A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 685: Talents in Dual Cultivation of Science and Magic

The wealthy tycoon Kihara... But to make such an evaluation would be really unfair to Kihara.

In fact, as a "Kihara", the obsession with science is integrated into the instinct. No matter what achievements they make in other fields, it cannot change their nature as "mad scientists".

The main reason why Kihara Suto and Kihara Similar, the master and apprentice, were evaluated as "not doing their job properly" was that they had not been able to produce sufficiently convincing research results in the past two years; but at the same time, they had achieved quite impressive achievements in other fields. The contrast between the two led to this result.

Kihara Suta won the internal competition and obtained the qualification to study Accelerator.

But his luck was really bad. Accelerator himself refused to cooperate with the research, and that "hero" Lin Wuming also interfered, so the "Absolute Ability User Evolution Plan" died in the womb before it could even be launched.

At the last moment, Kihara Suta had to retreat in disgrace, was forced to abandon all research resources, and pushed Amagi Aoi as a scapegoat.

Strictly speaking, this failure cannot be blamed entirely on Kihara Suta - the situation had already developed towards an irreversible point long before he actually took over the project.

Kihara Suta was just unlucky and got a bad deal.

But other people, especially the other competitors of the Kihara clan, would not pay attention to these details...or rather, it is precisely because they know the hidden truth that they will be even more gloating.

Influenced by that "failure", it became very difficult for Kihara Suta to obtain research resources afterwards.

As one grows stronger, the other weakens, and it seems that he is more keen on acting as the "leader of the dark side".

As for Muyuan, he was not implicated by his teacher and he could obtain research resources normally without being affected.

However, nowadays, Muyuan Xiang no longer cares about those resources - he earns more himself.

The dilemma faced by Kihara Sixiang is essentially similar to that of his teacher Kihara Suta - the research subjects are uncooperative.

Kihara is also ambitious. His research direction is level 5 superpowers, and even further level 6 absolute abilities.

In this regard, it can be said that he is a perfect disciple of Kihara Suta.

However, the Level 5s have troublesome personalities and tempers, and coupled with their considerable strength, they cannot resort to harsh measures unless absolutely necessary.

The difficulty in obtaining "experimental materials" has fundamentally brought similar research like Kihara's to a standstill.

There's no need to talk about Accelerator, someone who even his teacher Kihara Sudo couldn't deal with, so Kihara doesn't think he can achieve any results.

Kakine Teito and Mugino Shiori are both members of the Anbu organization. They should be good partners because they are paid to do things; but based on the experience of their teacher Kihara Suta, they are not qualified experimental subjects because they have strong personalities and actions - they may hurt themselves if they are not careful.

Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki are from Tokiwadai. At least on the surface, even the Kihara clan cannot interfere with the Tokiwadai Group's sphere of influence.

Not to mention, they were closely united around the newly promoted Level 5 Lin Wuming, and had already formed a formidable force that could not be ignored. This was very troublesome in every sense...

As for Sogiita Gunha, he is known as the world's greatest "rough stone". Although his inexplicable abilities are powerful, they are not worth much research and development.

In this way, there are only two options left for Kihara.

One is to try to "persuade" a level 5 to cooperate with your research through negotiation; the other is to train a new level 5 among people with lower levels of abilities.

The former is unlikely, and the latter is even more unrealistic.

No wonder Muyuan has not been able to produce results yet...

In this situation, the desperate Kihara was forced to find another way out and try to find other breakthroughs to achieve his research goals in disguise. As it happened, he was very good at this operation.

In Kihara's opinion, as long as the expected experimental goal can be achieved in the end, as for the process and methods, "almost" is enough.

Even the research objectives can be flexible - again, as long as they are "almost the same".

For example, Kihara's initial goal was to research level 5 superpowers and eventually develop level 6 absolute abilities.

But now, the conditions have been relaxed a little bit - it is no longer required to develop a level 6 absolute ability user, but a powerful ability user "beyond level 5".

Just like Accelerator, he is not level 6, but he is stronger than the usual level 5.

As a node in the process of reaching level 6 absolute ability, such a compromise is acceptable.

However, the difficulty of this plan has been mentioned just now - the level 5s will not cooperate obediently.

Moreover, wanting to develop the current level 5 superpowers to be even stronger... this is already a very difficult goal.

In principle, it is basically no different from developing level 6.

Then, let's relax some of the requirements - simply pursue strength, surpass the strength of level 5, but not be limited to the category of "superpowers".

Like... "magic".

Kihara seemed to know the existence of "magic" and had even met some magicians in person.

Although his understanding is not particularly deep, but from a glimpse of the whole picture, Mu Yuan is confident that "magic", as another system with a complete system, its upper limit should not be much weaker than the level 5 superpower.

This is the so-called finding a different approach. Since you have hit a wall in the superpower system and there is no possibility of a breakthrough within the range of visibility of the naked eye, you can only change the track and try to open a breakthrough from other directions.

Of course, it was only recently that Kihara came up with this idea.

Seventy-two hours ago, to be exact.

Three days ago, Kihara Siliang obtained detailed information about the "Misawa Juku Incident" from channels within the "Kihara Clan".

Because this was information for "Kihara"'s own use, he did not shy away from the part related to "magic".

The main culprit behind this incident was the alchemist; those invited in as external aid to "clean up the mess" were professional magicians from the English Puritan and Roman Orthodox Churches; even the "orbital bombardment" that pierced the sky that day was also a magical attack...

Details of the news such as these are clearly stated in the internal intelligence publications of the "Kihara Clan".

Among these, there was a detail that caught Kihara's attention.

Those were the words from Vittorio, leader of the Roman Orthodox knights.

Vittorio suspected that Lin Wuming was the "secret weapon" jointly created by Academy City and the British Puritans, the so-called "scientific and magical" talent.

That is why Lin Wuming is so powerful, has such a high status, has such a great influence, and has such a close relationship with Chairman Aleister, and can even intervene in magic-related events without scruples.

(End of this chapter)