216 – Overcoming
Isabella and Enya’s expressions hardened.
I couldn’t believe it, but it was true.
I never thought Edgar would really be sitting in Elmar’s estate with Lucas.
Claire narrowed her eyes and looked at Isabella and Enya.
“Look, am I right? “You said you two were together.”
“······.”
Shadows fell on Enya and Isabella’s faces.
When I thought that Claire’s hypothesis might be correct, I became dizzy.
What if Lucas was Ed’s lover as Claire hypothesized?
Is it possible for even the same man to develop romantic feelings if they were lovers in a past life?
I heard that in distant countries, it is common for a female monarch to have a female concubine and a male monarch to have her male concubine.
What if the two of you had made love in that culture in a past life?
‘Should I kill him…?’
A bloody thought briefly crossed their minds.
In the culture of the empire, same-s*x marriage was impossible, so such a thing should never have happened.
If Edgar Lucas truly cared about him, it could have had a huge social impact.
‘Disintegrate…!’
More than anything, I was angry.
They can’t believe they are being pushed around by a man who is not even the same woman.
Of course, Lucas has the handsome face of anyone, but still, how can they be pushed aside by men?
He is someone who is not overlooked wherever he goes with his looks.
“I’m going to check it out myself. “I can’t believe it.”
So Isabella and Enya took long strides.
I couldn’t believe anything until I saw their relationship in person.
After hearing that Ed and Lucas were training at the training center, Isabella, Enya, and Claire moved to the training center.
I crept in unnoticed and took a peek at the scene where Ed and Lucas were training.
Lucas was drenched in sweat with his shirt off, and Ed was looking at him with a happy face.
-Gulp.
Three women looking at the two with tense expressions.
Soon, Ed stood up and approached Lucas.
And she said something to him, and she put her hand on his heart.
Lucas nodded his head and closed his eyes.
“···Well, what are you doing… No way···?”
Ed laid his hand on Lucas to teach him how to use mana.
However, for those who doubted the relationship between the two, it was a sight that could easily cause misunderstanding.
Why would a grown man ever put his hand on another man’s chest?
Ed, who had no way of knowing this or not, was teaching Lucas the know-how.
“Lucas. As you know, your family specializes in twisting space and performing anomalous attacks. “If you use it well, you can cause devastating damage.”
Lucas nodded his head.
As Ed said, the Elmar family’s special technique was to distort space to either directly hit the opponent or bypass their own attack.
For example, it specializes in anomalous attacks that utilize space, such as an energy bolt flying in a straight line suddenly appearing behind the back, or a sword strike from the top suddenly bursting out from the bottom.
“But space is closely related to time. There is often a notion that time is just time and space is just space, but time and space are an organic relationship. “I call this ‘space-time.'”
Einstein’s theory of relativity overcame Newton’s classical mechanics.
Ed informed Lucas of the relationship between time and space resulting from this theory of relativity.
Of course, I could not explain the principles of relativity to him, so he only told me that time and space are an inseparable organic relationship.
“······It’s difficult. Time and space are one organic relationship. I understand well…”
However, in this world dominated by the common sense that time and space are independent elements, it was difficult for Lucas to accept Ed’s theory.
How can time, which only runs from the past to the future, and space, which forms a dimension, be the same concept?
Ed nodded and said.
“I understand. It might be difficult to accept from the beginning. “I’ll show you an example to make it easier to understand.”
So Ed decided to slowly convince Lucas.
He used hologram skills to create a two-dimensional plane.
It was a square surface.
Ed said, pointing to the plane.
“Now, let’s assume this is the universe. “I’m going to build a solar system here.”
Ed said that and brought a red ball.
Then he placed the red ball on a square plane.
Then, the plane caved in proportion to the weight of the ball, and the red ball took its place.
Ed looked back at Lucas and said.
“So far, is there anything strange? “The red ball settles on a square plane and the spot becomes indented.”
“······.”
Lucas saw a red ball placed on a square plane.
There didn’t seem to be anything particularly strange.
Isn’t it natural that if you place a heavy object on a soft material, the place will dent?
This happens even when you sit on your butt in the sand or place a heavy pot on a leather sofa.
There didn’t seem to be anything that violated the laws of physics.
