Picatinny Society (3)

The place where the Picatinny Society is held is a world called ‘Quasar’.

It belongs to the deepest part of the central dimension, and as the center of the alliance is close, it is a place where security is very tight.

Allied hunters are stationed at all times, and weapons cannot be brought in, even artifacts with attack functions.

It was an absolute rule that applied not only to general scholars, but also to Helios and the authorities of the Mage Tower.

“Please hand in your weapons, Professor.”

I handed in my revolver, bullet belt, and weapon case and checked the condition of my clothes.

I checked my fedora and tie, and adjusted my coat and suit.

After checking my shoes, leather gloves, and black briefcase, I passed through the checkpoint.

Starry quasar night.

I headed towards the entrance of the building and took in the view of the surroundings.

“It looks a lot like the Vatican.”

The architecture and the wide open space exuding reverence and grandeur are very similar to those of the old Vatican.

As I entered the gate hall of Quasar across the wide plaza, a luxurious festival hall welcomed me under the light of colorful chandeliers.

“…is it not a conference, but a banquet?”

Before the lecture started in earnest, I heard that it was more like a banquet than a conference.

It seems like everyone is playing and drinking, but even among them, information related to the military and war is fiercely exchanged.

They share information like that, and when the lecture starts, they return to their scholarly appearances as if they were always like that.

What are wizards?

As I was watching it while shaking my head, a person who seemed to be involved approached me.

“Could you check the invitation?”

Shuk-

When I handed over the invitation that I took out of my inner pocket, a strange look stood in his eyes.

“Professor Yujin Kang?”

“Yes.”

“Please note that wearing a hat is restricted inside.”

nod-

“It was an honor to meet you. So, have a good time.”

When the official who returned the invitation went away, this time the attention was drawn from the surroundings.

Everyone has heard my name.

“Are you sure this is Professor Yujin Kang who wrote the thesis on circle multiple mediation?”

A woman who appeared to be a scholar came this way.

I don’t know who it is, but I noticed that you know me.

I took off my hat and nodded.

“Yes. I am Yujin Kang.”

“oh···.”

The round-eyed woman covered her slightly open mouth with her hand.

Then, in a hurry, he starts talking.

“I-I’m a fan! Could I possibly get an autograph?”

She took out an academic journal from her bag and held it up.

Veritas April issue.

It was an academic journal in which my thesis was published as the cover page.

He didn’t mind refusing, so when he signed it, he held out his hand with a red face.

Shall we shake hands?

When I roughly matched it and shook it, the other person’s eyes shook as if an earthquake had occurred.

“Ah, thank you…”

“It was nothing.”

As one passed by, others approached.

“Professor! Can I get an autograph too!?”

“I read your paper so well!”

“Professor, let’s talk for a moment…!”

I don’t have time for this.

As I was watching them in embarrassment, I heard a voice from behind.

“Please get out of the way.”

A graceful yet cool voice.

A familiar face appeared among the people who were startled and backed away.

Blond blonde hair and bright blue eyes.

Estelle approached and bowed her head.

“Nice to meet you, Professor.”

“Were you also a participant in the society?”

“Yes. Although it is a field trip.”

The story is that I just came to watch.

But it didn’t matter anyway to me.

I was very glad that she appeared unexpectedly.

“You came just fine.”

“Yeah?”

“I’m sorry, but I have something to share with you, so stop.”

I used Estelle as an excuse to get out of the suffocating gap.

*

I slipped out of the corner with Estelle out of sight.

“Professor. Hands…”

“sorry.”

When I let go of the hand I was holding to bring her out, she squeezed both hands tightly and brought them to her chest.

“You don’t like this place, do you?”

“yes.”

It’s not bad, it’s disgusting.

I’d rather give a lecture in front of others, but I was breathless whenever I came to a place like this social church.

Estelle looked up at me with a calm, expressionless expression, then opened her mouth in a low voice.

“Professor, are you here to give a lecture?”

“No. I’m just on a field trip.”

I have no intention of doing anything grandiose.

This time, the goal was to find out what kind of physiology this place goes back to.

If you look at it closely, Estelle and the purpose itself are the same.

Then Estelle opened her mouth.

“Then would you like to listen to the lecture on ‘The Equation of Faith’?”

“What is that?”

“It’s a theory related to Constellation Awakening that will be announced this time.”

Was there such a thing

It’s a golden age for me.

I just came to hear Mason say that there is a military-related conference.

