"So this is the 'Rebecca Crystal' you successfully created... Well, yes, it looks like the same thing."
Sitting in his big tent, looking at Rebecca excitedly brought over a large basket of things, and Gawain nodded slightly.
It was a basket of strange gray-black substances with an unattractive appearance. Some were as loose as sand, and some were hardened together, but no matter what form they were, they were almost evenly inlaid with countless fine particles. , and compared with the "waste" that Rebecca made in a daze the first time, the content of crystal particles in this basket of finished products is significantly higher, and the average diameter of the particles seems to be much larger.
This shows that Rebecca not only found the formula, but also vaguely figured out the way to improve production.
Hearing Gawain’s words, even Rebecca, who was upright and had a low emotional intelligence, suddenly felt embarrassed. Miss Viscount scratched her face that was darkened by the smoke and laughed. Like a silly roe deer who was just seventeen years old and burned explosives in a cement kiln: "Hey... Ancestor, do you really think this thing can be called this name? Aren't only very powerful people able to use their own names?" Do you want to name other things..."
"You invented these crystals, aren't you powerful enough?" Gawain glanced at the N+1 level great-granddaughter who lacked confidence, "Well, Although there is still a lot of room for improvement, this is indeed a 'product' that can be repeated, and the name Rebecca Crystal is well deserved."
Rebecca entered a silly state: "Hehe, hehehe..."
"Stop being silly, hehe, tell me how this thing is made," Gawain glanced at the iron-headed boy dumbfounded, "Although any kind of The emergence of new materials involves luck, but I still want to know how this kind of good luck happened to us."
"Oh, it's really a coincidence." Rebecca scratched her face, "It was actually baked according to the original recipe you gave me, but yesterday when I tried to restore the firing process, I failed several times. No ratio worked - and then I Suspecting the furnace, he ordered people to check the conditions of several kilns, and found that a large piece of the inner wall of one of the kilns fell off..."
"A large piece fell off?" Gao Wen frowned. He raised his eyebrows and realized that the key to the formation of these "Rebecca crystals" was probably the fallen fragments of the kiln wall. "So the materials used to build the kiln also participated in the reaction?"
“This is one of the reasons, because those kilns also used rune heating, so they were mixed with quartz sand when they were built. In addition to quartz sand, another important reason is the stone from the dark mountains. "
"Stones from the Dark Mountains?" Gawain repeated.
"Yes, I compared several sets of records and found that there are two biggest differences between that furnace and the other furnaces. The first is that the quartz sand used to build the furnace was mixed into the raw materials. The second is that the limestone used in the raw material is from darkDigged from the mountains. The limestone for the other several furnaces came from the Baishui River, and some were transported from the lumberyards in the west. If they are used as raw materials, even if they are mixed with quartz sand, they will not work..."
Two conditions, quartz Sand and limestone from the Dark Mountains...
Gawain pondered slightly. These two conditions were accurate conclusions reached by Rebecca after many comparisons. There is no need to doubt their authenticity, then What role did these two things play in this process?
It is conceivable that quartz sand itself is a weak magic-guiding material. Although it is extremely cheap, it is also a genuine magic material, and it is itself a magic material. One of the raw materials for making artificial crystals, but what about the limestone from the Dark Mountains?
Why can’t limestone mined from other places work?
He threw away these questions. When she came out, Rebecca was stunned by the question.
Miss Viscount had not thought about these details at all. She scratched the back of her head: "I am just happy, I haven't thought about it yet..."< /p>
“The Dark Mountains were once shrouded by the demonic tide, and many places in the mountains still have traces of being eroded by the elemental tide,” Gawain said thoughtfully, touching his chin, “Maybe this process has changed. The properties of some of these minerals... give them the properties to participate in magical reactions? ”
In the absence of more experimental data and theoretical guidance, Gawain can only make such a bold guess, but no matter what the real reason is, Gawain is now certain of one thing: "Rebecca Crystal" is definitely unique in this world, at least in the Kingdom of Ansu.
Who would usually go to the Dark Mountains to dig mountains and burn stones when they are idle. Well...
"After confirming that the key lies in quartz sand and Dark Mountain Limestone, I tried several methods to improve the proportion and quality of the crystal," Rebecca continued, "I found that increasing the quartz sand The ratio can increase the crystal yield rate, but many crystals will break when coming out of the furnace. Increasing the proportion of limestone will improve the ability of the finished product to store magic power, but after exceeding a certain ratio, it will not form crystals. And I also found that temperature and firing time have a particularly large impact... There are so many items that can be tested that I couldn't finish them all at once, so I fired one furnace according to the best method now. Well, this is what you have in front of you. "
Gawain asked bluntly: "Can ordinary people complete this process? ”
“Yes, but most people don’t know what the ‘cross-reference’ and ‘observation group’ you taught me mean, so they can only do it according to the method you taught them. "Rebecca replied, "And they are very careless. Even if they are told how to do it, they often get the proportions wrong or remember the firing time wrong - firing crystal requires more time control than firing bricks. Much stricter. ”
It is imperative to improve the average quality of the labor force.
