Sword of Dawn

"It's all right, don't worry," the huge silver-white funny buzzing vibrates, "it'll be fine for two or three days at most—it's a minor problem. And as long as you don't come into direct contact with the stimulus during this period, I'll be fine for a while." Get used to it after time, and you won’t get sick.”

"...Your race is really strange..." Gawain muttered in a low voice, and he focused on those ores again. After observing them, he asked the craftsman next to him, "Has Hetty studied these ores?" ?”

"Ms. Hetty has already taken a part of the sample in advance. Her preliminary analysis believes that there is a large proportion of metal components in it, so she sent a part to the Machinery Manufacturing Institute. I want the director to help purify it," the craftsman said earnestly. Hui reported, "But I didn't expect that the director just touched this thing, and it fell to the ground."

"Okay, then I'll go to her to find out the situation myself." Gawain nodded, and then looked at Nicholas who was lying on the ground, "You should have a good rest these two days, anyway, most of the machine tools are already online, and there is also a A batch of skilled workers, the daily production and processing of parts can be completed by various factories, so you can rest assured and recuperate. Do you have any requirements for the recuperating environment?"

The big metal ball shook its body slightly: "Just find me a place where I can bask in the sun, and besides me, pile up metal fragments containing iron and copper, or quartz sand from your world is also fine, I will make up for it." body..."

This is really in line with the logical setting...

Gao Wen sighed in his heart, then touched his chin and looked at the big ball in front of him: "But your size and weight are placed here...it's not easy to transfer you to the sun. Wait a minute, I'll go find He Dee puts you on a bariatric or something..."

"Oh, no, no, I'm not completely paralyzed, and my levitation cavity can still work—it's just that I can't float," Nicholas said with a buzz, "Just find someone to push me, don't worry, it's easy of."

Dealing with an iron ball star with such a unique style of painting is really a challenge. Gao Wen has to work hard to adapt to the opponent's peculiar appearance and physical characteristics so as not to collapse his expression. He managed to hold back the corners of his mouth. Trembling, he turned his head and glanced at the craftsmen and apprentices beside him: "You... who pushed your boss to go out to bask in the sun?"

Immediately, two strong apprentices stood up: "We are willing to take care of the director!"

Then Gao Wen watched the two apprentices push their chubby director to leave Workshop No. His apprentices went to pick out metal fragments for the director to nourish his body, and Gawain heard them discussing in low voices as they walked: "Do you want sweet and salty food, director?" Do you still need to sprinkle seasonings?" "...In short, let's sprinkle some salt." "Pick some small pieces, which are easy to eat." "Where is the mouth of the director?" "What kind of heart are you..."

Gao Wen: "..."

I always feel that these apprentices and craftsmen of the Mechanical Research Institute have been with the iron ball star for a long time, and it seems that there is a little change in the three views...

He shook his head and stopped thinking about this aspect. After confirming that there would be no major problems with Nicholas' eggs and ordering other workers to return to their jobs, he left the machinery manufacturing plant with Amber and went to Hetty's location in the lord. The magic laboratory outside the mansion.

Although the Lord's Mansion has been completed, and there are also Hetty's room and two regular magic laboratories, not all magic experiments can be carried out in the Lord's Mansion—considering the danger of many magic experiments and testing new materials, Uncertainty about new spells, Hetty specially reserved the laboratory she had originally established on the territory, and continued to use it as a "Dangerous Spell and Substance Testing Center" after renovation and reconstruction.

Naturally, strange magic materials collected from the dark mountains must first be sent to this testing center for identification.

Gao Wen and Amber came to the door of the laboratory, and were about to open the door to enter, when they suddenly heard a loud bang from inside: Bang! !

The explosion sounded like an oversized firecracker was ignited. Although it was not to the extent of blowing a hole in the laboratory, it was enough to scare people outside. However, the people who were active in the surrounding open space hardly responded. , it seems that everyone who lives around here is used to this.

Gao Wen was a little nervous, and quickly pushed open the oak door of the laboratory engraved with protective runes. As soon as the door was opened, there was a puff of smoke blowing in his face. Before he could see the situation inside clearly, he heard He Dee screamed: "Rebecca! Just stand still!!"

Accompanied by the screams, a petite figure rushed out of the smoke. Amber was startled when she saw this figure, almost reflexively dodged to the side and at the same time stretched out her legs and stumbled, so the figure threw herself on the ground in an instant After going out, there was a short exclamation: "Wow!!"

With a quick copy, Gao Wen picked up Rebecca, who was about to use the face brake to flatten her chest. At the same time, he glanced at Amber in surprise: the conditioned reflex to see someone jumping over and blinking to the side is understandable, but the blink After driving, you can subconsciously stretch your legs and stumble... How this habit is cultivated is puzzling...

