Gwen and Heti questioned in unison. Rebecca's neck shrank by two-thirds at a speed visible to the naked eye. Gwen even thought that if his tone was a little harsher, the maiden would probably shrink her head into her stomach.
But no matter how she shrank her neck, she still had to explain. Rebecca carefully looked at the two seniors who were qualified to hang her up and beat her. She said honestly, "It's not my fault... I was testing a new type of detonating board at the Rune Research Institute when my aunt suddenly asked me to help with the experiment. I put the detonating board in my pocket and then put it on the experiment table when I came here..."
"... Don't you have safety rules or something like that when you do magic experiments?" Gwen looked at Heti with the corner of his eye twitching. "This kind of dangerous thing can be put on the experiment table directly?"
In his opinion, Rebecca's operation was almost at the level of welding a detonator saw light bulbs.
"Of course there are safety rules!" Heti immediately corrected the magicians, but then she turned her head away a little awkwardly. "But Rebecca... I didn't let her get close to the laboratory since she was young, so she doesn't have enough common sense in this regard. This is my education problem."
"Institutionalization is really going to go deep into all aspects, especially in magic laboratories. Without a complete education of safety rules, you can't participate in experiments at will." Gwen shook his head and sighed. "Fortunately, it's just a detonating rune, and it's not that powerful..."
"But logically speaking, there shouldn't be any danger," Rebecca said, feeling a little wronged. "Even though it's an explosive rune board, it's just a static set of runes before it comes into contact with the mana source. It's no different from an engraved iron plate. How could it explode?"
Gawain frowned when he heard that. He knew that what Rebecca said was true.
The detonating rune was different from the detonators on Earth. The latter had a certain risk of explosion, but the detonating rune itself... in fact, would not explode.
There was no energy storage structure in it. If this thing wanted to explode, it had to be combined with a carrier that stored magic power. This was why in Gwen's eyes, it was far safer than the detonators and other explosives on Earth.
So, since it exploded, there was only one explanation: At that time, there was enough high-purity magic power near it to detonate.
"It should be related to the new ore." Gwen looked at the untested sample ores piled up in the corner of the experiment table. These ores were all cut into fist-sized pieces, which were faintly floating with the luster of magic material. "Heti, have you checked if they can store magic power?"
"They don't have this property. Although they are good at conducting magic, they can't store magic power at all. In this regard, the dissipation speed is similar to that of purple steel or red copper." Heti shook her head. "Could it be that strange magic field?"
This new ore had many strange characteristics. For example, when magic power was injected into it quickly, it would "volatilize" the magic power into the air at almost the same speed. If two ores were to "volatilize" at the same time when they were close to each other, the magic power would not dissipate immediately. Instead, it would form a strange "field". This condensed magic field seemed to have some unknown function in the eyes of Gawain and Heidi.
Perhaps... it was the magic field that activated the detonating rune.
"It's very possible." Gwen nodded. "Heti, try to activate the magic field again. Rebecca, do you have any more detonating runes?"
"Yes, I do!" Rebecca nodded happily. Then, she took out a long cloth bag from her mage robe and poured it on the table. A large pile of rune boards popped out. She picked from the pile of boards. "Let me see... Scorching ray, small fireball, detonating, detonating, detonating... these are all detonating runes!"
Gwen was stunned as he watched the silly girl casually take out a large pile of explosives. He immediately broke out in cold sweat. "You've been carrying these things with you all the time?"
"Not all the time. I've been doing the induction and simplification of the magic circle with Jenny these two days. So, I've been carrying some boards with me."
"... Next time, you better search Rebecca before she enters the lab." Gwen's eyes twitched. He looked at Heti with a particularly serious expression. "This child has lived for so long, but has she never blown herself up?"
Heti's expression was a little strange. "It's really strange. She's always been the one blowing others up. She's been dealing with big fireballs all day long, but she's never blown herself up. At most, her face was blackened by the smoke. This is really rare among those mages who often hurt themselves when they're still apprentices."
Gwen broke out in cold sweat and signaled that the experiment could continue. But before they started, he ordered Rebecca to throw all the extra detonating rune boards to a place far enough away from the lab table.
Although the detonating power of the detonating boards seemed to be very small in that magic field, at most, it would have some fireworks effect. God knows if this silly girl had some kind of explosive catalytic halo. If she really blew up the lab, she would be hung on the flagpole and beaten up...
