Mage? Spell Engineer!

In the middle of the Byrne Kingdom, Lanster, a once beautiful small town, was immersed in the busyness before winter.

It has transformed from a primarily agricultural town into a new production center lined with chimneys. A young man got off a public carriage from the northern city of Würzburg.

The young man was wearing the robe of a magic apprentice, with a schoolbag and spell-casting materials on his shoulders, and a large barrel of wine in his arms. The young man walked straight into the "Fangda" food factory, and the wrought-iron gate was opened for him, allowing him to pass through without any obstruction.

"Andre, are you back?" The uncle of the doorman said hello, but his eyes only saw the white wine that Andre was holding. Andre smiled, used [Mage's Hand] to hand a cigarette to the doorman, and lit it for him with magic.

The doorman took a puff intoxicatedly, as if the cigarette lit by magic had more flavor.

"Yes, I'll come back after the holiday." He walked to the staff dormitory with the wine barrel. His father and mother were not there. He put down Würzburg's specialties and walked out. I met many factory employees along the way, and they all greeted the apprentice cordially.

As outsiders from the Holy Kingdom, not only were Andre's family not ostracized, they were able to quickly establish a harmonious relationship with the local veteran employees for two reasons:

First, Andre came from the Holy Kingdom, and a letter he carried in his arms asked Mr. Hasay to arrange work for his parents and allocate three staff dormitories to temporarily settle the family. At first glance, he was a super-connected household. This letter was taken to Würzburg, and he became the apprentice of the resident mage again. This time he should be called a super-connector.

Secondly, Andre's father has no influence at all. He works conscientiously as a "warehouse safety management specialist" and is polite to everyone. Sometimes, in the eyes of young Andre, his father is weak. His gesture was a little too much.

"My dear Andre! We are outsiders. If you offend anyone, anyone can easily do harm to you behind your back. Now that we have just arrived, there are the most rumors.

"Andre, you are an apprentice now. You can hold your chest high outside, but if I don't lower my waist, someone will always make things difficult for our family. The only person we can rely on now is Lord Rorschach, but he is not here now. It’s all up to us, we can’t cause trouble to the adults.”

His father told him a lot of similar things, and Andre didn't want to hear it, but from then on he still had an extra pack of cigarettes in his pocket - a novelty from the other side of the ocean, only available in big cities like Würzburg and Munich. Available.

In any case, the nearly one month since arriving in Byrne Kingdom has gone smoothly. Bart is a casual mage. Because of his other identity, he doesn't really have much time to study magic in the tower. Andre's main job in the resident mage tower is to maintain the magic circle of the entire tower and prepare simple alchemical potions.

The most important thing is that Master Bart insists on closing the tower for two days every ten days, which is unstoppable. Andre also got a stable vacation and could make the apprentices of the Tower of Secrets envious until they cried to death.

The master who eats royal food is different.

Andre is back from vacation now, but he will not rest. Instead, he comes to the core and most heavily guarded area of ​​the food factory, a building with thickened walls and heavy defenses. What is produced inside is not human food, but The fuel of magic - passivated transmutation dust.

"How is the operation going?" Entering the building, Andre's demeanor suddenly changed. Facing the cylindrical machine, Mr. Andre, who had worked in the Alchemy Department of the Tower of Stars, was an undoubted expert, unless Rorschach I do it myself, otherwise other employees should obey his instructions.

Andre took the parameter record book recorded by the technician for ten years. He frowned and asked: "Why did you stop the car the night before yesterday?"

The technician pointed to the follow-up indicator: "The original eruption volume before parking exceeded the safety line. We suspect that it was the fluctuation of the collection source." In other words, the teleportation array pointing to the astral layer suddenly spewed out an excessive amount of transmutation dust. If it exceeds If the processing limit of subsequent links is exceeded, untreated transmutation dust will break through the system and cause great damage to the equipment and even the entire facility.

Andre compared this data vertically, and as the pages of the record book continued to turn forward, he found that the original eruption volume increased slowly amid shocks.

"According to the experience of the Tower of Stars, the transmutation dust will fluctuate with the changes of the moon and the seasons. The specific reason involves the theory of celestial motion in astrology. To be honest, I don't understand it."

Andre thought about his bad memories. He once thought that astrology was about divination based on stars. Unexpectedly, Tower of Stars was more about modeling calculations from tens of thousands of data over decades to predict the movement of stars. , the real "astrology".

It doesn’t matter if he can’t figure out the principle behind the phenomenon for the time being. He must first solve the problems caused by the phenomenon:

"When the original eruption volume exceeds the rated value, no, when there is an upward trend, you should take the initiative to respond, reduce the magic input of the teleportation array, or increase the input power of the passivation step. Of course, you can also do both at the same time. .

"Blindly shutting down and stopping the car will not solve the problem. What if the eruption volume is much higher than the rated value when it is started again? Wouldn't it explode immediately? And we all know that starting and stopping is the step that consumes the most energy. Frequent starting and stopping A serious drag on efficiency.

“It’s not just about twisting valves, but also thinking, thinking!”

Andre was the youngest person present, but the momentum of his lectures easily overwhelmed everyone. The technicians either bowed their heads and said yes, or were inspired and thoughtful.

In fact, Andre just heard and heard in the Alchemy Department and reproduced Master Snow's aura. However, this building is the same as the Alchemy Department. Technology and strength speak for themselves, so Andre should be in charge of the overall situation here, and no one is unconvinced.

The rules are different inside and outside the door, and neither Andre nor his father was wrong.

The machine continued to roar, and the irregular eruption of transmutation dust caused slight vibrations in the entire system. The machine has been upgraded twice, the last one was completed under Andre's guidance when he first came here, which is equivalent to introducing the advanced experience of the Alchemy Department.

He looked at the collector and couldn't help but think about the original eruption volume, the input power of the teleportation array, and the input power of the passivation mechanism. A set of mathematical relationships should be established between the above three quantities, and the mathematical relationships should be concreted using magic or other means. ization and materialization, so that automatic control can be achieved.

He copied the data onto the manuscript paper, drew and calculated, but after working hard for a long time, he sighed: "My knowledge is not enough to complete the development. If Teacher Luo Xia is here, it will definitely be realized."

As the saying goes, only when the book is put to use can you regret it less. When Andre was working alone, he felt more and more that his study in the Alchemy Department was very lacking. Not to mention compared with the official mage like Rorschach who participated in the research of the Archmage, it was compared with the serious Master of the Tower of Stars. The apprenticeship ratio is also lacking.

"You want to make an automatic control system? This is a big topic and a big project."

"Automatic Control Rorschach, the name you chose is very appropriate." Andre's eyes did not leave his manuscript paper, but he nodded in agreement with Rorschach's words.

Then he realized that he really heard Rorschach's voice!

Is it a surprise or more of a shock? Andre almost jumped up, his shout echoed throughout the control room: "Teacher Rorschach!"

"Well, you have to call me Master Rorschach here." Another young man appeared out of thin air, but the horror he brought to others was even greater than Andre's. Everyone knew that Rorschach was the boss, Mr. Hasse. The boss is also the direct leader of this department.

The most common ghost story experienced by migrant workers is that their boss appears behind them like a ghost to check on their duties. What is deplorable is that their boss’s boss is a mage who actually used illusions to cover his body and sneak in.

Everyone stared at the excited Andre, and the door was always closed. This kid must have brought "dirty things" in when he entered!

"I'm just here to take a look. Everyone, keep busy and won't disturb your work." Luo Xia waved her hands, looking very happy.