Chapter 1683 Fishing Day (Part 1)
The holy spring flowing out of the temple goes all the way around the city along the waterway covered with flowers. The water splashes in the air with joy and rainbow-like light spots. The fountain statues on the square spray out bright water columns like oil from the fish mouth. The saints hold baskets and drive sheep through the square.
From time to time, angels in white robes and barefoot pass through the crowd. They greet the crowd with a smile, cross their hands on their chests, ask them about the recent situation in heaven, and occasionally greet each other and exchange interesting things in the universe where they work.
Countless multiverses share one heaven, but not every angel has administrator privileges. Most angels are still files in the computer, just like antivirus programs. Only a few archangels headed by Lucifer are like programmers sitting in front of the computer.
In other words, only the archangels are unique, and the new angels cannot manage the universe with clones and projections. This is why there are constantly new angels in heaven, because the universe is also increasing.
Whenever the universe increases, newborns will be born in the holy spring. Most of them will go to the new universe to check the situation first, and then go to the relevant heaven management department to take up positions, specifically responsible for the maintenance of certain universes.
The archangels are in heaven, but there are also countless clones projected to various universes. The new angels are mainly responsible for the stability of the church and faith, while the archangels must maintain the normal order and structural stability of the universe itself.
Mortals can summon different angels through special runes and power operations formulated by heaven, but the array for summoning the projection of archangels is usually much more complicated than that for summoning new angels. It can be said that there are only a handful of people in the entire universe who master this array, and most of them are well-known characters in comics.
Angels do not really need any power and faith to respond to the call, but more like an indicator of face recognition in comics, especially those archangels, who are directly created by the Supreme God and set as perfect creatures. How can they lack the tribute of mortals?
To put it bluntly, they will set up countless clones and projections, and assign them to each universe. In fact, it is because the editorial department has the consideration of spreading religious influence in the plot design, so occasionally some characters with religious elements respond to the call, giving them a legitimate reason to participate in the plot. This belongs to the underlying setting of the universe.
But for all creatures in the universe, this is a real world after all, not a comic book. It is not a magic circle that can be drawn by turning the storyboard and jumping the grid. This is a special subject. Mortals need to learn and study before they can master the skills of summoning angels.
But the problem comes again. Mortals’ learning ability is not perfect, but it can only be said to be full of mistakes. Not only do they like to take shortcuts and simplify the magic circle without considering the effect, but they also pursue efficiency and add all kinds of strange catalysts to the magic circle.
There is a department in heaven that is specifically responsible for receiving calls. They will specifically answer calls from human mages, but sometimes the angels in this department are also a little confused. The human phone calls were made but not completely, or they were made but may have made the wrong call, or they hung up without telling the address, and they had no idea what they were talking about when they answered.
Although the archangels are omniscient and omnipotent, they can't just sit by the phone and guess riddles every day to relieve boredom, right?
Humans are short-lived species, and they lose a lot of knowledge with each generation. The original rune system has been passed down to this day, and the part that can really work is like Jerusalem in the West. Even in the orthodox inherited church, all kinds of prayer rituals and communication languages are lost.
After Lucifer returned to heaven, he found that this department that responded to the call was half paralyzed. This is also the main reason why Gabriel was able to do things in the world for so long without being discovered. All the complaint calls could not be made, and the angels could not communicate smoothly with their fixed believers. Michael asked and the world was peaceful, so Gabriel could do bad things as he pleased.
Lucifer wanted to change the current situation. He actually wanted to modify the underlying files of the universe directly, change the minds of all the mages or believers who had communication with heaven, and force them to remember the runes.
But then he thought, the human life span is so short, a generation is replaced every 100 years, and at most ten generations will forget everything. Could it be that he has to do this every thousand years? Wouldn't he be exhausted?
The most important thing is that God may have overestimated the memory and professionalism of the human species. The angels couldn't bear to look at the complex runes and prayer system at the beginning.
First, a very complex magic circle must be carved, and a dozen of the thousands of sacrifices must be offered according to different functions, and then combined with different movements and prayer languages, and using special power infusion methods, it is possible to get through the angel's phone.
This is to screen out those believers who are not devout enough to prevent the phone in heaven from being blown up, but even the most devout believers will inevitably miss something when teaching this method, and some clever people think "the advantage is mine, it can be used after simplification", and after several generations, the whole method has changed beyond recognition.
To solve the problem of forgetting phone numbers after a few generations, the best way is of course to change the phone number to a simpler one. However, once it is changed to a simpler one, anyone can call in, and the communication department will eventually be paralyzed.
Lucifer thought about it and came up with several solutions, but they were either too troublesome or not effective enough. He had to gather all the archangels together to brainstorm and find a solution to the communication problem between heaven and earth.
Of course, the archangels also include Bruce Wayne, who occupies Gabriel's position.
