CHAPTER 247: CHAPTER 178: THIS IS MAGIC!

Ethan’s speech touched on Lindong’s knowledge blind spot. As his teacher in the field of elemental shaping, Lindong felt she was already struggling to keep up with his line of thought.

She humbly sought Ethan’s guidance, "Why is this magic? Teacher doesn’t understand."

Compared to the more visually intuitive ascension of fire and ice elements, utilizing the electric element seemed far more complex. Previously, Ethan had only demonstrated listening to the heart and glimpsing the images emerging in others’ minds. This wasn’t considered a particularly remarkable skill, as many followers of the God of Trickery understood this type of magic.

But directly altering human thoughts entered a different realm.

In people’s perception, only divine spirits could change human thoughts and mark them with a seal of approval.

"This is the result of my recent research."

Ethan said, "Why do encounters between people produce different sparks? Some people feel a liking for each other at first meeting, while others instinctively harbor aversion. This is due to the ’frequency’ of their electric waves."

The ascended electric element endowed Ethan with a meticulous observation ability. Each person’s appearance, style, and personality produced corresponding "electric waves," and in his view, all human attempts to embellish the senses were efforts to modify "electric waves" using language and experience.

It was the octopus-faced Mr. Ulta who allowed Ethan to gain a deeper understanding of this concept.

"Do you remember the Catwoman we met on Paradise Island? She liked Ulta very much and even called Ave a little carrot head."

To this, Ave responded with "strange aesthetics of the subhuman."

This was a typical case.

"When the electric waves of two people match, it results in positive evaluations such as being handsome, and conversely, it creates hostility between them."

Ethan didn’t know if this could be called science, but it was the essence of human emotions as demonstrated by the ascended electric element. And as long as one grasped this theory, interacting with people became much simpler, "Therefore, by fine-tuning the electric waves, one can skip the getting-to-know-each-other phase to directly reach the outcome."

People have vaguely perceived this essence but lack the means to touch it.

Ethan thought the closest person to this theory might be Nonolies-Yuri, making him a natural leader and master of brainwashing.

As for Ethan, he merely mimicked Mr. Yuri’s methods, making Sam and others genuinely regard him as a trustworthy teammate.

For him, what took the council members vast amounts of time and effort to accomplish, he could achieve through a few conversations, and potentially with even more profound impacts.

Lindong quietly listened to Ethan’s theory, increasingly feeling this wasn’t a realm accessible to humans.

Either a divine being or a super octopus face.

She suddenly thought of something and curiously asked, "Then, if you adjust... the frequency of electric waves, can you also make people who originally trusted each other turn against one another?"

Ophira was very lively at night, with many couples and friends walking in groups that could be seen along the way. If she obtained this ability, she might likely use it for pranks.

"Theoretically yes, but it would be somewhat impolite."

Ethan raised the object in his hand, resembling a revolver. It was an anti-magic weapon equipped by the Ophira law enforcement team. Just firing a bullet could create a two-meter anti-magic field, and if it hit a human directly, the ban-magic effect would become more apparent.

Ethan felt this was just some kind of magic dressed in a scientific guise.

The research extended into the later part of the night, as Ethan unraveled the bullets and guns. Both looked outwardly indistinguishable from the Empire’s firearm technology. When he attempted to introduce the concept of "enchanted bullets," the solution gradually revealed itself to him.

These were enchanted bullets.

The effect of the enchantment was to impact the surrounding magic power circuit. If interpreted through the Empire’s Transcendent pathways, it might give birth to professions like "Demon-Banning Master," except that people on the Western Continent used steam technology instead of spells for transcendent magic application.

By using steam technology as a foundation and enchanting it to create equipment that surpassed common sense, it further validated his hypothesis— that actually, Western Continent’s steam machinery manufacture itself is Transcendent, although they resist this label, cloaking themselves with the guise of science.

And this could very likely originate from the Master of Tides’ guidance.

This was a concept instilled by the Master of Tides in every Western Continent’s mind, still holding firm grasp over their thoughts today. Every Western Continent person opposed to blind faith can be deemed the most fervent believer; this is a monotheistic belief that rejects all existence except the Master of Tides.

Ethan believed there must be some deeper reasons he had yet to understand.

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The next morning, they welcomed their first meeting after arriving in Ophira.

The Deep Sea Council’s chairman seemingly wasn’t planning to meet them, perfunctorily sending a diplomat for a symbolic meeting, after which these guests from afar could head back home. Of course, if they were willing, they could linger in Ophirado for a time—but whatever they did afterward would have no real impact on the diplomatic strategies of the two countries.