801 New Messenger (1/2)

In Babel inside the Atomic Universe…

By the time Lucien returned, Natasha was still in a daze before the minor screen. She looked ahead while turning the Sword of Truth in her hand.

”What's up?” Lucien asked, finding it strange. Considering her arcana expertise, she shouldn't have been shocked for such a long time, should she?

Hearing Lucien's voice, Natasha seemed to be woken up from a dream. Her silver eyes glittering, she said, ”Although the delayed choice experiment cannot conclusively prove that the law of causality can be destroyed, I am thinking whether or not the Sword of Truth is crafted based on such a mechanism. Are all the methods of resurrection nullified because the law of causality has been sabotaged?”

Lucien looked at her solemnly up and down. Despite her usual confidence and firmness, she was somewhat stunned. Could she be right?

The atmosphere was frozen for several minutes just like that. Right when Natasha couldn't stand it any longer and was about to speak again, Lucien suddenly smiled in great delight. ”You are thinking too much.”

”Really? I don't do that very often,” Natasha said in a matter-of-fact, showing no frustration at all.

Lucien's smile was gone. He nodded and said, ”It's a major progress to consider the arcana mechanism behind the blood power of the Sword of Truth. Only figuring out what it is exactly will you know how to walk on. Although I am still not certain, I have a vague speculation about your blood power. By the time I return from the primeval hell, perhaps I'll be able to tell you what it is.”

”Really?” Natasha was both surprised and delighted at Lucien's words. The knight path up ahead was an important focus of her life. The seclusion every month had made her realize that understanding her blood power was an indispensable prerequisite for her to find out her own path of a knight. Otherwise, she could only become a level-three legendary knight after several hundred years like ”Heart of Time”, and she wouldn't be able to make any further progression.

For a knight who was better at fighting and persistence, exploring and studying her blood power was not her advantage. Chances were that she would have to spend a fairly long time on that. Thankfully, she had a grand arcanist by her side, one who was famous for his studies!

After she blurted out, Natasha noticed another point. ”You're going to the primeval hell?”

She did not pursue the previous topic any further because she was certain that Lucien would not lie to her about such an important question. If he said that he had a theory, he definitely had a theory, and everything would be clear after he returned from the primeval hell.

”I have benefited a lot from the two experiments. After I construct another few spells, it will be time for you to pay a visit to the primeval hell to confirm one of my ideas. By then, everything will have an answer,” Lucien said ambiguously. ”Although the Lord of Hell has steadily arrived at the main material world, his real body must still be in the depths of hell. So, I have to go alone this time. Also, the situation is rather dangerous today. It's better to deal with the emergencies if you stay in Rentato.”

Biting her lips, Natasha nodded slowly. ”Alright.”

She knew very well that, although she had the Shield of Truth and the Sword of Truth, which gave her an actual combat ability of level three of legendary, she would still be crushed when faced with a demigod. Also, she did not have as many peculiar life-saving spells as sorcerers did, and she would only be a liability if she were to follow Lucien to hell. As a top legend, he could fight or flee freely. There would be ways for him to escape even if he were faced with a demigod.

”I'm going to develop a new legendary spell which will help us communicate across dimensions. Should there be any emergency, we would be able to reach out to each other.” Lucien tried to be prepared, but he was not really too worried. With Mr. President in Allyn, unless Viken performed God's Arrival without caring about his own life, or all the other demigods joined their hands, there wouldn't be anything that was worth a cross-dimension call. As a matter of fact, he was probably the one who would encounter strange things after he went to the primeval hell.

”Communicate across dimensions?” Natasha repeated those words. She had never heard of any way to communicate across dimensions except through the Portal to Alternate Realms. So, she was rather confused and curious.

Lucien nodded and smiled. ”This legendary method of communication indeed supports communication across different alternate dimensions. However, it can only be used once and deliver limited information. Also, the code of the communication has to be settled in advance. Basically, when you settle a state on your side, a corresponding state will collapse on my side. Information can be delivered by combining such states, like the binary system.”

”It feels like another application of the weird features of microscopic particles…” Having been taught for a long time, Natasha made the conclusion very confidently. Then, she adjusted her mood and chuckled. ”You said that you benefited a lot from the two experiments today. What have you earned exactly? The confirmation of the observer effect, or the disruption of the law of causality?”

Lucien could sense her curiosity that she had been hiding. He replied with a smile, ”For me, the most important lesson is that electrons can be used to complete the two experiments under such designs and circumstances. Mr. President and I planned to use photons.”

”Is there any difference?” Natasha was confused. She understood the experiment perfectly, but the sophisticated questions where theories were involved were too much for amateurs like her to comprehend.

”You want to know the difference? It involves quantum field theory, wave mechanics, the matrix mechanics…” Lucien intentionally proposed a bunch of theories.

”Stop, stop, stop.” Her head swelling, Natasha hurried to stop him and change the topic. ”In the first experiment, the trajectory mark of electrons was erased by the design, thereby preventing the experimenter from obtaining the information. Therefore, the interferometric fringes still existed, and the observer effect was still sensible. However, it cannot prove the conclusion perfectly. If the trajectory mark is not erased, but the experimenter's eyes, ears, and all other senses are all blocked, will the interferometric fringes still exist? Will there be any 'observer' under such circumstances?”

Lucien looked at Natasha in surprise. Perhaps it was exactly because she did not know very much that she could ask such creative questions.

Thinking for a moment, he chuckled in a low voice. ”Who knows? Nobody can know the result, because when anybody observes it, there will be an 'observer', but if nobody observes it, does the result really matter? It cannot be confirmed anyway.”

”Then, let's assume that a mysterious existence that doesn't cause the observer effect is watching it…” Natasha made use of her imagination. ”Why don't you take a guess from the theoretical point of view?”

”My guess?” Lucien smiled and said, ”My guess is that there may be interferometric fringes, and there may be not. Hahahaha.”

Natasha raised her head and looked at the ceiling, making up her mind never to discuss arcana questions with him again.

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