And Rebecca didn't realize what happened until Gawain caught her. She raised her head with difficulty, her face was blackened from smoke: "Wow! It's the ancestor!"

Hetty also rushed out of the smoke at this time: "Rebecca, give me... ah, ancestor!"

"Are you two okay?" Gawain glanced at Hetty, who was also smoked and had a gray face, and immediately noticed the magic staff in the other's hand and the arcane brilliance on the front of the staff, "Uh... Looks all right."

"Experimental accident?" Gao Wen put Rebecca on the ground, walked into the laboratory where the smoke was gradually dissipating, and saw a large piece of ice slag on one of the experimental benches at first sight—the ice slag should be Hetty froze urgently to prevent the damage from expanding, "Did Rebecca throw a big fireball at the test bench?"

At the same time, he was still a little strange: Although the silly roe deer has a hobby of throwing big fireballs, she should not be so reckless...

As a result, Hetty shook her head: "She didn't throw a big fireball, but when she injected magic power into the test sample, it directly detonated the sample! I don't understand how she did it!"

"Test sample?" Gawain raised his eyebrows immediately, "Is it the new ore found in the dark mountains?"

Hetty was a little surprised: "Ancestor, you also know about this?"

"That's why I'm here—some troubles just happened at the Machinery Manufacturing Institute. Nicholas's egg can't catch a cold because of this new ore, but don't worry, it's just a temporary symptom," Gawain said simply. I checked my purpose of coming and the situation of the Machinery Manufacturing Institute, "Then I'll come here to see if you have any research progress."

"Eggy got sick after touching the ore? Still can't float?" Rebecca asked nervously while wiping the black ash on her face, "Could it be that these new ores are poisonous?"

"Probably not. I used skills such as danger perception to sense it, and found no harmful elements in the ore. It should only affect the special life structure of the Nicholas egg, and it is harmless to humans." Gawain shook his head and looked at He. Dee, "Did you find out what harm it does?"

"No, the ore itself is non-toxic and harmless, and it has very good magic-guiding properties. If it is refined properly, it may become a brand new high-quality magic material." Hetty summoned a water ball and cleaned her face and hair, then frowned and glanced at Rebecca, and helplessly summoned a water polo for the other party, while helping his niece wash her face while answering Gawain's question, "It's just that its channeling property is very strange... in When the magic power is input into it at a faster speed, the magic power will quickly dissipate into the air, but there is no such "loss" phenomenon at a slow speed. In addition, I also found that when two ores are quickly input with magic power Sometimes, the dissipated magic power will even form an environment like a magic field around the ore... It's just that the nature of this magic field has not yet been determined, it is too unstable."

If you input magic power quickly, it will dissipate the input magic power into the air?If two ores are infused with magic at the same time, will a magic field be formed?

Gawain blinked. He was quite concerned about the strange characteristics of this brand new ore. He instinctively felt that this thing might have some special purpose...not just used in the magic circle as a material to transmit magic power.

But he was more concerned about how Rebecca blew up the material: "Speaking of which, what happens when you input magic power and it explodes?"

Rebecca shrank her neck immediately: "I don't know. At that time, my aunt was testing another set of samples. I just injected magic power into my own sample as she ordered, but it exploded before it even started..."

Gao Wen frowned suddenly: "You haven't started yet?"

Rebecca shrank her neck a little lower: "Yes...it hasn't started yet..."

"She won't lie in front of me." Gao Wen gave Heidi a serious look. "The accident should be related to some special property of the new ore."

"Special attributes?" Amber is completely half-assed in this regard, but she still pretended to understand and began to speak, "What could it be?"

Gawain looked into Rebecca's eyes: "You recall carefully, what happened to the ore when the explosion happened, or what was placed next to the ore."

Rebecca immediately lowered her head and recalled carefully: "Let me think about it... At that time, the ore seemed to be a little shiny, and the words next to it... Hey, that, there seems to be a detonating rune substrate..."

Gawain, Amber, Hetty: "..."

After a while, the three of them said in unison: "Why did you put an explosive rune substrate next to it?!"

Chapter 0203 What the Magic Tide Brought

Gawain and Hetty's unanimous questioning shortened Rebecca's neck by two-thirds at a speed visible to the naked eye - Gawain even thought that if his tone was stricter, the girl might be able to perform a live performance of shrinking her head into her belly Come out with unique skills.