“He did the research.”

Estelle’s finger pointed to a woman in an officer’s uniform who was talking to them.

Unlike the others, she was dressed in plain everyday clothes and a white lab coat, with gray hair tied in a ponytail and gloomy green eyes.

“Who are you?”

“Don’t you know? It’s Professor Lapless.”

“·······.”

Lapless.

Suddenly, memories from long ago crossed my mind.

The four core subjects of Helios.

Among them, the professor who teaches the subject of ‘characteristic control’ was named Lapless.

Her real name is Laflis Aquila.

I’ve never met him before, was he that kind of person?

“I heard that Professor Lafless’s ‘Faith Equation’ is a large project for the military. I guess that’s why it didn’t come out well in schools other than lectures.”

“is it.”

Actually, I wasn’t really interested.

It was hard to take care of myself, but I didn’t have the energy to care about others comfortably.

However, I was a little curious about the ‘faith equation’.

The mechanism by which humans awaken to Constellations is an unknown area that has not yet been clarified.

If I had found a clue to unraveling the secret, I had no reason not to listen.

‘The military is researching something like that. The purpose is blatant once.’

To conduct such research in the military is tantamount to saying that they will mass-produce Constellations as weapons to be used in war.

No matter which world you go to, the warring armies are all the same.

“professor.”

“Tell me.”

Estelle paused uncharacteristically, then cautiously continued.

“Would you like to listen to the lecture?”

“yes.”

I nodded.

Because I wanted to hear it anyway.

“Listen together.”

“···Yeah!”

She nodded vigorously with a slightly brightened face.

I looked again at Professor Lapless.

Before she knew it, she was looking this way with gloomy green eyes.

*

Quasar’s Great Lecture Room.

After the banquet, the Picatinny Society continued with each lecture.

Among them, the largest lecture hall was rented for Professor Lafless’ ‘The Equation of Faith’.

To be honest, I have no idea what the theory is, other than that it’s related to Constellation Awakening.

Even though it was far from my major, it was a subject far away.

“Professor Yujin Kang, I…”

tingling-

“Keuhmm…”

In the meantime, the man who was talking to her coughed at Estelle’s eyes and backed away.

Ever since Estelle heard that I hated people, she had been blocking people who approached me like that beforehand.

Perhaps because of the value of Altair’s name, one effect was certain.

“… then. From now on, I will begin the lecture on ‘The Equation of Faith’.”

Professor Laflice’s voice was languid and droopy.

She continued her lecture with an unusual vocalization that held on to the point even as she stretched out.

“This is to inform you that the military covers part of the ‘Artificial Constellation’ project that is currently underway. The contents are classified, so what you hear now cannot be disclosed to the outside world.”

A languid voice echoes through the lecture hall.

I listened attentively to the contents of the lecture and caught important information one by one.

The gist of the lecture thus summarized was as follows.

‘The difference between holy power and magical power and the possibility of artificial generation’

As if they hadn’t reached the secret of the Constellation itself yet, the lecture itself dealt with the issue of ‘sacred power’, the power of the Constellation.

The main point is that holy power is expressed in the element of ‘belief’, and the effect is several times to dozens of times that of magical power.

And it is difficult to produce artificially compared to mana.

The Faith Equation presented by Lafless.

It was a spell that formulated the conditions for the generation of holy power in runes.

“…It’s not perfect yet. This is the mechanism for generating holy power.”

I looked up and looked at the spell Lafless wrote on the blackboard.

analog way similar to me.

The arrangement and flow of the rune words drawn in chalk are engraved on the retina and penetrated into the brain.

Moment.

“Ugh.”

A spark flew in my head.

It was an incomprehensible phenomenon.

It was the first spell I had ever seen, and it wasn’t easy for me to understand because I was in a different field.

A light flashed in front of my eyes, accompanied by pain that felt like my brain was heating up.

Knowledge and knowledge, the sense that the synapses of neurons are forcibly connected.

And, something forced to comprehend.

‘What. I don’t have this kind of knowledge…’

faith equation.

It contained only a small part of the principle of the generation of holy power.

So, as Lafless said, that equation is incomplete.

And, in my head, the answer to fill that imperfection was being drawn.

“This···.”

I felt a wave of energy pulsating in my chest.

not mana

A more pure and holy power than that.

The holy power received from Laniakea was reacting.

‘Laniakea?’

The moment I called her name.

The power of holy power gathered in his head, creating a brilliant white glow in front of his eyes.

