Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 104 The Founder of Modern Magic Theory

By the standards of an average high school student, it generally took around forty minutes to complete an 800-word essay.

For an internet novelist with no concern for reader’s feelings, purely inflating the word count, discussing life and pothos plants, mixing in some personal thoughts, and having online viewers send a round of live comments, writing 2000 words in an hour was hardly a challenge.

As a professional game streamer, Li Mumu knew quite well how to pad the word count... no, that is, how to efficiently edit rant-filled strategy videos.

The opening had to be explosive, exhilarating, thrilling, like charging directly at the heart of the matter.

Otherwise, dragging out eighteen thousand words without introducing the female protagonist easily led to irate readers attempting to drown you in a toilet.

"Today, my mom hit me..."

Mumu habitually padded out a five hundred word introduction before remembering to open the massive tome titled "String Theory." The mere thickness of it chilled her hands and feet, tingling her scalp.

Who among family understands... why would a witch study physics? Was there some serious illness?

The book’s author, Mephistopheles Planck, penned a twenty-page preface, claiming to be a Grand Sorceress from the Duchy of Bavaria, active around two hundred years ago, roughly during the same era as Duke Newton, a past chief councilor of the Dark Council, and one of the founders of modern magic theory.

She told a bizarre story in the preface.

"Today my mother suddenly came to visit me, which was quite surprising."

"Because in my memory, my mother has been dead for nearly twenty years."

"Yet the woman who appeared before me was undoubtedly alive. No matter how I observed, I couldn’t deny the fact that she was indeed my mother. She even possessed complete memories of our last twenty years together."

"What frightened me more was that all my relatives and friends almost all knew of my mother’s existence, and she indeed had left a real mark on the past twenty years. It seemed only my own memory was flawed."

"Either there was something wrong with me, or there was something wrong with the world."

"For this, I scoured historical records, consulted numerous wise and virtuous people, but could not find an answer. Either they didn’t believe me, thinking I was insane, or they did believe me, thinking that some demon was playing tricks in the dark."

"I specifically went to Hell to consult Satan." 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"The Lord of Hell did not directly answer my question but instead asked me, do you remember how Jesus died?"

"I almost laughed at this childish question, but I answered him seriously, remembering that Jesus was betrayed by his disciple Judas for thirty silver coins, and then captured by the Romans, crucified on the Cross."

"He told me to read the Bible again."

"I have to admit, maybe it really was my mind that was flawed."

"This world was not the one I knew, or perhaps it might be said that I did not belong to this world."

"In the twenty years that followed, as you know, I became the infamous ’Crazy Witch.’ I crossed multiple dimensions countless times, traveling to Hell, Heaven... even including the legendary Eastern Heavenly Realm, in search of the truth and answers."

"I found the answer, but it’s difficult to describe in concrete terms."

"The answer has three layers."

"With ordinary human intellect and cognitive power, one could only comprehend the first layer of the answer—our world line has been tampered with."

"Like an exam paper erased and rewritten, our world, which we thought was objectively real, has been altered by higher dimensional beings in a similar manner."

"Of course, this is not the truth, merely a metaphor I use for your easier understanding."

"Your minds are too fragile,"

......

It’s the Mandela Effect, or rather, as the Grand Sorceress would call it, the "Judas Effect". What is there not to understand?

In this era, people indeed have limited cognition, and foreigners are particularly fragile of heart. Many are indoctrinated by religion from a young age and cannot accept anything beyond their current understanding.

Li Mumu was attending high school in Saifu, which was no longer a traditional church school and had completely separated from the control of the church, but the school still insisted on including the Bible in the curriculum and upheld the doctrine of Divine Creation.

Unconsciously having finished the preface, she looked up and it was already past nine o’clock in the evening.

The first Chapter is titled "Lilith"

"1.1 — Lilith, and the Nature of Magic."

Just by seeing the title, Li Mumu felt a bout of dizziness.

[Your attention is rapidly decreasing]

[You realize that at your current level, you could only read the preface of this book, continuing might cause irreparable damage to your spirit.]

[You recall your mother saying you have no talent.]

Li Mumu rallied her spirit and began to write.

Writing a book review can be quite challenging for a naive child without life experience. But for a mature adult, it is as simple as breathing.

Who hasn’t had an experience arguing with others online?

Manners, filial piety, urgency, joy, clams, winning — the six arts of the new generation of gentlemen are first laid on the table.

"I think that the viewpoint of Grand Sorceress Mephistopheles Planck is debatable..."

"If she truly did as she claimed, traveled from heaven to earth just to seek the truth, only to come to this conclusion, it is rather laughable."

One netizen answered like this—

"I have a friend who just traveled back from a future era."

"According to her, in the information age a hundred years later, human technology has highly developed, reaching the level where it can break through dimensional barriers."

"We can go into almost real virtual video games to find AI spouses with advanced cognitive models that can communicate normally and are also programmed to be completely loyal to you."

"You can also download your AI spouse into a life-size, fully-simulated biological model and marry and have children in the Real World."

"Productivity has been liberated, and so has human experience!"

"The issues that troubled the Grand Sorceress in the past are no longer problems for the people of the future."

"If you ask my friend whether this world is real, she would answer, just like the Auron stuffing in a meat bun, tradition is important, but one must learn to adapt to the currents of the era. Life is but a fleeting hundred years, like a dew at dawn. Living in the moment is most crucial, what we see before us is what is real."

"Let the timeline be modified, so be it, it’s not a big deal, you can’t change it back anyway."