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Chapter 737 The Terra Universe with Deep Water (5400, ask for a monthly pass at the end of the month!)
"The matter of ether armament is up to you."

Viscount Grant trusted Ian very much in this regard. After all, the armor designed by Ian could win an award in the imperial capital, so how can a scumbag like him question the gold content?
Although it didn't get the top few for various reasons, it was also because Ian didn't conceive for too long and was inferior in versatility.

Now, Ian is quite famous in the circle of armor design, and his popularity is so high that he himself could not predict it.

As for the need for the ether armament to be disassembled... To be honest, it's not a big deal.

The ether armament needs to be disassembled and maintained frequently, but it is a pity that Viscount Grant is a bit talented in the way of sublimation, but he is completely ignorant of alchemy inscriptions and ether arm construction. This aspect has always been handed over to Elder Pude , Now it is nothing more than changing to Ian who is stronger.

"Then I'll start."

Ian would not be polite to Viscount Grant, he directly asked the other party to bring 'Zheng Lan' to the warehouse area in the east of the city.

Here, the armor maintenance equipment Ian brought from Xiahui has been prepared.

Although the requirements are a bit crude compared to the ether weapon, Ian doesn't really want to rebuild an ether weapon, just to repair some of his core equipment.

Not to mention, Ian has a complete set of blueprints in mind for the core equipment that needs to be repaired.

In other words, repairing Zhenglan is just a piece of cake for Ian. His real purpose is to actually observe Zhenglan, or in other words, the design ideas of other people's ether armament.

Although he obtained the most cutting-edge ether weapon prototype, 'Dead River Armament', from Grand Duke Sorin, many of the design ideas and concepts could not be directly used because it was too cutting-edge.

Just like a country that has just learned how to build a thermal power station, there is no obstacle for it to learn wind power and hydropower. Nuclear fission power stations can be learned after a long time, but if they are directly given the technology of nuclear fusion power stations... even It has really learned, and it does not have the technical hard power to manufacture materials and equipment for fusion power stations.

Ian's research on the Dead River Armed Forces is stuck here: his foundation in the etheric armed forces is not solid enough, and he only has a half-knowledge of many basic aspects, so he needs tutoring.

And the semi-disabled etheric weapon of Viscount Grant is an excellent learning material.

It is said to be half-disabled, but in fact, Zhenglan is actually quite intact as a whole.

On the maintenance stand, Ian stared intently at the full metal armor in front of him.

Zhenglan has a smooth outer armor shape, and its layered armor structure is similar to dragon scales. It can not only provide strong defense and unloading capabilities, but also can spray high-heat steam from the gaps, making it unbelievable. Accelerate and move at an angle to achieve a ghostly maneuver that is almost inertialess.

"Is it equivalent to being full of vector nozzles all over the body? Use sublimation skills to cooperate with science and technology, combine the strong, and discard the weak points." The young man thought to himself, this is a very clever idea, he directly carried out prostitution and recorded it.

In addition, Zhenglan's main carapace surface has many etched patterns. These are extremely delicate inscription structures, and its abilities include 'manipulating water flow', 'vortex boosting', 'water vapor atomization', and 'steam explosion unloading' and 'Ice Armor' and other sublimation skills of the water system, and these sublimation skills can be found in the bloodline [Abyssal Lizard Whale].

This is not a coincidence. The ether armament was originally designed to reproduce and sublimate the bloodline ability of the nobles, allowing them to mechanically study the sublimation organs in their bodies and optimize them.

The original ether armament was actually a research tool similar to a mannequin, but later people discovered that this research tool can achieve a combat effectiveness of one plus one far greater than two with a sublimator of the same bloodline as long as it is slightly modified, especially when paired with After the ether core, the combat effectiveness of the sublimators who can ignore the reserve of source quality will soar.

Therefore, the real core of the ether armament lies in the ether furnace core.

And Zhenglan's damage point lies in the heart of the ether.

"I'm going to start an in-depth analysis."

Although Viscount Grant couldn't understand the inscriptions Ian studied at all, he could still understand some mechanical structures and various modules of his car. This sublimated nobleman knew very well that all the processes of Ian were quite Norm is even far more proficient than Elder Pu De who has repaired this armor for more than ten years.

So he safely let Ian continue to disassemble.

