Chapter 1077 - 830: A Small Press Conference

The Imperial meeting hall was specifically built for an important meeting. Today, Lily and Sasa, the sisters, will hold an academic public conference here, where they are rumored to reveal their major discovery.

Holding conferences for significant academic breakthroughs is not uncommon, not only within the entire Plane but even within this very meeting hall, which has hosted more than a dozen such events. But what kind of discovery could be so remarkable that the Emperor himself would host a conference for two children?

Some academic elders were invited to the conference, but they did not hold high expectations for this event. In their view, academics is built on a vast accumulation of knowledge, and age is definitely a significant barrier to this accumulation.

So, although they attended, it was mostly to give face to the Emperor, treating it like a trip at the public expense, paying it no real mind.

The conference soon began, and the hall below was silent. Lily and Sasa walked onto the stage together.

Despite their unfamiliar faces, their pure and lovely image still left a slightly good impression in the hearts of these old academic authorities.

"Might as well listen, if the content is interesting, perhaps I can discuss with the Emperor afterward, and it wouldn’t be bad to take them as my disciples," one elder said to his student beside him.

"Yes, teacher," the student replied.

Isrile and Ruosha took out the prepared imaging stones.

"You have larger breasts, you go first," Ruosha whispered to Isrile.

Isrile smiled faintly, then bowed slightly to the audience, "Distinguished guests, esteemed seniors, good day. My name is Lily, and this is my sister Sasa. Today we are going to present some of our research findings from the past half a year. Due to our youthful inexperience, if there is any omission, we welcome your criticism and corrections."

Their confidence, absence of stage fright, and politeness immediately left a good impression on everyone present.

"Our research focuses on spatial magic and space exploration. Six months ago, while conducting routine spatial magic exploration, we accidentally discovered that the seemingly empty spatial fissures might not be as vacant as we thought," Isrile said.

Some in the audience nodded, others shook their heads. This conclusion was not surprising; it had already been proven in some theoretical studies that life exists within spatial fissures, but no one had yet been able to actually observe it. After all, no matter what kind of transmission is used, the time people spend within a spatial fissure is an extremely brief instant—an instant so quick that the eyes can’t even catch an image of what’s inside the fissure.

"This discovery piqued our curiosity. Therefore, we have been striving to extend the duration that a space gate can remain within a spatial fissure. Indeed, we managed to do just that!"

When Isrile mentioned this, the experts below finally began to show interest.

The duration of a space gate’s stay within a fissure is a problem that has baffled many researchers of spatial magic. So far, no one has been able to overcome this. Could these two young girls really have succeeded?

"In fact, through a series of explorations, we have successfully extended the time a space gate remains in the fissure to 0.003 seconds!"

Ruosha operated the imaging crystal, which continuously displayed complex magic formulas. In the end, it showed a space gate with this exact timing.

0.003 seconds may not seem long, but compared to the nearly undetectable time before, this was already a tremendous advance!

"Most importantly, with the extension of this time, we successfully communicated with a being within the fissure!"

Upon hearing this, the whole room burst into chaos.

Communicating with a lifeform within the fissure? This was undoubtedly a groundbreaking event!

"Unfortunately, we did not record what the being within the fissure wanted to express at that time, nor could we understand what it was trying to tell us. Furthermore, since that incident, we have not been able to extend the time to 0.003 seconds again. We know our research is still flawed. So, we are holding this conference today mainly to share our findings, hoping that more people can use our discovery to overcome the magic’s shortcomings and truly find a perfect solution," Isrile said.

While speaking, Ruosha had already displayed a very complex magic formula. Every person present, whether they specialized in this research or not, immediately committed this formula to memory.

However, among the audience below, some experts were nearly glowing with excitement as they stared at Isrile and Ruosha. They occasionally exchanged glances and nodded subtly.

When the conference ended, these experts immediately gathered secretly together.

"This formula is very well-developed," one expert said.

"Too bad it has some internal inconsistencies. If not for these flaws, maybe this formula could really be used to open a large-scale fissure!" another expert said.

"The formula is not important, how they derived this formula is what’s most critical," a third person commented.

