Mage? Spell Engineer!

The spring breeze was blowing on the river bank. A young man and woman were walking along the Kempson tributary of the Duma River. There was a bird of unknown species standing on the man's shoulder.

"There's a smell of sulfur in here too," Martin frowned.

After dinner in the morning, it should have been precious time for him and Hannah to spend time together, fully relax in the spring light, and then start the day's internship.

There was an unpleasant smell near the river.

"It's all sewage discharge from coking coal plants and steel plants. Teacher Andre said that new technology will be introduced at the sewage outlets, and it will be improved by then." Hannah didn't care much. In fact, the place where she practiced was inevitably full of various odor.

Martin wanted to hear but didn't want to hear what Hannah was talking about, such as "the sulfide is burned and then discharged to the air elemental plane" and what "the sulfuric acid is produced after oxidation". These contents require a knowledge reserve of alchemy, but unfortunately Martin does not have it.

Now he has a very complicated mood. He wants to hear Hannah talk more about magic, but he doesn't want to hear her talk about "Teacher Andre" and "Classmate William".

Hannah became more and more confident, sometimes performing little tricks for Martin excitedly, while Martin seemed to be discouraged and had to force himself to give praise.

The above feeling is subtle, and Martin finds that he will have many thoughts that make him ashamed.

Noticing the silence of her male companion, Hannah changed the topic: "How is your long report? I think it is very good, more interesting than anything in any newspaper." It is also much better than your short poem. Hannah couldn't bear to tell Martin how lame the poetry he was so proud of was.

Martin kicked a small stone and threw it into the river that smelled of sulfur and rotten eggs: "Don't mention it, the editor accepted the article but didn't let me publish it in the newspaper. He just told me to continue working hard."

"Is that considered a compliment?"

"I can't say for sure, it's more likely to be a yin and yang thing. That old guy is a pervert!"

Hannah followed Martin's words and said: "Yes, yes, my boss is also a difficult old shrew. Fortunately, our internship will end in one month. Only Teacher Andre is patient, and it is said that Master Rorschach is also Very easy-going and we are of the same generation.”

Still with Andre, still with Andre. Martin was a little irritable. Reason told him that he shouldn't inflict this irritation on the other person, so he unconsciously touched his pendant.

Hannah noticed Martin's movements. Now that she had learned [Arcane Vision], she found that the pendant around Martin's neck had a strong aura.

If you look closely, you will see that the pendant is a small, exquisite metal box. You can see in the leaky area that there is a glass vial inside which is a dark red viscous substance. Not a good look.

"What is this?" Hannah couldn't help but ask. She didn't want to control Martin, but she was worried that he would go astray and collect some dangerous magic items in order to gain the ability to cast spells.

After entering the magical world for the first time, Hannah would break out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, the previous club rituals were all wrong.

Martin held the pendant tighter. He didn't know how to deal with it for a moment. Master Rorschach wanted absolute confidentiality, and he couldn't tell Hannah.

Fortunately, at this time, Gasder Gezi started to chirp, and after it made noise in the air for a while, the two of them saw bubbles popping up on the riverside, and then an aquatic Andre crawled out.

After Andre came ashore, he shook his hair and body. I don't know if it was the effect of magic, but his whole body suddenly became dry. But he was obviously choked with water: "Ahem, cough, cough, mage Caroline's portal hasn't been adjusted yet."

He stopped in front of the young man and woman, showing a delighted smile: "Ha, you are together."

The subtle words made Martin and Hannah blush, but the initiator was unaware of it. Andre scratched his head to confirm that his hair was completely dry, and ordered the ambiguous pair: "Come with me to the Mage Tower. "

"Including me?" Martin was a little unsure.

"Including, Master Rorschach named you."

The three people entered from the central tower of the sinkhole and went deep into a door where no other employees had access. The decoration style of the door is obviously different from other places in the tower. It is made of frosted metal color and has complicated textures.

Andre pressed his hand on the door, and the mysterious spiritual light lit up the circuit. After the frosted surface turned into a mirror, he pushed it open. There was another door inside.

"Welcome to the tower within a tower." Andre led the way, and after opening the second door, there was a bright and spacious hall. Martin found that the vault of the hall was divided into 6 sectors by supporting beams, with different stars distributed on them, and each sector corresponded to the two doors on the two floors below.

The size of the entire hall is definitely not something that can be accommodated in the central tower of the steel plant, and the distribution of other doors does not conform to the layout of the original tower.

In other words, all spaces are disrupted and spliced ​​here.

Another door opened, and all the turbid river water poured in, and the mage Caroline appeared inside, but she was much more elegant than Andre who climbed ashore. The water kept a certain distance from her. She waved her hand, and all the water poured back. He obediently returned to the door, leaving only the sound of water echoing in the hall.

boom!

"You absolutely, absolutely do not open the door to the third house. The passage has not been adjusted yet," Caroline warned.

Everyone walked into a dark room under the leadership of Andre. It was not that there was no light source, but that the walls were entirely composed of black and somewhat transparent stones, embedded between seemingly naturally occurring cracks and gaps. There are silver threads, but when you look at the whole, you will find that these "natural lines" are part of the magic circle.

Rorschach waits for the experimenter in the "isolation room."

There were five prototypes of the "Magic Forbidden Device" placed in the center of the room, forming a "big array". As an energy source, Rorschach also prepared a large basket of passivation transmutation dust.

"Everyone is here, let's start." Rorschach did not explain much to Hannah and Martin, and first asked Caroline and Hannah to release a sustainable magic.

Caroline chose [Gazing at the Curtain], and a floating mirror appeared in front of her, with no thickness. Hannah honestly pointed out [Light Technique].

"Please come to the center of the equipment." Rorschach said, "Please enter the urn", then put in the materials and started the first simulation prototype machine.

The metal ball began to spin faster and faster, making people worry that it would break away from the base. And the surface of the sphere began to overflow with light, and the magic power in the space became restless.

The mirror that Caroline summoned rippled, and Hannah's ball of light lost its stable shape.

However, turning on the machine did not interrupt the spellcasting. Rorschach, Caroline and even Andre could resist interference in this state and continue to mobilize magic power.

If one is not enough, just two. Rorschach started the second one. These five machines were not violently stacked. Considering the size and internal crystal arrangement differences between his own machines and those made by the Empire, Rorschach chose to manufacture five machines with different crystal arrangements. When all machines are turned on, they will cause interference to common spellcasting frequency bands.

Caroline's [Gaze Curtain] was destroyed first, and Hannah's light ball failed when the fourth machine was turned on.

When all five machines were in operation and the transmutation dust was consumed rapidly, all the spellcasters looked unhappy. Even Guz on Martin's shoulder began to become restless. He held the bird in his hand and tried to comfort it.

In the small "magic tsunami" in the room, only Martin remained calm. He could not understand why the others were in pain.

"What's wrong with you?"

Others said in unison: "What's wrong with you?"