435 Start of the Debate War (2/2)
”That's right…” Annick belatedly understood the reason.
At the same time, Lazar finally realized what was happening. He raised the Arcana he was reading and exclaimed, ”everyone, do you remember the newborn star that was destroyed by God's Arrival about half a month ago?”
”Yeah, why?” Sprint's attention quickly shifted to Lazar. The incident that night had left a deep impression in his mind.
Layria and Katrina also turned to look at Lazar curiously. They beautiful bright star was still clear in their memories.
As the other apprentices' sight shifted away from him, Annick was relieved and his expression loosened. Then, he also turned to look at Lazar in the same way.
In Allyn, every sorcerer who knew about the background are shocked by or, at least, interested in the Newborn Star.
When Lazar was going to show off the big news he found and tell everyone how shocked and respectful he was, Heidi took his chance and spoke first. ”The star was created and launched by Mr. President!”
”What?!”
”That's impossible!”
”It's artificial? Seriously?”
The exclamations expressed how surprised everyone was.
”It's true! The first paper on this issue, Summaries of Simulating the Astronomical System
with an Artificial Planet, is from the President!” Lazar quickly waved the Arcana in his hand.
”The experimental data, the actual data, the comparison between the two, and the descriptions of the trajectory. It must be true!”
With the idea of the artificial planet, it would not be hard for people who had studied Douglas' theoretical system and achieved some results to create the whole model with the previous data, so Douglas did not try to hide his experiment. For people who could understand the experiment, it would not take them too long to figure everything out, and for people who could not understand it, they would never be able to figure out the truth.
Though obviously, he hid some of the actual situations and Lucien's plan was only mentioned in a small discussion, so the enemy would not be enlightened by the published materials.
”H-How is this even possible?” Layria muttered. To the sorcerers specializing in Astrology, the stars in the sky represented the fate of all creatures with intelligence. No one believed that ”fate” could be man-made.
Sprint, Annick, and Katrina were all in a state of absence. Their pride from their recent improvement of skills and knowledge was destroyed by the shocking truth.
Lazar noticed that Lucien was simply smiling silently, as if he was not surprised at all. Suddenly, Lazar had a flash of intuition.
”Lucien, don't tell me you participated in the experiment?”
Everyone's sight instantly fell upon Lucien's face.
”I provided some suggestions.” Lucien smiled and nodded. He had nothing to hide as long as no one knew who initiated the experiment. After all, the Church's attention was on the one who completed the experiment.
Lazar clicked his tongue twice. ”I don't why, but I was not surprised at all when I heard you were part of it.”
Heidi quickly turned the pages and, not surprisingly, she saw Douglas's words at the end.
She started reading in a clear silvery voice. ”Special thanks to those who helped me during the experiment, Fernando, Bergner, Lucien, Artil, Luciana, Norman… Teacher's name is really here…”
Once again, they realized how talented Lucien was.
”Let me what else is published on this issue.” Lucien raised his hand and took over the journal. His own issue was probably in his office of the Arcana Review Board.
Lucien checked the titles and suddenly saw an article published by Artil by the end. The title was Does Ether Really Exist. It was an article for pure discussion purposes and could not earn any reference credits.
Lucien inhaled slightly and slightly read the short article, which sounds like a declaration of war.
”… The artificial planet experiment strongly proved the President's theories, and the lightspeed experiment based on the theory has proved that Ether does not exist.”
”… I will offer a reward of 50,000 arcana points for other theoretical explanations of the experiment, explanations including Ether!”
”The arcanists who question the experiment and believe in the existence of Ether, please use your wisdom and 'imagination'!”
Lazar was reading the article by the side and he abruptly shouted in excitement, ”that's it! It's time to make the ones who believe in the wave theory face their mistake!”
Elemental sorcerers like Lazar and Rock always believed in the particle theory.
After hearing Lazar's words, Lucien felt like that a debate war was coming.