Unlike most outsiders who saw magic armor for the first time, Eich's magic armor craftsmanship wasn't so much a product of machinery as it was a product of magical techniques.
Although the magic armor was greatly influenced by engineering, its core technology originated from ancient alchemy's living armor and magical puppets. Meanwhile, the theoretical origins of magical puppets came from living statues, gargoyles, and other such stone magical creatures.
Unlike well-designed machines, this type of creation had many "unscientific" aspects. In fact, the design was completely unreasonable. After all, statues and armor were inanimate objects to begin with. How could one expect them to have well-designed gears, flexible joints, explosive artificial muscles, and other such modern designs?
In fact, even the seemingly unreasonable foundational principles were quite similar. After all, the design concept could only be described as simple and crude.
Using a single source of magic power as the core to drive a large number of mechanical and stone components to forcefully move was illogical and unscientific. However, it was quite magical.
Although modern magic armor had absorbed many engineering memories, and the components and components were all carefully designed products, the core design concept had never been changed … because it was impossible to change it.
Every magical creation basically had a single source of magic power as its core. The other components were only functional choices. While the magic armor could be driven by wood or stone, it naturally had to accept the high mana consumption and low performance of wood or stone.
Modern magic armor had already been simplified to a certain degree. However, the core design hadn't changed. The energy system was still the foundation of everything.
The energy system supplied the entire magic armor with energy. The basic modules included the mobility module and the exoskeleton defense module. The legs, arms, and torso of the magic armor consumed energy to provide the basic mobility and defense of the magic armor. The external weapon modules consumed a large amount of energy, which also determined the magic armor's usage and combat style.
The energy system, basic modules, and weapon modules were the iron triangle of modern magic armor. However, everyone knew that the energy system was the foundation of everything. Only a more powerful energy system would be able to support the more powerful basic modules and weapon modules.
A powerful magic armor user would possess limitless mana. However, they would still be limited by the energy system's limits. The most powerful magic armor user would be able to fight for a longer time.
Every time the magic armor was upgraded, the core symbol would be that the mechanical system's function (Carvel) had been upgraded to a new level, giving the other modules and components the possibility of upgrading as well.
This was the basic theory of the magic armor, which Rorschach had already learned. However, the purplish-black creation in front of him completely overturned all the theories that Rorschach had learned.
"… Are you saying that it doesn't even have a power system?"
Rorschach looked at the Great Magical Mechanic in front of him in disbelief. Even though Molly Dora had become the most outstanding Great Engineer in the Game Church, Rorschach still couldn't believe what he was seeing.
Without the power system, how could he supply energy to the other components and make them move?
"… Look, isn't the sky filled with energy?"
Following the direction that the old man was pointing at, it was the sky filled with web-like thunderstorms. Rorschach was stunned for a moment. Then, he looked at the design blueprint and seriously considered its feasibility.
In the past, whenever the magic armor or floating airships entered a lightning zone, the parts that suffered the most damage were usually the circuits and power systems. Massive amounts of lightning elementium and energy would flow wildly on the magic armor, causing short circuits wherever they went.
However, the extremely ugly purplish-black magic armor in front of him didn't have any external decorations. It looked just like a sand golem. Its thick limbs reminded Rorschach of the most primitive magic golems … He opened the design blueprint and saw that the internal structure was very similar to that of the most primitive magic golems. It was just an operating system that controlled the four limbs. It was so simple and primitive that it was hard to believe that it was the work of a master.
Moreover, these limbs were a special alloy that fused artificial and natural Thunderstrike Stones …
"As long as we still use the Aishi's magical armor design method, and use an intricate operating system and weapon modules, as well as an energy storage system, excessive lightning strikes will be equivalent to an overload of energy, which will definitely destroy everything. However, we can think of it in a different way. The most primitive magic golems are actually mud golems … that's how mages imitate the earth elementium."
Rorschach finally understood Molly's design concept with the help of the magic armor master present.
The magic armor in front of him was nothing more than an empty shell, while his Thunderstrike Stone alloy body was capable of containing a tremendous amount of lightning elementium. In that case, he could use the mages' method of controlling mud golems to treat the entire magic armor as a golem creature capable of containing lightning … More accurately speaking, it would be an elemental creature that was a mixture of thunder and stone.
This technology wasn't even something completely new. Creating and controlling elementium creatures had always been an important subject for alchemists and summoners. There was already a theoretical basis for creating elementium golems.
Meanwhile, Molly specialized in creating golems and humanoid golems to begin with. Half-soul, half-elementium creatures were her specialty to begin with. She only needed to repeatedly experiment before she successfully completed the design for the first generation magic armor.
"Man-made elementium creatures?"
Rorschach had a sudden realization. In his textbooks, he clearly knew that elementium creatures were highly resistant to elementium damage. High-level elementium creatures were basically immune to elementium damage, and even more powerful elementium creatures were capable of absorbing elementium damage to replenish themselves.
Meanwhile, the core cockpit of the magic armor was a special lightning-proof layer. Lightning strikes would be transformed into nutrients by the "thunder elementium golem". The undigested lightning would be directed to the ground or directly lost. With such an intricate lightning-proof design, the pilot would likely be unharmed.
This type of elemental creature's magical armor would obviously have a large number of flaws. Basically, all magical armor would have the same flaws as magical statues and puppets. For example, the magical armor's basic template would make magical armor's reactions incredibly slow, movement speed slow, and precision low. However, Rorschach felt that this magical armor would be quite scary after just a brief evaluation.
"… If this magic armor is only limited to lightning, then it's basically limitless in the wastelands?"
"Theoretically speaking, that's indeed the case."
Molly was rather uncertain as she was the main person in charge of this project. Only now did she realize that she seemed to have accidentally taken out something quite frightening.
Think about it for a moment. Traveling through a thunderstorm as if you were a thunder elementium creature, with limitless energy providing you with limitless power. You could transform the power of nature into a thunderstorm to attack your opponent … This was just like how a Fire Elemental Lord in a sea of fire or a Water Elemental King in the Water Elemental Plane would be a shameless bug-like existence.
With Aishi's outstanding magical engineering skills and magical memory as the foundation, and with limitless energy as the prerequisite, there were far too many things that could be done.
Rorschach silently closed the blueprint. The Gods' chatter and astonishment also indirectly confirmed that his inference was correct.
Perhaps the magic armor still had many flaws … but there were plenty of professional magic armor masters here. As long as they didn't destroy the basic principles of the magic armor, there would be plenty of ways to improve it.
"… Mass produce it. Mass produce it at all costs."
No matter if it was as a worker or as a combat guard for lightning, this magic armor would have limitless potential.
However, what surprised Rorschach was that the researcher before him had a troubled expression.
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