Chapter 76 The First Step in Art

The crystal in the ruby ​​vessel shattered into a puddle like this, and Gawain and Hetty stood beside them and looked at each other.

After being stunned for a long time, Gao Wen twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "This is a failure of Star Ascension, right?"

Hetty: "Huh?"

"Cough cough, I mean, what's the situation?" Gao Wen hurriedly coughed twice to cover up what he had just subconsciously said, "Did the magic circle use too much force to extract energy and directly pump it into slag?"

There was a slight arcane brilliance in Heidi's eyes. She carefully observed the traces of magic power left in the ruby ​​dish, and the original excited look on her face gradually dimmed: "No... I'm afraid it's a congenital defect of this crystal... …”

"Defect?" Gawain frowned immediately, vaguely having a premonition that the golden light of the non-king krypton gold draw card was a guarantee, "Is it a one-time use? After charging, it will definitely be destroyed when released?"

If this is the case, then the value of this "artificial crystal" will undoubtedly be greatly reduced, but Gawain feels that he can still accept it: in this world, crystals that can store magic power are extremely valuable materials. This crystal is divided into two qualities: high-quality crystals are pure and stable, can engrave magic circles and run stably, so they are used as the core of various magic items, such as inlaying staffs, while lower-level crystals are stable because of their stability. The lack of sex makes it impossible to describe the magic circle, but it can be used as a magic storage container, and it is also regarded as an important strategic resource by spellcasters.

But for a long time, energy storage crystals can only be obtained from nature, and artificial crystals cannot be replaced at all. This is because artificial crystals have a serious "natural escape" problem, and the magic stored in crystals will be lost at an alarming rate. , it will even dissipate in a few days, and it is unusable at all, so artificial crystals have always been used as auxiliary materials for magic items, and even as decorations in noble castles...

If these crystals created by Rebecca in a daze only have the defect of "disposable", in Gawain's view, the problem is not big at all. Hetty has confirmed that these crystals are very stable, so it is a big deal to use them to make one-time magic props For Gao Wen, who is accustomed to the industrial age, "disposable" does not mean low practical value, but is synonymous with cheap, fast and mass production.

However, Heidi shook his head: "It's not a one-time use, but the magic power it stores can't be extracted and used at all."

This time, Gawain was completely dumbfounded: "How could this be?"

"The magic power lost its 'coordination', which probably happened at the moment of extraction. The originally ordered magic power became disordered 'waste energy' in the process, and it dissipated in the moment of extraction, and even in the Collecting it before it dissipates won't help, after all...it's 'waste energy'."

Waste energy, this is a special term for magicians, also known as disordered magic, this is a kind of magic that cannot participate in any magical reaction, and cannot be used to release any spells, just like a note that has lost its tune. worthless. Disorder magic is a subsidiary product of many spells, and it is the "residue" after the mages release their magic, and the event that Gawain knows, the most existential event of disorder magic, was the year before the fall of the Gondor Empire. The big explosion of the deep blue well - a large amount of disordered magic power appeared inside the "deep blue", which directly caused the deep blue well to run at full power but could not output any energy, and finally the heart of the furnace melted and exploded.

What is stored in the crystal is magic power, but when it is extracted, it will turn into residue. This is simply a powerful weapon in some black-hearted games in the past life. What is put in is equipment and gems, and what is taken out is slag and a full-service mocking speaker... …

The fact is very clear, what Rebecca made is a small white crystal block (correct) that can blast the strengthened party in place.

Looking at the powdered crystal dust in disappointment, Gawain shook his head: "Maybe Rebecca will be able to refine a usable energy storage crystal... Anyway, I'm looking forward to it. Let's not talk about that,

I saw you tossing those antique crystals just now, what are the results? "

Heidi lifted his spirits, but his tone was rather apologetic: "Sorry, ancestor, many of the magic circles and rune laws in the crystal have now been lost, and they have been combined in an incomprehensible way. The crystal resonator has limited accuracy, and I can only distinguish a small part of it and restore it to a magic circle... Please come here."

Gawain followed, and saw Hetty take out some of the arranged blueprints from her desk. In addition to various symbols and lines, there were also notes written in Juanxiu font. note below.

Gawain looked at the blueprint, while Heidi said his thoughts next to him: "The ancient Gondor Empire's magic system is very different from today's, their magic circle is 'layered', and each layer uses a key The nodes are connected, and the combination of the nodes themselves is actually a kind of magic circle, as if the layers are nested. It is impossible to build a magic circle with this structure with today's technology. I can't imagine the ancient Gondor. How did the magisters cram this whole complex set of runes into a tiny crystal..."

