CHAPTER 464: CHAPTER 238 CONSTRUCT ATTACK

"May the Quarter Divine bless us. The experiment has entered its middle stage, and we have finally encountered some difficult problems. How to construct an absorption Circuit outside the body to convert external Magic Power into easily absorbable High Magic Factors has troubled us for a long time. Perhaps I should visit other Temples to hear others’ opinions."

Lucilia was flipping through the booklet in her hands, interpreting the information for everyone around her. Day had broken, and they were slowly making their way to their next destination.

With the sound of turning pages, Lucilia spoke again. "Navis is truly an expert specializing in research of the human body. With his help, we successfully completed this Circuit, although it took us a full six months."

"Wait, just those two pages represent half a year?" Simon, who had been listening intently, quickly asked.

Lucilia nodded. "This manual records the entire successful process of the experiment and its impact on the world. It’s essentially a partial journal." As she spoke, she turned to the very first pages of the manual, which bore unfamiliar writing. She translated, "Magic Gathering Stone Research Process - 2." Then, "Great Tutor Vita. Once the record book is completed, it must be sealed and archived. If it needs to be taken out, please transcribe it yourself."

Everyone nodded at the translation. After answering Simon’s question, Lucilia continued to interpret the manual.

"It can be completed by precisely inscribing the Spells—’Conduction,’ ’Conversion Path,’ ’Rotation,’ and so on—in sequence, using materials with exceptionally high Magic Power conductivity." As she spoke, Lucilia also showed Alka and Simon the sequence of Spells illustrated on the manual’s pages, along with their overall configuration.

Looking at the diagrams, Alka quickly said, "Let’s skip translating the details of this inscription technique for now. Please translate something else." He figured that if she continued, Simon might get completely absorbed in research on the spot, and it wasn’t the right time to delve into such things.

Lucilia nodded and flipped forward, skipping about a quarter of the booklet. This indicated that this entire section was dedicated to recording the procedures of that recently successful stage.

Then she continued, "Lately, the entire world has become quite turbulent. For some unknown reason, wars have broken out in many places, and it’s said even the Divine have joined the battle. We don’t know if this news is true, but our detectors have genuinely registered countless powerful fluctuations being transmitted. This has caused significant interference with our experiment, greatly slowing our progress. Perhaps the experiment should be paused for a while. How long has it been since I last went out?"

"But regardless, Vastva is still under the protection of the Divine; our Divine continue to watch over this place."

The mention of news related to the Divine made everyone on the journey slow their pace and listen intently.

"The middle-stage construction has failed 363 times. It’s confirmed that the Divine are involved in the war. Their power is too immense, and the energy transmission from the battles has caused the world’s Magic Power to fluctuate violently. After fierce debate, the council decided to suspend all research in Vastva. We will temporarily work on calming the Magic Veins around Vastva to restore their tranquility."

"The Quarter Divine bestowed their grace; we spent less than a year successfully realigning the surrounding Magic Veins. Now, the research continues."

After saying this, Lucilia flipped through many more pages, nearly reaching the end of the booklet. She paused at the final few pages.

"We have almost completed a semi-finished product. Besides being highly unstable, its efficiency at drawing Magic Power is also poor. However, we have glimpsed the dawn of success; we are very close to achieving it."

"The final problem still stands in our way. We will resolve this last issue and produce a true finished product. Once the Magic Gathering Stone is completed, the entire team will receive the grace of the Divine, and I will be promoted to Eye of Secret Technique."

"The war is intensifying; its flames have even spread to Sarawa. We can already feel the heat of battle. This has also led to increasingly unstable Magic Power, making the experiment more challenging. Failures due to Magic Power instability have reached 1,360, and the wasted materials would be enough to build another Sapphire Temple."

At this point, Lucilia flipped the small booklet to its very last page and then put it away.

The others, who had been listening intently, stopped in their tracks and looked at her.

"No more?" Jason asked.

Lucilia shook her head. "There’s no more. The rest is just experimental records."

Now that the information from the manual had been translated, the others, who had been listening for a while, began to reflect on what they had heard.

A war involving the Divine? Alka muttered to himself, his mind involuntarily recalling information he had obtained from the Church back during his earliest days in the Homeland Sea.

"So this city-state was destroyed an unknown number of years ago during the War of the Divine—the war in which even the world itself was shattered," Simon said. He, too, had learned of such things from the Church in his own sea region.

"It’s said that the war which utterly devastated the world occurred over thirty thousand years ago. The current Ocean World was constructed afterward by the Four Gods upon the world’s remains."

"Thirty thousand years ago?" Jason asked in surprise.