Angel smiled and nodded, offering no opinion on the matter. He truly had no need to worry about those negative effects, because he had never planned to use Sweet Dream.
The reason he had looked so serious was not because he was considering how the negative effects might affect him, but because he was trying to calculate Sweet Dream's Hupa Coefficient.
The Wise Sovereign's three currently disclosed negative effects were like arsenic mixed into honey—unpleasant indeed. But so-called negative effects were merely a wizard's definition.
From a dialectical perspective, both the so-called positive effects and negative effects were properties of Sweet Dream as a mysterious object.
And as long as he knew the properties of a mysterious object, combined with the method Kulori had left behind for calculating the Hupa Coefficient, he could roughly infer Sweet Dream's Hupa Coefficient.
The level of a Hupa Coefficient was generally judged by the frequency of the Disorderly Rhythm, the intensity of the disorder, and the breadth of the overall range affected by its properties.
And judging solely from the three negative effects currently known, Sweet Dream's degree of disorder was certainly below 40.
The higher the Hupa Coefficient, the more dangerous and unsolvable it was. Conversely, the lower the Hupa Coefficient, the safer and more stable it was.
Generally speaking, the range of Hupa Coefficients could be divided into three broad categories. 0–39 was controllable, 40–69 was semi-out-of-control, and 70 or above was completely out of control—that was, disorderly. Above 100 was basically unsolvable.
The fact that Sweet Dream could be preserved for so long without actively affecting its surroundings meant that it was broadly controllable. Its Hupa Coefficient therefore could not be high; being below 40 was inevitable.
Having determined the approximate range, he began analyzing it point by point.
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