章節 157: Discovery
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After dealing with his interpersonal relationship, Edward used a magic item to teleport back to his World Gate that was located in the void outside of the Full-Metal Alchemist World.
Once there, he headed straight to a strange room full of machines. In the middle of the room was a machine that had something that looked like a bed. Without hesitation, Edward took off his clothes and lay on the bed.
"Morgana, begin the scan. I want everything to be searched: from every atom in my body to my soul, my mind, and my magic core."
"As you command."
Soon, Edward fell asleep, then, countless lights flashed around his body, scanning every inch of it. An hour later, he woke up and asked:
"What were the results?"
"There have been some changes, but not what you were expecting," replied Morgana who had a projection in front of her.
"What changes?"
"For one, your body's physical aspects have drastically increased due to the aura circulating everywhere.
"Secondly, you have now access to mana equal to the Second Limiter. Additionally, your mana seems to be undergoing some sort of mutation. Unfortunately, the process is still ongoing and there is not enough data to speculate."
Edward frowned after hearing this. After putting on a robe, he closed his eyes to feel the mana flowing through his body; he wanted to know what this mutation was all about.
A few minutes later, he opened his eyes with a little understanding.
Each world has different rules or regulations that govern them; they have different laws. For example, in his world, the speed of sound is 343 m/s. However, in another universe, this constant might change to 400 m/s or something less.
The mana in his body is a result of the Law of the Harry Potter World: it allowed the existence of magic and mana. However, the Full-Metal World is different; its laws do not allow the existence of magic.
So, what happens when mana is introduced into a world that it should not exist in? The logical answer is that it ceased to function or disappeared entirely.
But that's not what happened.
Instead, Edward's mana started to evolve, mutate so that it can function properly under the laws of the new world.
"I should have thought about this before," muttered Edward softly. "Why is it that I was able to use magic in a magicless world?"
However, the question he was asking himself now was: why did his mana evolve instead of becoming useless? Could this be a characteristic of mana that he had never heard about? Or is it related to some higher concepts that he has not come into contact with?
Is the only one this change was happening to?
Edward then waved his hand and an unconscious prisoner suddenly appeared in front of him. He placed his hand on his chest where his heart was located.
He then used a spell to check the magic core of this wizard. Unfortunately, he did not find anything. So, he immediately checked a few more dozen people, but the result was the same.
Edward frowned as he pondered deeply. Then, an idea flashed across his mind. Immediately, he took another prisoner: a special one.
This prisoner had appeared in the Full-Metal Alchemist World and was experimented on by Edward to see if he could have a Gate of Truth. Edward then checked his mana.
"Indeed, his mana is also evolving like mine–albeit at a slower pace."
He checked a few more people who he previously experimented on in Amestris, and they were all going through some sort of evolution.
"Since this evolution is a positive one, then I can encourage the other wizards of the Empire to travel to other universes to reap the benefit."
Edward could foresee that one day, countless Floating Cities of the Empire will travel to different universes, conquering, exchanging knowledge, and experiencing different power systems.
Of course, that will be in the future when he is powerful enough to suppress all these people even if they were to revolt at once, and also control or reign in their ambitions and desires.
Additionally, once a wizard is granted the right of Interdimensional Travel, they have to sign a contract that says that they have to hand over all the knowledge they acquired in other worlds to Edward.
And if they decide to walk the path of conquest, they have to hand over 30% of their gains as tax. If they fail to conquer a world, they can request back up from the Empire. However, in return, they have to pay 70% of their gains instead.
Additionally, Edward will promise them that if they die in another world, the Empire will avenge them, and maybe revive them if necessary.
Edward shook his head to remove these thoughts from his head. Right now, the development of the Empire has not reached such a point–and it's not even close.
After making this discovery about mana, Edward decided to gather some more data. So, he sent a few hundred wizard prisoners in a cell in his manor back in Amestris. He also sent another group of muggle prisoners as a control group to see if there will be other changes.
"Morgana, were there any other discoveries of the scan?"
"Yes. The strength of your soul has increased by at least 10 times. This should be the result of all the Alchemy knowledge you learn from the Eye of God."
Edward was not surprised by this discovery. In the Empire, a wizard named Carlos De Leon once discovered the relationship between knowledge and a wizard's soul.
The more knowledge a wizard has, the more powerful his soul is. And with a powerful soul, it is easier for them to control mana. For example, if two wizards with the same amount of mana were to fight, then the one with the more powerful soul has a higher chance of winning.
With a powerful soul, wizards can cast spells faster, the strength of the spells are more powerful, they have greater control of their spells, and they can recover mana faster.
This is one of the reasons that Scholar Mages are more powerful and respected in the Empire than Battle Mages.
Despite all this good news revealed by the scan, Edward was not happy. The reason he wanted to do it in the first place was to discover whether Truth had secretly done something to him.
Unfortunately, he did not find anything.
"I'm going to say it again: Master, you're too paranoid," said Morgana.
"That may be," muttered Edward. "I need you to do one last test. Do a psychological test on me to see if there are any changes."
Morgana sighed before nodding. She looked Edward in the eyes and asked a few questions. A few minutes later, he was in a trance, and Morgana asked more detailed questions, and Edward subconsciously answered.
Three hours later, he woke up from his trance.
"Well, did you find something?"
"Yes. I did discover an anomaly," replied Morgana with a serious look on her little face.