The disassembly of the ether armament should start from the back, open the skeleton along the 'spine', and then check it.

The abilities of various sublimation modules around the core of the ether are also very familiar. The three abilities of 'wind and rain', 'three-state conversion' and 'water system natural source quality control' are the core abilities, while 'water mist field' and 'deep sea heavy pressure' are the core abilities. 'These two unique modules of the Abyssal Lizard Whale are located around the core of the etheric furnace, enjoying the preferential treatment of direct energy supply.

Looking at these sublimation modules, Ian couldn't help feeling emotional.

If it is a human being, who wants to condense sublimated organs with these abilities in the body, God knows how long it will take, and how much pressure it will cause on one's life... No wonder sublimated people don't have a particularly long lifespan.

Among other things, the blood of the Abyssal Lizard Whale will replace human blood with a pure liquid source, which is essentially no different from rocket fuel. It is used to deliver strong energy to each sublimated organ, even if sublimated The victim's body is extremely strong, but he can't stand this kind of destruction that uses the human body as a weapon.

Everyone knows that most rockets are disposable!
And now, Ian finally saw Zhenglan's etheric hearth.

The core of the etheric furnace, which occupies the two major parts of the etheric weapon's "heart and back", looks like a transparent crystal ball wrapped in layers of pentagonal metal lattices. The core of the crystal is a regular pentagonal element crystallization.

When it is activated, the crystallization of the elements will burn, releasing pure source quality, and this source quality will attract the natural spiritual energy in the surrounding time and space through the siphon effect, and then condense into the 'primordial ether' in the crystal ball, producing a A chain reaction.

Before the elemental crystals are consumed, the energy that the etheric furnace core can provide is unlimited. The etheric armed forces can squander the source quality to the fullest, and perform various wide-area powerful attacks that are difficult for humans to use frequently. In terms of firepower, it can even suppress an entire army.

This is a relatively common ether core, with a total of twelve sockets, which can supply energy for twelve advanced sublimation modules at the same time, but this does not mean that it can simultaneously support twelve 'Deep Sea Heavy Pressure', that is, Grant The viscount urged the sublimation module to launch the sea of ​​clouds and tsunami to launch the city-destroying attack. One of that kind of high-level sublimation module would occupy three power supply sockets.

And the more advanced ether core may only need one socket to make the deep sea pressure work normally, or it may have more sockets.

Ian could see at a glance that Zhenglan's ether core was indeed flawed: its inscription source quality transmission channel was damaged, which reduced its running time and energy transmission efficiency by more than one-third.

Even if Elder Pu De made solidification efforts, it was only to restore its operating time to a near-normal level, but it was still difficult for Zheng Lan to use the middle and high-level skills of the third energy level.

As for repairing, it is not difficult.Ian was thinking about whether to use Mithril to make a reinforced pipeline to replace the damaged transportation channel, or to use Morion steel to directly fill it roughly-the former will make Zhenglan stronger, and the latter will at most maintain the original state.

Seeing that Viscount Grant cooperated very happily and had no doubts about himself, Ian didn't ask the other party which one he planned to choose, but told him directly that he would use Mithril to repair the pipeline for Zhenglan.

And Viscount Grant was indeed unambiguous. He directly asked Lamar to fetch the secret treasure of the Viscount's Mansion, and handed over to Ian the high-purity mithril that was probably the only one in Harrison Port.

"I will live up to my expectations."

Seeing that the viscount didn't say a word of nonsense, Ian also nodded with a smile, and began to pick up his rare edition inscription repair tool (provided by Isengard kindly), and began to repair the ether core.

There is no need to elaborate on the specific process of maintenance. In essence, this is no different from dusting on a construction site. At most, the precision of the operation is required to be as high as [-] million points, but it is nothing to Ian.

When Ian raised the lithography pen, bright lines of light lit up on the core of the ether furnace, centered on the core crystal ball, and spread in all directions.Next, the surging source quality began to flow, and the faint blue water light filled the entire maintenance room in an instant. The rich water system source quality turned this place into a deep sea, and the core of the ether furnace was the sun in the water, illuminating Ian and Mian Dai. The face of the ecstatic Viscount Grant.

"Right, that is it!"

