It’s my birthday 🥳🎂🎊 🎉

which is unrelated to poet’s birthday, that was just an unexpected coincidence🤔

there won’t be a new chapter today because I am celebrating. However, I will use this opportunity to explain some things about the novel that I find difficult to naturally explain in the story without it being out of place.

Specifically, how is Claus able to teleport as he pleases and teleportation magic in general.

As you might have noticed I am trying to make the story as grounded in real science as possible with the exception that aether is real.

If I had to sum up the power system of the novel it would be modern science, maybe even theoretical science but with ancient philosophy guiding it.

If some of you are familiar with ancient science mainly the writings of Aristotle though not limited to him, then you would know that in ancient times they divided everything in the world into 4 elements: fire, water, air, and earth.

And I do mean everything and it wasn’t limited to…. well to the obvious things only.

To explain what I mean let’s take fire for example.

the fire element didn’t just refer to normal fire it also referred to stuff like acids and venoms and such and in some places in the Middle East the common name for sulphuric acid to this day is liquid fire.

Hence why in the “ ancestral fire” chapter plasma and fire are used interchangeably. That was my attempt to show that to people in the future, they are the same thing.

Also, you would know there is a fifth element which is Aether, and that aether makes up and/or holds the heavens.

in some writings, aether is actually the primary material of the universe and the 4 elements are just different parts and forms of aether similar to how the 7 colors of the rainbow make up white light when combined.

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Also, based on when you were born you would be one of the 4 elements.

Fun fact, and you might already know this but this idea sorta survived to this day. It’s now part of astrology along with your zodiac sign you would be told which of the 4 elements you are.

In our story though if you are an elf or a half you have affinity with the 4 elements not just one.

Which finally brings us back to Claus.

As a half elf he was born with an affinity to all 4 elements and as we just explained mixing all 4 elements gives you aether and specifically out of the four fundamental forces: electromagnetic, gravity, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear forces, Claus is able to access gravity.

And he is able to use this gravity to bend space to create wormholes in the fabric of space.

BUT

And this is a very big BUT

This is different from the aether magic that Naoi and Ken use .

First Claus doesn’t technically possess the ability to control aether, he is generating aether by mixing the 4 elements.

Second, he is doing this instinctively due to his affinity he isn’t aware of what exactly he is doing.

That means a few things. One, it means if Ken wanted to do the same he would need to learn all the information and steps needed to do it…. Manually for the lack of better words.

It also means Claus can’t do anything else besides open portals since he doesn’t control ambient aether and lacks the knowledge of how to do it.

A side important note, people in the future don’t know everything about aether and magic. For example, Claus doesn’t know why he is able to open portals, to him it’s just something he was born with.

Now some perceptive people among you may have noticed two issues with what I am saying.

First, wormholes are extremely unstable and need massive amounts of negative mass to maintain.

Well, that would be true if it was a normal wormhole in which the gravity is the result of the massive amount of mass such as in the case of a black hole. However, in this case, gravity is generated directly without any mass attached and space is bent with gravity alone and energy is provided by the aether field.

Second, in the early chapters, I explained that jumping long distances is impossible without the aid of the teleportation pillars which do the calculations for you unless you want to end up in outer space.

Well, that remains to be true. However, Claus as team leader of strike team 1 was given an item to solve this issue for him.

Specifically, a watch made by Sophia which is linked to the same network as the pillars and uses the closest 3 pillars to triangulate Claus’s location in space at all times allowing him to perform long distance teleportation.

Well, that is all for today 😁

If you guys are interested, I could use more bonus chapters to discuss other stuff that I can’t fit naturally into the story.

it won’t only be science topics there will be also other topics like the gear of the strike force teams, information on a certain nature obsessed organization, etc etc.

and if you can’t wait to read the next chapter well Kofi members get to read one chapter ahead it’s only 3 $ a month, eventually I will add more chapters ahead for Kofi members and look out for Ken art coming soon.

That is all see you Friday 🙂