Celestial Mage

Chapter 376 Three Difficulties in the Floating Void City (23)

When Daxian came to vote, Luo Sen naturally put down his work at hand to greet him.

There is still a thin drizzle of rain floating in the sky, but the shadow of the sun can be vaguely seen behind the clouds and mist.

Rosen rushed from the refining workshop to the square in front of the Lord's Mansion, and saw that the entrance was crowded, full of mages leading their families.

Except for Hamilton, who is in his 40s, all the others are between 30 and [-] years old, and they are all young and strong.

Rosen took a quick glance and found that the mana achievements of these young mages had basically reached the middle level, and at least one tenth had reached the high level.

I can also vaguely feel that the temperament of this group of mages is similar to that of Hamilton, and they are all the kind of stubbornness who will die when they catch a problem.

This kind of person is a good material for scientific research.

Rosen was happy in his heart: "Not bad~ Really good~ This group of talents must be put to good use."

Of course, before employing a person, one must help the person settle down.

There are more than 900 people and nearly 300 households. It would be really difficult to resettle them in normal times, but after Moby Whale City was liquidated by him, there are too many empty houses, and they are all good houses.

After thinking about it for a while, Rosen had a plan in mind, so he shouted with the voice of the group mind.

"Everyone come with me~"

Then, he called to Harrick, took a large number of attendants to lead the way, and led them all the way to the gate of the mansion in the northeast corner of Beluga City.

This mansion originally belonged to the Rhinent family, covering an area of ​​60 labangs, which is equivalent to 1800 acres of the earth.

The empty rooms in the mansion are cleaned up, and there is no problem for 500 households to live in.

So, these 300 households live in this area, which is quite spacious.

Rosen didn't make random arrangements, he had already investigated the housing conditions in Raging Waves City.

Raging Waves City is well-developed in technique and prosperous in commerce, that's right, but it is also extremely densely populated, and the competition is fierce, and every inch of land in the main city is expensive.

There are no high-rise buildings in this world to ease the space, and the sky is only five stories high, so the competition for housing space is much more intense than in the big cities on Earth in previous lives.

The average price of a flat area is 200 crowns.

For commoner mages living in the city of Raging Waves, if a family can buy a 50-square-meter room with a separate bathroom, it is considered a successful life.

As a top spell master, Hamilton's house is only 4 Ram, and it was rewarded by the Duke, which is about the same size as Rosen's Sunshine House in the north.

The average house in the Rhinent family mansion is three floors high, with a total of 100 independent rooms, each room is over [-] square meters, and the living facilities are also very complete. It is definitely much better than the accommodation conditions of these mages before.

When he arrived here, Rosen instructed his attendants to directly change the house number into "Family Compound of the Research Bureau of the Great Floating Void City", and then brought Sir Hamilton into it.

"Master, this house is very big. The main courtyard covers an area of ​​20 Ram, with beautiful scenery and luxurious facilities. There are more than 40 luxurious rooms. If you don't mind, you and your family will live in the main courtyard?"

Hamilton fell in love with the mansion as soon as he entered it, because it was much better than his previous house in Rough City.

He personally does not have high requirements for material conditions, but who doesn't want his family to have a better life?

Seeing his wife and children sweeping away their previous anxiety and excitedly discussing which room to live in, he couldn't help showing joy on his face.

"Count, I like it very much, thank you."

He handed another piece of information to Rosen: "This is the list and information of this group of mages. You can arrange accommodation for them according to the order on the list, so as to avoid disputes."

This thing is good, and it will save Lawson a lot of trouble.

So he handed over the list to Harrick who followed, and Harrick immediately turned around to make arrangements.

Rosen led the Hamilton family into the main courtyard of the mansion.

The main courtyard is semi-detached, somewhat similar to a large courtyard, surrounded by three-story white stone masonry houses, with a well-maintained garden in the middle, and its own attendants to help settle Sir Hamilton's family.

At this time, the rain had completely stopped, the clouds in the sky dispersed very much, and the sun showed a smiling face.

Rosen and Hamilton walked in the garden path, chatting while walking.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Hamilton sighed: "Hey~~Rage City is completely in chaos."

Naturally, Rosen knew the current situation of Raging Waves City, so he pretended not to know and asked, "Did something happen?"

"Just the day before yesterday, the Duke announced that Master Lavin was a traitor in Raging Waves City, and even led the team himself, without any explanation, he ransacked Master Lavin's house."

