*(A/N: I rewrote this chapter on 12.08.2023, so the paragraph comnts before that date have unfortunately been lost. For your information.)*
I was excited in front of the majestic building. My heart was literally racing but I quickly entered through the entrance.
People in scrubs were everywhere. They were in enough of a hurry to make wonder what was happening to , but I ignored them and so I approached the reception desk. I waited in a fairly short queue and when it was finally my turn, I was greeted by a very pretty lady.
"Hello, what are you here for?"
"To prove a theory."
The receptionist looked at with one eyebrow raised at my words. Honestly, it was not difficult to understand what she was thinking. Judging by the strange clothes I was wearing… I didn't look like a smart person to 'prove a theory'.
"What was the theory you were going to prove?"
I smiled slightly at the question.
Ah... I just realized that I've been smiling really often since I ca to this world. Lunerra must really be where I belong.
I slowly handed her the file I had been holding, then spoke calmly.
"The processing of information into mana."
As the words left my mouth, the receptionist looked at and the file I handed her with widened eyes. This was exactly the reaction I was expecting.
"Excuse , are you aware of what you are saying?"
"Yes."
After studying for a few seconds, the receptionist took the file in my hand and began to skim through it quickly.
With every second that passed, her eyes narrowed and her expression beca more serious. It took her five seconds to close the file after opening it. She gave one last glance, then motioned for to wait and went to the back of the lobby with my file.
The staff had a short conversation among themselves and the employee who was to replace her had the sa reaction when she heard what I had co to prove.
Well, it's quite normal for them to react like that. Because although the number of qualities that can be transferred to mana is quite diverse, what we call 'information' is at a different point.
For example, soone has given mana the quality of fla. In this case, mana imitates the characteristics of a fla and turns into it. In other words, the person has in a way reproduced the fla by using mana; in a way copied it.
So, what is 'information' apart from this? Information is quite different from 'fla', which has certain characteristics. For example, the fact that fla is hot is a characteristic of the attribute of fla, but apart from that, if the knowledge of 'heat' can be imprinted in mana, then whatever the mana imitates, it will be hot.
In other words, instead of giving the mana certain properties, such as water, air, or fla, one can directly imitate a completely unique attribute by imbuing it with properties that are determined by one's own imagination.
When you think of the combos you can do with it, the things you can do with it as long as you have enough mana capacity... It's really quite fantastic.
Of course, it's really 'fantastic'. That's, unfortunately, the case even here.
"I want to warn you from the beginning, if you're making a joke, it's best to turn around."
"No, I'm not joking."
I kept my stance, and the woman hesitated for a brief mont. I think she thought I was crazy or sothing, but I didn't really care.
After a slight sigh, the employee told to follow her because of so security asures. Together we went upstairs, through the complicated corridors.
First of all, there was a significant decrease in the number of people around, and the people we saw now were wearing white coats and looked exactly like scientists. So, I couldn't help feeling like I was heading toward a place where I was forbidden to enter.
But why was I grinning even though I felt this way? Because seeing this environnt that I had seen in the ga before, now in first person, felt so different, so exciting, that if I didn't hold back, I might have shivered in a way that people could easily recognize.
"Please co in and wait. Your docunts have to go through a verification first. So, you have to wait a little bit."
I only realized that the employee was addressing after I had passed him a step or two.
Seeing absent-minded in a place like this, coming here for such a purpose, made her look suspicious.
Well, I can't be unfair to her. If I were in her shoes, I would have found myself quite suspicious too.
"Sorry, the building is so beautiful that I got distracted."
After what I said, the employee looked at even more strangely.
I'm sorry but I don't see things like that all the ti... So please stop looking at like that, I feel like a tourist.
I ignored the employee's stare and entered the room.
It was a small room, but it was one that I would have no problem waiting in because it was small but very full, from a holographic television to a table with treats on it.
