"Originally, we wanted to inform you after we had the finished product in two days, but we didn't expect you to come now."
Nokia looked at Tang En in surprise, then said with a smile, "Did you know about our technological breakthrough?"
Tang En was quite surprised. He didn't expect to hear good news just by strolling around. "What a coincidence … What kind of technological breakthrough?"
"The improvement of the fusion plan of artificial souls and tanks, and the optimization of the combat auxiliary system of artificial souls and so on. Other than that, the most important discovery is a new material."
Nokia said as he brought Tang En to the front of the experiment table. The current research room looked full of futuristic technology, but the research projects here were backward products from the Middle Ages. Most of the researchers were still dwarves, so it looked very strange.
They wouldn't feel that way themselves.
There was a glass cover on the table in front of Tang En and Nokia. Inside the cover was a transparent light blue cube floating in the air, and above the cube was a metal ingot that was hundreds of times larger than it.
Nokia explained, "This is the crystal of the floating stone after the initial purification and recombination after the analysis of the floating stone. As a large number of impurities were removed and purified, the floating effect is stronger. It can carry more weight and float with the same volume unit."
Tang En stared at the Levitating Stone crystal. A fist-sized Levitating Stone crystal was actually able to carry the weight of a metal ingot that was a hundred times its size and float … This was no longer the concept of floating, but rather the concept of ignoring the laws of gravity within a certain range of the Levitating Stone crystal!
Was this a new natural element unique to this world?
Tang En regretfully discovered that although this kind of Levitating Stone was widespread on Floating Island, he had no way of understanding its molecular structure, let alone mass-produce it through artificial means.
Fortunately, this special element did not seem to be rare in this world. In addition to Prandal, floating islands were also widespread in the astral space. In terms of reserves, there was no need to worry about running out of resources for a long time — not to mention that this thing was not a consumable and could be recycled after it was used up.
"Not bad, I didn't expect you to have analyzed the floating stone to this extent."
Tang En expressed high praise for their results. He had asked them to start analyzing the floating stone a long time ago. Even if they didn't understand why the floating stone could float, they should at least find a way to separate and purify the active components inside. Now they had finally done it.
This meant that the floating stone crystal could be added in the subsequent processing of many materials to reduce its weight. For example, the existing magic energy buses. After reducing its weight, it could effectively increase the effective travel distance and passenger capacity of a unit of magic crystal, which was very important for controlling the cost.
More importantly, the purified floating stone crystal had a wide range of uses. It could be used to realize some wonderful ideas that couldn't be realized on Earth …
Nokia said with a smile, "My friend, the new material we're talking about isn't the floating stone crystal ….. It's the metal ingot on it."
Twain was stunned for a moment. His attention was focused on the bluish-purple metal ingot. Nokia gave a greeting, and the rune dwarf Groka threw a fireball over without saying a word. After the fireball hit the metal ingot, the metal ingot did not even move an inch, nor did it show any signs of being burned by high temperature. All the escaping fire elements had been completely absorbed by the metal ingot!
Tang En's eyes lit up, "It absorbed the fire elemental energy?"
"Please keep watching."
Groka sent out a series of fireballs at the metal ingot, but the metal ingot was as stable as Mount Tai, not changing at all.
Just as Twain's face was full of doubts, Grocca suddenly spat into his palm, then picked up the hammer and smashed it hard!
Bang! The metal ingot suspended in the air by the Levitating Stone Crystal suddenly released a wave of heat. Blazing flames roared out and instantly activated the magic barrier on the test bench.
"What the f * ck!?"
After the blazing flames wreaked havoc in the barrier for a moment, the test bench regained its calmness.
Fiona was dumbfounded, "That was ….. after the power of the fireball was absorbed, it was released by the hammer?"
"That's right."
Nokia smiled, and said, "This material has very special properties. It has a certain amount of anti-magic stone powder. Originally, we wanted to develop a metal material with high magic resistance, and we did succeed. In the end, when we took that material to test the floating stone crystal, we found that this material had this wonderful property after it was stacked with the power of the floating stone crystal."
Groka said, "We confirmed this after many tests. By adding the anti-magic stone powder and the floating stone crystal in a ratio of one to one in a universal alloy, we can obtain this special metal. Not only can it absorb magic, but it also greatly reduces its weight."
Reduces its weight? No wonder such a small piece of floating stone crystal could hold up a metal ingot that was a hundred times its size …
"We call the alloy with high magic resistance that only contains the anti-magic stone powder anti-magic gold, and the alloy that contains the anti-magic stone powder and the floating stone crystal at the same time is called the anti-magic gold."
