[Why did elementary particles appear and disappear at any time?]
[Exactly where were they headed and what kind of place was it?]
This was the main question that appeared on the cover of an online website called Elementary Science of the Unknown.
Aside from that question, there were many other questions just below this question at the top of the website.
In the bottom right corner of the website, there was a chat room where messages appeared every few minutes.
It seemed like only two people were talking in the public chat.
- "Hasn't there been news from that Star Engineer from the Frozen Continent who said that he had found a way to solve the question of the century?" Level six Star Engineer Aldchel.
- "I think his name is Beorthed, a level seven Star Engineer." Level six Star Engineer Laswulf.
- "I'm talking about him!" Aldchel.
- "The same as always. He found a path that supposedly led to the answer. But when the headquarters that is on the Frozen Continent of the Association of Stars Engineers tried to verify his investigation, it was of no use." Laswulf.
- "It remained as another theory in the long list." Laswulf.
- "It was to be expected. It is not for nothing that it is a question that no one has been able to solve in hundreds of years." Aldchel.
- "Now that I think about it, I seem to remember that you are in the Frozen Continent right now." Aldchel.
- "You're right. If it wasn't for level seven Star Engineer Paulan requesting my help for that project, I wouldn't be on this horrible continent." Laswulf.
- "Oh! Is that project going well?" Aldchel.
- "...Honestly, it's going very badly." Laswulf.
- "It's normal. What they are trying to achieve with this project is another important advance for humanity. If for some reason it were to be completed..." Aldchel.
- "Well, enough talk. I have to go, another day in which the question of the century remains unanswered." Laswulf.
- "Another day. Let's talk more another time." Aldchel.
This little chat that no one would notice went completely silent.
In a big lab with all kinds of research devices around. A middle-aged man turned off his holographic wristband with a bored expression.
He stared at his lab with a lost look.
Sigh...
"Next time, I'll ask old Laswulf to ask Paulan if he'll let me join the project."
"Lately, there is nothing that interests me, and my mental energy is increasing too slowly. I don't know when I will touch level seven."
This man was Aldchel, who was recently chatting with Laswulf.
With nothing to do, Aldchel left his lab, and after fixing himself something to eat, he sat down on a comfortable sofa.
He looked at a large holographic screen on which some people were discussing various scientific advances and the daily accidents of groups of Stars Masters disappearing into rainbow portals confirming their deaths.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, the program was interrupted.
An elegant man who appeared to be in his early thirties with an excited expression said, "I am Edvin, a level six Star Engineer. Today humanity took another step towards a brighter future."
Edvin, who could no longer contain his excitement, said, "The question of the century that has been unsolved for several hundred years was solved this very day!"
"What!?"
Aldchel rose from the sofa in disbelief.
"How can this be possible!?"
"Could it be that Beorthed's answer was correct and old Laswulf lied to me!?"
He just couldn't believe that his old friend had lied to him about such an important matter just to surprise him.
Not wanting to speculate any further, Aldchel continued to listen to what Edvin was saying.
"I know what everyone is thinking. Who was the Star Engineer who successfully answered the question of the century?"
With a somewhat awkward look, Edvin replied.
"Actually, the only thing we know is that this person is from the Space Continent. To be more precise, it is from the country of Rowsil."
"Other than that, we don't know anything else. The person in question has already claimed the prize of ten million Stars Coins."
Stolen novel; please report.
With these words, Edvin began to explain what was the result of the answer sent by that anonymous person.
"What you are going to see next is a duplicate made by an artificial intelligence, since only Star Engineers of level six and above can verify the truth with their own eyes."
A video appeared on the holographic screen showing the moment when several groups of blue elementary particles that were floating on a long river suddenly disappeared.
The video was repeated. But this time, when the blue elementary particles disappeared.
A man aimed his mental energy at the place where the elemental particles disappeared and entered a colorful world where his mental energy only lasted for two seconds before being destroyed by a massive planet-sized fireball that happened to pass by.
Aldchel, who was paying close attention to the holographic display, was stunned for a moment.
"Quick!"
Then, as if he couldn't wait any longer, he replicated the exact method that was shown with his mental energy to enter that strange world of colors.
His mental energy followed a group of gray elemental particles and successfully entered the same colored world that appeared on the screen.
"!"
Aldchel only had time to watch as a thunder palm of immeasurable size ripped through his mental energy!
Huff! Huff!
His face was pale from great mental exhaustion from being injured using the connection of his mental energy with his brain by that thunder palm.
Still, he said happily.
"This is incredible!"
"The scientific advances that this discovery will bring will be limitless!"
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In the big room, where Rose was training.
Lanaery finally learned how to use the holographic wristband Rose gave her.
She was looking at a golden card on the screen with the figure of ten million Stars Coins in the middle of the card.