“···It won’t be a problem. “It’s a natural phenomenon.”
“Okay. Then it’s time to move on to the next step.”
As Ed said that, he dropped several small balls around the red ball.
Then, several small balls began to slowly fall, circling around the red ball.
Getting dragged into a hollow place.
“How about this? “Is this also an understandable phenomenon?”
And Ed asked if I understood this phenomenon.
Lucas immediately nodded his head as if there was no need to think.
“Well, it’s a common phenomenon. “It is natural for objects to fall along a sloped surface.”
However, Lucas suddenly blurted out his words.
This is because I realized what Ed was trying to explain.
“This… explains gravity, right? The force with which an object attracts another object. “That red ball in the middle is the sun.”
Gravity.
Ed was teaching about the concept of gravity.
The world can progress further only if we know the principles of the universe, so he widely publicized the concepts of classical mechanics and modern mechanics through several lectures at universities.
For this reason, Lucas also knew the concept of gravity.
“Yes, what you are looking at now is the solar system. The largest red ball is the sun, and around it are smaller balls. In other words, there are multiple planets orbiting around it.”
“······.”
Lucas swallowed his saliva and looked at the hologram.
A red ball nestled on a soft cloth, and small balls being sucked into the hollow space caused by the red ball.
It was a simulation that allowed one to intuitively understand the concept of gravity.
“Okay, then we’re going to bring in the light here now. “This is the light.”
Ed said that and brought out a white thread.
And then he looked back at Lucas and said.
“Let’s assume that light comes from a very distant place. “Light will travel like this.”
Ed said that and took the thread from outside the square.
In fact, when passing through a square plane, it went in a straight line, but due to its mass, when passing through a hollow space, it curved as much as the hollow space.
In other words, when an object passes through a place where gravity is strong due to its large mass, the light is bent accordingly.
“Can you see the light bending and passing through? The greater the gravity, the greater the bending of the light. And the light…”
“···Rice flies at an unchanging speed! “The speed of rotating around the Earth 7.5 Times in 1 second!”
“You are a model student. I remember it well. Yes, the speed of light is 299792458 m/s. It is the fastest speed in the universe and a physical constant that never changes. But if light passes through a place with strong gravity and is bent, what will happen to the speed of light?
“···It will be slow. “The stronger the gravity, the more bent the light will be and the longer it will have to travel.”
Lucas answered like that and looked at the hologram summoned by Ed with a blank face.
The threads Ed brought all had different degrees of bending depending on gravity.
It was not moving in a straight line, but in a winding manner.
“Okay. Light is bent according to the curvature of space and time. This is general relativity, one of the theories of relativity. In other words, time flows relatively differently.”
Lucas nodded his head.
I had only understood time and space as independent concepts, but after giving an example like this, I was able to roughly understand the concept.
Soon Ed spoke.
“Lucas, you can become something much greater than you are now. “If you understand the concept of space and time, the precision with which you twist space will far surpass that of your ancestors.”
Ed mentions Lucas’ potential and encourages him.
However, Lucas smiled bitterly.
His lifelong complex was that he was of common mercenary blood, and he had set his own limits whether he knew it or not.
Ed said, putting his hand on his shoulder.
“Are you doubting your potential? “I’m afraid of your father.”
“···!”
Lucas looked at Ed with a surprised expression.
Lucas’s expression seemed to ask how he knew.
Ed said, nodding his head.
“I’ve had a conversation with your mother. “About your deceased father.”
“Ah…”
“···But Lucas. Sir Adella said, I heard that you have now gotten over your resentment against your father. “Sometimes I go to the tombstone to say hello…”
As Ed said, Lucas accepted his roots.
As she watched Edgar Fix, a commoner, grow into the center of the academy, she felt relieved that it was okay to have commoner blood, and recognized her father.
However, the hatred and distrust toward my father that had accumulated over a long period of time still remained.
The fact that her mother, who was called ‘the flower of the empire,’ became a single mother,
The fact that he was not loved by his grandparents because he had commoner blood,
Because of that, it took quite some time to adopt the last name ‘Elmar’.
When he debuted in the Church of Jesus, he was disparaged as a half-nobleman.
In order to overcome all that discrimination and resentment, I have lived my whole life worrying about what others think and acting ‘perfect’.
