It was a tedious task to test out a combination of basic spells and basic materials. Although the overall research environment of the Magitech Research Institute was pleasant, it did not mean that the research itself was easy.
Cohen had been conducting these basic tests for dozens of days. In these dozens of days, he had used dozens of different magical effects to test out nearly a hundred different magical materials, including new materials formed by mixing various magical materials. In these tests, he did find that some materials would change when stimulated by certain types of spells, such as softening, hardening, expanding, shrinking, and so on. However, a combination that completely met the requirements of the project and was reversible had not appeared yet.
Nevertheless, he continued to conduct these tests in silence and recorded the results of each test in detail.
He was used to this kind of boring work. In fact, he even liked it a little. At the same time, he liked to be precise, liked to plan, and liked to walk step by step from the entrance of the research institute to the laboratory. When he was in the Captical, there was once a girl he secretly liked who said that his quirks were "weird, rigid, and a little neurotic". But in the end, Cohen could not change his habits.
After the detection runes on the magic experiment bench slowly dimmed, Cohen cleared the samples and put them away. Then, he reset the experiment environment. He took out a thin piece of Purple Copper-Silver Alloy from the sample box in his hand and clamped it on a fixed bracket in the middle of the experiment bench. Then, he pressed the bracket down so that it came into contact with the rune circuit engraved on the experiment bench. Then, he raised a set of metal devices next to the experiment bench.
This metal device looked like an arm made up of several iron rods covered with runes. At the front of the "arm" was a high-quality magic focusing crystal. This set of devices was called the "Magic Activator", and was one of the most indispensable tools in the Magitech Research Institute. By adjusting the order of several rune triggers connecting the rune iron rods and the experiment bench, it could be connected to a large rune "Color Palette" at the back of the table. The disc-shaped rune device, nicknamed the "Color Palette", was prefabricated with dozens of the most basic magic circles, and it could easily release the magic effects required by the experimenter.
The ordinary technicians in the Magitek Labs who didn't have any talent for magic relied on these things to conduct complex magic experiments.
A mage like Cohen, who had the ability to cast spells, quickly realized the value of the "Mana Activator" after coming into contact with it. In just a few days, he fell in love with this handy device.
In his opinion, this was a great invention. The Mana Activator was powered by the Weave buried under the floor of the laboratory, so there was almost no problem of mana exhaustion. Furthermore, it could release almost all kinds of basic spell effects, while ordinary spellcasters would be limited by their innate talents and would not be able to release certain spells. Lastly, and most satisfying of all, was that the Mana Activator was a machine. Its structure, material, and parameters were fixed. Before it broke down, this device could guarantee that every spell released would not be the slightest bit off. The significance of this to magical researchers was self-evident!
And such a genius creation was invented by the young Viscount, who was now standing in the middle of the laboratory and discussing with several senior technicians. In fact, more than half of the new devices in the laboratory were invented by her.
It was said that she was only a level-3 spellcaster.
Everyone was a low-ranked mage, so why was she so outstanding … Could it be because her surname was "Cecil"?
Cohen gathered his wandering thoughts and activated the Mana Activator.
The focusing crystal quickly lit up, and a moment later, an arc of electricity struck the surface of the alloy from the tip of the crystal, leaving a faint trace on the surface of the alloy as the crystal moved.
Cohen immediately began to test the various changes in the alloy sample and recorded the results:
"Year X Month X Day X Year X Month X Test, sample number XX. Arcane lightning acted on the surface of the copper-silver alloy, leaving a discoloration mark. The area of the sample affected by the magic produced a weak arcane affinity property. The process is irreversible. This property may be used to create a new high-performance array substrate … "
So far, the tests had not yielded the desired results, but this did not mean that the tests were meaningless. In the test after test, the researchers had discovered many new properties of magical materials, most of which were new properties of mixtures. All these properties were recorded in detail, and one day in the future, perhaps one of these properties would come in handy. So far, the project had progressed to this day, and some of the researchers had even set the discovery of new material properties as their work goal, and it was indeed a very motivating thing.
As a traditional mage of the Captical family, Cohen knew that in the past, there were mages who discovered new material properties from their daily experiments, or created new mixtures of magical materials. However, all old-style research was independent, closed, and fragmented. Those traditional mages found them in their own dark and cramped mage towers, and then treated them as treasures. They would not share their findings with others for the rest of their lives, and when those mages died, their findings would be buried in their graves. Things like the Arcanotech Research Institute, where a large group of people conducted large-scale tests in a planned and orderly manner, and then gathered all the findings together, and at the same time, there was also someone in charge of coordinating the experiments. This was unimaginable to traditional mages.
It was precisely because of this that the efficiency of the experiments here was simply astonishing.
