326 Conjecture 2 (1/2)
Chapter 326: Conjecture 2
”You’re awake? Come eat something,” Garen said with a smile. He loosened his left hand and pushed the cup towards her. The water inside was boiling, with some radish, cabbage and scallions floating on the surface, and expanded jerky at the bottom. The water in the cup had also turned into a pale milky white.
Reylan looked touched. She got up neatly, her hands cupping around the glass and feeling the heat it emanated.
”Your body’s a lot better, huh,” Garen said softly.
”Mn,” Reylan nodded. ”My injuries have more or less healed, and there’s no problem with my stamina either. It’s just that the scars got left behind, so many scars…” Her emotions sank in an instant.
”If I want them to heal, I’m afraid…”
”Don’t say such negative things so early in the morning, you’ll have a chance.” Garen rapped the table. ”Alright, the others haven’t woken up yet, so let’s start today’s lessons.”
”Sure, we’ll talk as we eat.” Reylan quickly took a petite little red leather notebook out from beside her, putting it on the table next to Garen.
”I had collected these from my own memories, they’re information about biological engineering. Silver Totems and the research regarding the Derivator, all of it is very complicated, and dabbles in content from many fields. Biological engineering is just one of them, after that you still need to learn about material and energy science, as well as advanced mathematics. Of course, you just need to understand it, it’s enough for you just to be able to tell what’s good and what’s not.”
”Biological engineering, material and energy science, advanced mathematics? Are these three subjects enough?” Garen asked.
”Of course, these three subjects are actually umbrella terms, if you want to be more specific, there are even more branches of study.” Reylan nodded. ”The Obscuro’s way is to evolve creatures, it’s different from the Royal Alliance’s way of tools. Obscuro seeks to use totem techniques to finally increase the level of their own lives, that’s why they developed creature totems.”
The Royal Alliance, on the other hand, uses White Silver Totems. In other words, they develop the primitive totems to a certain peak, and their final path is to use the peak-level primitive totem to boost the original totem user in return.”
”Both paths seem clearer now. They just use the same power differently.” Garen nodded.
He picked up the Reylan’s notebook, and read through it carefully.
Because he had basic knowledge in advanced maths and physics from Earth, as well as some research knowledge here on this world, he went through the notebook in no time. Other than some extra formulas to do with totems, he understood the rest easily.
He had also studied biological engineering with his teacher Emin, just not as deeply as this.
”I’ve already taught you some of the earlier basics,” Reylan said calmly. ”Now I’ll tell you about the main points in this book. Once you got a hold of that, you’ll be considered a Beginner in biological engineering.”
With that, she started to explain some of the important formulas in detail to Garen.
As she spoke, Garen quickly understood these formulas completely.
Finally, he saw some change in the skill pane at the bottom of his vision. A new skill icon slowly materialized, and lined up together in a pane together with the other knowledge types.
”Biological engineering: Beginner. (By understanding this, you have understood the principles of a creature’s internal and external structures; one of the compulsory studies in totem research.)’
It finally became a skill.
Garen also heaved a sigh of relief. Now that it was a skill, that meant he could use potential points to level up. As long as he had the follow-up knowledge, he could improve rapidly.
As for the other two subjects, as long as he understood it all, he just needed to find an opportunity to grab some research materials from the Royal Alliance and his old man. With that, he should be able to reach extreme heights in no time at all. He would then have a certain level of confidence to solve the Derivator’s secret problem.
He might be no good at everything else, but his ability to learn was nothing to scoff at. With enough potential points, it would be a cinch for him to steal research, systems, knowledge, and experience from others.
His potential points allowed him to drastically reduce his studying and comprehension time.
So far, the Derivator seemed to be lagging, so the other two Generals hadn’t contacted Garen for now, giving him a short buffer time. He needed to use this time to quickly solve the secret problem.
Based on his conjecture, the reason he didn’t develop a skill when he was studying biological engineering with his teacher Emin was because he hadn’t learned all the basic knowledge in this field. Now, with Reylan’s teachings, he had finally completed it, and obtained the skill icon.
Biological engineering, materials and energy science, advanced mathematics. Garen had learned some basics in all three subjects before, but in order to act normal, Garen purposely controlled his learning speed, so that Reylan wouldn’t notice that he was too fast.
Today, however, Reylan was tossing out all the last bits of knowledge, so Garen threw caution to the winds, memorizing and comprehending everything about these subjects immediately.
His body had now reached the peak of human understanding, achieving the uppermost limit where he didn’t need to worry about the subject requirements.
He completed the Beginner level in no time. Each of the three subjects became skill icons, one after the other, in less than four hours.
From the knowledge of these subjects, Garen also obtained a deeper understanding of Silver Totems. He especially understood a lot more about the key to how the Derivator controlled Silver Totems.
All the way until noon, the carriages finally continued moving on automatically under Garen’s control. He used the Derivator to control the horses pulling all three carriages, so he could carry them forward without a driver.
Cough cough…