Free Web NovelChapter 561: Chapter 480: After the Battle (Double Length) (Part 3)
"Everything."
Jeming and Viola froze simultaneously.
"Everything?" Jeming instinctively looked at Viola, his eyes full of confusion, "Is there...is there a ’Law of Everything’?"
Viola’s expression also became serious. She frowned, pondered for a few seconds, and then tentatively asked:
"Is it a Fictional Law? Or some kind of... collective term for composite concepts?"
Clark looked at these two students, whom he considered somewhat "dim-witted," and sighed softly.
"It’s literally as it sounds." he calmly explained, "I research...the laws of everything."
The air froze at that moment.
Jeming stared blankly at Clark, mouth agape, unable to utter a sound.
His brain was frantically processing this statement.
The law of everything?
What does the law of everything mean?
The Fire Element Law, Water Element Law, Thunder Element Law, Wind Element Law, Earth Element Law, Light Element Law, Dark Element Law, Space Law, Time Law, Law of Destiny, Law of Pain, Law of Life, Law of Death, Mechanical Law, Symbiosis Law, Chaos Law, Order Law, Conceptual Law, Emotional Law, Material Law, Energy Law...
All known, all unknown.
All fundamental, all composite.
All that can be named, all that have yet to be named.
...Is that what ’everything’ means?
Viola had the same expression alongside him.
Her pupils contracted violently, and Clark’s calm face was reflected in her silver-gray eyes, but deep within her gaze was a tsunami of shock.
Clark seemed somewhat satisfied as he observed their reaction.
He nodded and added:
"Don’t blurt this out casually."
After speaking, he turned and walked toward the depths of the resting area, where a dedicated passage led to the core region of the fortress.
As Clark turned away, Jeming suddenly realized that an extremely sophisticated soundproof barrier had been set around the three of them at some unknown point.
The barrier was transparent and subtly integrated with the surrounding environment, with hardly any detectable energy fluctuations, so much so that he and Viola hadn’t noticed it until now.
Not until Clark left did the barrier silently shatter like foam.
But now, Jeming had no mind to marvel at his mentor’s exquisite barrier technique.
His thoughts were fully occupied by what Clark had just said.
"The laws of everything... the literal laws of everything..."
Jeming murmured to himself, his mind racing.
What does the literal meaning of the laws of everything entail?
Quite simply.
To put it bluntly, Professor Clark intends to research the entire spectrum of laws known to the wizard civilization!
What does this imply?
Jeming’s mind flashed instinctively to a miraculous void he’d seen with his own eyes, one that had stunned him: the Living Plane.
Exactly.
What is a plane with self-awareness, capable of autonomous research, growth, and evolution in essence?
It’s a "collection of world laws."
A regular plane inherently contains all the laws foundational to its existence.
From the most basic Four Great Elements Law, to the Space Law maintaining spatial stability, to the Time Law driving temporal flow, and more complex laws like the Law of Life, Energy Cycle Law, Material Transformation Law...
And for a ’living’ plane, it signifies being able to autonomously comprehend, master, and even alter these laws—although most living planes lack this awareness.
If Professor Clark’s path of "researching the laws of everything" reaches its zenith, what does it signify?
It means that now... he is essentially a humanoid living plane!
Moreover, he is a humanoid living plane with wizard intelligence, possessing the wizardry knowledge system, able to actively learn and optimize laws!
"No wonder..." Jeming took a sharp breath, his eyes widening further, "No wonder when the Starfall Wizard animated the plane, the mentor’s reaction was so peculiar!"
He remembered very clearly.
Back on the Ice and Flame Plane, Clark showed an extraordinary interest in the living plane, even personally observing and researching it up close.
If at first, the mentor was merely curious about this exceptional void miracle, then later, when the Starfall Wizard successfully animated a plane, Clark’s eagerness to guide and nurture the nascent animated plane was overly zealous. (Foreshadowing in Chapter 451)
Jeming had found it surprising at the time, since Clark wasn’t usually the type to take the initiative to handle matters.
Now everything made sense.
Because Clark himself is on the path of being a "humanoid animated plane!"
He wants to see how a truly animated plane understands, masters, and utilizes those laws inherently possessed.
Clark aims to validate his path from another angle.
And the plane animated by the Starfall is, to him, a perfect "reference sample."
"So that’s how it is..." Jeming couldn’t help but mutter to himself, "No wonder... No wonder in past battles, those enemies exhibited such apparent ’counteraction by laws’ situations..."
In normal combat, to have one’s opponent ’counteracted by laws,’ you must possess a much higher level of research in that law compared to your opponent.
For example, when two wizards are both researching the Fire Element Law, the one with deeper understanding can easily suppress the other’s elemental magic, and even cause their spells to backfire.
