Chapter 776: Chapter 776: Information overload

"You! And you!" the professor shouted, pointing at both of them. He took a second of pause before clapping his head, realizing something. "So that’s why - " Just as he said that, he suddenly clutched his head with both hands. "URGH! TOO MUCH! MY BRAIN IS HEATING UP!" Professor Lichtenstein held his head in pain as he began to juggle two topics at once. First one was obvious, of course, with Michael turning out to be a Natural Maugnetic - something thought only to be as a thing of legends and myths. Second was Jaku, the demi - human anomaly, who had somehow achieved something no one ever thought was possible: becoming a Maugnetic. Both of these were intricately tied to the Ancient Era as well as the Modern Era. Natural Maugnetics were thought to have been extinct ever since the Ancient Era was over. Meanwhile, a demi - human Maugnetic was something that was only theorized to be possible in the future! They were supposed to be the next step of the evolution for the living beings in this world. Those two ideas were separated by thousands of years of history, yet they were in parallel to each other. They were two sides of the same coin. The professor spent his whole life searching for every single piece if clue about the mystery of the world for his entire life. He was accustomed to only getting a small piece of evidence - a fragment, a shattered piece, or a burned page, that slowly gave him more and more images about what happened in the Ancient Era. He would never get a clear picture, only a hazy one. But now, he was looking at two completely intact physical evidences of the mystery of the world in the form of Michael and Jaku. It was as if the professor had spent his entire life living in a desert, searching for just a tiny drop of water, and now suddenly found himself in the middle of an ocean, drowning. It was information overload. "TOO MUCH! TOO MUCH! TOO MUCH!" the professor shouted. He frantically clutched his head as it pulsated, trying to contain all the neurons firing in his brain. At first, Michael thought that the professor was just overacting, something that was just part of the professor’s crazy personality. But then he realized that the professor was actually getting hurt. The pain in his face was real. Not only that, but the Light mana in his brain and skull was in complete disarray. It was bouncing all over the place, having an enormous amount of activity that wasn’t normal at all. His mana was moving too fast and too chaotically to be considered safe. Something was happening to him, and it couldn’t be explained by normal science or magic. Michael used his Drone and let it hover above the professor, just a mere inch away from him. And there, he saw the root cause of the problem. A small piece of Aubility Power had wormed itself into the professor’s brain. It was subtle. If a normal 1st stage Maugnetic had an Aubility Power thread as thin as a finger, then the one in the professor’s head was even smaller than the width of a hair. He wouldn’t have even noticed if he wasn’t actively searching for an anomaly. "What’s going on, professor?" he asked. But it was at that moment that the thin thread of Aubility Power suddenly expanded outwards, spreading around like vines that clung onto the professor’s neurons. The professor inwardly gasped, his eyes rolling back, before passing out on the ground, cold. Michael was alarmed. "Professor Lichtenstein!" he called out. Thankfully, the professor’s Light mana around his body was still stable, meaning that his health wasn’t in any danger at all. However, his head was a completely different story. The Aubility Power threads had completely taken over the professor’s brain, like an overgrown dead tree that grew from the back of his skull. And because of this strange ’mass’, the professor’s brain activity completely came to a stop, with the neurons’ glow slowly fading before becoming frozen. His brain was technically dead, yet his body was completely fine. What’s happening? Is he alright, Harbinger? The only other person who could explain this was a Diva.