"Plan for Disassembly of Sickle Series Configurations," "Magic Power Conduit Design Blueprints," "Application of Rhombic Dysfunction Equation in Alchemical Structures"...
As Angel flipped through book after book of alchemy, he generally noticed that most of the alchemy books left here by Culori were design blueprints he had refined.
To most alchemists, these design blueprints certainly aren’t as important as a complete system of alchemical knowledge.
But to Angel, these blueprints are just to his liking.
Firstly, he already has a complete system for alchemical practice, and Culori’s alchemy knowledge may not necessarily suit him; secondly, blueprints reveal an alchemist’s thought process, his thinking style, and solutions, which is what Angel values most.
He does not lack alchemical knowledge; what he lacks is thought in alchemy.
These blueprints just happen to address some of Angel’s deficiencies.
Besides complete blueprints, Angel also discovered a hand-drawn album by Culori, containing drawings of mysterious objects. After confirming it was purely an album, Angel put it aside to look at later.
As time went on, Angel read more and more books, but so far, apart from the album, he hadn’t seen anything regarding the Hoopa Coefficient.
"I noticed you were quite focused just now; why, when Rhein came, did you start flipping so quickly without really looking at the content?" It was Tree Spirit speaking; he had just finished a new intricate story, which was so delightful that he stopped to take a deep breath, and saw Angel’s actions at that moment, asking curiously.
"There were some doubts about Hoopa Coefficient in that album just now..." Angel briefly explained his search target.
Tree Spirit actually wasn’t really concerned about Angel; his mind was still on the chronicles, so he just nodded casually and continued to read the journals.
It was Rhein, instead, who looked up and said, "Hoopa Coefficient? I might have seen it just now."
Angel immediately looked up, eyes bright and full of anticipation towards Rhein.
Rhein was currently flipping backward through the "Culori Chronicles." He had finished six volumes and was now on "Culori Chronicles Volume Seven."
Although he had finished six volumes of chronicles, he actually used the reading art to aid his reading, thus only capturing the keywords without delving into the specific "Belos Observation Diary."
Upon hearing Angel was looking for the Hoopa Coefficient, he recalled for a while and then said: "It should be recorded in ’Culori Chronicles Volume Twelve,’ New Calendar year 5532, Month of Cold Arrival, Third Entry. You might want to look there."
Angel’s eyes lit up, nodding thanks to Rhein.
Rhein waved it off nonchalantly: "I also found many important clues in the twelfth volume; we can discuss them in detail later."
With that, Rhein lowered his head and refocused on the journal in his hands.
Angel then took "Culori Chronicles Volume Twelve" and flipped to the year and month specified by Rhein.
Unlike other pages full of text, this entry’s most striking feature was a highly complex mathematical formula at the center, with several weighted schematic diagrams below. This mathematical formula differed from mortal mathematics; it included transcendent variables affecting the display of different weights.
Angel still did not know what this mathematical formula was, so he decided to start from the beginning.
Still the familiar elegant script of Culori—
"Today, the Orderly Guild conveyed a message that in an underground pharmaceutical factory in a city on the main island of the Wail Domain, a semi-out-of-control mysterious potion was found. I recently wanted to study the mysterious potion, so I sent Belos and Moon to recover it."
"Belos has left, it’s rather lonely."
"The information given by the guild is that this mysterious potion’s trigger is sound. Everyone making noises near it eventually causes it to impart different effects based on the sound variation."
"Few people receive beneficial effects; most effects are negative, and the death toll has exceeded two thousand, with the majority being ordinary people."
"It is still unknown how it judges sound and potion effect release rules, though it is said that beautiful music can impart better beneficial effects."
"Assuming beautiful music truly can affect the mysterious potion, maybe I can calculate its coefficient."
"Anyway, with Belos gone and nothing else to do, let’s calculate from scratch."
Next was the densely recorded formula. At this point, Angel naturally understood that this formula was the deductive formula for the Hoopa Coefficient!
Culori seemed to have a penchant for marking, just as he marked every room’s purpose on a holographic map with text. This marking habit carried over to formula derivation as well.
He meticulously marked each step, every detail, and every condition of the formula, even providing short explanations for some markings.
This made it much more intuitive and convenient for Angel to see the complete deduction process of the Hoopa Coefficient.
As he gradually comprehended the entire formula, a part of the mysterious veil over the Hoopa Coefficient was finally lifted.
Angel’s previous conjecture regarding the Hoopa Coefficient was, in fact, already very close to the truth, though not yet perfected.
The Hoopa Coefficient is actually a composite coefficient, incorporating disorder level, influence range, whether it is phenomenological, material, or fantastical, obtained from multiple calculations within a weight-based system to derive a relatively accurate coefficient.
Its coefficient range is calculated by one-hundred percentage weights, meaning the range is from 1-100.
However, Angel speculated from some strange blanks in the formula that 100 might not be the real upper limit, suggesting that there could be mysterious objects surpassing 100, otherwise why there are small yet significant blanks beyond 100 in the weight proportions.
The lower the Hoopa Coefficient, the safer and more stable it is. The higher the coefficient, the more dangerous and unsolvable it becomes. Generally, anything with a Hoopa Coefficient exceeding 70 is already considered a disorderly object.
However, the Hoopa Coefficient is not merely a measure of energy strength. That is, a lower coefficient doesn’t mean the mysterious object is weaker, only that it is steadier.
Like the "Dream Conch of the Moonlit Coast," if Angel deduces using this set of formulas without precise records from the Orderly Guild and only makes crude estimates, the Dream Conch’s coefficient wouldn’t exceed 10, maybe not even 5.
But in terms of actual effect, the Dream Conch is certainly not weak.
Thus, a low coefficient doesn’t indicate a mysterious object is not strong.
However, what can be foreseen is that the higher the coefficient, the more disorderly and definitely more dangerous, implying substantial strength.
After studying the Hoopa Coefficient formula, Angel could quickly accept it from his perspective.
After all, the standardized use of the Hoopa Coefficient by the Orderly Guild in judging mysterious objects represents its authority in the Origin World.
Angel continued reading the following content on the page.
"This mysterious potion’s Hoopa Coefficient is around 40. It just reached the standard of being semi-out-of-control, so Belos and Moon should be able to recover it."