So, imagining the hustle and bustle in the background and the chaos that was probably caused by , I smiled and let myself fall into the armchair in the center of the room.
*******
An hour and a half... I waited for almost an hour and a half in this small room inside the building, and finally, especially when I saw the receptionist I had seen when I first entered the building, I knew it was ti.
"Your files are still under review, but Lab Managent would like you to submit an oral defense with these files. Please follow ."
Heh, I knew it. That's what I was waiting for.
"Sure."
I got up from the couch, which was almost too comfortable for to leave, and followed the receptionist, just like when I first ca here.
We passed through the intricate corridors once more, and this ti we arrived at the door of yet another room. But the door to this room was different from any door I had ever seen. It was more... technological, big. It clearly led sowhere important.
We entered the room slowly.
The room behind the door, was literally a huge lecture hall. The first things that caught my eye were a stage with a huge digital screen in front of the ever-increasing rows of desks, and adults excitedly settling into the seats as if they had just arrived.
Each of them had their eyes on , of course, but I didn't pay much attention to them. At least not yet.
But I could feel my blood boiling again at the sa ti because I was going to give a detailed talk in front of so many people about 'magic', one of my favorite things in life. That's why I repeated a few things in my head.
Calm down Aiden, calm down... You have been here before in the ga, even if it was for a different purpose. You've lived the sa scene, even if it was on a computer screen. Calm down and let your knowledge speak, and then get rich.
I walked as calmly as I could in front of the digital board and stood on the dais and waited.
*******
It didn't take long for the lecture hall to fill up. As I waited, more and more adults ca in, each of them frowning as they saw and taking their seats with an uneasy expression.
Of course, their uneasiness would only last until my presentation and theory were revealed. What would these scientists, who were trying to crush with scorn, do with what I was about to tell them?
About ten minutes after I entered the lecture hall, when almost all the desks seed to be filled, the digital board, which had been closed until now, suddenly opened and lit up. Then I saw the employee nodding at from behind the seats and I took a deep breath.
A huge group of the most senior people in the building, no... on campus, are watching right now. If I screw up here, there's a chance I could even get kicked out of the academy, but I'm confident. After all, I didn't co up with this theory out of thin air, and what I'm about to tell these people will be known almost six months from now.
"Ahem..."
After I coughed to draw attention to myself, all the adults chatting among themselves fell silent, all the eyes in the lecture hall focused on and I was now the center of the stage.
"Dear seniors, I'm not very good at explaining myself, so I'll get straight to the point, assuming you've already heard why I am here."
I don't want to aggravate the atmosphere by ssing up sothing I'm already not good at, so I approached the digital board directly and wrote two words on the screen first; Information and Attribute.
"The attributes we can transfer to mana are quite a lot."
I pulled down an arrow from the word qualities and wrote the most familiar attributes such as fla, water, air, earth, and electricity.
"All these attributes are things that already exist in nature, and we define them as 'attributes' because of all the properties they contain. For example, fla is an 'attribute' that is hot, amorphous, can spread when the necessary conditions are t, and has tons of other chemical and physical properties."
I took a step forward, cooled my gaze, and beca calr, because if I showed any weakness in front of these people, then they would try to exploit . So I had to show them that I wasn't just soone who could talk, but soone who was tough and grounded. That was the only way I could take my first steps toward the future.
"Everyone already knows that when we use a skill through the system, the mana is actually processed and qualified by a rune created by the system."
I minimized what was written on the digital board and then wrote 'rune' in capital letters on the screen.
"So, what are runes? How do they work so that mana can imitate any matter, form, or energy in the universe, with or without shape, by passing through these runes?"
With my words, the eyes of everyone watching my presentation widened.
The environnt I had aid to create at the very beginning was slowly erging. The general topic of what I was going to talk about today might have been 'the processing of information into mana', but there were actually a few other things I was planning to talk about, the most important of which were the runes.