After recording the data of this batch, Cohen did not rest. He sealed the samples and related records and handed them to his colleagues beside him, and immediately prepared to test the next sample.
But just as he clamped the sample, aimed the crystal of the mana activator at the fixed bracket, and was about to pull the runic trigger, a dull hum suddenly wafted from beneath the experiment table. Soon, the flickering runes on the tables of several groups, including his own, dimmed.
"What's going on? My equipment stopped …" "It's a new crystal, it's not overloaded, is it?" "Did the spell stop?" "Who's using the heating pad on the experiment table to cook noodles?" "Check the plug — who's checking the plug? Take a look and see if the safety is burned."
Cohen froze for a moment before he realized that the problem did not lie with the experiment table, but with the nodes of the magic net in the laboratory. Currently, there were two forms of magic power supply in the territory. One was the wireless magic field provided by the magic obelisks in each block, and the other was the traditional method of directly contacting the magic net to extract energy. As the First Practical Technology Research Laboratory happened to have a magic net built in the laboratory (an experimental high-performance magic net), so half of the experiment tables were connected to the magic net in the traditional way.
After Cohen came to his senses, he immediately put down the things in his hands and walked to the back of his experiment table. Behind his experiment table, there was a hexagonal metal stake as thick as an arm extending from the floor. That was the so-called "check plug".
Among the six silver-white facades of the check plug, one of them had obviously turned black. Cohen carefully placed his hand on it and immediately felt a wave of heat.
He glanced at the location of the node represented by the blackened facade and waved his hand. "The nodes of the third or fourth ring in Area 6 are burned, but the other nodes seem to be fine."
"Block that node first. Fix it when we're done," Rebecca ordered from the center of the laboratory. "Also, I heard someone say that someone used a heating pad to cook noodles in the laboratory. Did someone really do that? "
The laboratory suddenly quieted down.
Cohen subconsciously shrank his neck. He had never used the heating pad on the experiment table to cook anything, but he had baked bread before.
However, at this moment, the corner of his eyes suddenly caught sight of the black and hot probe caused by the arcane energy surging within the probe.
After the surging arcane energy subsided, the mithril coating on the check plug was gradually returning to its original state.
One of the characteristics of mithril was that it would accumulate magic power in the process of absorbing arcane energy. During this process, its appearance would not change. After the external arcane energy disappeared, it would quickly release magic power, and during this process, the mithril would heat up and change color.
The young sorcerer from the Captical fell into deep thought.
At the Whitewater River wharf north of the main city of Cecil, a cargo ship with the logo of the Cecil Chamber of Commerce was slowly docked under the command of the wharf staff.
The gangplank of the cargo ship was attached to the trestle bridge. The captain walked down and began to hand over the cargo ship to the staff at the wharf. Following the captain were a burly figure and a dozen foreign civilians in ragged clothes.
"A group of immigrants?" The wharf staff saw the people walking down the gangplank and turned to the captain. "Don't forget to register them. Otherwise, they can't leave the trestle area."
"I'm not in charge of these immigrants." The captain waved his hand and pointed to the burly figure. "They're brought by the priest, Mr. Wright."
"Mr. Wright?" The wharf staff recognized that the man walking down the gangplank was the priest of the fief. However, the priest was not wearing his iconic old priest robe at the moment. Instead, he was wearing a rough sackcloth, which was similar to the pauper's clothes. So, the wharf staff did not recognize him at first. Now that he recognized him, he immediately ran up to him. "Mr. Wright! Didn't you return to the Holy Spirit Plains? Why are you back so soon? "
"I've seen what I wanted to see. Naturally, I have to go back to where I belong." Aviken smiled gently and pointed to the immigrants behind him. "These are the victims I helped on the way. They were all persecuted by the Church of Holy Light. The lord said he would accept them."
"Persecuted by the Church … Oh, okay. I'll arrange the registration." The wharf staff did not expect the only priest in the fief to come back so soon. He also did not expect the priest of the Holy Light to lead a group of people who were persecuted by the Church of Holy Light. This was such a huge amount of information that the wharf staff was stunned for a moment. Then, he noticed that there seemed to be some faint bloodstains on Wright's clothes. "Mr. Wright, this is …"
Wright looked down at the stains on his clothes and shook his head helplessly. "I got it when I was reasoning with people."
The wharf staff breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, that's good. I thought you went to reason with the bear again. Everyone has had enough of bear meat."
(Push the book, push the book. The title of the book is' Hogwarts on A Bite of the Tongue '. Just by the name, one can tell how imaginative the book is. In short, as long as one's heart is big enough, there will be ingredients everywhere. It looks like a relaxing and imaginative book. This is also an ally, so it should be impossible to cure him.)
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