The next day, Wu Heng issued a transfer order.
Through the Guild's global communications network, the order was sent to the seven war zones, the headquarters of the three realms' garrisons, and every research institution affiliated with the Demon Hunter Guild.
Its contents were simple: all top talents engaged in energy research, material structural analysis, rule analysis, alchemy, rune engineering, quantum physics, theology, and mysticism were to report to Hell Palace within forty-eight hours.
It was not a request. It was an order.
One person's mind was limited when it came to this strand of law. He needed more imagination.
Forty-eight hours later, Hell Palace's Throne Hall had been converted into a temporary research center.
Long tables had been assembled into a circular conference table, covered in data tablets, analyzers, energy detectors, and all sorts of unrecognizable instruments.
The Silver Cube floated at the center of the conference table, providing a stable energy source.
The necklace had been placed inside a specially made transparent container connected to more than a dozen hair-thin probes, monitoring its energy fluctuations and the operation of its laws in real time.
A total of forty-seven experts had arrived.
Some were veteran mysticism researchers from the Demon Hunter Guild. Some were leading scholars recruited from human government laboratories. Some were civilian scientists who had survived the angels' descent, while several were researchers evacuated from Apocalypse World and the Pestilence World.
Their fields of expertise were wildly varied: energy physics, quantum field theory, rune structural studies, alchemical material science, theological semiotics, dimensional geometry, soul energetics, chaos theory... Wu Heng had heard some of those disciplines for the first time in his life.
Before the meeting began, Martin stood at the center of the circular table. Facing the forty-seven young and elderly faces, he explained the task plainly.