The banquet hall is calm. This is the light that only I can see.

And this light was a light I had seen once.

sometime, on the record.

With the hive mind recreated by mind control, he seizes the magical power of that place, and from beyond what he saw for a moment.

I saw this light

The eternal and brilliant ‘light of the beginning’.

It is one of the brightest truths, and a power that I could not understand at the time.

However, the moment he saw the equation that stripped away even a small piece of the secret of the constellation, the awakened holy power began to tell his secret as if a puzzle was being put together.

At this moment, I understood the ‘perfect secret’ of holy power.

“professor?”

“…it’s nothing.”

My head was hot like it was on fire.

But his mind was clearer than ever.

When I looked up and looked at the ceremony again, a sense of frustration flooded my clear mind.

It was frustrating because he understood all the incomplete spells.

I’m not doing it like that.

“It’s still an incomplete formula, so comments and advice are always welcome. The military will reward those who give good answers.”

No one raised a hand.

The fact that it was a spell related to holy power itself was an unfamiliar concept.

Even if there were questions, it was too early to come up with opinions or advice.

In the middle of such a quiet crowd.

I raised my hand.

“Ah. You’re a colleague of mine.”

She pointed at me with a meaningless smile.

The attention of the audience was focused on this.

“professor···?”

“Wait. I need you soon.”

“Yeah??”

Leaving behind her tilting her head, Lafless said to me who handed over the microphone.

“It’s the same workplace, but today is the first time I met Professor Yujin Kang.”

“Yes. I see.”

“hahahaha…do you have any questions?”

“No. I would like to tell you about the errors and improvements in the formula.”

The crowd was agitated.

Discussing errors and improvements after seeing the magic formula first announced today.

It’s presumptuous, but I didn’t stop.

Because now, in my head, the whole improvement of that equation has come to mind.

“Sacred power is the power of faith. In other words, it is impossible to calculate because it is mediated by an illogical element called ‘faith’.”

Belief is an ideological element interpreted by individual subjectivity.

It is subjective to exist as much as the number of people, so it is impossible to calculate this with common sense.

The reason why that equation is incomplete is because that part could not be found.

“Estel. Follow me.”

“yes···.”

I took her up to the podium.

“Can I get the chalk?”

“Professor. The lecture hall is only a space for presentations…”

“chalk.”

I held out my hand to her and fixed my gaze.

“please give it to me.”

“·······.”

Laflis, who looked this way for a moment, slightly averted her gaze and held out the chalk.

She grabbed the microphone instead of the chalk and took a step back.

It seemed that he was determined to see what he was doing.

“Estel.”

“Yes, Professor.”

“From now on, reproduce the formula I am writing.”

No drinking

Spells involving subjectivity cannot fully convey information.

I erased all the spells written by Lafless and filled the place with numbers and symbols.

“Professor Lafless’s ceremony is wonderful, but the ceremony does not proceed because it embraces the illogical element of ‘faith’.”

Laflis nodded disapprovingly.

Of course, it is an element that must be included, so it is an eye that cannot be helped.

“Then, we must derive the purest state before faith is expressed as faith.”

I remembered the pure light I saw on the other side of the record.

I couldn’t understand it, but I came to understand it because of Laniakea’s holy power.

The knowledge of the ‘primitive light’ began to be written in the form of formulas.

“That, that…!”

“Is everyone watching now?”

“Is that possible!?”

The crowd is buzzing.

He moved his hand silently in that voice.

I don’t know if I’m writing formulas or if formulas are writing me.

I moved my hand as if half possessed.

As soon as I understood the knowledge I had understood with my holy power, inspiration surged in my head like an explosion.

I was just solving it through formulas.

“Estel. Recreate it.”

“···Yeah.”

And, putting down the chalk, I called her.

Although the blackboard was packed full of mathematical formulas, Estelle understood them all.

While sweating and groaning, he gradually begins to make the original meaning of the formula his own.

That’s why I brought her up.

If Estelle could fully understand this formula, but did not have holy power.

I’ll be able to fully reproduce this.

Paaa-!

“ah.”

And.

In the hands of Estelle, who reproduced the formula and spread her magic.

A ray of brilliance shone.

It was the ‘light of a star’ that contained a purer light than any other holy power.

“That is your power now.”

“·······.”

I patted Estelle’s shoulder with a dazed face and handed the used chalk to Laflis.

“That is all.”

She dropped the microphone she was holding.