693 Holy Name of the God of Steam (2/2)

Sacred and solemn light was gathered on the statue from the void, flying in and out, until they were gradually melted, presenting the feeling of vastness and transcendence.

The unmelted spots of light danced like little angels. If one were to listen attentively, they would hear different prayers and compliments, which turned the space pure and holy.

Divine power flowed from the effigy into the altar and absorbed the power of magic from the altar. They were never more harmonious in such a situation!

”It's a pity that the heart of faith contradicts the cognitive world, or we will be able to perform divine power without the assistance of items.” Four other people floated next to Lucien. They were Douglas, Fernando, Hathaway and Natasha. It was exactly Douglas who made the remark.

Although sorcerers could partly construct their cognitive world with faith, like Artil did, who did not have a brain explosion but was swallowed by the holy light when his cognitive world collapsed, it did not mean that he could perform divine power, unless he completely modified his cognitive world into the heart of faith. By the same logic, no clerics except for demigods in the superposition state could construct their cognitive world and perform magic with the heart of faith.

Lucien nodded. ”The two of them are based on different things. One of them is founded on the nature and secrets of the world with one's own knowledge, and the other is obtained by changing one's ideas into the god he believes. In this experiment, I would like to find out the details of the secrets of the demigods.”

This was a path to gods that Thanos and Viken improved. It was different from the primitive ways that the fake gods like Dark Dragon Lord used for their advancement.

”Existence justifies itself. Whether or not we admit it or walk on it, the very existence of 'gods' suggest another facet of the nature of the world. Therefore, we must study them instead of running away. Lucien, your studies on them are very valuable.” Douglas was rather open-minded about that.

Lucien smiled. ”I hope Mr. President, master and Granny Hathaway can keep it a secret for me. Since we concealed the way to become demigods earlier, I fear that this thing will make the other members of the Highest Council suspicious of me. Let's keep silent until we have some results.”

He was merely notifying the few grand arcanists of his new work.

”Acting so mysterious. I don't know what you are up to at all.” Fernando glared at Lucien. In his eyes, such a reason was too far-fetched, but he did not point it out and decided to see what his student was really planning to do.

Taking out her notebook, Hathaway studied the previous questions with the altar and the special divine item. ”You can only grant ten dwarfs divine power?”

”A lot of the power of faith that the effigy gathered in the past is gone due to the lack of dependence. The power left is not enough to grant five people at all. Thankfully, I exchanged a few advanced divine items of the Saint Truth, which gave the power a high divine power. I can't do any better than that right now.” Lucien explained in great detail.

After Douglas, Fernando and Hathaway left with the firsthand data, Natasha looked at the effigy of dwarf with great interest. ”I never knew that you had such a queer taste. You like tattooed baldies…”

As for it being a dwarf, she found it more or less understandable. After all, it was a God of Steam designed for dwarfs.

Lucien chuckled. ”This effigy of dwarf is named 'Yuri'.”

”Yuri… What's the connection?” Asked Natasha in confusion.

...

In the Tower…

Sitting inside her unique library, Samantha looked at the air before her. She seemed to be hearing low or loud voices echoing in the room.

”Now, what I want to say is that something may be wrong with determinism, because certain processes are probabilistic and irreversible…”

”Determinism must die…”

For a long time, those words had been haunting her like a nightmare, making her lost, overwhelmed and frustrated. What was most horrifying was that the experiments completed so far all indicated the uncertainties and probabilities of microscopic particles.

Pressing her forehead, she said in a low voice, ”Arcana needs to live, so determinism must die?”

Her voice was full of bitterness and resistance.

Dum, dum, dum. She heard rapid footsteps outside, and they did not seem to come from one person. She opened the door, only to discover that the Tower sorcerers were gathering in a certain room.

”What happened?” Samantha saw her good friend, Rachel.

Rachel looked lost and painful. ”Havin killed himself…”

”He did?” Asked Samantha in surprise. Suicide? Not died of a brain explosion but killed himself?

No important experiments could confirm uncertainties and probabilities yet, and the only problem was that the thought experiments could not deny them. Therefore, even though Havin was a hardcore supporter of determinism, the stability of his cognitive world shouldn't have been affected.

It also left enough buffer for the rest of them.

”Perhaps, he was devastated by the development of arcana…” Said Rachel in a low voice.