But no matter how much the neck shrinks, it is still necessary to explain. Rebecca looked carefully at the two elders who were qualified to hang herself up and beat her, and said honestly: "Don't blame me... I was studying the runes before. The hospital was testing a new type of detonation substrate, and my aunt suddenly called me over to help with the experiment, so I casually put the detonation substrate into my pocket—and then put it on the experimental table here..."

"...Didn't you have a safety rule when you were doing magic experiments?" Gawain looked at Hetty with twitching eyes, "Can this dangerous thing be placed directly on the experiment table?"

In his opinion, Rebecca's operation is almost as good as welding a detonator and sawing a light bulb.

"Of course there are safety regulations!" Hetty immediately rectified the names of the magicians, but then she turned her head in embarrassment, "But Rebecca... I never let her get close to the laboratory when I was a child, so in this respect she This is my education problem."

"Institutionalization really needs to go deep into every aspect, especially in magic laboratories. If you don't receive a complete education in safety rules, you can't participate in experiments at will." Gawain shook his head and sighed, "Fortunately, it's just a detonation rune, and it's not very powerful by itself. ..."

"But it stands to reason that it's not dangerous," Rebecca said a little aggrieved, "Although it's the detonation rune substrate, it's just a static rune group before it comes into contact with the magic power source. There is no difference between an iron plate with engraved patterns, how could it explode..."

Gao Wen frowned when he heard that, he knew what Rebecca said was right.

The detonating rune is different from the detonator on the earth. The latter itself has a certain risk of explosion, but the detonating rune itself...in fact, it will not explode.

There is no energy storage structure in it. If this thing wants to explode, it must be combined with a carrier that stores magic power—this is why it is far safer than explosives such as detonators on Earth in Gawain's eyes.

So since it exploded, there is only one explanation: high-purity magic power enough to detonate appeared near it at that time.

"It should still have something to do with that new ore." Gawain looked at the untested sample ores piled up in the other corner of the test bench. These ores were all cut into fist-sized pieces, with magic materials floating slightly one by one. "Hetty, have you tested whether they can store magic power?"

"It doesn't have this property. Although they have excellent magic conductivity, they can't store magic power at all. The dissipation speed in this respect is similar to that of purple steel or red copper." Hetty shook his head. "Could it be that strange magic field?"

This new ore has many weird properties. For example, when it injects magic power quickly, it will "volatize" the magic power into the air at almost the same speed. Volatilize", then the magic power will not dissipate immediately, but will form a strange "field". This condensed magic power field seems to have some unknown function in the eyes of Gawain and Hetty.

Perhaps... it was the magic field that activated the detonating rune.

"It's very possible," Gawain nodded, "Hetty, try to stimulate that magic field again, Rebecca, do you have any extra detonation runes?"

"Yes, yes!" Rebecca nodded happily, and then took out her mage's robe—a long cloth bag was taken out by her, and she dumped it on the table, and there was a big pile of crackling Rune substrate, she was picking among the pile of substrates, "Let me see...the scorching rays, the small fireballs, the ones for detonation, the ones for detonation, the ones for detonation...these are all for detonation !"

Gawain was dumbfounded as he watched the stupid roe deer casually take out a lot of explosives, and broke out in a cold sweat: "You keep carrying these things with you all the time?!"

"It's not all the time. I've been working with Jenny on the induction and simplification of the magic circle these two days, so I brought some substrates with me."

"...you'd better search Rebecca before she enters the lab in the future," Gawain's eyes twitched, and he looked at Heidi with a very serious look, "Didn't this kid blow himself up when he was so old?" have you been?"

Hetty's expression was also a little subtle: "It's really strange to say that she has always been the only one who blows up others. She has dealt with big fireballs all day long, and she has never blown herself up by mistake. At most, her face has been blackened—this It is really rare among mages who often hurt themselves during the apprenticeship stage."

Gawain was in a cold sweat and signaled that the experiment could continue—but before it started, he ordered Rebecca to throw all the extra detonation rune substrates far enough away from the experiment platform.

Although the power of simply detonating the substrate in that magic field seems to be very small, at most there are only some pyrotechnic effects, but God knows if this silly roe deer will have some kind of explosive catalytic halo. She really blows up the laboratory. Being hung on a flagpole and beaten...

After everything was ready, Hetty placed the detonating rune substrate on a protective circle, then placed two new ores a certain distance away from the rune substrate, and then placed her hand on the two ores , and begin to infuse them with magic.

The two ores glowed slightly, and Gawain could feel that a magic field was indeed generated during the process.

In his magical vision, centered on the two ores, an "environment" with an intensity significantly higher than the magical background radiation quickly took shape and filled the entire laboratory—maybe even extended to a wide area outside the laboratory. And the brilliance of magic power is shining in this area, flickering and erratic: obviously, it is very unstable as Hetty said.

