Mathias and Nial gathered around Bella, whose expression was sour.
Visualizing her expression told Nial that the situation was grave, which was why he released his mana fluctuations toward the parchnt Bella was holding in her hands.
His entire focus was on the parchnt, which was why he didn't even notice that the surrounding was so silent that a pin drop would be heard through the entire hallway.
And at that mont, a gust of air swirled through the room, stirring up the papers on the desk.
Mathias flinched the mont he heard the rustling of the papers. However, not long after he turned his head to Bella as goosebumps appeared on his entire body.
"Is…this thesis reliable?"
It was obvious that neither Bella nor Nial could tell whether the information on the paper was reliable or not.
However, it was the first ti for them to hear sothing about the origin of mana on new planets!
[Natural Planetary mana awakening thesis]
While Nial had already told Bella and Mathias about the origin of dungeons, or, to be precise, that the majority of dungeons were artificially created to hasten the mana awakening of a planet, this was not everything.
For a planet to awaken mana, nurous conditions had to be t beforehand. Nial had yet to retrieve more mories of the late Darkness God, which was why he felt helpless in the current situation.
Having no idea whether the information was reliable or not, Nial thought of ways to ensure it.
Nonetheless, he could only keep reading the information written in the thesis. Bella behaved the sa way and was oblivious to Mathias' question as she completely focussed on digesting the information she was reading right now.
Nial lifted his eyebrows when he read the last three words. The person who had written the thesis was spouting nonsense.
So things stated in it may be true but to call the paper a thesis was simply going overboard. The information couldn't even be labeled as facts because there was a complete lack of a single piece of evidence. This was ridiculous.
Nial kept frowning, while Bella continued to read the passages out loud that she found the most interesting, or worriso.
The thesis sounded more like a fairytale to Nial than a credible piece of information. He could only shake his head before sighing deeply when he noticed that Mathias and Bella seed to believe everything written on the piece of paper without actually being suspicious about it.
'Do they believe everything they read? If soone writes that jumping down from a bridge grants you the ability to fly, will you really jump from the bridge? What the hell is wrong with them, right now?'
His friends were acting weirdly, so Nial felt the need to beat so sense into them.
"Well, all of this is great but the information doesn't have much to do with us or Jundra, and that is considering that we label it as proven correct."
It was quite obvious that Nial felt odd about most of the information written on the thesis. Even Bella couldn't help but think that most of it were nonsense after she was able to sort her thoughts.
Despite feeling like this, mankind had yet to find out anything related to the reason why dungeon portals had suddenly begun to erge on Jundra.
In fact, mankind didn't even know when the first dungeon portals had appeared or how Jundra had been before the dungeons appeared.
This was because it seed as if mankind's entire history had just begun with the appearance of the dungeons. Everything related to the ti before had been destroyed, or it couldn't be found anymore.
As if that was not weird enough, the mories of the first years of the dungeons' ergence had been ntioned without much detail.
There had not even been a proper date written on any kind of parchnts to make them guess how old the thesis was.
Nial had always been confused about why nobody seed to care about the unknown past.
Even if mankind knew what happened in the past, it might not actually be helpful. However, it would be reassuring to at least have so basic information about it, just for the sake of it.
The unknown was the scariest to most people, except when one could already feel that unveiling the hidden would lead to more fear and that was exactly what every single human being was able to sense about the mysterious past.
They could tell that it would ignite even more fear within them, instead of creating a reassuring feeling.
"I guess, sharing this thesis with mankind would be better than revealing the truth behind Jundra's artificially accelerated mana awakening…" Nial mumbled to himself.
However, both Bella and Mathias could hear him which was why they turned their heads to him in unison.
Nial noticed the gazes on him so he explained what was on his mind.
"Let's say that the thesis is correct about the 'fact' that all planets have the potential to be free of their 'shackles' to awaken their mana or whatever type of energy.
In that case, Jundra was one of the said planets, only that we didn't notice anything about that. However, that doesn't an others didn't notice it.
If I'm not wrong, the mont one of the existences that could be labeled as higher life forms found out about Jundra's mana awakening in the 'Origin stage', the creation of dungeon portals followed suit without a lot of delay."
Nial wanted to end it right here but he chose to add another point.
"If it is true that not many planets are capable of awakening their mana, to free themselves of so sort of shackles, then Jundra is definitely a highly sought after planet…after all, the planet is huge…"
Mankind was currently in possession of rely 9 shelters and a part of a naless island. However, that was more than enough to shelter more than a billion humans!
That was the average number of mankind's population. It might fluctuate quite a bit because many humans died and were born on a daily basis but the number certainly crossed one billion.
Traveling between the shelters was certainly difficult because of the existence of dungeon beasts. But the distance between each subsequent shelter was what made things truly difficult!
Hundreds, or possibly thousands of cities the size of the biggest shelter would fit in the long distance between two shelters.
This spoke volus about Jundra's size, which was actually quite frightening.
However, Nial was not worried about Jundra's size. He didn't really care about it if he were to be honest.
He found it more trouble than it was likely for the dungeon portals to have accelerated the planet's natural mana awakening.
This would an that they would reach the second phase of the planetary mana awakening much sooner than that ntioned in the thesis, which laid in Bella's trembling hands.
"Let's say you're correct with everything you said…will the second phase written here truly happen?"
She asked the question that popped into her head. The facts written about the second mana awakening phase were sowhat troubleso…if they were true that is. But Nial was actually not sure if they were true or false because there were so mories of the late Darkness God, which prevented him from answering directly.
What Bella had read out loud was not that worriso. In fact, under normal circumstances, it could be considered great.
However, the mont the planet grew stronger, the dungeon portals on Jundra would reach new realms, bringing forth more terror on mankind.
But that was not everything yet. Rather, it was just the beginning of a nightmare as Bella read the underlined text that had been written in red.
[Warning: Natural channels with other planets, dinsions, and realms may be created in the secondary mana awakening phase of a planet. Existences erging from these natural channels may have to be dealt with violence…Surviving the wrath of existences that have been blessed with mana longer than a newly awakened planet…good luck with that!]
The red text of warning sounded more like it was written from personal experience and by a biased person. It was almost as if the author of the thesis was unable to keep up his professionalism.
However, that was sothing Nial had felt when reading through the entire thesis. This was another reason for him to feel like he was reading through so bullshit.
Yet, despite believing that most 'information' written in the thesis was wrong, the Odyssey seed reacted by pulsating continuously even when they had finished reading through the thesis.
Nial was dumbfounded by this, and he didn't even notice that Bella clenched her fists, nearly tearing the thesis as she grit her teeth.
"Doesn't that text an that…there will be different types of portals that appear out of nowhere, other than dungeons, and that we may have to face even more terrifying existences erging from these natural channels?!"
Natural channels might be helpful because amiable existences could erge from it.
However, Bella didn't believe that they would be lucky enough for sothing like this to happen.
Given mankind's bad luck, it was more likely for one of such natural channels to appear in the center of their shelters with terrifying demons erging from it.
What Bella didn't know was that her worries were both more than justified, and at the sa ti, just her being nervous…
Mankind's fortune might have been bad until now but that didn't an it would always be like that.
After all, things were about to change now and in the future.
The past created the present…thus…the present would create their future.
Nothing had yet been decided and as long as they were still alive, it was possible for them to change the human race's fate!
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