550 Sorrow and Joy (2/2)
Bobby immediately understood their previous fear after seeing Jurisian's status. He hurried to rush into the crowd, while the other arcanists clenched their fists and stared at Jurisian's head in fear.
After a long time, Jurisian suddenly 'screamed', and the uptight arcanists immediately backed off in a flurry, and the hall was in a mess.
After they retreated further and were braced for a headless body, they discovered, however, that Jurisian was standing joyfully, utterly refreshed.
”Mr. Jurisian, are you alright?” Bobby emboldened himself to ask.
Jurisian laughed in wild joy. ”While the paper is not exactly perfect, it is a major shock for me and has settled certain problems that bothered me. Therefore, my cognitive world half substantiated just now!”
With his spiritual power that was more than sufficient and his control over magic, it meant that he would become a sixth-circle sorcerer soon.
”Really? Congratulations on you becoming a senior-rank sorcerer in advance. But why did you scream, Mr. Jurisian? We thought that your brain was going to explode…” Said Bobby frankly.
Jurisian replied in a chuckle, ”I was ecstatic, so I wanted you to share my joy.”
Witnessing that Jurisian broke the greatest obstacle to the senior rank, the middle-rank arcanists in the hall had no time to condemn his mischief but all surged to the counter to buy 'Arcana', hoping that a similar 'miracle' could happen to themselves, too.
After a long time, only a few of the dozens of middle-rank arcanists were deep in thought, as if they were both enlightened and confused. The rest of them were just like Bobby. They could understand the deductions, but they couldn't grasp their specific meaning. They were all at a loss.
However, they all realized that the paper seemed to have overthrown President Douglas' motion system. Their cognitive world that was founded on that was shaken as a result. Thankfully, Lucien arduously explained that the previous motion system was a low-speed approximation of the new theory in the latter half of his paper with abundant examples, which stabilized their cognitive world again. It was not a disruption but a sublimation!
Even so, the fact that their knowledge was incomplete and unsolid still made them more bewildered than ever.
Right then, a hawk-nosed man walked in, with the badges of a seventh-circle arcanist and a seventh-circle sorcerer on his chest.
Noticing the queer behavior of his fellow arcanists, he broached a few questions.
After hearing their reply, he frowned and picked up a copy of 'Arcana' to read the article. As he read on, he observed in disgust, ”Absurd! How can time and space be like this! This is in utter violation of observation and imagination! Has Lucien Evans' head been muddled because of his impractical mathematic studies?”
”Also, there are still many loopholes in it!”
While talking, he went upstairs with the journal, planning to lambaste it.
”Mr. Alvaro, it's mine…” The middle-rank arcanist whose journal was taken away eventually gave up trying, because he knew that Mr. Alvaro was a seasoned arcanist who had unimaginable persistence in the three laws of the Force Field, the motion system and the absolute time and space.
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Inside the royal magic tower of Holm…
Looking at his teacher mumbling the words such as 'mass', 'energy', 'time' and 'space' before him, K suddenly felt indescribable fear and focused his eyes on the 'Arcana' in his hands.
Suddenly, Larry breathed heavily and clenched his fists hard. He announced with his eyes glittering, ”If perfected, it is going to be a paper that changes the era!”
”Master?” K asked carefully. He was already a level-four arcanist and a fourth-circle sorcerer.
There was no telling the look on Larry's face, which was covered in his furry, yellow beard, but he spoke in apparent joy, ”My cognitive world has half substantiated.”
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On the thirteenth floor of the Allyn magic tower…
Lucien sat in the office of the Affair Committee, waiting for Thompson to confirm that none of the sorcerers had cognitive world meltdowns.
”None so far.” Thompson walked in. ”That's because you haven't presented the improvements on the experiments with the cyclotron yet. Also, after more than eight months of discussions, most arcanists should be mentally and intellectually prepared.”
”However, a few senior-rank senior-ranks of the school of force field did have intense reactions.”
Lucien said helplessly, ”I hope that only their cognitive world was broken and solidified. Or maybe, they can indeed find the mistakes in the paper and propose new opinions.”
Thompson was not bothered but consoled him, ”Something good also happened. Today, at least six fifth-circle sorcerers' cognitive world half substantiated because of your paper. Four of them are from the school of electromagnetics and the school of Light-darkness, including Jurisian you know. Two are elemental sorcerers, one of them being Larry. At least in the short run, the good influence of your paper outweighs the bad influence.”
”As far as I know, such scenes only happened when 'Mathematical Principles of Magical Philosophy' and the Brook formulas were proposed. Of course, their influences were even greater. Some people's cognitive worlds even substantiated on the spot.”