She still didn't understand how she got this sum of money that was definitely not small at all.
At least that's what she thought when she remembered the prices of hamburgers and antiques.
A hamburger alone was worth hundreds of Stars Coins. She tried to calculate the number of hamburgers that she could buy with this ten million and could only say that it was a ridiculous figure.
Of course, Lanaery believed that this money was better used to buy more antiques.
Half a day ago, Lanaery was looking for some basic information about this world.
She soon learned that extremely intelligent humans existed capable of creating all sorts of impressive technologies effortlessly.
These humans were also the creators of the Kryons, the nanobots, and basically everything that humans used in their daily lives.
Stars Engineers was the name used to refer to these super-intelligent humans.
Lanaery soon learned that aside from the Battle Sensil that created the Stars Masters, there was also an Intelligence Sensil.
While learning about these things, Lanaery went to a website called Elementary Science of the Unknown and saw a long line of questions to which she knew almost all the answers.
Which was very normal since almost everything had to do with the elements, and her race was already born knowing the basics.
After thousands of years, her race had been spent learning to use the elements in many ways. For this reason, there was almost nothing that Lanaery did not know about the elements.
Lanaery answered the first question she saw because there was a monetary prize.
She originally thought it was a few thousand Stars Coins. Who could have known that was far from the truth...
Just half an hour ago, out of the blue, Lanaery received several thank you messages and this golden card. She saw that in her messages, they asked for her identification number and a lot of things that she clearly didn't have.
So she just ignored all these messages.
There was only one message that caught Lanaery's attention, and it was from someone named Imilt, who claimed to be from the Stars Engineers Association of the Star continent, which was the most influential and powerful continent in this world.
The message said that when she needed something, his association would fulfill it as long as it wasn't a wild request.
Lanaery had planned to ask him for antiques. But she rejected this thought, as she thought it was too much trouble considering the distance between the continents.
Also, she believed that there might be something in the future that she might need.
She saw that Rose was already beginning to tremble and could barely move her arms and legs. So Lanaery reached out to her and removed all these problems in an instant.
"Ah..."
Rose, who was taking advantage of that little moment to rest, was speechless as Lanaery knew in less than a second that she had stopped moving, and she had put her body back in its best condition.
"I'm going out for a bit. Keep training non-stop. The progress you've made in this short amount of time is pretty decent, and don't worry about getting injured, I left a bit of my divine power in your body, it will heal almost any damage when appear."
These were not empty words from Lanaery. In reality, Rose had been improving so fast that she already had the physical condition of a five-year-old hero. This was quite surprising considering that she started training two short days ago.
"Are you going to buy more hamburgers?"
"Do you need me to give you more money?"
Rose asked with a barbell on her back with a hundred pounds on each side. Her pretty purple eyes reflected the suffering she was going through.
"There's no need."
With these short words, Lanaery left the mansion and headed to the teleportation point.
Lanaery this time had a big goal in mind.
She would try to test if her body was compatible with the Battle Sensil that humans used to become Stars Masters.
The place she had to go to receive an injection of the so-called level one Battle Sensil was at the Stars Masters' association.
Although Lanaery saw that there were other places where she could inject a Battle Sensil for herself, those places had a very bad reputation for being products with some side effects.
With the astonished gaze of the employees in holographic black and white uniforms at her unrivaled appearance. She used her holographic wristband to pay for the trip using the gold card. Only a measly few hundred Stars Coins were deducted from the ten million.
"Teleport activated. Destination: Brilliant City. Have a good trip."
Like last time, she saw these colored lights. But she now understood that they were elements that reflected the space and time of this world. When an element took the form of a living thing, it was a living thing that once existed thousands or millions of years ago.
The same thing happened with the mountains and all the forms that these elements took.
Lanaery figured it out after thinking about what she had seen the previous time and combined it with her knowledge of the space element.
"Welcome to Brilliant City. Enjoy your stay."
She followed the path indicated by her holographic wristband. As usual, there was no shortage of people staring at her, even if it meant those people had several accidents in the process.
Some floated wearing a pair of sneakers that allowed them to float. Because they were distracted looking at her, they collided with Kryons, who instantly sent them flying without knowing their whereabouts.
This happened so much that Lanaery considered wearing a mask. What bothered her the most were some young people who followed her, and when she waited to see what they wanted, they tried to invite her to an unknown place.
Lanaery simply released a drop of her killing intent from her eyes, which caused these youngsters to lose control of their bladder out of fear and run away in a panic, yelling that she was a high-level Star Master.
Finally, she arrived in front of a gigantic blue-glass building that was shaped like an 'M'.
In the upper right corner was a logo of a small portal with many colors and a human in the center surrounded by a serpent-like Kryon.
Beneath the logo, it said Brilliant City Stars Masters Association.