Chapter 201 - 126: Does My Charming Mythical Ancestor Count Too?

Chapter 201: Chapter 126: Does My Charming Mythical Ancestor Count Too?

"You are a Master of profound knowledge. Who else would I consult for this kind of question but you?"

"You could go to Haimer! He’s about to take you as his apprentice!"

"Of course, but I absolutely refuse to waste my once-a-month consultation opportunity. After all, eight hundred years of guard duty... this is what I deserve. Wouldn’t you agree?"

"..."

Olivia stared at him for a few seconds before nodding. An apprentice’s questions should still be easy enough to answer. Now, she could only hope this kid would hurry up and become a First Level Wizard.

"Speak."

Chen Shang took a Crystal Plate from his chest pocket. It recorded the chaos-colored light he had observed during the Water-Fire Heaven Extremes explosion.

The color of this light fell somewhere between all known spectrums. It flashed and vanished in an instant, existing for an extremely short time, yet the energy it released far exceeded the explosion itself.

"I accidentally observed a phenomenon during my previous experiments," he said, pushing the Crystal Plate across the table. "A chaos-colored light appeared at the center of the explosion. It existed for about..."

"1/24 of a second." Olivia provided the answer without even looking at the Crystal Plate, gently massaging her temples.

Chen Shang froze for a moment. "You know about it?"

"Because I’ve been blown up by Teacher Haimer before. The Energy Shock wave released by one of his Witchcrafts contained this exact thing." She placed the Crystal Plate on the table. "But back then, I couldn’t even perceive it."

Chen Shang’s eyes lit up. "Then what is it?"

Olivia didn’t answer immediately. She picked up her teacup, took a sip, and let out a deep sigh.

This kid was harder to deal with than she had imagined. To think his question actually involved high-level knowledge. It seemed that agreement of theirs had inadvertently brought her more trouble.

"Answer me a question first."

"Ask away."

"How did you manage to observe it?"

"I developed an ocular ability." Chen Shang didn’t hide the truth. "I call it the Eye of Truth. It can see through the essence of things... and a tiny bit of the flow of time."

Olivia stared at him for two seconds and nodded. "The ’Eye of Truth’? Calling it a ’Divine Eye’? A decent ability, but that name is truly like a fresh flower stuck in a pile of cow dung."

Undoubtedly, "Truth" was naturally the fresh flower, as no Wizard would not yearn to observe the essence of things.

The "Divine Eye" was obviously the cow dung. After all, in the eyes of most Wizards, creatures like gods were stubborn, ignorant, and highly unreasonable.

She stood up and drew a vertical line in the air with her finger. The line extended from left to right, forming a timeline.

"In the perception of ordinary people, time flows continuously and evenly."

As she spoke, she drew a smooth curve along the timeline.

"But in the understanding of certain High Tier Wizards, time is not smoothly continuous; rather, it ’jumps’ at incredibly short intervals."

She tapped out a row of evenly spaced dots on the timeline.

"The lowest frequency is about twenty-four jumps per second. We call the interval between each jump the ’void window’."

Chen Shang stared at the row of dots. "What happens during a void window?"

"Absolutely nothing." Olivia looked at him seriously.

"Within that gap, all known physical Laws and Energy rules completely fail. It is an absolute ’void’. There is no Gravity, no Repulsive Force, no Electromagnetic Force, and no strong interaction.

"Elements do not exist. Energy does not exist. Even the concepts of time and Space are blurred."

Chen Shang fell silent for a few seconds. "The chaos-colored light I observed appeared during a void window?"

"Most likely, yes." Olivia walked back to her seat and sat down. "The extreme high temperature and pressure generated by the explosion of your Witchcraft, Water-Fire Heaven Extremes, caused something to leak out from the cracks in the rules the moment the void window opened. You call them annihilation particles? That’s a very fitting name."

"What is their essence?"

"I don’t know," Olivia answered bluntly. "I truly don’t know. Teacher Haimer might have some understanding of it.

"My knowledge of them remains purely at the ’observational record’ level. They appear during the void window, exist for exactly the duration of one window, and then disappear.

"Their location, time of appearance, and quantity are entirely random, as unpredictable as quantum fluctuations."

Chen Shang frowned. "I can see them, but every time I do, they have already annihilated."

"Perhaps the act of observation itself interferes with their existence." Olivia nodded. "That is the most troublesome characteristic of the void window. When you want to study it, it hides from you. When you aren’t looking, it might appear right under your nose."

"Has anyone tried to trigger it actively?"

"Of course, but among low-level Wizards, there are no successful cases." She paused for a moment. "Among High Level Wizards, someone has definitely achieved it, but such top-secret papers will never be made public unless someone exchanges them for knowledge of equal value."

Chen Shang leaned back in his chair, his mind racing.

He definitely couldn’t offer knowledge of equal value, nor did he know who to seek out for an exchange. However, since he had already observed it, was there a way to utilize it?

"Is there a way to guide them?" he asked. "For instance, creating an environment that increases the probability of annihilation particles appearing in a specific area."

Olivia glanced at him, the corners of her mouth curling up slightly. "You certainly have quite the imagination."

"Is it feasible?"

"Theoretically, yes, but you need two things." She held up two fingers.

"First, a precise perception of the void window. You must at least be able to perceive intervals at the level of 1/24 of a second. Your Spiritual Power is still far too weak for that; at most, you can rely on your Eye of Truth... alright, what an awful name... you can rely on it to catch accidental glimpses.

"Second, a method that can maintain its influence over the particles even during the void window."

Chen Shang shook his head. "I can’t do that."

"Obviously." Olivia picked up her teacup. "You’re only a Second Level Apprentice. True time is a domain normally only Fourth Level Wizards come into contact with. Seeing it early is your luck, but it’s also your trouble."