After everything was ready, Heti placed the detonating rune boards on a protective magic circle. Then, she placed two new ores at a certain distance from the rune boards. She then put her hands on the two ores and began to infuse them with magic power.
The two ores glowed slightly. Gwen could feel that a magic field was formed during the process.
In his magic vision, an "environment" with a higher intensity than the background magic radiation quickly formed around the two ores and filled the entire lab. It may even extend to a wide area outside the lab. The magic light was shining in this area, flickering and erratic. Obviously, it was very unstable as Heti said.
Turning off his magic vision, Gwen looked at the detonating rune board on the protective magic circle.
It did not change.
"It doesn't seem to work?" Rebecca scratched her head. "Is this board broken?"
Heti finished her magic release. Her three heads huddled together to study why the detonator did not explode.
Gwen remembered the details that Rebecca had described before. "Didn't you just say that before the detonating board exploded, you also had a piece of ore in your hand that you were going to infuse with magic power?"
"Yes, and it even lit up for a moment."
"The problem should be here." Gwen nodded. "The extra ore probably played a special role. Find a piece of ore and put it together with the detonating board. Put it closer. "
After everything was arranged, Heti once again activated the strange magic field.
Almost as soon as the magic field appeared, the detonating board placed in the protective magic circle and the ore next to it turned into a bright fireball.
"Sure enough, this is it!" Rebecca jumped up in joy. "It's resonance! This must be resonance! "
"When two such ores are infused with magic power at the same time, it will produce a magic field, and the third ore in the magic field will produce resonance at the same time..." Heti frowned slightly, analyzing the characteristics of the ores, and then looked at the remaining samples piled up in the corner. "But these things are also in the magic field. Why didn't they change?"
"Maybe this is not resonance, but some kind of … magic power transfer." Gawain took a deep breath and suppressed the excitement in his heart. He slowly voiced his guess. "Only the ores that are connected to the rune substrate or the magic circle have changes. This is because they have 'energy-consuming units', and energy flows inside them. As for the other ores, because they do not have the next level structure that consumes energy, naturally, there will not be any changes."
"Transfer of magic power? You mean transmission? " Heti looked at the ordinary ores in amazement. "This is really... interesting."
"Their application prospects are very broad." Gwen looked into Heti's eyes. "If this thing can be purified and mass-produced, perhaps our magic network system can be expanded to an incredible scale! The transmission range of magic power will be greatly expanded, even beyond the territory! "
Heti frowned slightly. "But now the magic field produced by it is too unstable. Detonating a rune board does not require too much stable magic power, but it is different to drive those magical machines."
"So we need to continue to study and find a way to make it stable," Gwen said seriously. "Not only to make it stable, but also to ensure that it is controllable. By the way, how many of these ores are there? "
"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 Gloom Mountain Range. Under the loose and fragile stone layers are all this strange new type of ore."
"A new type of ore..." Gwen scratched his chin. "The same thing happened to Rebecca's crystal. Only the special limestone from the Gloom Mountain Range can form this kind of crystal. Besides, Pitman also found a completely special medicinal material in the mountain."
"I remember you said that this is the natural environment of the decay of the demonic tide, which has caused many ordinary minerals and plants to change," Heti said. "And you also guessed that there will be more similar new resources in the southern foot of the Gloom Mountain Range."
"This is not the decay of the demonic tide, this is a gift of nature," Gwen corrected her seriously. Then he looked out of the window. Through the window, he could see a small part of the Gloom Mountain Range. "I will go to the excavation site of the new ores. The so-called Tide of Destruction seems to have brought more things to this world than I thought."
While Gwen, Heti, and Rebecca were studying the new ores of the Gloom Mountain Range, another team was also working in the depths of the Gloom Mountain Range.
Strictly speaking, they were working in the depths of the ruins in the mountains.
Byron Knight and his exploration team had been working in the newly discovered area for more than a week. They had drawn a detailed new map and recorded all kinds of new things they had found. They had sent messengers twice to communicate the progress of the exploration and received replies. Byron thought that the exploration had achieved a very good result. Considering that the soldiers had been in the underground ruins for a long time, he thought it was time to leave this place.
But just as he was sorting out the accumulated information and preparing to return, two soldiers who were in charge of scouting ahead suddenly ran back to the room that was temporarily used as an exploration base. "Sir, we found a … strange place ahead!"
"Strange place?" Byron frowned. These two soldiers were veterans who had been exploring this place with him for a long time. They rarely used such a vague method to report the situation, which made him quite concerned.
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