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Next Chapter Title: New Magic System (I)
章節 158: New Magic System (I)
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"Anomaly? What anomaly?" asked Edward.
"Based on your previous thought patterns, you seemed very obsessed with bringing the power of Alchemy to the Empire," replied Morgana with a solemn look on her face.
"Based on this discovery, there is a high chance that a spiritual hint was placed inside your mind to make you that way."
After hearing this, Edward suddenly understood. In the past few months, he has been thinking non-stop about how to make all the citizens of the Empire have a Gate of Truth and use Alchemy.
When he discovered that the laws of his world might not allow this to happen, he was even going to ask Truth for a way to modify the law of his world to allow people to have a Gate of Truth.
Of course, his paranoid nature did manifest itself. His plan was after receiving the method from Truth, he would not immediately use it, but go to see the old man Merlin and ask if there were any problems with the method.
Now, after finding the truth, Edward suddenly realized something he had overlooked: he could make a Gate of Truth without the help of Truth. In fact, he could recreate the entire Alchemy System on his own.
Father had long attempted to create a Gate of Truth of his own. The result of his failure was the homunculus, Gluttony. Since Edward already has the data of Father, succeeding would be much easier.
When it comes to the knowledge that Alchemist received after opening the Gate, Edward could also recreate this process as well. All he had to do was create a dimension that is connected to every alchemist's Gate of Truth and stored information inside.
With the knowledge he acquired from the Eye of God, this was a simple thing for him.
Despite this, he never thought about doing this, but insisted on asking Truth for him. This was a problem.
Edward sighed after figuring things out; he suddenly felt that his mind was clear and that it was working properly. In the end, this was all because of his arrogance and pride.
Although he knew that Truth was such a powerful being, he did not take precautions and went to meet it. He thought that he had humbled himself by asking for permission to stay in the world, however, he forgot the saying:
"Mortals should not look up to God."
With his measly strength, he should not directly interact with some entity–at least without the necessary information and preparation.
After figuring this out, Edward was relieved. Luckily for him, only a spiritual hint was implanted in his subconscious and nothing else. He guessed that Truth did not want him to suspect anything and believed that wanting to bring Alchemy back to his world was his own idea.
Just like the saying, "You can make a person walk straight to hell as long as they believe it was their idea."
As for the reason that Truth wanted him to change the laws of his world? Edward could guess there were many benefits for the latter.
After figuring things out, a ruthless light flashed across Edward's eyes as he looked at the crystal wall in front of him: a crazy idea came to his mind. He was never a person to suffer a loss so easily.
However, he did not rush to do things; he still had plenty of time to plan things easily.
He waved his hand and a holographic image appeared in front of him. Inside, there were three documents labeled: Wandcraft Magic, Draconian Language Magic, and Devil Whisper Magic.
He opened the Wandcraft Magic folder and there were many folders of subcategories like Conjuring, Elemental, White Magic, Transfiguration, Dark Magic, etc. And each of those categories had other subcategories like Necromancy and Summoning.
Basically, the Wandcraft magic was all the spells created by the Empire based on the original Harry Potter magic that was based on Latin and Old English incantation.
Edward closed the folder before opening the Draconic Magic one. This one also had many subcategories of magic. The majority of magic in the first folder was converted to Draconic Magic since it was more powerful.
Additionally, there was the category of Time Magic that did not exist in the first folder.
As for the third folder, it had the least subcategories and amount of spells. Its magic was more focused on the soul and mind, along with contracts.
"Morgana, create two new folders: one labeled Gate Alchemy. As for the second…call it Arcane Rune Magic."
"As you wish, sir,"
Two new folders were created. On the one named "Gate Alchemy", she uploaded all the knowledge that they received in this world. As for the second one, it was blank.
Edward has long been dissatisfied with these two different magic systems for different reasons.
The wandcraft system had many flaws. For one, it was very hard to cast spells without incantation. According to his study, without incantation, wizards can only use 90% of the power of any spells. Even Edward can only use 95% of the power of the spell, and that seems to be the limit.
Meaning that if two wizards used the same amount of mana, one used incantation and the other did not, the latter can only use 90% of the power of the spell–and only if he is gifted.
Of course, the silent cast still has its advantage in speed.
Another disadvantage is the fact that multiple spells are very difficult to accomplish. Using that system, a wizard can only use one spell after the other.
If you wanted to use "Ice Spear" and "Pyroblast" together, it's not possible.
As for the Draconic Language Magic, this one has problems as well. Although powerful, this does not change the fact that it's the magic of the dragon race.
Humans and dragons have different souls and anatomy–especially in the vocal cord. So, it is very difficult to bring out the full extent of this magic. On top of that, Edward believed that he did not get the full language from Albion's bloodline.
Based on what he learned about dragons from the latter, their magic should be way more powerful. Of course, that is if he was not bragging.
Lastly, the Devil Whisper Magic. Over the years, based on the Devil Language that Edward learned to make his contract, the Empire managed to recreate the magic power of that language.
Unfortunately, it is currently still incomplete.
Another major complaint that Edward had with these three magic systems was how tedious it was to engrave all these words when making magic items–especially large items like spaceships or the Floating City.
It took too much time and could not fully bring out the power of the enchantment.
So, based on his recent study of Gate Alchemy, he decided to merge all four of these things together to create a new magic system.
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