"So we..."

"Take them with us. They are our precious treasure. Leaving them here would only bury their brilliance!"

At the end of the conference, some experts rushed forward, eager to engage in in-depth conversation with Isrile and Ruosha. Amongst them were even distinguished senior mages.

"Children!" A venerable voice rose from the crowd, and everyone looked over, immediately ceasing their clamor. This elder was truly venerable, with students all across the Plane, and the surrounding experts all respectfully addressed him as ’teacher’.

"Hello," Isrile and Ruosha did not know him and could only greet him.

"Did you two come up with all of this content on your own?" the old man asked.

"Yes," Isrile and Ruosha nodded in unison.

"Who is your enlightening teacher?"

"Our enlightening teacher is called Nameless," the two said.

Nameless? The old man immediately thought that these children must be receiving secret education, that even their teacher’s name had to be kept confidential.

"Actually, I greatly admire the research results of you two. If possible, I’d like to invite you to spend a few days at my laboratory. Are you interested?"

The invitation from the old man filled the surrounding people with immense envy. It was a great honor in the academic world!

"This is our honor, thank you for your invitation. We will definitely visit!" Isrile and Ruosha said.

After the old man left, a number of experts and scholars immediately invited the two, and Isrile and Ruosha accepted each invitation. They indeed wanted to investigate who the internal saboteur hiding within the Empire was, so they naturally did not fear these invitations.

When the press conference was completely over and they returned backstage, Isrile and Ruosha collapsed together.

Breathing heavily, Isrile said, "My goodness, speaking is far more exhausting than fighting. Where do all these questions come from? I’ve already explained things so clearly, yet they still have to ask again. How dense can they be to not understand this?"

Ruosha, with eyes closed, said, "The formula we tossed out is a variant of the Giant magic formula, and it’s been modified with the help of the Balance Church, even we can hardly understand it. It would be strange if they could understand it."

Isrile let out a breath and opened her eyes to look at the ceiling, "I noticed at least three people with ill intentions."

Ruosha also opened her eyes and nodded, "I noticed them too, but having ill intentions doesn’t necessarily mean they are the lackeys of the Star Devourers. Maybe they just think we stole their thunder."

Isrile scoffed, "Stole their thunder? Me standing here and presenting this content is already giving them a lot of face, and they still dare to want the thunder!"

Ruosha grabbed Isrile’s face with one hand, "Stop pretending to be the Empress here. Let’s see how long you can keep up this act when Brother Long comes back!"

Isrile in turn grabbed Ruosha’s face with a swift motion, and the two of them started grappling with each other.

Afterward, Isrile and Ruosha began to fulfill the invitations one by one, visiting different academic societies or laboratories, exchanging academic insights with experts who had once been very proud. With knowledge far beyond that of their time, they effortlessly made those experts yield. Unfortunately, they found no one who appeared to serve the Star Devourers.

Until this evening.

Just after leaving a certain expert’s laboratory, the small airship that had been operating smoothly suddenly lost power. It hung motionless in mid-air and then, the small airship was abruptly swallowed up by a larger airship.

The guards were knocked out in an instant, and then a group of people appeared in front of them.

The four people leading them, three of whom Isrile and Ruosha had seen before, were those who had shown animosity towards them earlier in the venue.

"What are you going to do!" Isrile and Ruosha asked nervously, following the script they had prepared.

Yes, they were genuinely nervous. It was their first time performing so up close. What if they messed up?

"Don’t worry, we’re just taking you to a place where you can truly showcase your talents! But for now, I need you two to sleep for a while!"

Someone released a sleep magic spell, and Isrile and Ruosha immediately fell into a deep sleep, yet the person who cast the spell seemed surprised.

"What’s wrong?" another person asked.

"My magic was just cast. It shouldn’t have taken effect so quickly, should have it?"

"Check on them."

Two people immediately checked and then turned back to report, "No problem, they are both unconscious now."

"It seems I worried too much. These children must have never been attacked by magic before, so even the simplest sleep spell took effect rapidly," the spellcaster gave himself an explanation.

Meanwhile, the two who were pretending to be asleep let out a sigh of relief. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)