428 Nature (2/2)

Tower sorcerers were all more or less emotionally connected to math in a complex way, and Rachel was one of them.

”Ladies, can I have two of them, please?” Rachel took out her magic badge.

”Sure, sure! Ms. Rachel” The two young ladies answered as they hurriedly put the badge into the magic circle to deduct arcana points and handed two new journals to Rachel and Samantha.

Almost everyone in Tower knew Rachel after she won Sorcerer Laurel.

”So thick!” Rachel exclaimed, while Samantha quickly looked at the cover of the journal — After all, her teacher's words had made her curious for the entire week!

Like Arcana, Nature also had a black cover, on which silver lines formed many math symbols, equations, numbers, and geometry shapes. Joining together against the black background, they were like stars in the dark universe.

Samantha believed that the cover was designed to express the aim of the journal: Using the language of math to describe the truth of the world…

That was also her first thought after she saw the cover.

Against the starry sky, there was a big word — Nature — written in a special fancy font. The characters looked like a wonderful formula.

Under the big word, there were several lines of smaller words:

Your eyes can lie to you…,beside it was the numbers showing visible light spectrum;

Your ears can deceive you… , surrounding it was the numbers showing human beings' hearing range;

your experience can mislead you… , following it was the simple but significant formula in calculus - 0.99999…=1;

Your imagination can restrain you… , under it was the hyperboloid model looking like a saddle and a sphere-like curved-surface model.

Samantha's eyes traced the lines and figures. She felt that she had understood what the words meant.

Her eyes fell on the last line… It was a brief but powerful one:

But math won't!

This line was a size bigger than the above ones and was on its own on the cover, with no figures following it. But all the symbols, equations, and numbers were its best testimonies.

It was shocking beyond words.

Samantha did not know what others felt, but she knew that there were a lot of things going on in her brain. She felt like she had understood many things, however, she also felt that she had not figured out anything yet.

Beside the last line, there was a name,

Lucien Evans X.

Samantha wondered if that was Lucien Evans' perception of math.

Rachel, who was standing beside Samantha, also remained silent. She hurriedly opened the journal and started reading the inscription, which was Lucien's speech. Then she browsed through the paper, sighing and exclaiming from time to time.

After a long while, she finally woke up from the world of math. Following a long sigh, she said,

”Is he still a human being?”

”Levski Geometry… Evans Geometry… If they were not findings in math but in other fields, countless people would have their head exploded! Although I've seen the demonstration and the models… It's still hard to believe…” added Rachel.

Then her face lit up, ”But I love what he said very, very much!”

The low-rank arcanists also got a copy. They were the same deeply shocked by the lines on the cover, but the content was still too difficult for them to understand so far. They had to take the journal back and slowly dig into it, treating it like their textbook.

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… Ms. Florencia, Mr. Gaston, and my teacher, Mr. Larry cheered that you've shifted your focus upon math, so the arcanists in the Congress are now much safer. Ok, no more jokes. They, including me, hope that you won't waste too much of your time in the new geometry system. Your talent belongs to the world of element and atoms, where findings of practical arcana and magic significance can be made. Leave geometry to Tower; they should get their own job done. Your friend, K.

After Nature issued, Lucien had received lots of letters. Some were sending congratulations, some were invitations for speeches, and some were from his friends. In Lucien's friends' eyes, the new geometry system was just like a piece of toy for Lucien, as it was of no practical arcana or magic significance.

Lucien sighed, as he knew that the new geometry systems were going to bring a more horrible and powerful impact than anyone had imagined.

Putting aside the letters, Lucien said to the apprentices waiting outside of the study, ”Let's go to the garden. We'll see what are keeping you guys busy recently.”

Lucien learned this free-communication method from the several physicists on the Earth who were good teachers.