"Any ideas on what it is?" Blake asked the system as they looked at 9 magically reinforced tubes twice the size of those in the previous room.
Coming from the top of 8 tubes connected to the ceiling where the different elents apart from the space elent and at the center of the room was the 9th tube which had only pure mana being pumped into it.
At the center of each tube was a mass of black gas that kept on devouring whatever elent that was pumped at it, but the purpose was what the system was trying to figure out.
[The more I see the projects of this unknown researcher, the more I really want to know more about him.] The system was awed by the works of Zultra.
So far, the level of research of forbidden magic in Infinite realm was stagnant and that was because the unstable and chaotic nature of forbidden arrays had taken the lives of almost everyone that had tried to study it.
In the space of a day, the system had seen forbidden magic used in 2 different ways, and with information of other energy research fields ntioned in the journal, coupled with the fact that they hadn't completely explored the area they were bound to be other research on forbidden magic.
[The black gas seems to be converting everything it cos in contact with to… nothing.] The system said in a confused tone.
"I don't get, do you an the black gas devours the flas just like the black crystals?" Blake was even more confused.
[No… No, it actually converts it to sothing, but I am not sure what exactly it is.] The system was trying to figure out what was going on in the tubes, but his words further confused Blake.
[I can't see anything with my mana vision, but I can feel there is a form of energy being released at the bottom of the tube. It isn't mana but it's more thrice as potent as mana] The system was puzzled and at the sa ti excited by the discovery.
It began checking the other tubes, right from the fire tube to the darkness tube, they all produced the sa amount of the unknown energy, but when the system took a look at the lower half of the 9th tube at the center of the room it was shocked to the core.
[My God!] The system was speechless when it saw that the 9th tube had more than 8 tis the amount of the unknown energy when compared to the others.
[That… The tube pumping mana seems to be converting the quantity of the unknown energy to 9 tis the original amount! I think I am getting a clue of what's going on here.] The system sounded like a mad scientist that just got an epiphany on a problem that has been troubling him.
"What?!" Blake was stunned by the news and had to make sure his ears weren't deceiving him.
Not only could the black gas convert the elents to a form of energy three tis as potent as mana, but it produced more than 8 tis the quantity pumped in.
It ant whatever or whoever the black gas powers would be able to cast city-leveling spells continuously without running out of mana.
[You heard right…] The system's confirmation left Blake star-struck causing Castiel and Brian to wonder what was going on.
After recovery from his shock and explaining them, Blake asked the question that was on their mind. "How is that even possible?"
[I am not too sure, but from what I can see and know, it seems like the black mass of gas is breaking down the mana to its basic components before converting it.] The system explained, but it left Castiel and Brian confused forcing Blake to explain.
"Nature's energy (mana) is ford when the 9 elents combine and remain in a balanced state." Blake said. "When you want to cast a fireball, you absorb nature's energy, but as it passes through your stars the 8 elents that aren't fire gets filtered out, then you use your will to shape it as it pleases."
"In this case, the black mass of gas is acting as an artificial star, but a more effective star that makes use of energy of all the elents." Blake explained.
"My question is, isn't there ant to be sothing like a law of conservation of mass?" Brian asked
(AN: For those who don't know. Law of conservation of mass states that, matter can neither be created nor destroyed, but can only be changed from one form to another.)
[There actually is for the conversion of mana to the various elents, but I do have a feeling that this is still within the law of mana and It might be that we don't have a clue of this form of energy to make the calculation.] The system said.
After close to an hour of observation and pondering, the system ca with a theory and shared it with them.
[What if the black fog isn't breaking down than mana before converting it, but breaking down the elents into the lowest and the purest form of energy?]
"That makes a lot of sense because it would have been really scary if the researcher could perfectly control sothing that can break down mana to the finest detail, but what can be purer than mana?" Castiel asked, but even the system had no answer for that.
"What do you think will happen if that thing was released from the containnt tube?" Blake asked as he blankly stared at the black fog.
[It will act as a black hole and devour everything it cos in contact with. It will begin with the earth and since it is made of mana, it will it through that spot until it gets to the core of the planet and does the sa.] The system explained.
'No wonder forbidden magic is punishable by death, it could end the life of the planet if care isn't taken.' Blake shivered when he thought of it.
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