However, there are not even a few qualified cultural teachers in the territory... All people who can read and count All are already superThe workload is already overloaded, where can I find people to form an education team?
Go to Tanzania Town to hire? There are not many people in Tanzania who can read! People who can read and write are either businessmen's children or "respectable people" who have entered noble mansions and served as housekeepers and clerks. How could these people be willing to come to such a barren place to follow the pioneering work? They are not themselves poor. Serfs and poor people...
Gawain touched his head. Whenever a new problem appeared, he always did this subconsciously, as if to confirm his hairline...
"Ancestor?" Rebecca said cautiously.
"No, it's okay, these are all long-term problems that need to be solved," Gao Wen waved his hand, "You continue to produce according to this 'optimal plan', and try something better when you have free time." Ratio. All in all, the more crystal particles the better, even as important as the production of steel. By the way, you also need to find a way to extract the mixed crystals. The black residue next to it is of no use to you. You can try smashing them and sifting them with water. The crystals are much harder and heavier than the residue. They should be easy to separate after being smashed and washed with water."
Rebecca nodded while listening. After Gawain finished speaking, she came over with a smile and asked in a low voice like a sneaky kitten: "Um... Ancestor, I heard from Aunt Hetty, do you plan to make this crystal into a ball?" Exploding magic props?"
"Absolutely the same idea," Gawain glanced at this girl who always had fantastic ideas, "What do you think?"
"What do you think? I plan to use the detonation circle in the Gondor standard crystal on this crystal," Rebecca's eyes were bright, "But have you figured out how to detonate it?"
Gawain frowned. , this is exactly what he is thinking about.
The detonating magic circles in Gondor's ancient crystals, like common small magic circles, are magic circles that cannot be self-charging. In other words, they require an external magic source as a "starting energy" to operate. In the subsequent detonation, in the Gondor crystal, this part of the energy was provided by the crystal itself, but in the "Art One" he conceived, there was no such energy.
In addition to being blown up directly as an explosive, the magic power stored in Rebecca's crystal cannot be extracted to participate in other magical reactions. Therefore, the detonation circle attached to Rebecca's crystal must be Use other magic powers as "starting power", so where does this part of the magic power come from?
Use another energy storage crystal as an "explosion battery"? Then this loses the meaning of "cheap".
Use the magician's magic power to activate the magic circle? Then this loses the design goal of "making it usable by ordinary people".
"Just say it, I can tell by the look in your eyes that you have something on your mind." Gawain glanced at Rebecca, and the girl in front of him was really not a person who could hide things, even if she didn't Asked, she probably couldn't hold back and expressed her thoughts.
“Yes"Like this," Rebecca said, "I studied the detonating magic circle and found that the activation magic required for it is actually quite small..."
Gawain nodded: " This is of course, after all, it is a magic circle that is used to self-destruct when the crystal is about to expire, and its activation energy requirements must have been optimized countless times. "
"Then I discovered something," Rebecca continued. "The 'rune trigger' I invented will produce an extra magic shock when it is closed for a moment. It's very weak, but it's definitely there..."
"Wait a minute! "Gawain instantly interrupted Rebecca's words. He vaguely realized that he had captured a key question that had been ignored for a long time. "You said that the rune trigger structure will produce magic power at the moment it is closed? Are you sure that's not the magic power escaping from the magic network buried underground? "
"I confirmed it several times, because I have been very sensitive to magic since I was a child, so I can 'see' it very clearly," Rebecca nodded emphatically, "Rune trigger. There is an extra magic power when it is closed, and I also found that not only the rune trigger, but also an 'instant magic power' will be generated when an originally complete set of runes is taken apart and then closed again. This moment of magic comes and goes quickly, just in the blink of an eye, but if it is to detonate something, then such a blink of an eye is enough. "
Gawain immediately fell into deep thought, almost making Rebecca nervous to death before he suddenly woke up: "Ah... very good, very good, then you can follow your own ideas, Try combining your rune trigger with the detonating circle. If you can ask Hetty to help, just say it was my order. ”
Rebecca suddenly beamed with joy, but before she was about to leave, she suddenly remembered something: “Ah, by the way, Ancestor, have you thought about what this explosive prop should be called in the future?” "
Gawain thought for a while, and Baoxiang replied solemnly: "Art. "
Rebecca: "Huh? Does this have anything to do with art? "
Gawain looked serious: "It's called art. "
Rebecca rolled her eyes and thought for a while, feeling that her ancestor might have another deep meaning, so she nodded happily: "Yeah! Art! ”
Rebecca left happily, but Gawain sat in the camp for a long time unable to calm down.
He was fiddling with a pen in his hand, turning it around unconsciously. , and when he reacted, he realized that he had written a line of text on the scratch paper:
Magic, what exactly is magic?
(Ah, I Another chapter was updated? )