FALLEN ORACLE

**Chapter 5: Meeting the Headmaster Again (3)**

If the outer walls of these transparent rooms were one‑way mirrored, then to someone inside, the place would indeed appear as Carl had described – "radiating a holy white light, the floors and walls spotless."As for the thing made of light and flame, it was probably some unscrupulous "god" using transmutation magic to disguise himself.And the spot illuminated by the dark cyan light of the Heaven‑rank Stone – that was likely the spirit body of some poor mage undergoing Divine Communion.From his own communions with Tiya, Chen Yi knew that a spirit body could only be perceived by the one who cast the Divine Communion spell; others could not see it.Standing atop the glass room was a mage in the same uniform as Mary, clearly also working for the Lower Realm Management Office. This woman was casting some kind of spell on the empty space lit by the Heaven‑rank Stone.She was casting a memory‑reading spell on that mage's spirit body!Chen Yi quickly recalled his earlier conclusion – it was to prove this truth that Lisa had died.At that thought, he quietly clenched his fist.The psionic mage who had been in this position back then must have discovered in Lisa's memory that she knew the truth about the upper and lower realms, and had directly destroyed her mind with a psionic spell, killing her.That was why Lisa died in her own bed without any visible wounds. With the lower realm's level of magic, it was impossible to detect traces of an attack by a powerful Celestial psionic mage.Since a person could not cast two or more psionic spells at the same time, the Celestial pretending to be "light and flame" had used the Divine Communion spell to summon the target to this transparent room.And this mage working for the Lower Realm Management Office was casting a psionic spell to read the target's memory, ensuring the security of the lower realm.Clearly, as Lisa had suspected, every Divine Communion was supervised by someone from the Lower Realm Management Office, just to be safe.Thus, the entire B4 basement of the Lower Realm Management Office was a dedicated facility for Divine Communion. The one‑way transparent design allowed other staff or visiting supervisors to observe the process easily.Because there was a twelve‑hour time difference between the upper and lower realms, when the Fallen Race mages fell asleep, it was daytime in the upper realm. These "gods" could use the Divine Communion spell when they themselves were most alert.---This was the first time Chen Yi had witnessed a Divine Communion as a bystander, so the function of the Heaven‑rank Stone appeared even more clearly to him.First, the "god" casting the Divine Communion spell – his magic seemed to be first amplified by the Heaven‑rank Stone and then directed at the empty space.So his earlier guess was correct: the Heaven‑rank Stone did indeed amplify psionic spells.Given the vast distance between the upper and lower realms, Chen Yi believed it was all but certain that a Celestial could not cast Psionic Lock or the Divine Communion spell on a Fallen Race target so far away without the help of the Heaven‑rank Stone.Second, there was the resource extracted from that empty space. After careful observation and repeated confirmation, Chen Yi was now certain:The resource the Heaven‑rank Stone extracted from the human body was none other than mana – the very thing they were all so familiar with.How could mana exist inside a Fallen Race body? Chen Yi found this strange.Did that mean his own body also contained mana?According to his earlier conclusion, the Fallen Race cast spells by drawing mana from the Magic Net, while only the Celestial Race naturally generated mana within themselves over time.Judging by this bizarre scene of Divine Communion, it appeared that the Fallen Race also had substantial mana inside them. The entire fraud of Divine Communion seemed designed precisely to extract that mana from the Fallen Race through this method.The extraction of mana was not hard to understand. For the Celestial Race, who could not draw mana from the environment, mana was money.Having a Divine Communion with a Fallen Race mage was like regularly mining ore from a gold mine. The irreversible damage caused to the Fallen Race body during the process was of no concern to them.What he found hard to understand was why the Fallen Race had mana inside them at all.---If the resource extracted by the Heaven‑rank Stone really was mana, then the cruel ritual Tiya had to endure every month was easy to explain.Because Tiya was Celestial, her body accumulated a certain amount of mana each month.According to the information Chen Yi had found, the amount of mana a Celestial generated in a given time depended on their magical strength.The more powerful the mage, the faster their mana regeneration.Apparently, those who had imprisoned Tiya were also after this. Thanks to her great power, Tiya would inevitably accumulate a huge quantity of mana every month.If they stored that mana in the transparent mana stones, they could both keep Tiya's internal mana low – preventing her from suddenly rising up and escaping – and, by selling the mana stones, bring enormous profits to the prison.That was another reason she had been imprisoned but not killed – who would want to give up such a productive gold mine?---Just then, the Divine Communion in the transparent room ended. The Heaven‑rank Stone gradually dimmed. The being of light and flame transformed back into a human – a slender, fair‑skinned young man.The young man was richly dressed, adorned with gold and silver; from a distance, he looked rather dazzling.The female psionic mage on top of the glass room jumped down, respectfully opened the door, and invited him to come out."Viscount Shearman, thank you for your hard work," the female mage said obsequiously.The young man called Shearman said, "Ah, next time you may need to prepare a mana stone for me. By the way, did he have any issues?""No." The female mage shook her head. "Are you satisfied with my service?"Her fawning manner was like a cat smelling fish."Satisfied." Shearman waved his hand. "Sorry to take up your rest day.""Not at all. It is my honour to be of service to you."Watching this, Chen Yi felt a touch of contempt. It seemed that the staff of the Suss Federation government were nothing more than tools to facilitate the convenience of the nobility.Clearly, Divine Communion was a privilege of the few nobles. A single noble could have Divine Communion with many Fallen Race mages, using the Heaven‑rank Stone to extract their mana for personal gain.If their own bodies could contain it, they would drain it directly.If their internal mana reserves were already full, they could transfer it to a mana stone and take it away.With just a word from them, government officials had to come in to work on their rest day and supervise the process according to federal regulations.The female mage from the Lower Realm Management Office had called Shearman "Viscount," so this young man was likely from a noble family.Chen Yi guessed that the custom in the upper realm was for one noble family to inherit the title of one "Great God."That way, across centuries, the "immortal Great God" would still appear to be alive to those in the lower realm. Meanwhile, the upper‑realm nobles could use this hereditary system to monopolise the Fallen Race as resources for Divine Communion.