The Viscount walked forward quickly, with a look of surprise on his face, even with a look of nostalgia, he stared at the heart of the ether shining in front of Ian.

Viscount Grant carefully looked at the etheric weapon inherited from his ancestors. Although it has been repaired and replaced many parts, including the etheric core, it is still the symbol of the highest glory of the Grant family in the past. It is the most bragging heritage and martial arts on this land.

However, this great wealth is covered in dust in his hands. Damage to the ether core is not a big deal. It is not surprising that the family does not have the technology to repair the ether core. There are too many noble families who do not have relevant talents and can only entrust outsiders to repair it. That's why master alchemists are so respected.

What is really shameful is that the Grant family has been away from the center of the empire for so long that they can't even invite relevant technicians who can repair the ether core.

But now...it's different.

The viscount turned his head and looked at Ian who was also smiling and looking at his repaired work.

——He trained a future master alchemist... No, he is now a master alchemist.

It took less than half an afternoon to repair the damage of the ether furnace core so easily, and it was completed in one go. Even Master Gesai couldn't do such an operation, at least he had to go through it in his mind For the operation process, think about it for about a day before you can start to repair it.

But Ian started directly and repaired it all at once... This only means one thing.

(This stinky boy, and that old Puddler, have another hidden hand)
Viscount Grant scolded with a smile in his heart. He finally understood that this group of white people always like to hide their skills, their strength, their inheritance, and now they also hide their alchemy skills.

But soon, the Viscount realized something was wrong—if Ian was really just hiding something, why did he reveal it now?

Is it possible...

"Ian."

The Viscount tentatively asked: "Do you know that the maintenance of the ether core takes at least a day or so?"

"what?"

Hearing this sentence, Ian raised his head in a daze, and he and the Viscount looked at each other. The kind of incomprehension from the heart could not be faked - Viscount Grant immediately understood: Good guy, this kid is not hiding at all. He is just so purely gifted that he is unbelievably good, and he doesn't think it's a problem to repair the ether core at all!

"Oops."

Ian secretly made a mistake at this moment. He really didn't expect that it would take a day to repair the ether core. The principle of this thing is indeed complicated, but the technical content required for maintenance is not high. An elite alchemist can learn it with a little proficiency in inscriptions ah.

It's like the industrial capabilities needed to build a car are required, but repairing a car is not that complicated.

Fortunately, Viscount Grant didn't say much, but patted Ian on the shoulder and said with a smile: "It seems that my future child's teacher may not be just a master... but a master craftsman."

As an ally on the same boat as Ian, of course he wouldn't worry about how talented Ian is—the more talented Ian is, the better, and maybe the future upgrades of Zhenglan will all depend on him.

"The rest of the mithril will be handed over to you. It will be the tuition fee for future children."

With a generous wave of his hand, the Viscount gave Ian the mithril left over from the maintenance.There is really no purpose here, it is pure investment in advance.

High-purity Mithril is not a cheap item, it is a raw material that can be used in any field, especially the field of high-precision alchemy, and the most important thing is that it is difficult to buy even if you have money.

It is precisely because of the largest mithril mine in Terra that the dwarven kingdom of Ganterigum was able to raise a full-armored army of legions, and used the power of one country to fight against the two major kingdoms of Yanjiang and the Royal Court of Heaven. The invasion does not fall behind.

"Then I won't give in."

Ian was not polite, and directly accepted the small bag of mithril, and put it in his arms carefully - mithril is not a complete metal, in the eyes of Ian today, it is a kind of original ether and material perfection The combined finished product has the superconducting ability of source matter, just like the Moran steel, but it goes a step further.

Under natural circumstances, it is theoretically impossible to form a normal source-mass superconducting substance like Mithril. An extreme cosmic phenomenon such as the formation of an ether supernova can only be born when a source-mass sun explodes, which is similar to the principle of the appearance of heavy metals.

But in this way, it can only prove one thing: in this universe, at least before the birth of the second generation of stars, the differentiation of the original ether and even the source matter and spiritual energy has been completed.

However, if it is a pre-epoch civilization, it may be possible to artificially produce Mithril through extreme experiments... The same is true for fine gold.

"The technology of man-made mithril must be mastered."

