It made perfect sense. Although Professor A Kai's process of stabilizing his condition had been rushed, nothing seemed to have gone wrong.
On one hand, Fu Qian shared his concern about the situation A Kai had mentioned. On the other, he very much approved of the knowledge A Kai had shared.
Take the idea of mysterious "affinity," for example.
The miracle that helped one attain divinity didn't simply bring physical or mental enhancement of a corresponding nature. It didn't even directly impart knowledge. Instead, it manifested as an immeasurable increase in insight.
That made the path of miracles seem more befitting of an intellectual, while also aligning neatly with Fu Qian's earlier impressions.
It was worth remembering that when A Kai had just woken up, Fu Qian's external sensory device, the Burial Scroll, hadn't been shut off yet. And yet he hadn't sensed any mark of Meria on A Kai, like the one on the Snow Tree's leaves.
If one received certain blessings from the corresponding Higher Being upon advancing to a higher rank along the path of miracles, then this phenomenon would have dealt a serious blow to the conclusion they had just reached. They had only just speculated that Meria might have three aspects in one, and used that to explain why A Kai had fallen into general anesthesia.
But if he had received the blessing of the "Sea" and Fu Qian still couldn't sense any connection to the concept of Meria, wouldn't that be a counterexample right then and there, proving that the "Sea" had nothing to do with Meria and that the three-aspects-in-one theory didn't hold?
Now that the blessing only manifested as an abstract increase in insight, things were obviously much better.
In fact, Fu Qian already had a vague idea of how to make