There's anti-magic gold too? Where's Sargeras's Blood?
Tang En couldn't be bothered to complain about this "coincidental" naming method.
"After discussion, we generally agree that it's better to make armor or shields with these two metals."
Groka's suggestion was the best solution after comprehensive consideration by the researchers.
Think about it, armor and shields made of these metals not only weren't afraid of magic, but they could also absorb the power of magic. After entering the range of close combat, a shield bash would be able to release the absorbed magic power, doubling the damage to the enemy. How terrifying would the power be?
After the armor on the body absorbed the power of magic, the wearer would become a hedgehog. Once attacked, the accumulated power would explode, and the attacker would also be fiercely counterattacked.
However …
"The anti-magic gold is good for making armor and shields, but the anti-magic gold is obviously more suitable for making airships."
Tang En decisively said, "Think about it, if the Heaven Breaker uses the anti-magic gold, will it still be afraid of anti-air spells?"
Right now, the Heaven Breaker was most afraid of anti-air spells. Arrows couldn't reach its height at all. Only spells could threaten it. With this material, even if the defensive magic barrier was destroyed, the ship would be able to withstand the attacks for a long time just by relying on the characteristics of the hull.
With this material with excellent performance, the airship plan that had been brewing for a long time …
"It's not just the airship."
Tang En suddenly clapped his hands, and said, "The tank that's being designed can also use this material. It reduces its weight and increases its resistance to spells … Oh, right, how strong is the anti-magic gold?"
After adding so many other materials, theoretically, the purity of the alloy would decrease, and its physical properties would also decrease. As long as it wasn't too outrageous, it was acceptable.
"You saw it too. I didn't show any mercy with the hammer just now."
Glocka shrugged and said, "There's no trace. It's quite strong."
In the year that Glocka stayed in Ellington, not only did he learn a lot of knowledge, but he also gained many benefits, such as the deep-sea elemental crystal. Tang En didn't neglect him. Coupled with the powerful effect of the Mana Source, his strength was now close to the Gold level. His attack couldn't even deform the anti-magic gold, which was very clear.
"The reason why I wanted to talk to you is about this."
Nokia pushed his glasses, took out a book, and flipped through a few pages. Then, he said to Tang En, "After Ms. Eustisa's test, this anti-magic gold has a very high compatibility with artificial souls. The implantation time of artificial souls is reduced by 30%. Under the same conditions, the efficiency and precision of artificial souls implanted with anti-magic gold are 20% higher than those implanted with ordinary universal alloys."
"Oh?!"
Fiona was very surprised. "There's such an effect?"
Nokia scratched his head. "I don't know much about artificial souls. Ms. Eustisa is next door. I'll call her to explain."
Nokia quickly called Eustisa over.
"Lord Emissary."
Eustisa bent her knees and bowed.
Tang En nodded. "No need to be so polite. What's the situation that Nokia is talking about?"
Eustisa smiled and nodded. She looked straight at Tang En and said, "According to our speculation, this is probably due to the anti-magic gold's ability to absorb and store mana. The high concentration of mana reduces the loss of artificial souls in the work, and the efficiency is increased a lot. At the same time, we also tested changing the mana circuit of the previous alchemy puppet to anti-magic gold, which also increased the efficiency of artificial souls to a certain extent …"
Eustisa briefly described the special effect of anti-magic gold in artificial souls. In short, this metal was very compatible with artificial souls. It would be best if the carrier of artificial souls could be completely replaced with anti-magic gold.
Eustisa said regretfully, "It's a pity that the production of universal alloys is limited now. There's no way to continue increasing the production of anti-magic gold."
"Is that so?"
Twain smiled and said, "Then I can tell you a piece of good news. Soon, our universal alloy production capacity will increase by leaps and bounds. When the time comes, it won't be a problem to increase the production of the Demonophile Metal."
Eustisa tilted her head with a curious expression. "Why?"
"Because we've already made a plan. We found a large-scale hematite mine in the Ryan Empire. At the same time, we also obtained the Ryan Empire's unlimited mining certificate. After the new Bul-Kathos is completed, we'll immediately build a large-scale steel mill on the ruins of Bul-Kathos."
Tang En smiled very happily. As a person from Earth, no one knew better than him how important this kind of basic industrial material was to the development of a civilization. Even a magic civilization might need a basic industrial material, and universal alloys were clearly Prandal's special steel.
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