to the room where the several red-robed cardinals gathered.