433 The Change and The Plan (2/2)

”It's hard to believe that the pope just used it, facing this new star…”

”Maybe it's not a real star…” As the leader of the Liberals, James knew more about the Congress of Magic than Russel. Although he was not certain about it, he was told that Douglas was working on something big.

Ross was very surprised, ”What do you mean?”

”Maybe… Just maybe… It is an artificial planet made by Douglas. I hope he was not killed by God's Arrival…” said James, slightly excited and worried at the same time.

If the president had fallen, it would have been a fatal strike to the Congress of Magic. Although the many powerful grand arcanists would not let the Congress collapse, the inner conflicts between the grand arcanists and legendary sorcerers would be very hard for the Lord of Storm and the Hand of Annihilation to control. Thus, the Congress would start falling into decay day by day without a doubt, which was, of course, no good news to the Liberals.

”Ar-Artificial planet?” Russel was startled. Unlike building a demiplane, making a planet meant a new world had been built! — According to Douglas, the main material world was just a larger planet.

The shades on James's face fluctuated under the candlelight. ”That's true. The Congress of Magic is even more powerful than we expected, and also more dangerous. Maybe in the future we'll be collaborating with a 'God'…”

”Only Truth lives forever…” Russel, who still had a small amount of faith remaining, drew a cross in front of his chest.

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On the thirty-third floor of the Allyn magic tower.

”Sir… the pope used … God's Arrival?!” Luciana exclaimed unbelievably. Every sorcerer knew how horrible the power of God's Arrival was. Luciana wondered if her teacher Douglas had reached the level of Alterna, the God of Silver Moon?

Douglas grinned and waved his hand. ”The pope's target was Antiffler No. 1. He had no idea that it was me who launched it and brought the initial velocity, so I was out of the range and only experienced it from nearby, or I would not be able to come back.”

Mentioning this, Douglas did not feel depressed or scared at all. Now he knew the power of God's Arrival and saw how it worked by observing it from a close distance, it would benefit him a lot in the future.

”I'll write to you all to share this experience when I've finished digesting it,” said Douglas to Fernando, Lucien, Artil, and the others.

Except for teaching and sharing his experience, he also planned to write the letters to express his appreciation — Without the help of the Lord of Storm and the Prophet, Douglas would not have been able to make the artificial planet within such a short period of time; without Lucien, the plan would have never even existed.

Lucien thanked Douglas, while feeling a bit melancholy in his mind. Was this the end of the first artificial planet project? It started so fast and ended so fast. Several hours earlier, Lucien, who was very excited and in the spirit of acting, was about to name this project the Star Wars Project.

”Sir, the project is a success! Your theory has been proved! No one can doubt you anymore!” said Artil very excitedly, his lips slightly trembling.

Although Douglas's theoretical system had been planted into every arcanist's heart, there was still criticism. The criticism had become particularly loud when Douglas' experiments based on this system proved that the velocity of light did not change in different directions, that ether did not exist, and that the wave theory of light was rather problematic.

Norman and Luciana were the same excited. The artificial planet had strongly backed Douglas's theoretical system.

”It's just the first step. Antiffler No. 1 was destroyed by God's Arrival before it could finish a complete revolution around the world. Next, we'll have Antiffler No. 2… Of course, it's gonna be done in a very secretive way.” Douglas answered smiling. Although he was being very humble, his tone now contained more confidence.

Mentioning this, he became a bit emotional. ”My theoretical system has been proved, but this has brought me more questions and make me feel even more in awe of the unknown truth: How did the gravity system come into shape at the very beginning? Why did it happen?”

Here he goes again… Fernando's mouth twitched a bit.

Seizing the chance, Lucien hurriedly said to the grand arcanists, ”Mr. President, teacher, Mr. Prophet, I've tested the signal from Antiffler No. 1, and it was very clear! If we put a magic circle for transmitting signals in an artificial planet, we could significantly enlarge the coverage range of Electromagnetic Message. After all, signal transmission is much easier in the sky than on the ground. If that's the case, we will be talk to the Dark Mountain Range when we are still in Allyn. That's even more convenient than Space Jump!

”Also, we have to consider the functions of surveillance, locating, and attacking. We need different kinds of artificial planets!”

Douglas smiled and nodded. ”Very interesting suggestion. Better communication will for sure bring a great revolution to society. However, the cost is still too high. The alchemical products needed should be of at least the fifth circle. Only senior-rank sorcerers could possibly be able to use them. I'm afraid that we cannot popularize it so far.”

Under the influence of Jinkela, the word, popularization, was being mentioned more and more often by sorcerers.

”I do have a package plan for this!” Lucien was already prepared.

Lucien was not able to launch a satellite himself, so he had to try his best to cooperate with the president and Fernando.

Fernando chuckled briefly. He knew that his student was already preparing for this when he proposed the artificial planet project.