Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 147 Apas

Agreed led Heya into the body of Hiscana. After walking a few steps, the two saw an elven man surrounded by a bunch of messy equipment. Agreed looked at him and called out, "Finally found you. Your name is Apas, right?"

Before he could finish speaking, Agreed exerted a little force, and Apas was pulled directly into Agreed's hand by a suction force. Agreed held him by the neck, and the cold bone claws made Apas feel the approach of death. So Apas hurriedly cried out, "Spare me, spare me! I am just an insignificant researcher. We can talk about what you want. My brother will satisfy all your requests."

Agreed said in a mocking tone, "Your brother has been scared out of his wits by me, and I have destroyed all those weird things you have called spirit particles. Now you're out of luck. But I'm willing to give you a chance to live. Tell me how you made these strange particles. If your research interests me, I will not only spare your life, but also fund your continued research."

Upon hearing this, Apas was overjoyed and exclaimed, "Is this really true?!"

Agreed released the bone claws gripping his neck and chuckled, "Why would I need to lie to you?"

Apas immediately changed his tune, smiling obsequiously, "This way please. I will let you understand the essence and principles of spirit particles in a very short time and make you fall in love with them. I guarantee that after hearing this, you will definitely fund this project without hesitation. Even my indecisive and useless brother has tasted the benefits from it. I'm sure you, as a wise man, will understand the value and significance of spirit particles even better than he does."

As he spoke, he began to operate those strange devices, and then a spatial portal appeared before them. Apas gestured for them to enter first, putting their minds at ease. Agreed and Hea exchanged a glance, and then stepped through the portal together.

After passing through the portal, Agreed and Hea stared in astonishment at the seamless gray soil and the pure white, transparent space they found themselves in. Agreed, possessing the ability to see through things, exclaimed in surprise, "This is... a dwelling on the moon?! Why did you spend so much money to build a space here that could sustain life for a short time?"

Apas turned around and corrected, “First of all, this is not a residence but a laboratory. Secondly, it is not enough for life to survive here even briefly. This chamber is actually filled with a large amount of stable gas, which is not enough to support the survival of humans or goblins, which require active gas. You can’t feel it only because elves and undead are not races that cannot live without active gas. I once lived in this place without active gas for fifteen days and did not feel anything unusual afterward. The undead are even less likely to feel anything unusual. So, the construction here did not actually cost much resources. The only thing that consumed a lot of resources was the special magical dye applied to the outside. The outer white coating needs to be replaced every three days, and these special white reflective materials can ensure that the temperature here does not get too high and damage my precious instruments.”

Agreed pointed here and asked, "What kind of research are you doing on this moon? Is this where you create spiritual particles?"

Apas exclaimed excitedly, "Ladies and gentlemen, now I am about to show you my greatest invention! Please look here, the prototype of the spirit particle is now stored in this small instrument." As he spoke, Apas handed a transparent hollow glass sphere to the two of them.

Hea stared blankly at the empty sphere, puzzled. Agreed, however, reacted strongly, exclaiming, "This is... a fundamental particle?! How did you get it? Normally, all fundamental particles are aggregated together; this is very rare. How did you do it?"

Apas explained, “It’s simple. By using magic to accelerate a large number of particles and infinitely shrink their space, you can make them collide and cause the basic particles to appear. It’s a common operation that any great mage can do. What’s complicated is the collection of these basic particles. I spent a lot of time practicing the fine control of magic to accurately extract them from a large number of particles.”

Heya asked, puzzled, "Then why do you need these elementary particles?"

Apas smiled mysteriously and said, "Little girl, you've asked the right question. Over the years, I've searched through ancient ruins and learned about a type of magic far more advanced than what we have now. It's called 'spatial magic'! Do you know that?"

Agreed sneered, "They created magic from the Caldevin race, who are related to humans by blood. It can influence the spatial structure of matter on a macroscopic scale. Legend has it that a magician who has mastered spatial magic to its peak is capable of restarting a universe. In fact, someone did do it. That guy is known as the 'God of Magic'."

Apas was clearly shocked by what Agred said, and then laughed awkwardly, "Uh, I only learned some information from the ruins, I didn't expect you... to know so much."

Agreed, with a touch of arrogance, said from Versailles: "This is just a little bit of knowledge I learned from an ancient teacher, but thanks to him, there's practically nothing I don't know about those ancient magics. Continue with your research. I have limited patience, so I'll just focus on the key points. You'd better explain the ins and outs of things clearly."

This made Apas unconsciously nervous because he knew he had met an expert this time. So he nervously pursed his lips and continued to explain: "After learning those spatial spells, I realized that I could never change the macroscopic spatial structure like those ancient powerful beings. So I started trying to change the microscopic one, and... I succeeded! I changed the spatial structure of a microscopic particle, and I found that the simpler their structure became, the larger their volume became. So a bold idea appeared in my mind: what if we reduced the spatial structure of this microscopic particle to only three dimensions, or rather, directions!"

But I suddenly discovered another problem: if I made them bigger, the microscopic particles I used in the previous experiments would be too big. So I tried to obtain even smaller elementary particles. One day I saw a boulder on a hillside gradually disintegrating in the process of constant collisions. That gave me an idea. So I invented the method for making elementary particles. After decades of hard work, I prepared the first elementary particle!

But another problem immediately arose: the energy required to alter space was far greater than I had imagined. I needed a large amount of magic to support my research, so I set my sights on the magic crystals in the elven kingdom's treasury.