I Created Scientific Magic

Chapter 636: 535

Several pitch-black magic bats flew in first, followed by Alchemist Tic and a small squad of half-human sentinels.

Tic’s face was full of worry, but he didn’t speak, instead casting a glance at the half-human natives gathered here.

Rafael immediately understood his meaning, silently opening his domain to envelop the few of them, and a soundproof barrier was completed in an instant.

It was then that Tic anxiously began to speak. “Master Rafael, the situation outside is very bad, a large number of undead are converging in this direction!”

“Has something happened? Could it be our position has been exposed?” Rafael’s expression changed slightly; even though he had anticipated bad news from Tic, he hadn’t expected it to be this severe.

Yoland immediately glanced at the assembly of half-human natives present.

He suspected that these people had leaked their information.

Although Rafael had instructed spiritual energy wizards to set prohibitive magic in the minds of each of these people after taking control of the settlement, it clearly wasn’t foolproof, given that their opponents were those most skilled at toying with souls.

“No, I don’t think they are here to capture us.”

Tic shook his head, for the undead hadn’t directly surrounded them but were aimlessly searching the entire area for something, seemingly determined to leave no stone unturned.

“Could it be that the frequent opening and closing of the space-time gate was perceived due to the influence…” Yoland speculated.

Rafael also pondered the possibility, each opening of the space-time gate causing a significant influx of magic power into another world, like a small stream being diverted from a large river. Although the leakage was very slow, it indeed could be perceived.

“How far are they from us now?” Rafael asked gravely.

“Less than fifty kilometers,” replied Tic. “These undead are searching every possible location; I even saw a dragon flatten a small hill to ensure there was nothing inside.”

“Four days, at most four days, and they will find this place!” Tic added.

Although the search scope of those skeleton soldiers was expanding, the relentless, tireless undead would eventually find this place if they kept searching.

Rafael frowned and thought for a long while; this was undoubtedly the worst possible scenario.

“We must find a way to lure them away, to delay as much as possible the dead finding the space-time node,” Rafael stated resolutely.

In the time spent in this foreign domain, apart from subduing this half-human settlement and instructing them to gather intelligence, Rafael had also taken many actions, such as setting up an Alchemy Array near the space-time node in the valley to block both vision and magical perception.

But Rafael did not believe his arrangements would fool those damn skeletons; they would unquestionably flatten every place they could find without hesitation.

So the only method was to attract them to another location.

Due to the different flow rates of time between the two worlds, delaying them by a day equated to gaining seven days!

However, this also meant they needed to face a vast and dangerous army of powerful undead.

“Let’s send someone back to report the news first,” sighed Rafael. Then he looked at Yoland, Tic, Ivina, Darren, and the others, without speaking, letting them choose for themselves who would go and who would stay.

Returning meant survival, while staying was almost certain death, since they would have to head to a location as far away from the space-time gate as possible, with almost no chance of making it back alive.

“Ivina, you go back and report,” Tic suddenly said. She was the youngest here and deserved this only chance at life.

However, the girl shook her head, as she had been prepared for sacrifice from the moment she joined the expedition team into the foreign domain.

The rest were also rendered silent, a somber atmosphere instantly enveloped the garrison.

“Let’s just determine it by drawing lots!” Rafael finally decided, it was the fairest method, and there was no need for further argument.

…

In the Magic Kingdom, inside the newly built magic high tower, Vittorio, who had just returned with intelligence reports from the northern border, hadn’t had the chance to report when a startling piece of news interrupted him.

“What did you say? Altoc has… turned into a probability cloud?” Vittorio nearly sprayed out the tea he’d just swallowed, staring in disbelief at Lynn and the others as if they were telling an absurd joke.

“As much as I don’t want to believe it, it now seems that the facts are indeed so…” Aurora shrugged her shoulders, recounting everything they had seen in the laboratory in Wizard Land.

An entity both coming together and separating, Vittorio was utterly unable to conjure such an image in his mind…

Bizarre… it could only be described as bizarre!

“Is this still magic?” Anthony, who was also astonished, had never heard such news before, just like Vittorio.

Harrov and Aurora were also pondering this question. Ever since they began studying the microcosm, the old common sense of magic had been shattered to pieces, and the world seemed to be becoming more and more peculiar.

“There’s actually nothing strange about it, it’s just the sense of disjunction that arises from observing a higher dimension from a lower one,” Lynn interrupted their conversation, flipping through a book written by Altoc on Elemental Ghosts.

“Higher dimension?” Harrov and the others looked over, extremely surprised by the new term Lynn had brought up.

“Correct!” Lynn nodded. “It might be more intuitive to express it in terms of arcane arithmetic.”

“For example, you can imagine zero dimension as an infinitely small point, while one dimension is an infinitely long straight line, with only the concept of length, two dimensions is a plane, composed of length and width…”

As he was speaking, Lynn raised his right hand, and under a surge of magic power, an imperceptible point materialized before everyone’s eyes, followed by the point changing into a line and then into a plane…

“So, the third dimension is a cube that has the three dimensions of length, width, and height?” Aurora immediately understood.

This was the concept of a coordinate system in arcane arithmetic, with each additional axis representing an increase in dimension.

“Then what about higher dimensions? Where would they extend from there?” Harrov asked, puzzled, with length, width, and height accounted for, where could the fourth dimension extend from?

“Could it be time?” Anthony suddenly spoke up in response.

According to Lynn, dimension was something invisible, intangible, omnipresent, and theoretically infinitely divisible, with time certainly corresponding to every single point.

Moreover, like space, it could be influenced and warped by gravity…

Lynn gave no reply, tapping gently on the table with his hand. As to how many dimensions the universe has, and the nature of the fourth and fifth dimensions, even the researchers of the previous world’s federation hadn’t reached a definitive conclusion, and there were significant disagreements.

For instance, the famous Einstein once proposed the theory of four-dimensional spacetime, suggesting that the universe was composed of time and space, adding a time axis to the usual three-dimensional space structure of length, width, and height.

This is a three-dimensional static universe and a four-dimensional dynamic universe.

However, many of the federation’s researchers did not agree with this view and posed an interesting hypothesis: if there were two-dimensional beings in their current universe that could move freely in two-dimensional space and also perceive the passage of time, then wouldn’t their scientists directly consider time as the third dimension?

Consequently, many advocated separating spatial dimensions from temporal dimensions, studying purely the concepts of dimensions in mathematics and space, with the famous string theory even proposing that space has as many as eleven dimensions!

After seeing the state Altoc was in, Lynn even more strongly concurred with the idea that space has more than three dimensions, because aside from the time dimension, it could now be confirmed that there indeed exists a fourth spatial dimension!