The thirty-first floor of the Alinge Magic Tower.
Although it was already night, the magic tower was automatically closed and entry was prohibited, but Lucian was a great arcanist, so naturally he was completely unaffected, and took Natasha from his half-plane "Atomic Universe" to his own study on the thirty-third floor, and stepped on the elevator.
The magic tower at night was extremely quiet, walking in the silver-gray aisle, the sound of footsteps echoed loudly, bringing out the eerie atmosphere of empty silence.
As soon as Lucian and Natasha entered the area where the "Sky Radio" was located, a white giant wolf ran out, and after finding Lucian, he whimpered, lay on the ground, and wagged his tail to please him.
"Good evening, Evans... Good evening, Your Excellency, Your Majesty." Louise, who was wearing a light yellow simple long dress, also saw Lucian and the two of them, and almost habitually called Mr. Evans.
Hearing her sweet and familiar voice, Natasha said with a slight surprise: "Are you Lady Nightingale? I like your anchor's show very much, hey, aren't you Louise? Louise, the missing musician from Aalto?"
She reminded Aalto's up-and-coming musician from her somewhat impressionable delicate face and iconic white wolf.
"She's the musician Louise, but her other nickname is I'm sure you're not unfamiliar, Mercury, Magic Apprentice Mercury." Lucian smiled and introduced Natasha.
Natasha opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but finally she could only shake her head and smile self-deprecatingly: "It's time for the Aalto Musicians Association to change its name to the Aalto Magicians Association, is it easy for musicians to become magicians, or do magicians like to use musicians to hide their identities?"
Before she met Lucian, she knew about the magic apprentice Mercury through the protection of Sylvia by intelligence agents, but she never imagined that she was also a musician and had escaped to Alinge!
Where is this the Alto Magicians Association, it is obviously the Alto "Study Abroad" training meeting, Lucian silently scolded.
Louise smiled lightly: "Because of the great example of the great musician and the great arcanist, Your Majesty, you came to visit the radio?"
Natasha first glanced at Lucian with a smile, he was indeed a good role model, and then smiled cheerfully and enthusiastically: "Because I like your and Ms. Lark's voice and anchor style very much, I asked Lucian to bring me to listen quietly, but I didn't expect to meet you directly, your real voice is even better than the one on the magic radio."
"That's because the radio and radio are not clear." Lucian defended the radio.
Louise, who is already a three-ring magician, smiled sweetly but politely: "I am honored to be liked by Her Majesty, but the 'Voice of the Mystery' is about to begin, please allow me to leave rudely, Your Excellency Evans, Samantha, they are waiting for you in the conference room."
"No, I was rude and delayed your time." Natasha watched Louise enter the live broadcast room of "Voice of Mystery" and said happily, "I met Ms. Nightingale when I first came, and it seems that my bad luck is starting to improve."
She was referring to the laboratory disaster in the morning, and the fact that she had finally surpassed Lucian's level and was able to surprise him and enjoy the fun of strong suppression, but was instead suppressed by him.
"It's been a long time since I've seen you so polite and personable." Lucian took Natasha through the door of the "Voice of Mystery" live broadcast room and went to the conference room at the bottom, joking with her.
Natasha smiled and glanced at Lucian: "My politeness and demeanor are only shown to ladies, hehe, you also have a 'chance'."
The two laughed casually and moved forward, but Louise in the "Voice of the Mystery" live broadcast room behind her sighed softly: "Her Majesty the Queen and Her Excellency Evans have known each other for a long time, and they should have been a couple when they were in Aalto...... Now that we have finally overcome many obstacles and come together, it is really enviable......"
She clearly saw that Lucian and Natasha's left ring finger each wore a ring, especially Natasha's one, which was a very famous dream jewelry, the Holm crown ring "Element".
…………
Pushing open the door of the conference room, all the arcanists, including Samantha, stood up and saluted with their right hands on their foreheads: "Your Excellency, you are the truth of the elements, holding the scepter of time and space."