Although angels are born perfect creatures, perhaps it is precisely because of their powerful strength and the simple environment they grow in that they always have a kind of beauty that is not polluted by knowledge.
More importantly, they are not human beings and cannot empathize with these weak races. They overestimate humans in some aspects and underestimate humans in some aspects. The solutions they proposed are either too difficult for humans or too troublesome for angels. After discussing for a long time, no results were obtained.
But at the end of the meeting, Bruce found Lucifer and volunteered to take on the responsibility of updating the communication method between heaven and earth.
Lucifer was overjoyed, not because he really cared about updating the communication method between heaven and earth, but mainly because it was better to find something to do for the Batman who grew crooked and ended up in heaven.
Otherwise, Bruce would stare at the pool in the temple every day, and Lucifer would worry every day that the next angel who came out would have green hair.
After the meeting, Bruce smiled and said goodbye to each archangel, and everyone responded with a smile. They were already accustomed to Bruce's existence, and they could even say that he was more angelic than all the angels here.
Although the archangels were perfect creatures created by God himself, Batman was obviously a perfect creature created by a higher being. Batman's personality was the most perfect human in the world. His perfection was the setting at the bottom of the universe, and it was even more stable than the existence of the angels.
Originally, it could be said that interpersonal communication and emotional experience were Batman's shortcomings, but since Bruce graduated with excellence from Schiller, he had completely let it go.
When Batman finally stopped being at odds with Gotham, there were so many things he could do. In addition to dating Selina, he studied plants suitable for Gotham with Pamela, went to Kent Manor and Mexico to develop agriculture, and continued to improve the weather controller with Lex Luthor, established the Earth Magic Defense Network with Green Lantern, Hal, and Supreme Sorcerer Strange, built a space station with Diana, and ran around in the other world, heaven, and hell at the same time, becoming familiar with all the angels and demons.
Because Bruce was completely active in heaven according to the behavior template of a perfect angel, he was beautiful, wise, holy, and not lacking in majesty, so Michael liked him very much.
Because of Schiller, Lucifer came into contact with Bruce Wayne earlier, and it can be said that he watched him grow up. Lucifer knew very well how trendy this special Batman was, so Lucifer was often worried about the safety of his brother's life and property recently.
Hearing that Bruce was going to take on the responsibility of updating the communication method, Michael expressed his full support and opened up most of the permissions needed to change such rules to Bruce.
Of course, Bruce was not talking nonsense. He really had a way to update a communication method that was both simple and threshold-based. In simple terms, it was mathematics.
If you ask who can memorize the 100th decimal place of pi, there probably won't be many people, but if you ask who can calculate the last 100 digits, the number must be hundreds of times that of the former.
First of all, memorizing 100 times the decimal place of pi is meaningless. It's just a string of numbers, but the ability to calculate the decimal place is a complete discipline.
Compared with a string of complex numbers that need to be memorized and are usually useless, it is obviously a discipline that can play a role in daily life and can also be deeply studied and seek truth. It is easier to be inherited by a pragmatic race like humans.
Bruce plans to establish such a discipline.
After in-depth communication with Strange, Bruce found that the magic of the two worlds is not just different in the earth's magic defense network.
In comparison, the magic heritage of the Marvel world is more complete, and because of the lack of energy in the past, many disciplines have been developed to maximize the use of energy when energy is exhausted, such as teleportation magic, which is the most useful for humans to enter the interstellar.
It was not until he came into contact with Strange that Bruce realized that the portal was not just about connecting two space nodes with magic power to transfer objects or people.
How to use the least power to transmit the farthest distance, how to intelligently identify objects passing through the portal to adjust the amount of energy used for transmission, how to open the portal under various interference conditions, and how to minimize the threshold for using the portal are the essence of teleportation magic.
Similar to this are magic defense network science, magic item infusion science, and the emerging magic wand making science, and a scientific research project that cannot be avoided in these Marvel world magic disciplines is how to save energy and maximize the use of energy.
It can be said that even with a superficial understanding, Bruce can find that the universe where Strange is located must have had a very difficult and poor period, but this is not something to be ridiculed.
On the contrary, the DC world has been abusing energy and overdrawing costs for a long time, resulting in no one concentrating on a certain subject. All the inheritances left now are vague on some issues, and some are even inconsistent. Moreover, most emergency plans and troubleshooting methods are to increase the intensity of energy injection, without any rigorous spirit of scientific research.
Taking this opportunity, Bruce intends to comprehensively innovate the knowledge inheritance system of the entire magic world, at least to establish a basic discipline of rune literature first, and then talk about other things.
But when he started to try, he found a problem. John Constantine, the only magician in this universe who can be called a master of rune literature, can no longer use magic.
So Bruce had to find another strategy.
To solve this unsolvable problem, it is not possible to limit your vision to this universe, but it is not so simple to interfere with other universes. The strategy Bruce intends to adopt is - fishing.