Maintaining my calmness and composure as much as possible, I started drawing patterns on the screen. Lines, connections, and symbols that looked like calligraphy combined with each other to create a 'rune' that no one has ever been able to decipher but everyone knows what it is.
I pointed to the rune, which had taken about six minutes to draw perfectly with the touch pen, and turned back to the crowd.
"This is the rune of the fla attribute that everyone knows. When it is engraved on an item, we transfer mana to it and the item catches fire, we engrave it on a campfire device and one can start a fire just by transferring mana from one's body to it. So, what does this rune actually an?"
I drew an arrow from the rune to the side and this ti I opened the connection points of the rune a little more and drew it wider.
"This is a fla rune, just like the one I just drew. Of course, it's a bit inefficient because the connection points and the path of the mana are longer, but in the end, we can still use it as a fla rune."
I drew an arrow from the second rune I drew and redrew the sa rune again, this ti opening the connection points further.
"This is also a fla rune, but I doubt anyone in the world uses it. It is extrely inefficient, and no matter how much mana we pour into it, it will produce a very small amount of fla, but I want you to pay attention to sothing else."
I crossed out six of the connecting points of the rune I had drawn and then circled and highlighted the area between the points, then erased all the rest of the rune and made sure everyone paid attention to this motif.
"It's a completely aningless motif on its own that you can't see anywhere else... Right?"
No one broke the silence, so I kept talking.
"But let's open up these intertwined lines a bit more."
Without erasing the motif I had drawn, I made the lines a little more 'straight' instead of andering, so that now there was another motif on the board, a combination of strange geotric shapes.
"It seems pointless, you all think it's useless. And you are right... As it is, no matter how much aning you put into it, you will get exactly 'nothing'."
I took a breath and looked at the people listening to my presentation. They were all looking at and the board with great interest.
"Let's leave this here for now and move on to sothing else."
I dragged the shape I had drawn with my finger to the edge of the board and started drawing the rune 'electricity' this ti.
One by one, I applied each of the operations I had just applied to the fla rune to this rune and the result was again a strange interweaving of geotric shapes.
But unlike last ti, when I did this, all eyes widened. So of the adults, who had been sitting quietly until now, reflexively stood up. Because the part I had just circled and the part I had just removed from the electric rune were identical.
"The fla rune and the electricity rune both signify different attributes. They both transform mana into different energies and forms, but when we separate them with a thod I have just discovered, a certain shape erges."
I turned my back to the adults without compromising my expression or deanor. I continued as if I didn't care about them at all.
"Now, you may think that this similarity is a coincidence. You can say that he found sothing and that he is shaking it to make money. Because even if we find this similarity, we still don't know what it ans."
Of course, 'they' didn't know... For it was different and now I was going to prove it to them.
"Well, let tell you what this motif is. This motif indicates the state of matter that the mana will imitate: plasma."
The expressions beca even more bewildered, the eyes even wider. I could feel it even with my back to them, but I continued.
"Technically, it is a language, and I discovered it, and I nad it 'The Language of Mana', which I think is quite aptly descriptive, but if you approach what I discovered as a language, you would be making a mistake. Because this language does not contain any letters, words or sentence structure."
I paused a little to catch my breath.
"We should take the intertwined images of these geotric shapes not as a letter but as a 'aning'. For example, these two motifs on the board… I just told you that these two an 'plasma'. But this 'plasma' is not a combination of what we call 'letters' in words. On the contrary, this motif itself is 'information' in itself, which ans 'plasma'. You can think of it as a kind of filter."
So I finished the first half of my presentation. I had more to say, but the topic of 'processing information into mana' ended here. Because whatever 'information' was, it could not be processed into mana on its own.
I was sure that everyone here understood what I was saying because just a few minutes ago I had said that if you give this motif mana on its own, nothing will happen.
"This is actually the end of the presentation, but I would like to continue with the runes."
The silence in the room had already given the approval I needed.
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