Glan Natural Science Academy

This was Ryger’s first time seeing a telescope. He was totally engrossed with it, like a child getting a new toy. 

“Where’s the Moon?” 

Just as Ryger was going to adjust the telescope to look at the Moon, suddenly, a voice that made Rygers heart skip a beat came from behind.

“To observe the Moon, you need to adjust the telescope 35 degrees.”

Ryger snapped his head back. Mentor Kubo, with his loose, black pajamas, had at some point been standing behind his back.

“Mentor, you didn’t sleep?”

Among the darkness, Ryger wasn’t able to clearly see Mentor Kubo’s face. He could faintly see Kubo raise his head and, through the astrologic window, peer with his deep eyes at the boundless starry sky atop.

“I got used to coming up here every night.”

With his hands behind his back, the black pajamas-wearing Kubo’s voice was a bit lonely, lacking the normal rigidity and sternness in Ryger’s image.

He stopped for a moment then continued. “Limited by the high quality workmanship needed to make convex lenses which are required in astronomical telescopes, the celestial bodies that we are able to observe are still limited to that Starveil radiation background. Only when we break through that layer of radiation background can we truly observe the real universe and prove what Pioneer Baniwens said – Heaven does not exist.”

Ah…

A shake of the head and a sigh.

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“There are some astrology manuscripts passed on by Pioneer Baniwens over there. Ever since Pioneer Baniwens passed away, the number of astrologers in all states have only decreased. Cosmic-astral studies are restricted by the Church’s blockade on the apparatuses and almost nobody is studying it now. Though, if you’re interested, go take a look.”

In the deep, dark night, Kubo unexpectedly met Ryger. After a few words, he turned and left. Even Cayleigh went down.

The astrology hut once again regained its silence.

Following Kubo’s words, Ryger found some yellowed manuscripts. The manuscripts were protected by a special wax structure and on it were abundant diagrams and mathematical formulas as well as convoluted trajectorial-diagrams of starry stairs. Although he knew nothing regarding mathematical foundations, that didn’t impair his ability to understand the results of the calculations.

“Because of distance, the real volumetric mass of space’s celestial bodies far surpasses our estimations derived from naked eye observations. The Sun’s real mass is about 300,000 times to 500,000 times that of Star-Veil?! How… how large is this?”

Ryger was unable to imagine such mass and volume. He was also unable to wrap his mind around the results of this calculation.

The various principalities totalled in the two digits. The total area of the many tiny principalities roughly equaled the total area of the Six Big Principalities. Yet, the area occupied by all principalities was merely two-third that of the Great Light Empire of Aurora.

The many principalities and the Great Light Empire of Aurora together formed the massive human states.

At the edges of the human states were the many steep, desolate, arid land occupied by many foreign races. Although the area of land occupied by these foreign races was denoted by only a large white outline in maps, it was several times that of the human states. Mankind habitually calls the combined region of the human states and regions of familiar foreign races nearby the land of Star-Veil.

The land of Star-Veil was surrounded by the sea in the 3 cardinal directions.

Massive amounts of human and foreign races pirates live in the nearby maritime spaces and the number of scary tales about the deep sea was beyond count.

The only land that continued on to the deeper region of the continent was isolated by the boundless Furnace Dessert. At the other end of the Furnace Dessert was the Land of Night frequently talked of by the Church, the land of origin of the evil Bloodkins which was the aim of the Crusader’s expeditions!

Similar to the human kingdom, the Bloodkins were the master of the Land of Night.

As for what was beyond the Land of Night, nobody knew…

But even though it was an insignificant part to Star-Veil, it was already a boundless, endless region to Ryger. Yet, the manuscript’s convoluted calculations said that the Sun’s mass was hundred thousand times that of StarVeil.

If that’s the case!

Then instead of studying these specimens of natural creatures and obtaining the power of evolution of the Star-Veil’s inner food chain, I might as well turn my eyes to the starry sky of the universe; to the Sun which possess an unimaginable amount of power, and obtain hundred thousand of times of power of the universe’s True Law!

The Sun, the Sun…

Wait!

If I can use my Air Bubble by changing its shape to a convex lens then converging the Sun’s ray to attack someone, would that be a roundabout way of using the Sun’s energy!

If the calculations of the manuscripts are correct, then no matter how large my convex lens is, it’ll only use an insignificant part of the Sun’s boundless, limitless energy. But even that miniscule amount would be an unthinkable amount of frightening energy to Star-Veil’s humans.

In other words, as long as I use one three-hundred-thirty-thousandth (1/330,000) of the Sun’s energy…. No! Maybe only one of several millionth (1/X,000,000) or one of several ten millionth (1/X0,000,000), or even one of several hundred billionth (1/X00,000,000) will be enough to completely destroy this world!

If the Sun is the universe’s central point; if there is no heaven in the universe’s starry sky; if the True Law is greater than the Light Creator-Deity; if all is as Pioneer Baniwens said, then perhaps the spillover of energy which are like ripples to the universe would be a destructive power to Star-Veil’s me!

 

So far, this academy skill could only be used during the day. But it was able to be completed, it was still a groundbreaking academic skill.

This! Was a True Law from the starry sky of the universe!

In the starry sky of the universe, in Pioneer Baniwen’s macroscopic world, Star-Veil was only one of the countless celestial bodies orbiting the Sun.

And if he was able to become an advanced scholar with strong energy field to support, then even if he were to use such an elementary academic skill that uses sunlight – so long as the bubble convex lens were wide enough, then even on a gloomy, rainy day, he could very well form the bubble convex lens on top of the cloud to converge sunlight and, with absolutely high temperature, disperse the clouds – a beam of terrifying light would descend onto ground and thoroughly and completely vaporize enemies.