Turning off the magic vision, Gawain looked at the detonating rune substrate placed on the protective circle.

It doesn't change.

"There seems to be no response?" Rebecca scratched her hair, "Is this board broken?"

After Heidi finished releasing her magic power, the three heads gathered together to study why the "detonator" didn't explode.

Gawain recalled the details of Rebecca's previous description: "Did you just say that before the detonation substrate exploded, you also had an ore in your hand ready to input magic power?"

"Yeah, and it's lit up a bit."

"The problem should be here," Gawain nodded. "The extra piece of ore probably played a special role. Find a piece of ore and put it together with the detonation base plate, and bring it closer."

After everything was arranged, Hetty activated the strange magic field again.

Almost at the moment when the magic field appeared, the detonating substrate placed in the protective circle turned into a bright fireball together with the ore next to it.

"It really is this!" Rebecca jumped up happily, "It's resonance! This must be resonance!"

"Two pieces of such ore are injected with magic power at the same time to generate a magic field, and the third ore in the magic field will resonate synchronously..." Hetty frowned slightly, analyzing the characteristics of these stones, and pressed on Then he looked at the remaining samples piled up in the corner, "But these things are also located in the magic field, why don't they change?"

"Maybe it's not resonance, but some kind of transfer of...magic power," Gawain took a breath, suppressing the excessive excitement in his heart, and slowly said his guess, "Only by connecting with the rune substrate or the circle The ores that are together change, this is because they have 'energy consumption units', and energy flows inside them, while other ores do not have any changes because they do not have the next-level structure that consumes energy."

"Transfer of magic power? You mean transmission?" Hetty looked at the ordinary stones in astonishment. "This is really... interesting."

"Their application prospects are very broad," Gawain looked into Heidi's eyes, "If this thing can be purified and mass-produced, perhaps our magic net system can be expanded to an incredible scale! The transmission range of magic power will be greatly expanded , and even expanded beyond the territory!"

Hetty frowned slightly: "But the magic field it produces is too unstable now. Detonating a rune substrate does not require too stable magic power, but driving those magic machines is different."

"So we need to continue to study and find a way to make it stable," Gao Wen said seriously. "Not only must it be stable, but it must also be controllable. How much is this kind of ore?"

"According to the estimation of the exploration team, there are a lot of them. There is a large weathered area in the eastern extension of the Dark Mountains. Under the loose and fragile stone layers are all this strange new type of ore."

"A new type of ore..." Gao Wen rubbed his chin, "The Rebecca crystal was also fired before. Only the special limestone from the dark mountain can form that kind of crystal. In addition, Pittman also discovered a medicinal material with a completely special effect in that mountain. ..."

"I remember your ancestor said that it was the corruption of the natural environment caused by the demon tide that caused the nature of many ordinary mineral plants to change," Hetty said, "and you also guessed that similar new resources were found at the southern foot of the Dark Mountains. There will be more..."

"It's not the corruption of the demon tide, it's a gift from nature," Gawain corrected seriously, and then he looked out of the window—through the window in this direction, he could just see a small part of the Dark Mountains, "I will go to the excavation site of the new ore to take a look. The so-called tide of destruction...it seems that it has brought more things to this world than expected."

While Gawain, Hetty, and Rebecca were researching the new dark mountain ore, another team was also active in the depths of the dark mountain.

Strictly speaking, it is active in the depths of the ruins in the mountains.

Knight Byron and his exploration team have been active in this newly discovered area for more than a week. They have drawn a detailed new map, recorded all the new things they discovered, and sent two messengers to communicate with the outside world. The progress of the exploration has been answered, and Byron believes that this expedition has achieved very good results. Considering that the soldiers will accumulate pressure after staying in the underground ruins for a long time, he judges that it is time to leave this place.

But just as he was sorting out the accumulated information and preparing to arrange his return trip, two soldiers who were in charge of investigating the situation ahead suddenly ran back to the room that was temporarily used as a base for exploration: "My lord, we found a... strange place!"

"Strange place?" Byron frowned. These two soldiers were veterans, and they had been exploring with him for a long time. They rarely reported the situation in such a vague way, which made them He cares quite a bit.

"Yes, that's... a rotunda, but there's a strange stone ring in the center of the hall..."

Chapter 0204 Changes in Magic Power

Hom was a serf—but he wasn’t born a serf, earlier he was a miner in the mines.

Miners, not slave labor.

There are two types of people who work in the mines, free miners and slave labor without freedom. The former are free people who voluntarily go to "dig stones" in dangerous mines to support their families, while the latter are It is the private property of the slave owner of the mine, which is equivalent to the tools and livestock in the mine, but there is no difference between the two in some respects—both are consumables that will die in the mine at any time, and no one cares about them after death That's all.

