Lord of Annihilation

Chapter 20: Working on the Research.

Standing in that lowered floor, Lucius suddenly felt a new kind of energy enter his mind. A cool and refreshing feeling started spreading through his mind. He could feel his thoughts getting clearer and more focused.

Lucius closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Outside, a sudden flash of blue light rose up around and encased the area around Lucius. Various numbers and diagrams started appearing and eventually sorted itself into its respective places.

Seeing this Reyna was shocked and thought to herself, 'This must be his first time using FreeFlow and yet he's already adjusted his mind and ordered all the information being transmitted real time. It didn't even take him a few seconds.'

FreeFlow was a special type of machine that allowed a user to be one with the machine. The logical thinking and the computation of person's brain would be multiplied making their thoughts clearer and minds less stressed.

Usually the first time, it would take a person's brain a couple of minutes to almost an hour to get used to this miraculous state. Even Reyna, who uses this often takes a few minutes to adjust all the chaotic data and categorize it.

Eventually Lucius opened his eyes and started waving his hands. His hands rapidly started writing sentences and formulas. The system received his input and started computing on it.

Sentence after sentence, formula after formula filled the screen. In just a few minutes the computer was having trouble keeping up with the sheer amount of calculation need and started falling behind.

Lucius clicked his tongue at this and thought, 'Such a slow machine.'

One had to know, this computer was the latest and fastest machine available in the alliance. It was a light-speed quantum machine, that was specifically known for its computing prowess. This same machine right now was struggling under Lucius' use.

It wasn't because the data was huge, but because the variables Lucius had quoted and used were something that didn't exist prior to now. The values used by Lucius had to be individually referenced by the computer and it had to make sure all of them were correct. Lucius was building a rudimentary mathematical model for the system of souls from scratch!

Of course he did not include various integral aspects of the soul or even mention it. If anymore data was carelessly provided, he might start affecting the causality and ruin his plans. At that point the results would be disastrous.

Eventually seeing it really couldn't keep up, Lucius decided to stop and started helping it out in it's calculation.

His speed was even faster than that of the machine.

Outside, Reyna was having a mental breakdown. At first, seeing the research she had read before being categorized more thoroughly she was incomparably excited. Then when the mathematical model was being built she started becoming confused. Then when she saw the machine struggling to keep up, she was simply amazed.

Now, seeing him help the machine with it's calculations and being even faster than it, Reyna began doubting reality. She even pinched herself to check whether it hurt.

"Ow that hurts.", she winced at the sharp pain on her cheek. Then she stared at Lucius with her eyes wide open. "This monster!"

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Lucius being able to calculate faster than a machine must not be attributed to him, rather to someone else. Although he had his 300 years worth of memories and experience, in the end he was still human. The human brain could only compute so much information and could not be faster than a machine.

The reason for this, came in the form a crystal sitting in his pocket.

One had to know that, Ka'lor'ah was someone who caused 'The Rule was Causality' to stop working and successfully send back Lucius to this year. The sheer amount of planning and computation required for such a feat was simply incalculable. For her to be computing something like a mere, mathematical model like this one could be considered as child's play.

She calculated from inside Lucius' pocket and transmitted the results for her calculation into Lucius' mind. Lucius receiving these thoughts immediately wrote it into the FreeFlow space.

With the assistance of Lucius, the computer finally caught up with the data. Seeing this, Lucius continued with his work and paced himself in a manner in which the computer could keep up.

This action went on for a few hours before he finally came to a stop. The light screen around Lucius disappeared and he stepped up from the platform. He flexed his wrists a bit as they had become sore from all that writing.

Looking up, he saw Reyna look at him in a weird manner. Lucius furrowed his brows and then asked her, "Everything all right?"

Reyna just dumbly stared at him and spoke a few words, "You are simply inhuman."

Lucius just shrugged at her comment and walked towards one of the tables. The table was filled with a few flat aluminium boxes. Sitting down in one of the chairs, Lucius pulled a box towards him and opened it's seal.

A dense layer of smoke and a mouth-watering aroma spread out. Lucius then immediately started shoving all the food into his mouth. Although Ka'lor'ah did most of the calculation, he was still the one who built the model. Lucius was actually nervous the entire time, lest he mess up and accidentally alter the causality and end up bringing 'Their' attention to him. He and Ka'lor'ah would be finished at that point.

After finishing his box of food, Lucius still felt hungry. He then looked over at the other box and saw that it was untouched. Looking over at Reyna, he noticed that she was still staring at him dumbly. He then proceeded to open the other box and start eating it's contents.

"Wah, that's mine. Give it back.", Reyna let out a sharp scream and ran over towards Lucius.

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While this was happening in the lab, on the floor just above it was the president's office.

Coming into this floor it could be described with two words, 'spectacularly luxurious'

A large red carpet inled the entire floor. The material of the carpet felt so soft that one could feel their calves sinking into it.

Wood panelling decorated the walls and various inscriptions were carved onto them. The carvings were of trees, floors, brids, etc.

In the middle of the room, sat a large mahogany desk. The original trees of Earth were almost now almost non-existent. With the the constant expansion and growth of mankind 300 years ago, trees were cut down in majority. Fortunately, with the breakthroughs in science and terraforming, deforestation was largely solved and such issues no longer plagued humanity.

From this it can be estimated that the value of this wood is simply astronomical.

Two men could were present in this floor.

One man sat behind the desk and another stood before him. The man sitting was Reyna's father, while the one standing was wearing a black suit and had his face covered.

"Tell me the results of your investigation.", Reyna's father spoke up.

"The young heir of the Keith family was behind all of this. In order to catch the attention of the Young Miss, he plotted to steal the research from that boy.", Uncle Black replied.

Hearing this Reyna's father nodded and said," I see. That's okay, as long as my daughter is unhurt and is happy, it's all that matters."

"Sire, If I may.", Uncle Black suddenly spoke up.

"That's interesting, To think Black would speak up on his own initiative. Tell me.", Reyna's father said with a light smile.

Uncle Black hesitated for a second and spoke, "This boy Lucius, he's not as simple as he looks.". He then paused for a second and continued, "When I was trailing behind the young miss, he instantly noticed me when I placed my gaze on him. At the moment he saw me, I felt an intense feeling wash over me."

"Oh? What kind of feeling?", Reyna's father asked with a serious expression on his face.

"The feeling that my life was no longer in my own hands."

"It was the feeling,.... of Death!"

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