After discussing the honeycomb magic network model and promising the "reward", Gawain did not let Rebecca and Jenny leave. Instead, he took out some drawings he had drawn these days, as well as the drawings he had drawn based on his daily work. Understand for yourself, some summary and calculation information on "Runic Logic".
Rebecca’s attention was attracted by Gawain’s drawings, while Jenny saw the equations calculated by Gawain at a glance. The latter’s eyes widened in surprise: “These are your Did you do it?"
"I studied the information you gave me when I had nothing to do, and tried to sort out the runes myself." Gawain smiled and nodded, "I am still good at magic theory. There are some basics."
"This...this is not a basic question," Jenny looked at Gawain's results in disbelief, "These calculation methods and...writing habits, have you ever used them before? Have you ever been exposed to something in this area?"
"The Gondor Empire made a lot of achievements in mathematics - of course, rune logic has not been developed yet," Gawain said casually, but in fact. Only he himself knows the situation: he has indeed never been exposed to runic logic before, but the mathematical ideas accumulated in his previous life are still there. Even if the formulas are no longer universal, the logic and calculation ideas will not fail. So far, Zhan The runic logic formulas compiled by Ni are still at a very simple stage, and it is not difficult for Gawain to understand the calculations extended from the empirical formulas.
Seeing that Jenny still had the tendency to continue asking questions, Gawain quickly directed the topic to the next stage: "Let's take a look at these things first."
"This is The 'second-generation magic engine' you mentioned last time is called a rotary engine or something..." Rebecca looked at the drawings in front of her, "I've never seen this... This magic circle model seems to be Fire type?"
"It's a scorching ray magic circle, a second-level magic that can release a focused heat beam from the focus of the magic circle," Gawain explained. "In other words, this is just a low-level magic. Magic, it’s one level lower than the big fireball... You haven’t seen it before?”
“No,” Rebecca shook her head, “Aunt Hetty taught me that back then. The spell model of the scorching ray. She thought that this spell has the same origin as the fireball spell. Maybe I can learn it. As a result, my brain hurt when I learned this spell. Later, I had a psychological shadow. Then I learned how to convert this spell model into I slept through several classes during the magic circle..."
Looking at this N+1 great-granddaughter who frankly confessed her dark history, Gawain was dumbfounded.
The so-called scorching ray is not a profound spell. Although in Gawain's opinion, the magic of this thermal energy ray is impressive in terms of light and shadow effects, in fact it is just a second-hand spell. Level 3 magic is one level higher than level 1 small fireballs, but Rebecca is a "level 3 magician" who can rely on her strong mental power to hold back large fireballs. Logically speaking, the scorching ray is nothing to her. What a difficult problem, but there is no way, in the extraordinary realm of this worldIn the domain, the so-called talent for casting spells is destined by God. For mages who rely on their personal qualities to cast spells, if they are born with spell casting defects, no matter how hard they try, they will not be able to achieve anything.
If you try too hard, you may even get a headache.
But here is an extra point. Although Rebecca only knows one "Fireball", in fact she can forcefully claim that she knows two magics - if you use less force, you will get a small fireball. , the harder it is, the bigger the fireball. These two spells are one level one and one level three. Their spell models are almost identical, except that the latter requires more magic power and higher mental power to control it. Rebecca was born to be able to only record one spell model, and this spell model happened to be fireball, so she said it would be no problem if she knew two spells...
Gawain always felt that if this girl continued to be here The talent tree is off track. Sooner or later she will be able to create nuclear fusion...
"Ancestor, why are you showing me this?" By this time Rebecca had already put together several drawings. After reading it, he raised his head and asked curiously, "Are you planning to build this rotor-type magic engine again?"
"What troubles us the most is when making complex magic machinery or advanced magic props. Yes, it's 'interference'," Gawain said about what he had been thinking about recently, "When the magic array is running, the energy flow between runes will cause interference, and two adjacent magic arrays will also interfere when they are together. , because high-end magic props have complex arrays and a large number of rune nodes, the interference is greater - this is also the main factor in the low yield and high price of high-end magic props. Traditional mages have been unable to completely solve this problem, and This is also the most important reason why extraordinary items are difficult to popularize."
Jenny looked at the calculation formulas written by Gawain and suddenly had some enlightenment, showing a thoughtful expression.
Gaowen continued: "We have discussed the rotor engine last time. Its only problem is interference. There are too many repulsion arrays and the arrangement is symmetrical, so interference cannot be avoided and has to be Give up for now, and this thermal energy ray array..."
"There should be no interference problems with the thermal energy ray array, right?" Rebecca said uncertainly, "Although I don't know how, I know this. Planting magic circles has long been a mature technology. Many magicians like to set up such traps in their own magic towers. It is very powerful and does not explode the surrounding things like fireballs. It can accurately eliminate those intrusions. Or..."
