After the lively ascension celebration ceremony, the city returned to silence.

A few months later, the city's construction and decoration was completed as scheduled.

However, Karsus found that no one wanted to come here, so it was deserted everywhere, creating a desolate and desolate scene.

This is mainly because he is too young and appears to be so inexperienced, making it difficult for him to win the trust of the people.

But the crisis became a stage for the Grand Master to display his talents.

Since powerful magic alone is not enough to attract people, he thought, then maybe a majestic, magnificent and well-designed city can.

Therefore, Karsus hired many skilled craftsmen to create ingenious buildings in his city.

They seem to not follow any physical laws at all, and even escape the constraints of gravity. They are like scenes in a dream, so incredible and shocking.

The news finally spread to many first-class arcanist colleges and magic universities. People were attracted by the charming charm exuded by the unique and wonderful works, and with infinite yearning for them, they poured into the floating city of Karsus.

Soon, the place became prosperous.

In the following years, the still young Karsus had to recruit apprentices due to the heavy task of managing a city.

He had just sent out the news, and countless young mages from the entire Netheril Empire came here to attract him, including many geniuses from the first-class arcanist academy and magic university.

After Karsus' assessment, out of the more than 30,000 applicants, 900 apprentices were finally left.

Among them, the two who mattered most to Karsus were called Shado.

Shado is a student at the Karsus Academy of Magic. He once disclosed a study of the planes and was criticized as a result.

What's more, Shado's career also aroused the hatred of the authorities. They exiled him and banned all research on demiplanes and subplanes in many cities.

However, Karsus kept Shado privately and allowed him to continue his research.

He felt that what Sha Duo was doing was a very important thing.

Chateau invited some other underground researchers to participate, and all funds were borne by Karsus.

Eleven years later, under the instruction of Karthus, Shado once again disclosed his research results on the shadow demiplane.

Also named "Shados sensible invisible substance aggregate".

Arcanists across the country suddenly realized how important this discovery was.

They believe that the shadow demiplane is an area of ​​great development value that can provide endless shadow servants, and it is also the source of Shado's shadow mana.

The authorities immediately announced the lifting of the previous ban and publicly encouraged people to explore similar demiplanes.

Unfortunately, they also discovered the "imprisonment demiplane", and several arcanists eventually disappeared into the chaotic confinement enchantment.

Of course, this news was immediately tightly sealed.

Compared with Xia Duo, who is so famous, the other student seems to be less famous. Oh, maybe he is somewhat famous, but he is famous in another category.

His name is Brad, Brad Noah Oscar Wilde.

Compared to Shado, who was born a commoner, Brad, like Karsus, was born into a noble family of a great arcanist.

Rumor has it that his mother was actually a silver dragon who wandered around Netheril, and she admired his father's talent in art and his endless wealth as the Lord of the Floating City.

Hence the birth of Brad, and the long name with countless suffixes.

With such a pair of weird parents who have stagnated in the exploration of arcana and are obsessed with art all day long, Brad is no exception.

However, compared to his already successful parents, Brad is still a little more interested in the arcane arts.

However, I don’t know if his research ideas are influenced by the artistic atmosphere of his family. He loves music and art. Compared with orthodox scholars, he is a bit weird.

This can be seen from his graduation thesis

Multiverse superstring theory.

He wrote in the preface of the paper that the multiverse is a huge monochord, with the upper half of the string connected to absolute spirituality and the lower half of the string connected to absolute matter.

He even boasted that "if you learn the single-stringed harp, you will know the secrets of the universe."

But what makes the arcane instructors shake their heads is that this unreliable student's thesis seems to be because he observed the vibration of dust on the drum surface while playing a musical instrument, and recognized the phenomenon of resonance and

strength.

A small energy input can become a large energy output through resonance.

Brad once dug a deep well underground in the laboratory, installed a steel casing, and then input a specific frequency into the well. As a result, the ground began to shake, triggering a small earthquake.

He also imitated the famous saying of Grand Arcanist Iolum and said, "If you give me a resonator, I can split Koriel in two."

He firmly believes that this kind of super transmission of energy is the next important energy source that can replace the dangerous and easily out-of-control Mithra core, and can even bring about a new round of energy revolution in Netheril.