The process of Home's loss of freedom is dramatic: he is not a "quiet" miner, and he prefers to find new things-whether it is new ore or Plants, in short, as long as they are fresh things.At this point, he was often teased that he might have some dwarf blood in his ancestry, but Holm had always accepted the teasing.He was working in the mine, thinking all day whether he could dig out some great treasure underground, and finally one day, he really "dig" out the "treasure".

He came across the scene where the mine owner's wife had an affair with a supervisor in the mine.

It is very simple for the supervisor to kill one or two miners or slave workers. As long as he uses reasons such as mine collapse afterwards, there will be no problem. Holm has even seen such a scene with his own eyes, so he immediately chose Run away—this time, I never returned home.

After being a refugee for a year, he settled in Old Cecil. The previous Viscount Cecil did not expel him, but he had to rely on selling himself as a serf to survive.

Under normal circumstances, this is the whole content of his short and miserable life-after being locked on the land, the life of the serf Home will not change, there will be no new encounters and hopes, and he will bear the burden imposed by the landlord. pressure, crawling in the dirt all his life, living the remaining ten years of his life as a serf, or 15 years, and if he is lucky (or unlucky) in the process and has an heir, then his heir will also Inheriting the identity of a serf, he has lived under the whip of the landlord for life after life, and the experience of being a miner in his early years and the little and restless curiosity in his youth will one day completely disappear in his memory. .

But after that disaster, everything changed.

The old Cecil is gone, the landlord is gone, and the land is gone. The new lord came out of the legend and led the survivors to build a new home at the foot of the dark mountains, facing a brand new land and full of secrets. In the dark mountain range, the lord promulgated one incredible new decree after another, and the serf Hom was rewarded for participating in making traps in the "defense battle" in the autumn. Freedmen are more free.

The lord allows the subjects to engage in a variety of jobs according to their personal strengths, and rewards anyone who works hard. On the bulletin board in the town center, new recruiting revelations are posted almost every day, and anyone in the territory who wants to subsidize more Anyone with a household can respond to the lord's call through this channel—for people in this era, it is an incredible gift for the lord to open up so many jobs and pay them, not to mention the current In the past, it was the winter when you could only starve to death at home - so whenever a new recruitment notice was posted, there would be countless people waiting for a job (or waiting to support their families) flocking to find a job that suits them.

The vast majority of people in the territory were originally illiterate. They could only listen to the soldiers standing in front of the bulletin board reading the content for themselves, but the soldiers would only start reading the above things six hours after the new revelation was posted. ——In order to understand the content of the recruitment a few hours earlier, Hom insisted on learning thousands of words in just a few months, and he was able to read the content on the bulletin board when he stumbled.

In night schools, there are not a few people like him who work hard to read and write for similar motives: those who can read can know the details of the recruitment a few hours in advance, and go to the personnel department of the Ministry of the Interior to find a clerk to sign up, and wait until those When illiterate people sign up, all positions are often already full, and those who did not work hard to read at the beginning are now regretting it.

As for Home, he was very glad that he had learned the characters in time. When the lord announced that he would organize a new group of exploration teams into the mountains, he immediately signed up: the number of people required for this team is not large, although it is a bit risky, But the pay is higher than the technical workers in the factory. Besides, there is a small group of magic infantry in the team for protection, so how big is the risk?

The newly organized mountain exploration team entered the Dark Mountains from a newly discovered mountain path, and saw many incredible mutant animals, plants, and stones along the way. With his experience in the mine, his flexible mind, and the best The literacy level became the leader of this team (of course, another important reason why he became the team leader was that he was personally rewarded by the lord, which is a rare honor), and under his leadership, the team changed from a loose texture to The peculiar "raw stone" with lavender luster was found in the weathered mountain rocks.

In the process, Hom's curiosity that was gradually smoothed out by life gradually recovered...

Under the leadership of the soldiers, Gawain and Amber found the "exploration team stronghold" in the dark mountains. Guarding around the small camp, Gao Wen met the leader of this exploration team, a short but strong middle-aged man.

Looking at the other person's dark face and slightly hunched body, Gao Wen felt familiar for a while, and the memory of the satellite spirit played a good role at this time, and he remembered that he really knew this person: the confrontation in the autumn In the war against the deformed Cecil, a serf named Home was rewarded for his outstanding performance, and in order to set a good example, he also gave a public commendation—it turns out that he was right.

"I remember your name is Home." Gawain nodded to the serf-born leader, "You participated in this expedition?"