Terry Cable stood before the podium, his fingers unconsciously rubbing the astrolabe pendant hanging around his neck. The astrologer whom Paul had just praised as "a distinguished astronomer of the Ves Institute" was now as nervous as a newcomer attending an academic conference for the first time. His short, pale-golden hair stuck up messily from all his scratching, while his amber eyes kept blinking behind his silver-rimmed glasses.
After a brief opening remark, Cable went straight to the point.
"Er, my teacher, Degu Bral Viscount—you have probably heard his name. He is the court astrologer of Collins Court... Ahem, he left behind a vast number of observation records. Combining my teacher's data with my own observations over the past three years..." His voice trembled at first, but when he looked at Paul Greiman watching him from below the stage, his tone gradually became firm. "The traditional Geocentric Theory, or in other words, the belief that the world is the center, should be... wrong!"
A murmur of discussion arose in the grand auditorium. Several astrologer masters with long beards frowned, and one of them even snorted disdainfully.
Cable raised a scroll depicting a traditional star chart and continued shouting, "If the stars truly revolve around our world—thanks to the great Captain Glan, who, together with his brave crew, undertook the first Around-the-World Voyage in human history and proved that the world we live on is indeed spherical—if the stars truly revolve around our world," he said, pointing to the traditional star chart in his hand, "then the trajectory of the Crimson Flame Star should be as even as a carriage wheel. However, I discovered..."
He suddenly turned around and began marking the position of the Crimson Flame Star on the blackboard according to different times, based on his teacher's and his