Even if the laws and constants of this vibration can be found, it will be equivalent to cracking the ultimate code of the universe.

By then, people will be able to recreate all the magic in the world through the resonance of music.

Get it, and then offend all those with vested interests in one fell swoop.

What has to be said is that the mainstream theories in Netheril at that time were still dominated by cosmic energy theory and particle theory.

But one of the basic points of Braid's string theory is that the basic units of nature, elemental particles, although they look like particles, are actually different vibration modes of very small one-dimensional strings, just like the strings on a violin.

Cosmic strings in string theory can vibrate in certain modes, and each vibration mode corresponds to a special resonance frequency and wavelength.

One resonant frequency of a violin string corresponds to a musical scale, while different frequencies of vibrations of a cosmic string correspond to different masses and energies.

All elementary particles, such as elemental particles, etc., are different vibration modes or vibration excited states of cosmic strings.

The typical scale of each cosmic string is about the basic unit of length, the Iolum length.

In short, if the universe is regarded as a sea composed of cosmic strings, then the elementary particles are like foam in the water, they are constantly being created and annihilated.

"Our real material world is actually a magnificent symphony played by cosmic strings."

And when Li Wei saw this paper from Alsace's perspective, he was completely shocked.

"This is the real god. He actually played music and figured out the superstring theory. He is like Corell's version of Tesla."

However, such writings were regarded as rebellious and unfounded academic views at the time.

He actually criticized particle theory, which is totally disrespectful.

But Brad couldn't prove his point of view, because to prove his theory, he would have to build a circular particle collider with a diameter of more than 35 billion kilometers. This diameter is probably larger than the entire Corel world itself.

Brad and his opponents were naturally unable to verify whether superstrings were actually correct.

In fact, if Karsus, the honorary dean of the Academy of Magic, had not intervened behind the scenes, this unlucky guy who was not familiar with the world and had not been beaten up by society would probably not have been able to graduate.

Under such circumstances, Brad felt extremely moved and ashamed that Karsus accepted him as his apprentice despite all the pressure from the outside world despite being criticized by so many people.

So since then, Brad has concentrated on studying his resonance energy transmission and vocal resonance casting in the laboratory.

And this research

Just a lifetime

And paid the heavy price of being bald in his early years.

The reason why Karsus values ​​him so much is because he values ​​Shado just as much. He thinks this is a research direction with great potential, and he also recognizes Brad as an alternative genius.

But he didn't have much time to devote to this.

At that time, Karthus was extremely conflicted. On the one hand, he had great longing for the future of Nether and the arcane arts, hoping that one day he could become as powerful and knowledgeable as his teacher.

In that case, it might be possible to help the teacher.

On the other hand, the Felin Demon Sunflower that worried him also began to appear in his sight.

Although Karthus has stated the threat of the phaerinn on more than one occasion in public and advocated the complete extermination of this monster to avoid future troubles.

However, this view has been criticized by the mainstream.

The vast majority of great arcane masters believe that everything in the world has existence value and research significance, and the idea of ​​​​racial destruction is an extremely dangerous sign.

At that time, although the phaerimms caused some trouble to Netheril, they did not have much impact.

The most important thing is that no one knows where the species of Phayling Demon Sunflowers came from, and they are extremely difficult to deal with. They contain an energy that is still difficult to analyze.

And this energy also fascinates some great arcanists.

they call it

Nether energy.

Karsus was also studying the dissection of the pharynx and this energy called psionic energy, but apart from finding that it was extremely contagious and corrosive, he didn't find any way to utilize it, so he had to put it aside for the time being.

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After that, with the vision of great achievements, Karsus persuaded the Council of Severdon to temporarily send the remaining Scroll of Nether to his castle.

He planned to study this treasure carefully, and even wanted to find out whether there was a hidden connection between each page of the scroll, so that he could find the missing parts.

However, fate was so unfair to Netheril. Even though it was defended by more than a hundred warriors and arcanists, the remaining scrolls were actually taken away.

On the way to Karsus Territory

The large-scale manhunt began immediately in 3195, but when it ended seven years later, nothing was found. Instead, 125 more names were added to the record book of those who died.

At this point, Netheril doesn't even have a complete scroll.
To be continued...