Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(1-3VOL)

Vol 3/Chapter 32: Magic Formation

"I think the different rules of the two worlds are causing this! Souls can carry memories in this world, so the Angel Descent Formation just happens to extract memories from our brains and stores them into the soul..."

We did transport here with our memories, can't deny that. So I confidently made up a theory based on my understanding.

"Your theory makes no logical sense and contains philosophical flaws."

Hearing this, Reed finally turned her head to glance at me, then turned back with indifference.

"It's not that complicated. Memories carried by the soul, whether on Earth or here, it's the same..."

"Then how do you explain memory loss from brain damage? Tell me!"

I held on to this point. If she couldn't properly explain it, I wouldn't believe her.

"You're stuck in a thinking trap..."

Reed fell silent briefly before continuing.

"If a DVD player is damaged, of course, it can't play the disc content properly. But the actual content isn't stored in the DVD player itself."

"Oh...I get it!"

I hadn't even replied yet when Cyra suddenly exclaimed excitedly.

"So the brain is the DVD player, the soul is the disc, and memories are the content carried on the disc. So memories move with the soul!"

"Fine...that makes some sense!"

Although still reluctant, I had to admit Reed's words perfectly answered my question, at least I couldn't find any flaws for now.

"How do you know that?"

Feeling dejected, I sat down and asked. Reed had never even been to Edenmere, yet she knew memory principles that even Aetna didn't understand clearly. I could only say, as expected of a genius nerd.

"It's common knowledge in Edenmere. Everyone knows."

Reed replied plainly.

"But I could only confirm it definitively because of the teleportation. Without that, there's no way to verify."

I admired her even more. At least Reed could deduce such deep-level reasons just from our teleportation with memories. I had never considered issues like this.

"What's she doing, shaman dance?"

Cyra suddenly spoke up, referring to Nicola waving her arms as she focused on dancing nearby.

Since Nicola disliked magic, upon hearing about magic class today, she fled directly. Her excuse was to help Reed experiment in the library...

What could I say? She had always resented Reed dragging her for experiments before. I thought it was just an excuse initially, didn't expect to see her here.

"We're testing controlling gases, but the effects don't seem very good. Once reaching molecular levels, Nicola's control decreases greatly."

Reed freely revealed the experiment's content and progress.

"But tests show continuously separating air molecules can slowly improve her wind element control. So I want her to specially train this ability for the next few days here. I can also collect some pure oxygen and hydrogen for experiments."

"What are you collecting those gases for?"

I wondered. This world possibly hadn't extracted pure oxygen and hydrogen before. The conventional methods I knew usually involved electrolysis of water. Even if a stable electric current was presently unachievable, there was no need to exploit Nicola like this right? It felt extremely inefficient, moreover, hydrogen should generally be quite rare in the air.