The first article was written with ease, but the tenth took considerable effort, requiring substantial research to gather enough material.
The quality of articles on “New Arcana” would continuously improve, and more platforms for publishing literature were established. Although there were increasingly more article platforms, “New Arcana” was the progenitor of such platforms, boasting the largest subscriber base and the most authoritative standards. It was also the most dazzling pearl, publishing only the most heavyweight articles, naturally leading to increasingly stringent publication standards. Shana wanted to attract the attention of the Bitter Chill Manor by continuously publishing articles and joining them, so she needed to present even more significant discoveries. Moreover, this discovery couldn’t just be a random conclusion; it had to be a professional article with a credible and replicable process. This resulted in Shana’s existing knowledge being insufficient. Naliner’s proficiency was indeed high, but Shana was merely a projection with very limited carried memories. Many advanced magic and faith theories far exceeded her ability to deduce and required a certain degree of practice and experimentation to uncover publishable experimental processes. Fortunately, by this time, Shana had accumulated some wealth. While ordinary people spent money in the Fearless Space, she was a transcendent beyond legendary, one of the first players to join the game, and had earned money through guild wars and professional competitions. Coupled with the manuscript fees from publishing in “New Arcana,” establishing a laboratory of sufficient scale was not difficult. Furthermore, the Dark Night Guard was also monitoring her, providing various conveniences directly or indirectly, and thus Shana smoothly joined the wave of research and entrepreneurship. Articles became more numerous, experiments deepened, and she seemed to have found a path that truly interested her, venturing further down it. She successfully joined the Bitter Chill Manor as a specially appointed reviewer, met Roger in her disguised form, and then boasted within the Super Dimension Sketchpad, awaiting Tasika’s operational instructions. “I have already infiltrated the target’s vicinity!” Thus, three years and several months passed, and while Tasika’s operational instructions never arrived, Carmiel had already become a new arcane expert recognized by the empire. In the blink of an eye, she received the Empress Award, becoming the Industrial Star of the year. Although Shana’s disguised appearance was also very youthful, in the field of “faith,” even the old men in the Arcane Assembly respectfully addressed her as “Teacher Carmiel,” seeking her guidance on matters they didn’t understand. After all, she was once a Six-winged Angel. Even though she no longer possessed Divine Power, she understood better than ordinary mages how Faith Power and Divine Power were converted. Shana operated an independent research institute, pursuing fantastical projects based purely on her interests, collaborating with the two major magic academies in the capital and the Arcane Assembly to jointly advance explorations in cutting-edge fields. After the awards ceremony, the Empress of Eternal Night, acting as the host, introduced Shana’s award-winning reasons to the guests present and the live audience. Many were initially just casual observers, but upon seeing the Empress of Eternal Night personally introduce the inventions of this beautiful young lady, they immediately became energized. What was Her Majesty’s status? As the empire grew stronger, fewer technologies caught her eye. During the first Empress Award, she was highly interested; during the second, she was composed; by the third and fourth, she merely presented awards, offering at most a glance of encouragement. Miss Carmiel’s invention was the first Empress Award recipient personally introduced by the Empress of Eternal Night in the past three years! “It’s over, it’s over! Isn’t this woman going to become unstoppable?” Tom asked with a look of utter despair. Jerry looked at him with disdain, “So you shameless person actually fell for the Empress Award winner?” ” I have eyes that are good at discovering beauty.” “You’re simply shameless!” After a brief spat, the two quieted down, captivated by the Empress of Eternal Night’s introduction. Shana received the Industrial Star award for her outstanding contributions to the “Divine Power Power Station” project. This was a research project in collaboration with the Arcane Assembly, utilizing an arm torn from the Incarnation of the God of Nature by the Empress of Eternal Night. It appeared as a crudely carved wooden stake, but it was a genuine divine Incarnation. This single Incarnation was many times more powerful than Afu, who continuously grew by relying on the Fearless Space. However, the empire had never found a way to utilize this Incarnation. They couldn’t simply carve it into a shield because it was hard, could they? Few people could use such a shield. The Incarnation still contained remnants of the deity’s vast will. Not only was direct contact impossible, but even getting close could assimilate one into a wooden person by the God of Nature. The God of Nature held no malicious intent to harm; it was simply that its immense power, through unconsciously emitted “brainwaves,” could severely impact ordinary people. As the empire’s research into deities deepened, especially with Shana providing