"Fortunately, Master Lavin was more vigilant and took his family and escaped from Rage City early, so that he was spared the suffering of prison."

"This action also completely intensified the storm. Hundreds of thousands of people braved the rain and marched in the streets, surrounded Fort Thunder, and asked the Duke to give an explanation. Of course the Duke couldn't give it, so they huddled in Fort Thunder and couldn't come out."

Rosen heaved a long sigh: "The Duke is really too reckless in doing things."

It wasn't the first time he heard about it. He heard it from Pei Qian yesterday, and now he heard it again, and he still felt that his father-in-law's style of handling things was a real tiger.

Probably because the tiger is out of the cage without the restraint of his wife.

It was exactly as he expected.

It's no wonder that Hamilton wanted to escape from Raging Waves City early. Anyone with a discerning eye knew that something was going to happen to Raging Waves City.

Anyone who has some skills and doesn't want to get involved in the storm will naturally run away.

Hamilton waved his hands regretfully: "Let's not talk about the Duke anymore, let's talk about business."

His topic suddenly ran to the big floating city.

"Count, in your opinion, what are the key difficulties in building the Great Floating City?"

Rosen has already analyzed it carefully, so I will elaborate on it now.

"There are three main difficulties, all brought about by 'bigness'."

One fact of the world that is often overlooked is size.

Many people subconsciously think that the performance of a thing can be scaled proportionally with the size.

For example, ants can lift objects hundreds of times their own weight, so they subconsciously think that as long as the ant reaches the size of a human, it will be an invincible Hercules.

This is ignoring the incremental boundary effects brought about by size changes.

In fact, if an ant were as big as a human, then due to the huge size change, the oxygen supply to the cells, the energy supply, and the bearing of the body's own weight would all cause problems. It would be a problem whether they could survive, let alone lift things.

The same goes for the Great Floating Void City.

Many problems that are not a problem on a small aircraft, after being infinitely magnified, become difficult to ignore and must be solved.

"The first is structural strength."

"Although it is gravitational levitation, the requirements for structural strength will be much lower. But if the size reaches 1 lam, it is impossible to achieve a uniform gravitational field passing through the floating city. Therefore, the strength of the floating city itself must be used to offset most of the unevenness. strength."

"According to my calculations, the main frame of the floating city must be a steel structure strengthened with a master's level 5 petrification technique, and its total weight may exceed 100 million Diwen." (Note: One Diwen can be regarded as one ton.)
"In addition, just gathering so much steel is a big problem."

There was a hint of shock in Hamilton's eyes: "This is almost the total steel output of the entire Eastern Territory for five years. If Raging City is alone, then 20 years will not be enough."

Rosen made another point.

"The second is that the sunlight received by the power source with the spell of the celestial channel is far from enough to support the big floating city, and the difference is several orders of magnitude."

Hamilton didn't have a lot of research on the celestial passage spell, so he said at this time: "Introduce this spell carefully."

Rosen nodded: "The channel to the heavens can receive sunlight through a principle that I don't know. It is effective no matter whether it is night or day, or even deep underground."

"But there is a flaw, that is, in a certain volume of space, there is an upper limit to the sunlight received."

"The upper limit is that in a space with a length, width, and height of 10 meters, you can only receive the power equivalent to a master's level 8 spell. After deducting the conversion consumption of the god iron core, you will only be left with a master level 5, and experience another wave of spells." Its own consumption is only left to master level 4."

Hamilton was startled, a little confused.

"You mean, no matter how many celestial channel spells exist in this space, they cannot break through this upper limit?"

Rosen nodded: "If you release 100 spells, the sunlight received by each spell will be shared equally."

Because of this, it is fine to push the plane, but the power density is too low to push the big floating city.

After all, there are a large number of functional structures in the Great Floating Void City, and it is impossible to use all the space to set up the heavenly channel spells.

Even if this is done, there must be a large number of celestial channel spells, the failure rate must be astonishingly high, and the later maintenance will be a disaster.

Of course, this difficulty may be solved with Transcendent Holy Gold, but this thing is absolutely confidential and its performance is not perfect.

At present, everyone has just arrived, and their personalities and backgrounds are not clear, so Rosen will not talk about it for the time being.

He went on to the third point.

"The last one is the problem of cooperation between mages."

