Chapter 659 - 659: Core Theory

A day passed... The results of tests were already out, and everything seemed fine. No traces of poison could be seen in the blood Sample of Lucifer, and without it, no one knew how they could heal Lucifer.

Salazar and Cassius kept looking at Lucifer, wondering if there was something they could do. 

No one had any idea on how to help Lucifer, who laid unmoving before them. 

Eve and Alicia were sitting before Lucifer, each holding one of his hands. 

"What happened to you... How could you go to sleep without answering me? Please wake up." Eve said, touching Lucifer's cheeks. "You know sleeping for so long isn't good for your health."

"So no one has any idea what we can do to help him?" Milena asked, looking at everyone in the hall. 

"To know how to heal him, we need to know what happened to him. What was he doing on the twelfth floor when it happened? Without knowing the cause, how can we help him?" Arthur asked. 

Milena let out, sighing. "It isn't anything physical since all tests look normal. Moreover, it can't be a mental attack since he has a really powerful mental protection. What could it be then?" 

"Without any answer, we can't do anything but leave him alone and hope for the best." 

Hearing their words, Salazar felt they were right. If he needed their help and their Ideas, he needed to tell them what he knew. 

He took a deep breath before raising his hand. "I think I know what might be wrong with him. At least a fraction of it."

His words attracted the attention of everyone to him. 

"Do you need an invitation from us to tell?" Milena asked sarcastically. 

"I don't think he's waking up anytime soon. I think it's because of the powers of Julien that he absorbed. He's gotten sick after that, if I'm not wrong. I think the power is conflicting with his other powers."

"I don't understand what you're saying," Jiani let out, seemingly confused. 

"Just like your queen can take the powers of others, Lucifer can also take the powers of people he devours," Salazar said, sighing. "I think he tried that on Julien, who he killed on the twelfth floor. And that's when he lost his consciousness."

"Even though it's only an assumption, I have a feeling that it is precisely what happened," he further added. 

"You mean he stole the powers of Julien? And now that power is clashing with his other powers?" Arthur asked, getting the gist of it. "That can certainly explain why he's sick, but still, some things don't make sense."

"The conflict between his powers... The first time I'm hearing such a thing..." Jiani said, glancing at Lucifer. "How can we help him in that case? It's not like we can remove the conflicting power from his body?"

"I think we can..." After a brief pause, Cassius chimed in. 

"How?" Salazar asked. "Do you have a way?"

"I know someone who does..." Cassius exclaimed, sighing.

"Who?" Milena asked. "What are you waiting for? Call that person here! Help Lucifer."

"But that's the thing... That person... He isn't entirely a friend of Lucifer. I'm not sure what might happen if I call him here." Cassius sighed. 

"It doesn't matter. Even if he is an enemy, we'll take care of him! Just call him here! And if he can't come, we can go personally there with Lucifer," Salazar let out. 

"Who are you talking about?" Eve asked. Even she didn't know a person that could do such a thing—taking away the power of a person?

"Can someone take his powers from him without hurting the person?" Arthur asked. "Her Majesty can take the powers by turning the person, but the person still keeps his powers. Lucifer can take the powers by devouring the person."

"Other than these two, I only saw a person who could temporarily take the powers of a person in the last war. Other than that, I haven't seen it before."

" I mean, there are certainly people who can disable the powers of a Warlock like Varant used to do, but that just sealed the power. It didn't take that power from the Warlock entirely. If it's something like that, I don't think that will help Lucifer," Dallas also chimed in. 

"His body is rejecting the presence of this new power, not the use of it. I don't think we can help him without reversing the time. Unless you know a person who can reverse time?" he further continued. 

"Wait! Reversal of time? I think we can also try that!" Tristan exclaimed suddenly. "Did you forget Zhu, who had reversed time to bring the dead to life?" 

"Yeah, but he used a Summoning Beast. What are you implying?" Dallas asked. "We don't have that beast or a Summoner capable of calling that beast."

"I'm saying, if we can somehow find that beast, we should be able to help him!" Tristan said. "We just need to find a Summoner!"

"Or we can go to the World of Summons to meet the beast to take his help?" Salazar said, frowning. 

"I need everyone to calm down first!" Cassius exclaimed, making everyone shut up. 

"The theory you are trying... I think that can work, but it's almost impossible in practice. Finding a Summoner isn't hard, but finding a Summoner who can summon that exact beast is impossible!"

" A Summoner doesn't choose his contracted beast, no matter how strong they might be. It's random!"

"So you'll need immense luck for that plan to succeed. And going to World of Summons? It's literally impossible!" 

Cassius firmly stated, telling everyone to bring down their expectations. He didn't know that Lucifer and Salazar had already been to that world. 

Salazar opened his lips to talk about it, but before he could speak, Cassius continued. "I have another way, which is a little less impossible."

"What way?" Salazar asked. 

"Have you heard of the Core theory of Variants?" Cassius asked. 

Almost everyone shook their heads except Eve. She was literally the person who came up with that theory. Somehow it reached the island of Cassius as well. Still, it was something that a lot of Variants didn't know about. 

"Should I ask what that is? Or you'll tell on your own?" Milena asked, rolling her eyes. 

"It means that each ability you use comes from a core inside your body." Eve stood up. 

"For example, if a person has two abilities, he is certainly going to have two energy cores in his body, one for each of his abilities.. If you have ten abilities, you're supposed to have ten cores and so on."