It really was steeped in an academic atmosphere. I'd only been here a day, and I'd already made quite a few discoveries.
Beneath the bright midday sun at the academy, Fu Qian returned to the lab, stretched leisurely, and stood up.
Who would have thought that today's check-in would bring him face-to-face with the academy's former dean, giving him the chance to have a friendly discussion about swordsmanship, bloodlines, Mental Torture, and all sorts of other subjects?
But beyond all that—and the fragment from the memoir at the end—there was another invaluable gain: Lord Rom's demonstration.
At the end of Lui's memoir, the omnipresent corruption, or Blood Order, clearly came from the newborn heir of the royal family.
Everything he had done before that had been steering things toward this outcome.
But there was a problem. The Blood Order's power, which had appeared at the very start of the story and forced everyone to keep investigating, had unquestionably come from Rom, who stood behind him.
In essence, Rom had demonstrated an Authority controlled by "Him," and by the end of the story, that Authority would belong to another Higher Being as well.
That glaring overlap felt like a possible manifestation of the fruit-and-sugar hypothesis he'd discussed with Su Gao before.
For an academic, nothing was more gratifying than seeing evidence emerge for a hypothesis.
He wasn't sure how Rom had worked with the Native Council, but judging from what had happened in Dunis, even the disabled God of Noise had been looking to possess someone. It was hard to imagine Rom himself was in good shape.
All things considered, this offered some proof for the fruit-and-sugar theory. At the same time, Rom was likely a living fossil of the supernatural world's chaotic nature. If Fu Qian got the chance to