"With such a large floating city, one gravitational spell will definitely not be able to support the sky. Many spells must be coordinated together, and this requires hundreds, or even tens of thousands of mages to guide together."

"It's just a levitation, so it's okay to use the Persistence Technique to maintain buoyancy. But since it's floating in the air, the biggest advantage is that it can move.

"When moving, how should everyone cooperate tacitly, how to use force together, or how to fill in the vacancy in time if a mage suddenly feels uncomfortable and has diarrhea? In short, just thinking about it makes people feel headache."

Rosen's feeling is that even if the Floating Void City can float to the sky only by manpower, it will not be floating for a long time, and it may fall from the sky at any time.

At that time, it will not be a big floating city, but a man-made meteorite.

Hamilton also heard the pulsation of blood vessels in his forehead.

"This is much more difficult than my steam magic weapon. Has the Earl thought of a solution?"

Rosen spread his hands: "My idea is to develop a magic weapon that can cast spells automatically."

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Hamilton followed suit.

"Why do I think this is more difficult than getting mages to cooperate with each other?"

Rosen smiled, raised a finger, and a little mana emerged from the fingertips.

After the mana is released from the finger, it will automatically condense into a ball, and then start to glow. After 3 seconds, it disappears into the air.

"Master, since mana can be automatically converted into light spells for lighting, why can't it be automatically converted into gravity for traction?"

"If the principle in the middle can be thoroughly studied, the automatic casting should be solved."

"At that time, using a large number of star mysterious gemstones to store mana, you only need to press a switch, and the mana in it will automatically flow into the gravitational circle and automatically turn into gravity, which will completely liberate the mage from repetitive and tedious spell-casting activities. "

Hamilton nodded slowly, but couldn't help but sigh.

"It seems that you young people are more active in thinking, I am really old~~"

Rosen had no color on his face, and sighed softly.

"Master, I'm just scratching the surface of my mouth. There is still a hundred thousand lamys away from the real realization."

A trace of confusion appeared in Hamilton's eyes: "You're right, I don't know if I can see the big floating city rising from Moby Dick Island in my life."

He hesitated a little, but was quickly dispelled by him, and he started to ask practical questions.

"Count, how much money do you plan to invest in the Research Bureau in advance?"

"I just made some money recently. So this first issue, I will invest 300 million crowns."

Hamilton laughed loudly: "Just for your generosity, I must use the 300 million crowns to advance to the road of [-] lamy."

Luo Sen also laughed: "Master, you still have to pay attention to your body. If you lose money, you can make it again. If your body is damaged, it will be difficult to recover."

Hamilton didn't care.

"A mortal's life is only a few decades, if you don't take advantage of this time to do something big, it's not like working in vain."

He had a ready expression on his face: "After I settle down today, I will start working tomorrow!"

"As you wish, Master."

By the afternoon, all the mages in Hamilton had settled down, and the next day, the research funds of 300 million crowns were allocated as scheduled.

Hamilton is indeed a great talent. Under his arrangement, the Research Bureau of the Floating Void City quickly got on the right track with the wild speed of a soldier charging.

Rosen often goes around a few times to check the progress, share his ideas, or help solve some problems.

At the same time, it also provides more outstanding talents for the Research Bureau.

For most of the rest of the time, he was building planes for the prince.

One after another, the more they are built, the smoother they are.

Not only is he smooth, but so are the more than 100 crafting apprentices who assisted him in building the aircraft.

The chief apprentice, Lotana, is already qualified to replace 6% of Rosen's work.

Except for the god-iron core with complex and precise curved surfaces, the shape of the aircraft, and the high-quality star mysterious gems, all other parts can be handled by apprentices.

Therefore, Rosen set up another "Aircraft Manufacturing Bureau", the first acting director was himself, and the deputy director was the chief apprentice Lotana.

Why Acting Director?

Because this bureau chief will be handed over to Gendeloni in the future.

After one and a half months of construction, the Manufacturing Bureau was able to produce a plane in a day, and there was still a lot of free time every day, so it didn't delay telling stories to Fischer at all.

Just as he was in trouble, he suddenly received a message from Afu.

"Come to Xuegai Mountain, my sister wants to see you."

Afu's older sister was naturally Feiltana, and Rosen didn't dare to neglect, and immediately rushed to Xuegai Mountain.

(End of this chapter)