Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 847 - 111: The Obsessive Researcher

Chapter 847: Chapter 111: The Obsessive Researcher

"What did you say?" Catherine felt a chill through her body, and spoke with a pale face, "This city is an Array, do you really intend to plunder the time of everyone in this city?"

"You guessed right," Victor calmly replied in his very unique slow voice, "Collecting a large amount of time and causing a qualitative change through quantitative change, this is the path we found after years of research. Through this path, we aim to unravel the secrets hidden deep within time, master the laws of time, thereby attaining divinity and taking on the divine duty of time. This way, we will have enough time to explore the endless unknown, a dream of all scholars. However, not everyone will be affected, people on the Floating Island and Upper-Rank professionals on the ground won’t be."

"It seems, Master Fila really did hide some clues for you," Pannis said narrowing his eyes, "You must have learned a lot about time magic from him, understood a great deal about the knowledge related to time, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to master the laws of time or say such things."

"Did the teacher... hide things from us?" For the first time, emotion appeared in Victor’s eyes, a flicker of guilt, but it was merely a moment before he regained his calm, making it hard to believe that the previous moment was not just an illusion. Victor smiled calmly as if nothing had happened and said, "That’s right, among so many students over the years, I am the only one who learned quite a bit of magic related to time, and I learned from the teacher’s notes. The teacher never taught us time magic, we had to explore on our own from his notes."

"Master Fila didn’t teach you?" Pannis asked, somewhat surprised, "Why not?"

"The teacher said that mastering time magic comes with a cost, and the cost is too heavy," Victor sighed silently, "He wouldn’t teach us actively, but if we wanted to learn, he wouldn’t stop us. Now it seems, the teacher was right, the cost really is too heavy, but those who have never come into contact can’t understand."

"Your teacher, Master Fila, always considers your welfare, and yet you plan to destroy his city?" Catherine said bitterly, "And have you thought about it? Your families and friends also live in the city, do you intend to take their lives as well? How could you go through with this?"

"I already answered that question for you," Felic, who was still standing loyally below the Divine Throne, said expressionlessly, "To glimpse the mysteries of time, to seek knowledge, there is nothing we are not prepared to sacrifice, including our families, even ourselves, we are prepared to pay any cost. As for the teacher... despite his years of studying time magic, he has not been able to unravel the secrets of time, perhaps because he cannot bear to do this kind of thing. Thus, let us help him for once, and display this path before him, perhaps through our successful example, the teacher might resolve the problems that have plagued him for many years. I think, by then, he will definitely not blame us."

"You have gone mad," Catherine closed her eyes, shook her head and sighed, "For your own desires, everyone can be used as a pawn by you? This has already strayed from humanity."

"It’s not for our desires," Felic countered, "It is the pursuit of knowledge, unrelated to desires."

"The desire for knowledge is a type of desire as well," Catherine’s voice turned icy, her expression as cold as a block of ice, "No matter how beautifully you dress it up, you can’t hide the fact that you hope to carry out endless slaughter. Even the noblest goals should not be built on the foundation of stripping innocent lives. No one has the right to take the lives of the innocent, no matter the reason."

"If you wish to think so, we won’t stop you," Victor’s words caused emotional fluctuations in Felic, who seemed inclined to continue arguing, but Victor still maintained his calm and said, "We are mages, scholars, not knights, we do not consider right or wrong, good or evil, only what benefits our research. Even if it means using ourselves as experimental subjects, we won’t hesitate. I think, the two mage ladies by your side must understand."

"We understand your thoughts, but we do not agree," Vivian and Freya exchanged a glance and nodded together, and Vivian said, "Indeed, we are mages, but we are humans first, then mages. Since we are first humans, we must have humanity, not act like metallic puppets that operate only based on logic. Thus, the pursuit of knowledge is no reason to lose humanity—even if in pursuit of knowledge, there must be a basic sense of right and wrong, a correct method to be followed, not such brutal means."