Anyway, due to his father’s absence, an inferiority complex took root in Lucas’ mind.
Following his mother to his father’s tombstone was simply an attempt to be honest with his heart in order to catch up with Ed, whom he admired, but it did not mean that he had overcome all of his previous complexes.
“Actually…”
And Lucas honestly confessed his feelings to Ed.
Because he is his goal and a trustworthy friend.
He honestly said that he felt like he still had some hatred and resentment toward his father, and that he had not fully accepted him yet.
Ed said, nodding her head.
“···I understand. It must not have been easy. “As a father, I have to face such a situation due to his absence.”
“······.”
“But Lucas, your father… Gave his life to save Sir Elmar. “It’s a miracle that your mother survived that place that was devastated by the monster wave.”
“···Yes, my mother has said it countless times. But I… Can’t believe it. As you know, your mother is an amazing person. “They just credited her mother to her father to punish her father, but I think her mother escaped on her own.”
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Ed looked at Lucas intently.
This bastard got it through me because I worked so hard.
But since he couldn’t say that, Ed launched a hologram.
The time has come to sell medicine.
“Lucas, then I have something to tell you. “Look here.”
Ed said this and uploaded a video of ‘Jack Dionel’ struggling to save Adela.
Lucas muttered with wide eyes.
“This is…?”
“This is a video of your father rescuing Sir Adela 19 years ago. “Your mother wasn’t as strong back then as she is now.”
“······.”
Lucas looked at Ed with a face full of suspicion.
It was as if he was asking how you knew what happened at that time and how you showed it on video like this.
Ed said, nodding his head.
“Your father was a Celestial.”
“·····!!!”
“To be exact, it contained the power and will of a celestial being.”
“Well, then…”
“Yes, I inherited your father’s power. When he died, the mana that dispersed into nature seeped into me, and his memories and power were passed down to me.”
Lucas swallowed his saliva and collected his thoughts.
If everything Ed said is true, it would explain why Ed, a commoner, suddenly manifested mana and became the strongest cadet in the academy, and how his father, a commoner, saved his mother by beating through countless monsters.
In the meantime, Ed pointed at the hologram and spoke to Lucas.
“Look. “What kind of person is your father?”
“······.”
Afterwards, Lucas focused on video.
The scenes of Jack Dionel fighting desperately to save Adela were vividly displayed on my retina.
His father loved his mother, and ultimately sacrificed his own life to save her.
Tears naturally flowed from that dedication and cruelty.
“Ah, father…”
“···The two promised a future. “I was planning to get married officially once I got out of there alive.”
The video was already coming to an end.
Jack, whose life is almost at an end, gives his necklace to Adela, and Adela sobs as she hugs Jack, whose life has ended.
Lucas watched the scene while wiping away the tears that were welling up.
And she finally understood why her mother had been wearing that old necklace for over a dozen years.
It was proof of unchanging love.
No matter how much the world criticizes her mother for harboring the seed of a commoner mercenary, she has proven that she cannot be shaken.
-Paat.
Just like that, the video was turned off.
Lucas shook his back and continued to sob.
She felt so foolish for blaming her father all this time, and she felt pathetic for not taking her mother’s words seriously.
But on the other hand, I felt like my resentment and inferiority complex toward my father were being washed away by my tears.
I felt the cool sensation of something that had been blocked opening up.
“···Lucas. You were not born wrong. You are the fruit of perfect love and have inherited the power of a celestial being. “Don’t put limits on your possibilities.”
And Ed patted the back of a sobbing Lucas and said that.
Since you have chosen the life of ‘Edgar Fix’, this is all you can do.
As Lucas’ ‘friend’, he gave everything he could.
A trace of the power within Lucas began to shine.
***
10 Minutes later.
After gathering his emotions, Lucas began training again.
As Ed said, time and space are integrated and manipulated by varying the movement of mana.
-Paaat!
Then, a small amount of power inherited from ‘Jack Dionel’ was fused with Lucas’ mana.
The power to control the temporal property called ‘reversion’ was expressed by mixing it with a special technique that twists space.
-Gooooo…
Then Lucas began to see things that had not been visible before.
The mechanical structure necessary to form space is also visible.
With this, Lucas entered the initial stage of ‘awakening’.