When Gawain arrived at the southeast corner of the camp, a group of soldiers had already gathered here - the Byron knights who were patrolling nearby heard the noise and immediately brought people over to maintain order and disperse the brave men. Large civilians.
But to be honest, even if no soldiers came forward to expel them, there were only a few civilians who gathered: they were not only afraid of the authority of the nobles, but also afraid of the power of magic. Hetty’s magic laboratory In the eyes of those who cannot use extraordinary powers, it is undoubtedly a strange and terrifying place. The explosions coming from the laboratory are even more frightening. Although it is human nature to watch the excitement, there are some excitements that even the most daring people can't bear. Don't dare to see it.
Gawain saw that a big hole had opened up on one side of the wall of the magic laboratory, and thick smoke was coming out of it. The thick smoke was mixed with a pungent burnt smell, and some The magic power that has not yet dissipated shimmered in the smoke, and Hetty and Rebecca had already rushed out of the house. Both of them were covered in smoke. Hetty was currently summoning water to clean her hair and hair in embarrassment. There was soot on her face, but Rebecca rushed up with excitement after seeing Gawain: "Master Ancestor! The power of art is really powerful!"
Gawain was obviously a little excited after holding down Rebecca above looked worriedly at the two culprits and victims of the experimental accident who seemed to have just been rescued from the black coal mine: "Are you two okay? Why did the wall collapse..."
The power of this explosion was more powerful than he expected - he originally thought that there was protective magic, and since the explosion was only some unencapsulated crystal particles, it would not cause much harm.
However, he ignored one thing: this explosion was not a gunpowder weapon on the earth, but a magical effect. For explosion magic, whether it is enclosed in a hard airtight container has an impact on its power. In fact, it is limited...
"The effect of a large number of crystal particles being detonated at the same time is a bit beyond expectations." At this time, Hetty finally used the summoned water to wash herself into a human appearance. When she heard Gawain After asking the question, he stepped forward to answer, and at the same time threw a ball of water on Rebecca's face angrily, "Of course, the more important thing is that she put the two test samples too close! There is double the weight. The crystal particles were detonated at the same time!"
Gawain glanced at Rebecca silently, thinking that the silly roe deer might not be able to escape from today's beating...
Confirmed Both of them were fine, and Gawain was more or less relieved. After that, it was time to worry about the property: "Is the loss big?"
Hetty showed a look of pain on her face: "I will do it. The magic circle used for the experiment was destroyed, but fortunately, at the moment of the explosion, I vented most of the power to the direction of the vacant wall, and the expensive crystal resonator was not affected - instead, half of the wall needed Repair it."
Gawain glanced at Rebecca silently again. Since the most precious crystal resonator is not broken, the silly roe deer should not be beaten to death...
Rebecca alsoShe was totally unaware of it, of course, it was possible that she was in a state of shock and hadn’t woken up yet. She noticed her ancestor’s eyes drifting over to her several times, and she even asked blankly: “Ancestor, what are you looking at me for?”
Gawain thought for a while: "Are you going to resist the beating?"
Rebecca scratched her hair: "It's not bad... I often fought with wolves when I was a child."
"Then It's okay," Gawain waved his hand, "How many samples have been used this time? How is the rune trigger working?"
"Just...two small piles," Rebecca gestured with her hands. When he mentioned the rune trigger, he showed a very proud look, "And let me tell you, the rune trigger is really effective! It is enough to connect it to the explosive array to act as starting energy. As long as the array With this initial energy, the subsequent explosion process can be completely supported by those crystals. I plan to try it next time to see if the magic power of the rune trigger can activate other types of rune groups... Ah, if there is a magic power It would be nice to have more accurate values. We can know how much magic power is generated when the rune trigger is closed, and we can also calculate how much magic power an initial set of runes consumes to run..."
Rebecca said As she spoke, her thoughts started to spread out, and when she was halfway through her thoughts, she suddenly pulled back her wandering thoughts, and began to tell Gawain: "My ancestors, let me tell you, Aunt Hetty didn't believe what I said at first. She didn't believe that the rune trigger would produce a magic shock when it was closed. She said that thing had no energy-gathering structure..."
Speaking of runes Trigger, Hetty really praised Rebecca: "That thing is indeed a very good invention, although there have been magicians who have tried to cut off a complete magic circle before and control it by reorganizing these parts. Magical mechanism, but no one has thought of turning this division and reorganization into a fixed pattern. The rune trigger made by Rebecca uses a pair of fixed runes as a 'connection key'. This structure is quite interesting. In line with the 'universality' and 'standardization' you often tell us..."