"Don't be so troublesome, just call me Your Excellency, everyone's time is very precious." Lucian humorously gave his opinion, and then pointed to Natasha next to him, "This is my fiancée Natasha, the queen of the Kingdom of Holm."
The arcanists, regardless of men and women, their expressions suddenly became excited, this is first-hand news, Lord Evans directly admitted the engagement to the queen! At the same time, they secretly admired Natasha's beauty and temperament, they were used to seeing various types of female magicians, and it was hard not to feel amazed when they saw this kind of sassy and heroic lady, especially Natasha's own condition was very good.
Samantha was stunned, her eyes flickered for a moment, and then she showed a sincere smile: "I just found out about your engagement, I wish you happiness forever."
Natasha was stunned for a moment and smiled: "Are you Ms. Lark? Your voice is more beautiful than a real lark, I am your loyal listener, and you are more intellectual than I think."
"I am honored." Samantha regained her expressionless appearance, looked at Lucian and said, "Your Excellency Evans, it is indeed the church's radio station, called 'Voice of Salvation'."
With her words, the whispered discussions of the arcanists gradually stopped, and the voices in the magic circle clearly reached Lucian and Natasha's ears:
"We believe that there must be a truth in the world that is accepted by all races and professions, which is the virtues of love, mercy, tolerance, honesty, courage, etc., and it is the holy light that the Lord loves, which can make our hearts peaceful and free from the infestation of this sinful world, and that evil magicians, dark knights, etc. who violate such universal truths are depraved, cruel, vicious, and will be destroyed......"
「…… We are brothers and sisters, embracing each other and chanting the holy name of the Lord to receive the salvation of our souls. This time, we invited believers from all walks of life to tell them what faith is, what virtues such as charity and mercy are."
「…… I am a believer from the ghetto, and here, as long as I get sick, as long as I get hurt, it often means death, and a few months ago, I suffered such a serious illness, but I was lucky to survive, because my neighbors, the pastors and adults of the slums, were full of the virtues of love and mercy, treating me regardless of any reward, taking care of me, and gradually recovering my body, and during this time, my mind was calmer than ever......"
「…… I used to be anxious, impatient, and had all kinds of negative emotions, but with the pastors' explanation and my more and more heartfelt repentance, I calmed down and enjoyed a tranquility I had never felt before, which was a harbor and a home for my soul......"
……
"The next show is 'Cruel Magic You Don't Know.'' In this Rentat War, the evil magicians summoned the demons of the abyss by sacrificing humans alive, which was so brutal that it was outrageous, so what are the specific details? I will restore ...... for you one by one."
An arcanist couldn't help but laugh and said, "The church is completely copying our program ideas!"
"This is the only way to get it out so quickly, the anchor is still a female cleric with an ethereal and holy voice." The other arcanists also replied with a smile.
"Don't underestimate the understanding of the pope and church executives about the development of arcane, but the setting of the program is still too rigid and rigid, not lively enough, not attractive enough." Lucian nodded lightly and said, "Arrange special personnel to monitor this channel, you can consider responding to more sensitive topics in the Voice of Mystery, but you can't follow their rhythm."
"Yes." The arcanists replied in unison.
「…… Our fate has long been arranged by the true God, everything is predestined, and only by believing in the Lord can we be saved......"
Hearing this, all the arcanists showed contemptuous expressions, which made Natasha quite curious: "Everyone, this is the church's definition of fate, I don't know what the concept of fate is in arcane and magic, and how accurate can the prophetic magic of the astrological system be?"
Her mother was not good at astrology, so she naturally didn't know much.
Samantha, as a high-level magician in the astrological system, said solemnly and seriously: "In the astrological system, fate is also arranged, everything is predetermined, but it has nothing to do with the God of Truth."
"Why?" Natasha looked at Lucian and Samantha suspiciously, and it was difficult for her to accept the statement that fate could not change.
Lucian smiled and motioned for her to listen first, and then say it if she felt it was wrong.
"Why...... I don't know if Your Majesty have you ever heard of 'Thanos Demon'?" Samantha reflected on what she had learned and intended to describe it in the simplest language possible.