Thinking of this, Ian bid farewell to Viscount Grant, and the other party couldn't wait to reorganize the etheric armies as soon as possible, and personally experienced whether the repaired Zhenglan would return to a perfect state, and he didn't want to stay.

"Up to now, I have mastered the manufacturing idea of ​​ether armament."

Back home, Elan was receiving meditation training at the Huaiguang Church. He happened to be thinking alone: ​​"I have all the materials and equipment. I can manufacture a prototype when I return to the territory, and then continue to optimize it based on the advanced technology of Dead River Armed Forces."

"To thoroughly understand all technologies, not only the most advanced, but also the old technologies in the past, so that it can be regarded as sound."

Ian not only has Zhenglan's design in his heart, but also has thoroughly mastered the technology of how to make ether weapons through the process of dismantling and restoration: "The only difficulty in ether weapons is the ether core."

"I also know its principle, which is to create a vacuum of source matter through pure source matter, attract spiritual energy to converge into the original ether, form etheric space bubbles, siphon surrounding natural spiritual energy, and obtain infinite energy."

"The only problem is that in the space bubble, the 'channel' that collapses and is used to siphon the surrounding space-time source matter - the nature of this channel is very similar to the 'wormhole'."

"For the people on earth, the ether core is to create a wormhole, intercept the natural spiritual energy that wants to flow into the other side of the wormhole, and convert it into a 'tidal engine' of energy... This is its real power. Nature."

"But here comes the question - where does this passage lead to?" Ian murmured in his heart, this was the only thing he couldn't figure out.

At this moment, the young man remembered the scene he saw through the 'Guiding Star' before.

That runs through the infinite parallel time and space, the past and the future, and permeates the infinite 'primordial ether sea'...

"Could it be that..." Clenching his fists, Ian opened his eyes wide: "The core of the ether is a semi-infinite tidal engine made by relying on the original ether to penetrate the nature of time and space?"

"It connects other parallel universes, and obtains energy through the different 'ether pressure' between the two universes..."

"That's right, that's it - no wonder every civilization in this universe seems to make an etheric core, and even regard it as a standard configuration of the 'Spark Spaceship'... It's that simple!"

After figuring this out, Ian suddenly realized. Originally, he didn’t quite understand why the etheric space bubble would create such a powerful siphon effect, but now it’s much easier to think about it—the ether in the next-door universe is more powerful than theirs. The world, or in other words, has less ether than the surrounding star field of Terra, so it will naturally guide the ether to flow towards the next universe.

Of course, this is not absolute. If the parallel universes connected by each etheric core are different (most likely), then when the next universe has more ether than Terra, the principle of the etheric core must be reversed. , not a siphon, but a collection of aether gushed out of a white hole-like channel!
This may also be the reason why the civilizations of the pre-epoch could not stably produce etheric cores... They are not sure what the universe behind each etheric core is, of course they can only produce semi-finished products!
However, after the joy, there was a burst of tension.

Ian raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky outside the window.

The young man stared quietly at the scorching sun in the sky, and he let out a breath slowly: "According to my guess...things like inscriptions are likely to be 'origin instructions' created by a powerful civilization."

"And the manipulation of psionic energy is also a complex procedure that is extremely suitable for the thinking of intelligent life."

"If there is no accident, the source quality, spiritual energy, and even the original ether are probably not natural creations..."

Ian was silent for a long time before sighing: "It seems that the truth behind Prisoner Star Prison may not be as simple as I imagined."

"The universe where Terra is... the water is very deep."

Feeling doesn't change anything.

Even if a part of the truth of this universe is guessed, before it is confirmed, the guess is just a guess, not to mention that even if it is true, it will not help Ian develop his territory and strengthen his own strength.

So, after writing a few logs with the silver chip, Ian put aside his guesses in this regard, and directly dialed the communication device.

He wanted to talk to Master Gesai about the breeding grounds of Atlan Giant City, Andor and the clone of the little crystal dragon.

　Ask for a monthly ticket at the end of the month!
It can be regarded as finished, go to bed!
This schedule has completely collapsed, the only way to do it now is to get through it slowly (calm down)
For the principle of the heart of the ether, you can read Asimov's "The Gods Themselves", which was also mentioned in the previous article, but I am afraid that some readers do not understand it well, so I can use an analogy

Of course, not exactly the same!
　
(End of this chapter)