“Hiss!”

At this moment, Ryger was suddenly enlightened. At the same time, he let out a deep breath because of his wild, whimsical thoughts.

The more he thought of it, the more he got excited. Suddenly, he thought of something that shocked him. “The universe’s starry sky’s power of the True Law! Could it be… this was why back then in front of the Aurora Cathedral of Light the Light Creator-Deity descended a miracle and personally incinerated the great Pioneer Baniwens?”

Be it natural laws, evolutionary secrets or even human body profundities, spiritual secrets, alchemy and so on…

If 《Heliocentrism》is true, then all the True Law the human scholars were studying were merely the secondary branches of the True Law that branched out to Star-Veil!

The universe’s starry sky is the origin of finding the True Law’s highest truth!

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The second day.

Aya was a third year student of the Glan Natural Sciences Academy and her position on the honour roll had remained at around the one hundred mark. She belonged to the category of people most easily sidelined in the Academy.

She didn’t mind how she was almost transparent to others and didn’t really care for other ways of seeing things. Because to Aya, they were unable to experience the joy she felt, the free reading that asks of nothing when she completely submerged herself in the sea of knowledge of the books.

And so, at the dawn of almost every morning, Aya would be the first to be at the library.

But today, when she was taking in the fresh air and reached the library, she was taken aback.

“This early?”

There was already somebody waiting at the library’s entrance.

This happening wasn’t common. Aya looked at this person. A young face that she didn’t recognise, black eye circles that almost reached his nose. He seemed to have not slept. How was he going to study in such a state?

Probably a freshman.

Without paying too much attention, she took out a biographical novel that she always brought with her and read it with great interest. Soon, she forgot about that person.

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Ryger waited in front of the library while thinking about the possibility of him using the universe’s starry sky’s True Law. As for the female scholar that came later, she was ignored by him.

“Find some supportive skill to change Air Bubble’s shape.”

Suddenly.

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The magnificent bell sound of the St Glan Castle’s basilica rang out. At almost the same time, the ray of sunlight came over the horizon. The Glan Natural Sciences Academy’s library’s door slowly opened together with it.

Ryger immediately dashed in.

After he found 《Craft of Manufacturing Convex and Concave Lens》, Ryger sat at a corner of the library and began to read it.

The optical instrument of a magnifying glass is the beginning in the craft of making a convex lens.

High level astronomical lenses were restricted by the glass manufacturing craft of convex and concave lenses. It required an extremely precise craft of glass grinding and needed to go through several months and even years of meticulous manufacturing by the Utlan glassmakers before it was completed.

But as the convex lens’ magnification increased, the glass transparency and precision of grinding also increased exponentially.

In mathematical foundations, exponential growth was the most terrifying way of growth in this world.

When the manufacturing time grew in time, it’s very possible that the telescope’s observable distance only grew by an infinitesimal amount. But this required the glassmaker to put their heart into it and they even had to put up with the probability of failure.

“To think the conditions of creating astronomical lenses are so strict. Looks like my idea of Air Bubble to observe the universe’s celestial bodies and the microscopic world can only wait till I become an advanced scholar and head to Utlan. Now, I should focus on researching how to use Air Bubble and create the most basic of convex lenses.”

Ryger thought so and began to look for basic academic skills that would allow him to change Air Bubble’s form.

 

There were countless basic academic skills. Almost every organism possessed a few of them. Even humans themselves were born with some inconsequential supportive abilities such as the ability to differentiate the sound of hot and cold water being poured into a teapot.

After 6 hours, Ryger managed to find some level 0 basic academic skills that had similar effects.

“Centrifugalism, Will Shaping, Spiritualism.”

Ryger wanted to alter Air Bubble into a convex lens shape, and this required another academic skill’s superimposing effect. After Ryger’s selection, these three level 0 academic skills fitted Ryger’s intentions the most.

First was Centrifugalism.

Changing Air Bubble into the shape of a convex lens through the continuous centrifugal rotation inside a bubble. This required finding a level 0 elemental called a ‘spiral’. This elemental was extremely rare in the human kingdom. Finding it by luck was almost impossible and the price in a specimen shop would probably be counted in gold coins.

Thereafter was Will Shaping.

Will Shaping was about using psychokinesis to mold shape. While high-level proteuses that possess psychokinesis were very common, the rarity of it in level 0 proteuses was even more than a spiral elemental. Reincarnating turtle, conflagrating conch, these were creatures that Ryger had never ever heard of.

The last was Spiritualism.

Spiritualism was about adding a spiritual attribute, changing the outer form of energy masses. It was able to let some energy beings have similar effects to the elementals summoned by natural law scholars but through different principles.

What surprised Ryger was that though it’s possible to learn Spiritualism through specimens of many level 0 organisms such as fiery-eyed peacocks, coral bud turtles, cockscomb snakes and so on, the most common natural specimen for Spiritualism was a coconut of all things!

Coconut tree?

Ryger continued reading.

Coconut trees are one the most affable and spiritual plants among level 0 organisms. A person who sits under a coconut tree will never get by coconuts. Scholars can find the secrets to Spiritualism by dissecting and studying the coconut tree’s changes the moment its coconut falls.

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“So peculiar?”

Ryger pursed his lips and looked at the time. It was already noon.

His stomach was growling because of hunger but he was completely unaware of that. As though speaking to himself, he muttered, “The map marks that there’s a large amount of such low level plants filled with spirituality near the Furnace Mountains’s Salt Sea!”

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Went back and edited some more terms
Big Six: The six great academies. Glan, Sealand, Balda, Utlan, Finland and another place that I dont remember