Mage? Spell Engineer!

The core area of ​​the laboratory here is the magic circle. It is covered by a huge hemispherical crystal cover, and the base is connected to the circuit. The lines are fed not with electricity, but with large amounts of ether.

Until Rorschach solved the problem of the steam engine, Carnot had been the input source of the ether, and it was extremely unstable.

"Such a big crystal cover? Master, you are so powerful." The entire cover is white with a slight lavender color, indicating that it contains trace amounts of iron and manganese.

"No, I found a large piece of rough stone with the best transparency for my master, and then used the [Stone Shaping Technique] to shape it."

Well, my mind didn't turn around. Crystals are indeed stones. Since the sand and soil of the secondary plane can be used, crystals can of course also be shaped.

"But what is the use of this cover?" Luo Xia looked at it intently. The unactivated magic circle itself was ordinary, but there was a pattern of magic aura flowing on the surface of the crystal ball shell. It was obvious that the magic was cast or secretly engraved with magic. Array.

"You'll know right away. Paulina, is the power shop downstairs fully turned on?"

Paulina checked the instrument in front of her: "It's on, everything is normal."

Kano nodded: "Okay, Rorschach, please step back. Close the switch."

boom!

At the moment when the ether flowed into the mithril alloy wire and activated the magic circle, under Rorschach's detection magic vision, the crystal cover erupted with a fierce and dazzling spiritual light.

ah! Rorschach was caught off guard by the eruption of spiritual light, and felt that his mithril alloy dog ​​eyes were almost blinded. He shed some tears uncontrollably, and slowly regained his vision.

Kano didn't expect Rorschach's suicide attempt, and forgot to remind him in time: "Boy, are you so sensitive to ether bursts? Don't turn on [Arcane Vision] at the device."

"Okay, I will remember it, and I will never forget it." Rorschach, who had eaten the flash bomb, was honest, but he still didn't understand the explosion inside the crystal ball shell: "What happened inside?" ?”

The circuit of the crystal cover is still activated, and gray-white powder is slowly falling.

"Transformation dust, in most cases, will erupt when the teleportation circle is activated. If these dangerous crystal powders come into contact with us, people will be finished, and the laboratory will be finished if they come into contact with things here.

Those who are exposed to the small powder will undergo uncontrollable and irreversible mutations, or even die directly.

So we made a protective cover and constructed a series of magic circles. When the transmutation dust approaches, it prompts it to release the mass energy contained in it as quickly as possible. When all the ether in the crystal is spit out, it will decay into 伱. Now you see of fly ash. "

"So this experiment failed?" Rorschach still remembers what Dryats said when he led him to travel to the symbolic world. The main plane and the astral world are separated by transmutation dust. Obviously, there is transmutation dust ejected from the magic circle, indicating teleportation. The other end of the passage in space is in the wrong position.

"Yes, research has always been a failure, a failure, a failure." Paulina was still in a very depressed state, and it even made people wonder whether she was not only suffering from the sequelae of the war caused by her quarrel with Pascal, but also being affected by the gravity of the satellite of the main plane.

The senior sister recorded the results of this time, including the ether flux of the array, the space distortion rate measured by the nearby instruments, and the experimental phenomena. "The magical aura that was so brilliant and short-lived that it almost blinded my junior brother's eyes flashed in a concentrated way."

Senior sister, you won’t really record it like this, right? Rorschach turned to look at Kano and found that he was already immersed in writing and drawing.

After recording this, Paulina walked to the core device: "Here's a hand. This crystal pot has a suppression circuit and other protections. [Levitation Technique] cannot be applied to it."

The senior sister gave the order, and Luo Xia immediately assisted her in carefully moving the crystal cover. It was indeed a bit heavy.

The magic circle is burned on a metal disk and can be separated from the base. Paulina carefully took out the magic circle plate and the decaying powder that transformed into dust, and collected all the powder.

"The net weight of the plate has been weighed. Now we can weigh the weight of the powder on the plate. Can you use a scale?"

"You can definitely do this, senior sister." Are you kidding? Although Rorschach has only used electronic scales since reaching high school, he has learned how to operate the retro classic model.

Luo Xia grabbed the tweezers and held the weight, making the senior sister on the side nod repeatedly: "That stupid senior brother of yours got started directly back then."

Senior sister, why does this sound weird? Rorschach cursed and reported the data after approving it. Paulina obtained the net weight of the powder by varying the mass of the small plates on which it was served.

Connected in series with the previous data, the Rorschach rough estimate can fit an exponential curve.

"We have been adjusting the height of the target position of the magic circle. The mass of the transmutation dust transmitted will basically increase rapidly. Then when it reaches the plateau stage, it should logically be fast to the star realm, but the transmission height and energy required to cross the platform stage are often Eventually it becomes infinite."

The next step is for Master Kano to take action: he first uses cleaning magic on the metal plate on which the magic circle is burned to ensure that the impurities on the surface are removed, and then directly plasticizes one side to pinch out the next magic circle to be tested.

Rorschach noticed that the experiment record book in Senior Sister Paulina's hand contained hundreds of magic circle drawings.

"This has been verified by the team?" Is this a brute force attack? Blind touch? Do I study magic or materials?

"At first, our research was just to reproduce and experiment with the magic circles that were recorded to be able to construct astral passages in the old empire era and before. There are records of magic guilds, discoveries from the underground palaces of dwarves in the north of the mainland, and even flashlights. The formation of the clan system.”

Kano was explaining and shaping, and the new circuit was about to be burned: "But the old magic formations undoubtedly failed, so the research direction turned to comparing and analyzing these magic formations.

We have summarized the various ways of describing the circuits of space, positioning, and maintenance channels in a series of magic circles, built our own system, and continued experiments. The current result is that we can summon the transmutation dust at the edge of our sky. "

Install, test the condition of the access, check for shorts or breaks, and then close the cover.

"Rorschach, don't be fooled again." Kano reminded before closing the switch.

Rorschach no longer tried to focus on it, but just kept his eyes on the ball shell normally.

This time he saw it clearly. In a short period of time, gorgeous and colorful powder spurted out. At the same time, the protection circuit of the crystal cover was activated, and all the brilliance of the transformed dust was released and offset, leaving only pale fly ash. .

This time it was not off-white, but white with a hint of pink, a feeling that was very familiar to Rorschach.

The remaining steps are the same as the previous set. Simply "same steps as above" and then a new set of data in the notebook means repetitive mechanical work that makes people feel sore and dizzy.

It was dark, the lights were on, and the three people in the room were busy all afternoon. They tested a total of six magic circles. Their shapes were generally similar, and only the positioning circuits were fine-tuned.

Rorschach sighed with emotion as he flipped through the records that might have lasted for several years: "Failure is the mother of success!" The problem is that there are so many successes that you can form a women's army.

"Well said!" Master Kano was already very hungry. He proposed to go to the restaurant of the Star Torch Tower to have a meal as a treat.

"I'm treating you to a guest." The concise, powerful and inspiring words from the Archmage's mouth also had magic power, summoning the dusty Pascal from nowhere.

However, the "summary meeting after dinner" and Paulina's glare made Rorschach's senior brother magically disappear before he could eat.

The relevant discussions about materials major in the article are just exaggeration and ridicule. The psychological activities of the characters in the article do not represent the author's personal views. Materials science is a discipline with a long history and complete system. During the research process, there is absolutely no mixing or mixing of raw materials with the existing system. Burn it to get a new substance, and then measure its properties and characterize it. It's a reasonably good situation where you can write a paper!

Thank you book friends for reading!