Episode 48.8 (1/2)
”You resurrected Vurs?!”
”Of course not in its complete form. Only a very small and weak superficial form of it. But as it has the same exact property as its original form, it was perfect as a test subject.”
”Resurrecting a magic beast from a magic stone, is that even possible?”
”That's what you're asking? Common magic stones are vestiges of their original magic beasts. They're like a sort of remnants left behind. But with magic beasts that are above a certain stratum, though in reality it's pretty much limited to high ranking dragons, all information pertaining that magic beast remains inside a magic stone with a certain level of mana amount and density.”
”Information?”
”In short, high ranking dragons' magic stones are their eggs. Leave one alone and it'll gradually absorb the surrounding mana, and get resurrected once the condition is right. Letting it to naturally revive itself would have taken a very long time, but I forcibly supplied it with mana and created an artificial environment that fits the condition to resurrect it.”
”I've got absolutely no clue what any of that means, I just know that you're someone extraordinary that just achieved something out of this world.”
”Oh stop it with the flattery now. Ah, right. Forgot to ask, but I'm guessing magic stones aren't shown in <Life Detection>, are they.”
”Yeah, they're not. <Mana Detection> can see them though.”
”I'm sure it could. That's how it should work. Magic stones don't have Life Elements on them. Now then after observing the record of Vurs's rebirth many times over, I finally found the answer I sought.”
”Hou.”
”It's helix.”
”Helix?”
”A three dimensional object that goes round and round like a tornado. Life Elements consist of these helix components as their building blocks. Those helices came into being the moment Vurs was born. Sinistrorsal helices.”
”Hou?”
”I couldn't help but yelped when this came into my attention. Afterward, I went on to investigate the direction of helices on all kinds of Life Elements. Then I found out that magic beasts' helices are sinistrorsal, humans' are dextrorsal, while animals, fish, insects and birds have both. It's a very simple matter.”
”Hou, simple huh. And here I'm utterly lost.”
”How could I fail to notice such a simple thing. The answer had always been right in front of my eyes. I had witnessed them an innumerable amount of times, who could have though the answer lies there of all places.”
”Good for you.”
”None of this matters to you in the least eh? Anyway, my research thus progressed by leaps and bounds. I examined my own Life Element's Helix. It was sinistrorse.”
”Magic beast, or apparition then.”
”You really are refreshingly frank. You might fit well as a researcher. Now then, I made my resolve to get to the next phase.”