Gawain waved his hand: "Yes, the thermal energy ray array has been used, but that is because the traditional mages 'solved' the interference by carving it on the expensive magic guide base. Problem, but I plan to draw it on a very cheap red copper substrate, and the rune materials are cheaper quartz sand and red blood gum-this creates another interference problem."
Zhan. Ni vaguely guessed what Gawain meant: "You want to reduce its cost - but drawing the magic circle on inferior magic guide materials means that the energy level of each rune will be suppressed by the material.If controlled, the effective power will be reduced. In order to ensure that the magic circle can operate, it is necessary to increase the effective power by increasing the number of runes. In the view of many traditional mages, the greater the number of runes, the greater the chance of interference. The higher it is. "
"Yes," Gawain said unhurriedly, "drawing or carving the magic circle on low-grade base materials, or using inferior materials to make runes, will cause the runes to be damaged. The 'effective output' is reduced, so it is necessary to increase the number of runes to ensure that the magic circle can exert its original effect. The more runes, the higher the chance that the magic circle will collapse due to interference. The way traditional mages solve this problem is to engrave the magic circle on expensive high-end materials, so that the purpose can be achieved with the most streamlined magic circle structure - they are accustomed to using this method to avoid interference, because they are not short of money. ”
Rebecca: “But my ancestor, you have been trying hard to make extraordinary items... How do you say that word?” "
Gao Wen glanced at her approvingly: "Cheap mass production. "
Then he continued: "All problems are attributed to the unique 'interference' nature of magic. The interference of the magic circle is actually a stumbling block that hinders cheap mass production. It increases the cost of many low-level magics. The cost of props has also caused many of the machines I designed to be unable to operate, but now... we have ideas to solve the interference. ”
“The idea is to calculate through runic logic! "Jenny has been fascinated by this. She has studied the rules of runes for many years, but she only uses them to design magic circles and complete the tasks assigned by her mentor. This is the first time she has realized these at a higher level. The true value of mathematical tools, "Traditional mages believe that it is the increase in runes in the magic circle that causes the interference and collapse of the magic circle, but in fact we can calculate from the formula that the increase in runes will not cause interference, On the contrary, more runes give the array a higher ability to resist interference - what really causes interference is the 'interference knot' produced when the runes are arranged in a specific arrangement, just because the interference caused by the interference knot increases exponentially. , far exceeds the anti-interference ability brought by adding rune knots, so people have always believed that as long as there are more runes in the magic circle, it will be unstable..."
Gao Wen He laughed, and smiled particularly happily: "Yes, with rune logic, we don't have to study in the dark like those traditional mages, and we don't have to rely on luck and unreliable experience to design magic circles like they did. For example, I did it before With the designed rotor-type magic energy engine, we can fine-tune the rune arrangement of each repulsion array, or even redesign the repulsion array to reduce interference knots. We can also use the same method to convert those that originally require expensive magic materials. The magic circle that can be made is drawn or engraved on a cheap red copper plate, making it cheap enough that everyone can use it! "
"Everyone can use it..." Jenny was obviously frightened by this statement, "Is this possible? ”
Gawain asked: “Why is it impossible?” Now even the brick-burners and miners in the territory are using magic energy to induceQing, isn't the magic engine essentially a magic prop? "
Jenny was speechless.
"So you want us to calculate these things next? "Rebecca looked at the drawings that Gawain took out, and her face suddenly showed an eager expression, "Ah, I saw that you also specifically marked the price range of the base material and rune material next to each magic circle... … Do we want to run the magic circle on such a cheap basis? Looks very challenging! ”
“Are you confident? Gawain asked with a smile.
Rebekah puffed up her chest: "Special!" ”
Jenny smiled a little shyly and cautiously: “I will work hard and I will not let you down.” ”
The two girls left with a lot of new drawings and information, while Gawain relaxed and let his upper body lean on the back of the chair, letting his thoughts float.
He thought that he had finally found the right path that would allow ordinary people to enter the mysterious realm.
He also figured out how to maximize the efficiency of the "magic" in this world.
The "what you think is what you want" nature of magic is the biggest help in turning his fantastic ideas into reality!
In a world without magic, a It may take years, even decades, or generations of efforts to transform an idea into reality. The difficult process of tool production and improvement takes up most of the time. However, in a world where magic exists, this process is greatly shortened. , almost all the time costs are actually completed between the brain and paper and pen. As long as the mage calculates quickly and accurately enough, as soon as he completes the spell model, his spell will become a spell that can be The "things" that work in reality, even if their magic only belongs to themselves for the time being, the "realistic meaning" that the magic can produce has been realized.
And what Gawain wants to do is. Just convert these spells one by one into magic engines, thermal energy ray guns, crystal bombs, hive magic nets...