That's because Rebecca has positioned the rune trigger as "can be used by ordinary people" from the beginning. Product, she even thought that if the rune trigger was damaged, the blacksmiths and apprentices in the steel factory could repair it, so she simplified the structure to the extreme, even simplifying it to only one set of runes.
Who among the mainstream mages in this world would have thought of this?
As for the "standard value of magic power" that Rebecca seemed to mention casually just now, Gawain also kept it in mind.
Although modern humans do not have the ability to accurately measure and standardize magic power at the technological level, there were actually germs of this in the Gondor period seven hundred years ago. In the face of the nearly endless magic power provided by the Deep Blue Well, the Magister once thought about how to use this huge energy more accurately and more standardizedly, but it was a pity that before they could think of the result, the Deep Blue Well It exploded.
But since you want to develop based on the "magic" of this world, standardization and standardization are a matter of time.
“Let’s repair the magic laboratory first, and then the explosion experiments on those crystals must continue,” Gawain came back from his brief thoughts and looked at Hetty and Rebecca and said, "But the experimental method needs to be adjusted... The power of those crystals exceeds expectations, and it is too dangerous to continue testing indoors. I have designated the gentle slope near the river bank to the east of the camp as a testing site for you. The terrain there is open and suitable for testing this kind of thing. In addition, you think about how to make a corresponding container to serve as the shell of the 'Rebecca Crystal', so that it can be turned into a truly usable weapon."
Rebecca and. Hetty nodded repeatedly and wrote down these instructions. After thinking for a while, Gawain suddenly remembered a very crucial thing: "Wait, there is one more thing - have you thought about how to delay the detonation time of the magic circle?"
"Delay the detonation time?" Hetty didn't react for a while, but then realized: not everyone can use the plastic hand to press the runes from a long distance like herself. trigger.
Based on the current operating mechanism of rune triggers and explosive arrays, it is a kind of thing that detonates when pressed, which means that this thing is simply a self-destruct artifact. The enemy will not die after pressing the button. I don’t know, I must be dead anyway...
In this regard, the Gondor ancient crystal relies on the almost black technology "identification of friend or foe" function to ensure safety, and there is also a very complicated set of rules in the crystal. The detonation mechanism operates automatically after being separated from the master's control, but this part of the rune group is simply an alien creation in the eyes of today's mages. It is difficult to draw it on paper, let alone restore it.
A lot of runes and magic circles popped up in Hetty's mind, and she tried to use these things to meet the "delayed detonation" requirement put forward by her ancestors. She thought of the set of runes in those groups. Add a slow charging structure. When the rune trigger is pressed, it will start to be fully charged, and the next level of detonating array will be triggered only after the energy is full, but obviously - the rune trigger provides A little instant magic power cannot satisfy this point at all.
Rebecca was also thinking rapidly in her head, but in addition to runes and magic circles, what came out of her head were a lot of springs and connecting rods...
She Trying to use methods other than magic to satisfy the ancestor's request.
This is the difference in the way of thinking between a mage who knows a lot of spells and a mage who only knows one fireball spell.
The two great-great-granddaughters, full of ideas, left with the tasks given to them by Gawain, while Gawain stood there, looking at the green smoke that was still coming out. Magic Lab was filled with emotion.
Is there a magical... world?
Sure enough, even the first sound of art is completely different from the earth.
As an explosive that requires a specific magic circle to detonate, the power of "Rebecca Crystal"There is no problem with safety, but it has encountered great trouble in delayed detonation.
If it were gunpowder on earth, it would only require a fuse.
In the blink of an eye, Cecil’s pioneering camp has been taking root on this land for a month. The personnel and materials promised by King Francis II have not yet arrived, but there is clear news that they are on the way—— The flood season of the Dorgon River this year was less than half a month later than in previous years, and aid from the hinterland of the kingdom was also delayed on the way.
For these delays, Gawain can be said to have been mentally prepared: in this world where everything is slow and backward, he cannot rely on others to follow the precise and efficient social background on earth, so his camp construction The plan was not affected at all and was still carried out according to the established rhythm.
A large number of tents in the camp have been turned into wooden houses that are relatively sturdy and can be used for a long time. At this stage when cement is temporarily hopeless, Gao Wen is going to let the craftsmen open up a new area on the west side of the camp. Area, build brick kilns to bake adobe bricks - although making cement has failed in this world, it is still possible to bake bricks. This is a technology that already exists in this world.
It’s just that traditional brick-making relies on labor and is extremely inefficient. The corresponding price of the finished product is also high. In places like Tanzania Town, only the citizen class can afford brick houses.
However, before his plan could be implemented, a sudden change disrupted the pace of camp construction.
Several serfs who went to the mountains to look for quartz sand fled back in horror. Two of them were seriously injured, and one of them has stayed in the mountains forever.
They were attacked by "aberrants".