Gawain raised his head and said with a smile: "They first prepared a room that was almost free of dust and suspended particles, then built a huge magic circle model in this room with magic materials, then evacuated the air in the room, and finally used The powerful magic of the Deep Blue Well illuminates the array model, and on the 'focus' of the illumination, a blank crystal to be processed is placed. Through special polarization technology, the magic will imprint the layered magic array into the crystal layer by layer— -In this way, once the magic power is irradiated, a set of magic circles will be branded into the crystal, and twenty-seven will be created in one minute."

With a "click", a dip pen in Hetty's hand fell to the ground and broke into two pieces.

Mom, were the ancients so powerful? !

"So that's where my point of view differs most from people of this era - you think a lot of things are precious and rare, and it's natural for the masters to craft it and leave it to people from generation to generation, but in my opinion, these things are Cheap mass production is the norm. It’s a pity that the deep blue well was lost, and the first generation died again. It’s inevitable that you will develop like this.”

Heidi's face was strange, and he deeply felt that his unworthy descendants had let down his ancestors again...

At this moment, Gawain's eyes were suddenly attracted by the magic circle on one of the drawings: "Huh?"

Hetty rushed forward, and after seeing Gawain's line of sight, he explained: "That is the magic circle that controls the self-explosion of crystals. You know, when these standard crystals are on the verge of collapse, the last function is to explode, so this The first layer of the magic circle is branded in a position independent of other rune groups, and it is very simple, so it is easier to restore. However, the identification part of the detonation magic circle cannot be restored, and I have not found it yet. Which runes achieve this incredible function, I really lack talent in this area..."

"Wait a minute, don't worry about how the recognition runes are arranged," Gawain interrupted Hetty's self-criticism—this eldest granddaughter is fine, but once she thinks her ancestors are unhappy, she will immediately fall into self-criticism. The state of introspection makes people very head-scratching. He is obviously a person who follows the route of the royal sister and queen, but in front of him, he seems to be always bullied, "I saw the comment you wrote here... You said this method. The array is different from the conventional magic array. Instead of releasing the energy in the crystal to the outside world to generate an explosion, it detonates the energy inside the crystal and uses the crystal itself as an explosive?"

Hetty was stunned for a while, then nodded: "Yes. The usual similar magic circles will guide energy from the energy storage crystal to produce effects in the outside world, but because the function of this magic circle is self-destruction, it skips the guidance. Instead, the energy is directly detonated in the energy storage crystal, and the exploding crystal fragments will also have a strong lethality. To be honest, I have never touched this magic circle before, although it is not complicated, I am afraid that any A magician with a normal mind would not use it, this thing will directly destroy the precious energy storage crystal..."

Hetty didn't say anything as she talked. Obviously, she was not stupid, and she had quickly realized the usefulness of this thing.

She and Gawain looked at the ruby ​​dish on the experimental bench in unison, and the tiny amount of crystal dust in the ruby ​​dish seemed to glow again in their eyes.

That's the brilliance of art (surely).

"The magic power extracted from those crystals will instantly become waste energy, but when they are stored in the crystals, the state is stable..." Gawain said slowly, "Then let's not extract it at all, just directly How nice to detonate in a crystal."

Heidi also said slowly: "Yeah, anyway, this 'crystal' is made from stone, and it's not worth much..."

Magicians with normal brains will not use a bursting array that will blow up the energy storage crystals, because the energy storage crystals are of high value, and they only need to add a structure to export the energy to the bursting array, The explosion magic can be released on the premise of keeping the crystal. Since the effect is exactly the same, why destroy a crystal?

But what if there was a crystal whose stored magic couldn't be exported, and which itself was worthless?

Then this thing is just about ready for self-destruction - its nature is as straightforward and hard-headed as its inventor.

In Gawain's mind, countless exciting and bold ideas instantly appeared in his mind. These ideas were accompanied by dazzling firelight and shocking sounds. They were the future, hope, and a sword and a strong shield to defend the people and the land. It is a light that dispels the dark clouds created by the failure of trial production of gunpowder...

is art.

Art is no good, it is on the same level as the Louvre.

Gawain suppressed those exciting thoughts, and suddenly asked a very practical question with a strange expression: "How do we engrave an explosion array on a crystal the size of a grain of rice?"

Heidi also calmed down and thought about the issue seriously, and then said uncertainly: "Perhaps...it doesn't have to be engraved on the crystal, because this is an 'interference-type' magic circle."

(Mom, it will be on the shelves the day after tomorrow!)