"It seems that is the difference between us," Victor nodded slowly, "No wonder, Tower Mages and Dome Mages have always had differing thoughts. Understandable. However, let’s end this topic here, you cannot persuade us, and of course, we cannot convince you either. Continuing this discussion is meaningless and a waste of time, and we don’t like to waste time. I suppose, right now, you also wouldn’t want to waste time on such a futile debate, right? So, is there anything else?"

"Certainly," Pannis said, "All your knowledge about time magic, it comes from Master Fila’s notes, but this Array, did you find it in his notes as well?"

"Of course not, Mr. Kyle," Victor countered, "Based on the information we have, you should already know the answer, is there a need to ask again?"

"It is necessary," Pannis said seriously, "A guessed answer can only be regarded as a hypothesis. It needs to be validated from your own mouths. Since you just said, feel free to ask, you won’t refuse to answer this question, will you?"

"Heh, of course not, there’s absolutely no need to refuse, in every sense of the word," Victor said slowly, "Just as you suspected, I obtained this Array and some knowledge from those three self-proclaimed Triclops from the Deities, those three Triclops, you would call them... what was it again?"

"Divine Servants." Pannis said, "They are the servants of Danacus, self-proclaimed as Divine Servants."

"Oh, right, the Divine Servants, they also mentioned it to me once," Victor slowly nodded, "That is where I learned this, although I had vaguely mentioned it to the teacher before. Although the teacher never questioned our actions, he refused to accept this knowledge. From that time, we finally understood that the teacher indeed had grown old, so old that he had lost his thirst for knowledge."

"It seems Master Fila really has aged," Pannis surprisingly agreed with Victor, nodding, "If it were in his younger days, he probably would never refuse such knowledge, even knowing it came from those people."

"Mr. Kyle, you really understand the teacher well," Victor, whose face had almost never shown expression, actually revealed a slight smile and nodded, "Decades ago, the teacher would never have done this, so we are all very upset."

"Could you elaborate on how you received this knowledge from the Divine Servants?" Pannis pressed, "I think, no matter the ultimate result between us, this question is inconsequential to you, isn’t it?"

"I can answer, but I think you might be disappointed," Victor resumed his position of propping up his chin, thought for a moment, then replied, "Because I don’t know much about them either. About a decade ago, three Triclops approached me, at a time when my health was already poor, just like the teacher now. They said they had a way to rejuvenate my vitality, even make me young again, and could leave me a lot of knowledge about Time magic for reference, asking if I was willing to accept. Of course, I accepted. Even if I was to die, to acquire new knowledge before dying was something to be fortunate about, so I agreed to their request."

"Such valuable knowledge wouldn’t just be given to you for free, would it?" Pannis interrogated, "Did they have any demands?"

"Of course it wasn’t for free," Victor replied, "They wanted me to help them set up a Teleportation Array system in the central part of the Yarran Continent, allowing them to move flexibly across various regions of the continent."

"The Teleportation Array system in the sewer system of the City of Innocence?" Pannis said thoughtfully, "No wonder your cooperation with them has been so close, it’s already been over a decade."

"Yes, I remember part of it was indeed in the City of Innocence," Victor nodded, "But later I rarely left the laboratory, and never used that system, kind of forgot about it."

"So you just agreed?" Pannis asked, "Without even inquiring about their purpose?"

"I’m just a researcher," Victor stated, "As long as it doesn’t affect my research, what does their purpose have to do with me?"

"Alright, I understand," Pannis sighed, nodding then asked, "What happened next?"

"Next?" Victor looked puzzled, furrowed his brow, and after a moment of recollection said, "Then it was just some normal cooperation. Sometimes they would provide me with some experimental materials, and I, no, we should say ’we’ now, we would provide them with some other assistance. Like helping them to conceal themselves, transporting through Butte using the internal Teleportation System as they wished; sometimes we also helped transport some important items for them."

"Including the Blood of Divinity?" Pannis asked, "Is that included as well?"