"She was rescued!"
These words left the sages present dumbfounded. Although they held high positions and power, at the end of the day, they were just ordinary people. While they had some dabbling in the mysterious forces of this world, it was clearly not extensive.
To them, even those lucky individuals who had been favored by the gods and received a Vision were nothing more than slightly stronger than others, capable of breathing fire, generating electricity, or freezing things. Such power, in the face of true wisdom, was simply not worth mentioning.
Azar immediately pressed, "Doctor, what exactly happened? The Lesser Lord Kusanali has been imprisoned by the Akademiya for five hundred years, and nothing like this has ever occurred. This cage is still operational, without any signs of damage. How did you determine this?"
The Doctor simply replied, "There was a trace of spatial fluctuation left at the scene!"
Azar: "Spatial fluctuation?"
Azar was unaware of this power, which transcended the seven elements, and sought an explanation from the Doctor. However, the Doctor had no intention of explaining much to them; he neither wanted to nor needed to. He was simply scrutinizing the cage, trying to find more clues.
Just as the Doctor was carefully searching for clues, Khajeh, who was standing nearby, seemed to discover something and asked in confusion, "Huh? Where did that scroll go?"
The Doctor immediately turned his head and demanded, "A scroll? What scroll?"
When Khajeh met the Doctor's sharp gaze, he felt an inexplicable fear and quickly explained, "It's the scroll sent by the Inazuma Regent. It's said to be a birthday gift from the Raiden Shogun of Inazuma to the Lesser Lord Kusanali."
The Doctor: "The Regent of Inazuma? A birthday gift from the Raiden Shogun to the Dendro Archon? Did you not check such a variable beforehand?"
Khajeh: "Of course we checked it. It was just an ordinary scroll, but we couldn't understand any of the text on it. For this, I even took pictures of the text on the scroll, divided them into several copies, and consulted many renowned scholars of the Haravatat in our Akademiya, but not a single person recognized that kind of script.
We speculated that perhaps the Raiden Shogun had made a rubbing of text from some ancient ruin and given it to the Lesser Lord Kusanali for analysis. Such an unprecedented script was also an allure for us.
So, on the day of the Sabzeruz Festival, we delivered that scroll here, allowing the Lesser Lord Kusanali to analyze it. At least it would be a form of repurposing…"
Hearing this, the Doctor understood. It was very likely that the scroll was the problem. A scroll with spatial abilities? Interesting!
The Doctor: "Didn't you just say you took pictures of the text on the scroll? Let me see!"
Khajeh quickly took out a complete photograph from his Pregnant and handed it to the Doctor. The Doctor took the photograph and glanced at it. Sure enough, it was text he couldn't understand either.
But it didn't matter. The more unknown something was, the more necessary it was to study. With this discovery, even if the experiment here in Sumeru failed, it wouldn't be without any gains.
Seeing the Doctor engrossed in the text of the scroll with great interest, Azar asked somewhat anxiously, "Doctor, without the Lesser Lord Kusanali, what about extracting the Gnosis's power… is there still a plan?"
The Doctor looked at the sages present with disdain. Honestly, he felt that his decision to cooperate with them was a mistake; they were utterly useless teammates!
He asked them to harvest dream energy, but the results were far below expectations;
He asked them to get canned divine knowledge, but he didn't know where it went;
He had to clean up their mess, imprisoning the Lesser Lord Kusanali and extracting the missing dream energy. Yet, they themselves put a scroll containing spatial power into the cage, causing the Lesser Lord Kusanali to vanish without a trace.
If he didn't have to maintain his composure, he would have truly cursed and annihilated all of them. However, as the Second Harbinger of the Fatui, the second most important person in Snezhnaya, he had the same restrictions as Miyashiro; his official status prevented him from personally dealing with the sages.
The Doctor stated indifferently, "Regarding your God Creation Project, we, the Fatui, have done our utmost. However, there are always some people dragging their feet. Maintaining the Akasha's maximum output requires a large amount of mental energy, which is inherently your responsibility.
If the remaining mental energy still cannot extract the Gnosis's power, then this project will be declared a failure.
I will take the Gnosis and Scaramouche and leave Sumeru to find other collaborators. The research topic of creating a god is not only of interest to you in Sumeru. For example, Fontaine, as your neighboring nation, might also be a good choice."
Hearing the Doctor's calm words, the sages present immediately grew anxious. For the Doctor, the failure of the God Creation Project would not affect his position in Snezhnaya, but they were different. For this project, they had staked everything.
Confining the sages of the Amurta School and the Logic School, using vast human, material, and financial resources to secretly build the Divine Innovation Workshop, preparing for the Sabzeruz Festival cycle to harvest the dream energy of the entire city, extracting canned divine knowledge from the brains of mad scholars, and so on.
Each and every one of these actions, if the God Creation Project failed, any single one of them would be enough to end their careers as governing officials.
Furthermore, the Lesser Lord Kusanali was no longer under their control. If the plan failed and the Lesser Lord Kusanali led the people of Sumeru in a counterattack and reckoning, their forced resignations would be a minor matter; whether they could even keep their lives would be a question.
Just as Azar and the others were trying their best to dissuade the Doctor, an astonishing pressure emanated from deep within the Divine Innovation Workshop, instantly drawing everyone's attention.
A purple light shot straight into the sky, and the entire Sumeru City began to experience sudden changes in weather. The originally clear sky instantly became overcast with dark clouds, and purple lightning surged through them. The rumbling thunder warned the people of Sumeru City that the weather was changing, and they should go home to retrieve their laundry!
Seeing this, Azar's face lit up with ecstasy and he said, "Is… is it done?!"
The Doctor couldn't help but smile at the sight: "It seems luck is on your side. The power of the Gnosis has been successfully extracted and has become the energy core of that mecha. With the Gnosis continuously providing energy to the mecha, congratulations, the most difficult step of the God Creation Project has been successfully overcome."
Upon hearing this, Azar immediately straightened his back: "Good, good, good. With this newborn god, he will surely lead us to once again experience true wisdom!"
The Doctor: "Since the most important step has been completed, my mission in Sumeru is done. I should return to Snezhnaya. Her Imperial Majesty, the Tsaritsa, is summoning us."
Azar: "So hastily? What about the follow-up to the God Creation Project? Extracting the Gnosis's power is only the first step. Whether the experimental puppet you brought can withstand the Gnosis's power is still an unknown."
The Doctor: "You don't need to worry about that. No one is more suited to the power of the gnosis of electro than Scaramouche, because he was created for that very purpose.
Furthermore, our Tsaritsa is not like your Lesser Lord Kusanali of Sumeru, who can be easily deceived by her subordinates. We must obey her commands unconditionally!
If you hadn't delayed for a few days, I might already be at the Zapolyarny Palace. The plan has progressed this far; if you still make a mistake, then that would truly be foolish!"
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