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"But who planted these deceptions?" Icarus murmured to himself. "And when? The study of wizardry and the void are interlinked. It's an unbroken chain of inquiry. If someone had grafted errors into the theory at large, that should have been caught."
He tapped the crystal in his brow. Light flowed beneath its surface. To his people, the motion marked intense thought. Icarus was probing the terrible possibility he had just sketched out—not a wild guess, but the only explanation that matched the mounting failures and contradictions his teams had unearthed. Verifying it, however, would be almost impossible.
As a scholar, he knew well the importance of rigor. Errors could hardly be slipped in halfway through a discipline and remain undetected: scholarship advanced step by step, each rung tested by those who climbed it.
That was why the very idea of a deliberately corrupted foundation was so monstrous—and why only someone with Icarus's...
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