Harper tilted his head back and stared at the names carved into the stone monument. He hesitated inwardly, but gradually, he made up his mind.
"If my idea truly is wrong, then I want to use my own experiments to prove why it is wrong—what the essence of that wrongness truly is."
"Rather than lowering the head that seeks knowledge because of so-called magical axioms and absolute authority."
Having said that, Harper sighed instead.
No matter how much he said now, it would actually be of no use.
After all, the dean had explicitly forbidden him from conducting related experiments.
Even if he had such intentions, he had no way to put them into practice.
All of his experiments depended on the supplies provided by the Magic Academy.
Once the academy prohibited them, he would be like a sheep with its limbs severed or a fish out of water, utterly incapable of completing the experiments on his own.
"Forget it. There's no use saying so much."
"Reversing mana into elements... if it's real, that would absolutely be a discovery that overturns the magical world..."
Harper muttered a few unwilling words, then looked apologetically at Ron, only to hear Ron ask curiously:
"How dangerous exactly is reversing mana into elements? And if it can be controlled, what benefits would it have?"
"Dangerous. Extremely dangerous." Harper spoke solemnly. "Just look at my previous laboratory explosion."
"Due to an experimental error, an extremely small amount of mana was reversed into elements, causing that huge explosion."
"To be honest, even with only that tiny amount of mana at the time, once it was reversed into elements, everything within a hundred-meter radius would probably have been affected."
"But I made many emergency adjustments on the spot, and I don't know which step actually worked and