Natasha shook her head: "I've never heard of it."
Lucian has just studied astrology and is not very clear about the "Thanos Demon".
"In the late ancient magic empire, magicians began to believe in determinism, also known as the law of cause and effect, believing that as long as they know all the conditions, parameters, or factors of influence of a thing, they can know the outcome of things with certainty through various laws. Samantha first roughly talked about the law of cause and effect, "And with the development of arcane, this concept has become more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, as long as the conditions and data are given, we can draw definite results based on the corresponding arcane theory."
Seeing that Natasha was still confused, a male arcanist next to him added an example: "Your Majesty, if I have a Golden Thaler in my hand and throw it out at will, then it may land on both the front and back sides, right?"
"Yes." Natasha thought for a moment, then looked at Lucian again, and replied seriously.
"No, that's not the case, after the shot, as long as you know the force I use, the center of gravity of the Kintale, the material, the surrounding wind speed, humidity and many other conditions, you can calculate which side it will land according to the Douglas motion system, there is no other possibility." The arcanist said proudly.
Arcanists explore the world, discover and summarize the laws, and then use the laws to predict the "trajectory" of the world's operation. This is the charm of arcane, making people feel like gods in the world!
Natasha thought carefully: "I understand, the moment I threw the Kintale, all the factors were determined, so the result was doomed."
"Just understand, this is determinism, this is the law of cause and effect, and 'Thanos Demon' is a concept proposed by 'Sun King' Thanos, one of the four greatest magicians in the history of the astrological system."
Samantha returned to the original topic, "He regards the current state of the whole world as the cause of the past and the future, so suppose there is a very powerful demon of wisdom who knows all the current states and laws, and grasps the situation of every atom, uh, every proton, neutron, and electron, then it can apply the laws, deduce the cause from the effect, and accurately trace everything that happened in the past."
"Moreover, it can also predict anything that will happen in the future from the cause and effect, and the future will be displayed in front of it as sure as in the past, this is the 'Thanos Demon', it tells every magician in the astrological system that the fate of the whole world has been destined since its birth, and there will be no change, and we cannot accurately predict the future only because we don't know enough and the laws are not complete enough."
Natasha couldn't accept this fateful law of cause and effect: "But everyone's mind is unpredictable."
"No, from the perspective of the Genjutsu Department, everyone's personality is affected by the environment around them, that is to say, the character is definitely shaped by many factors, and the determined character, plus all the other factors when making the decision, the unpredictable human heart will actually give a destined answer, Your Majesty, when you formulated the battle plan, didn't you guess the opponent's reaction based on his personality and past style? Is it true that the more you know, the more accurate this guess of the reaction will be?" Samantha said in a light voice.
Natasha nodded, but shook her head, not knowing how to refute.
Samantha showed a rare proud and slightly sentimental expression: "Every arcanist in the astrological system will be proud that he can see his fate, and he will also be sad that his fate cannot be changed.
The discussion about fate quietly ended, Natasha fell silent, and it wasn't until she left the Alinge Magic Tower that she held Lucian's hand, looked at the starry sky and said, "Lucian, do you believe that fate is destined and cannot be changed at all?"
This feeling is so uncomfortable and desperate!
"I don't believe it." Lucian replied with a smile, after the seal was unlocked from the soul library, he was already looking through and learning the knowledge of quantum mechanics.
Natasha didn't expect Lucian to answer so simply and firmly, turned her head to look at him in astonishment, and then smiled and said: "Me too, I believe we can change our destiny to a limited extent, hehe, I should have known your answer, that fighting spirit that has not changed since the beginning of "Symphony of Destiny", this is what I admire and like most about you."
"Hey, subjective initiative." Lucian said in a low voice, and then, in Natasha's slightly puzzled gaze, looked at the starry sky solemnly:
"The law of cause and effect must die!"
Because we need to live!
PS: The prototype of "Thanos Demon" is "Laplace Demon".
PS2: The last sentence is the "causal law must die, because physics needs to live."
It's the middle of the month, and the 4,000-word chapter asks for a monthly pass~
(End of this chapter)