Mysteries: Arcana Wars

For a moment, the only sound under the vast winter snow was Felix's sobbing. An hour ago, he was still an outstanding graduate standing on the stage to receive the award, but now he was crying like a crazy beggar in the park, completely different people.

A conversation that only the two of them could understand took place in Backlund's park. The smell of alcohol made the young man open his heart, and the secret language passed down in the family made the young man unscrupulous.

Who else could speak Tesla's secret language? It must be an elder who has some connection with the ancestors of the family. Felix's stagnant brain made a simple judgment, and suddenly he took a deep breath and adjusted his crooked tie.

"Ma'am, do you think I'm a genius?"

The old woman actually thought about it seriously.

"You are this year's outstanding graduate. I don't know how it is now, but when I was studying, this was a very important award. In addition, the paper you are about to publish will even propose a brand new discipline, calling on everyone to unify many fragmented and electrical-related studies - I think I understood it correctly - to expand into a new branch of physics.

"To be able to achieve such an achievement at your age, I think you meet the world's definition of a genius."

Felix was a little surprised by such a serious answer. The old woman did not despise his somewhat arrogant question, but instead gave her answer solemnly after careful consideration, as if she were making some kind of argument.

But this kind of emphasis and seriousness made Felix feel a little absurd, as if the old woman was repeatedly conducting useless research on a proposition that had been falsified and finally came up with a wrong answer.

"But if academic research is a test, I'm the cheater who gets the high score because I already know the answers."

Felix waited for the old woman's expression, but the old woman still had that gentle smile on her face.

"Ma'am, you don't seem surprised?" Felix was a little surprised.

"Oh, kid, since you say those mysterious powers that can change the world are real, why can't you have some weird little secrets?"

"Oh, that's true. It seems that I'm the one who is ignorant."

Felix burped again.

“I was not the first person to come up with the concept of ‘electromagnetism’.

"It's our family's ancestor, Kondra Tesla."

As he spoke, Felix began to grope up and down, but his dizzy head and slow hands made it impossible for him to find what he wanted, which even made him a little angry. Finally, he took out a handful of yellow copper coins from his underwear pocket, and immediately smiled happily, and wanted to pick one out of the pocket and give it to the old woman like offering a treasure. At this time, a sudden cold wind blew and made the young man shudder. He realized that it seemed a bit inappropriate to do so, so he staggered to the fountain in front of him to wash it again and again, then staggered back, and finally wiped it again and again with his dress robe, and then put a copper coin in the old woman's hand with satisfaction.

The copper coin features the profile of a middle-aged gentleman with his name written below: Kondra Tesla.

"Our ancestor Kondra Tesla was a great man. He left our family not only the Tesla secret language we use now, but also the entire 'electromagnetism'!

"The whole 'electromagnetism', ma'am! What is this concept? He recorded the entire 'electromagnetism' concept and theory, experimental demonstration and engineering application in Tesla's code language!

"But the wealth he left behind was not only that. He also left us some wills, telling us to set up our own companies early to protect our legal rights, and how to correctly verify and use the theories he left behind and publish them to the world...

"He compiled all of this in Tesla's secret language into a book called "Thus Spoke Kondra Tesla", which was passed down from generation to generation in our family.

"That is to say, while other scholars are still like headless flies, stumbling around in the maze of exploring the truth of nature and its application in engineering, I already have the answer to this maze, and all I have to do is follow it."

The effect of alcohol seemed to be unable to resist the cold winter night in Backlund. The young man wrapped his outer robe tightly around himself like a quilt. Perhaps to keep himself warm, his body swayed slightly uncontrollably.

“However, as I delved deeper into my research, I gradually discovered that the theory left by my ancestor Mr. Condra was somewhat different from reality.

"But this does not mean that Mr. Kondra's theory is wrong. After I finished my university courses in advance, I began the long journey of proving and practicing "So Says Kondra Tesla". The first step was to use experiments to prove the existence of "electromagnetism". However, using the standard experimental design recorded in the book did not produce the results recorded in the book. In the end, I used a completely different new experiment designed by myself and achieved the same effect as Mr. Kondra.

“This is a very strange phenomenon.

“I was like a student who got the answer and, after studying it, discovered that not only was I right, but my reasoning was completely different from the reference answer. But we both used two different solutions, but ended up with the same answer.

“My research seems to be different from Mr. Kondra’s in every aspect, but I have reached similar conclusions as Mr. Kondra.

“So I think that “Thus Says Kondra Tesla” is more of a collection of answers than a textbook on ‘electromagnetism’. Mr. Kondra did not leave us anything that we can just copy, but gave us the most concise answers to all the questions about ‘electromagnetism’ from theory to application.

"He told us whether to choose A or B, and told us what the complete 'electromagnetic' framework should be like. The long and tedious 'why' in between required us to prove it ourselves and fill in the gaps to build this skyscraper."

As he said this, Felix smiled helplessly.

"But to be honest, what Mr. Kondra left behind is so advanced that I really can't understand it. It can be said that the only part I can understand is the beginning of some theorems about direct current and the part I am trying to verify now, but these are just the beginning of Mr. Kondra's legacy. The theorems and concepts that follow are no different from the scriptures to me. I can only rely on rote memorization."

"What a great gentleman!"

The old woman stroked the copper coin in her hand and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

The copper coin was washed with clean water until it was shiny, and it looked like it had just been produced. The gentleman on it had a neat hairstyle, a straight collar and tie, and looked very elegant.

"He seemed like a fine gentleman, too. Why didn't he let the world see his wealth of knowledge during his lifetime?"

Felix was stunned for a moment, then burst into shrill laughter, even a little hysterical, as if he had heard some huge joke.

"Excuse me, ma'am, but you don't really think that Mr. Condra is some rich knight, do you?"

He laughed so hard that he kept banging on the iron bench.

"Kondra Tesla was actually a beggar all his life!"