much of the crucial theoretical foundation, she led the effort to successfully find a method for utilizing the Incarnation of the God of Nature: It was actually very simple and crude—directly burning the wooden piece as firewood to boil water and generate electricity. Of course, a nuclear reactor could also be described this way, and perhaps even fusion reactors would still be boiling water. The difficulty lay in building the boiler to ignite this Incarnation fragment and the extremely complex ignition method. After more than a year of research and development, Shana’s team finally found a way to stably and controllably release the Faith Power from this Incarnation fragment, converting it into immense heat to boil water. The conversion efficiency was extremely high; a fragment the size of a finger could supply the civilian electricity consumption of the entire Arcane Metropolis for fifty years. “Moreover, before the first Divine Power Power Station was built and operated stably, Miss Shana had already led her team to overcome the technical challenge of re-charging the divine power Incarnation. Simply collecting spontaneously generated beliefs could extend the usage period of the divine Incarnation, providing the empire with an inexhaustible energy source!” The Empress of Eternal Night smiled at Shana, her gaze filled with deep satisfaction. Such a troublesome child had grown up! Shana maintained her smile, appearing quite nervous, trying to minimize her presence. She actually didn’t want the Empress of Eternal Night staring at her and even wanted to run away! The empire’s first five-year plan was nearing completion, with soaring industrial and agricultural output and numerous breakthroughs from scratch. Correspondingly, the Empress of Eternal Night’s strength had also advanced once more. Shana would bet Roger’s dog head that Her Majesty had definitely reached the power ceiling this World could accommodate. As for how her strength would continue to grow thereafter, that was a secret beyond Shana’s knowledge, but it was terrifying nonetheless. Listening to the Empress of Eternal Night’s introduction, others looked at Shana with a mixture of disbelief and admiration, giving this beautiful and captivating young girl a thumbs-up, convinced she truly deserved the title of Industrial Star. “This is truly a great invention! The empire will no longer lack electricity!” “And it’s infinite power using only faith, a legendary perpetual motion machine?” “Don’t embarrass yourself. ‘Intermediate Magic Principles’ mentions that Faith Power is an energy form that consumes the World’s origin, and once consumed, it cannot be regenerated. It’s absolutely impossible for it to be a perpetual motion machine.” “Oh, is that so? That class was difficult and dull; I actually fell asleep. So, are deities parasitic beings that plunder World resources?” “You only just realized that? That’s why Her Majesty drove all Seven Gods out of the empire!” “If one day we could destroy a deity’s true body, the empire would have more energy to build super fleets for expeditions to other Planes!” The crowd chattered and discussed, quickly moving from current technology to “occult fantasy” topics. This was a new term that had emerged in the Azurevine Empire in recent years, referring to novels, games, and films based on magic theory but exhibiting magical phenomena that didn’t exist in reality, yet felt achievable and created a sufficient sense of realism. Occult fantasy was very popular in the empire because people’s lives were changing rapidly, and they were full of hope for the future. Ordinary people loved seeing the future worlds constructed by occult fantasy masters. The Empress of Eternal Night went to rest, and the actual host of the ceremony took the stage, handing the microphone to Shana: “May I ask Miss Carmiel to talk about her expectations for the future development of Divine Power Power Stations?” Thunderous applause erupted. Shana’s expression was somewhat strange. For the past few years, she had been a tech hermit, and her social skills had rapidly deteriorated. Faced with countless expectant gazes, she felt absurdity. “I’m an undercover agent, a spy. You people of the empire actually look forward to a spy?” “Our main focus right now is twofold: increasing the power output ceiling and, on the other hand, breaking away from reliance on divine Incarnations, achieving direct utilization of Faith Power through magic crystal machinery!” She subconsciously blurted out her true thoughts, drawing a very grand picture. If she could truly achieve what she said, wouldn’t everyone in the Azurevine Empire be able to use Faith Power through machinery? Everyone as a god? The crowd looked at Shana with increasing excitement. This was a very occult fantasy scene, but it was also a scene that the people of the empire believed could truly be realized one day. Shana hadn’t expected that her boast would provoke such a strong backlash. She returned the microphone to the host and, after receiving permission, hurriedly ran backstage. However, speaking of which, if that technology were truly realized, when the Seven Gods found her to hunt her down, facing an ocean of four hundred million people unleashing Divine Power against them… it would certainly be very interesting! ps. The typo correction bonus event has ended. As of yesterday, you found 23 errors, so 23 more chapters are due. Currently, 6 chapters have been delivered, and the remaining ones will be settled within this month.
