Melita left, taking the ring left by the cultist with her as a transaction item and as a thank you to Gawain for helping to recover the ring. Melita represented the mithril treasury. Make a promise:
In the future, whenever any fragments of the Eternal Slate are found outside, or "inhuman objects" similar to them, Gawain will be informed first.
For Gawain, the value of this promise is far more valuable than the ring.
But a certain embarrassing half-elf didn't seem to think so. Amber lay on Gawain's desk, her face pressed against the table, slumped there like a salted fish, slumping on one side. While muttering: "It looks like an expensive thing at first glance... Just took it away... without paying a single coin... The people at the Mithril Treasure House must be too stingy... And when they left, I still have to have a meal..."
Gawain glanced at this guy sideways: "They will help collect information about the eternal stone slab and similar things. Don't you think this is more valuable?"
p>"That can't be spent as money, and the veiled woman made it easy. God knows how long it will take them to find new slate fragments - that's the eternal slate! It's not a stone on the road," Amber continued to paralyze. , "Ah, if they can't find it in a hundred years, why don't you wait a hundred years?"
Before Gawain said anything, he heard this guy continue to babble: "Ah, that's right. , you have special skills, at worst, you will kill them when you get tired of waiting, and then when they find them, your descendants will visit your grave and burn the news to you, and then you can crawl out..."
"Speaking from the bottom of my heart, even if you are really the chosen one by the God of Shadows, it's a miracle that you can live this long." Gawain's eyebrows jumped and he glared at Amber, "Stop talking nonsense - go and help me. Open the box over there and take the bag on top."
Amber stood up from the table and swayed to the thing while mumbling: " Betty usually does this for you, why is it my turn today - where did the little maid go? I haven't seen her for most of the day..."
"I'll let her go. I gave her a half-day vacation and asked her to take Wandou to get familiar with the place. Wandou is very shy and can’t speak, and is easily frightened when in contact with people in the territory, but he and Betty get along surprisingly well, maybe they can become friends.”
As Amber placed the bag in front of Gawain, she approached him with a smile: "Let me tell you, I really appreciate you now - I thought you were so approachable at first. It was all pretending, but now it seems to be true. No one who is not serious can arrange this for you."
"Thank you for your appreciation," Gawain said casually. Then, he pulled Amber's head aside, and then poured out everything in the bag.
There is a pile of dim gray-white crystals, with an average size of only the size of a little finger. Its surface has a faint color, with the unique magic of magical materials.It has a mysterious smell, but in terms of appearance and texture, it doesn't look like a high-end gadget.
"What is this?" Amber was quiet for just two seconds. After seeing these things that seemed to be able to be sold for a little money, he immediately got together again: "Crystal? But it looks like good quality. It looks bad..."
"This is the magic storage crystal that was just shipped from Tanzanian Town. It is a sample of the first batch, right? Did you forget that I ordered one for that Viscount Andrew? Massive long-term orders."
"Magic storage crystal?" Amber stared at the gray-white crystals for a while, and suddenly shouted, "That Viscount Andrew. Don't bring such a deceptive thing! We saved his life, but he is using this thing to fool others. If this kind of crystal is placed in a slightly larger rich mine, it will be thrown away as slag!"
Gawain looked at this angry half-elf with a little surprise. He never expected that this guy who didn't care about anything in the territory before would be so angry because of the loss in the territory, but he He just smiled and said: "Don't be so exaggerated. This thing is much better than slag, and the Viscount didn't cheat anyone at all - he paid for these crystals at the price of three Cecil silver coins per taka (unit of weight). ), where can you find such a price?"
"Three silver coins..." Amber quickly thought about how big the newly minted Cecil silver coins were. , and then his face became subtle, "That's really cheap... But why did you buy so many low-quality magic storage crystals? This kind of quality... I'm afraid only the most basic mage apprentices will use it during practice. Right? And even the richest mage apprentices might not be willing to use it."
Gawain smiled: "Do you know what the biggest problem is with this inferior magic storage crystal?"
"The magic storage capacity is only half of that of high-quality crystals of the same volume, and the energy escape is extremely serious, especially the second one, which makes them useless." Amber obviously still has some knowledge about these common sense issues. I understand, after all, it involves whether it can be sold for money. "The reason why artificial magic storage crystals are unpopular is also due to this reason."
"Yes, low magic storage ability is only a small problem. Just put two crystals. The biggest problem is that energy escapes quickly, and the charged magic power will dissipate on its own in a short time. This is a fatal injury to crystals whose function is to 'storage magic', so these crystals are They have become so worthless. Although they have huge reserves, they are difficult to put to use." Gawain said as he opened the locker under the table and took out a hexagonal metal plate and placed it on the table. "But if Another way of thinking, these crystals that cannot store energy can also be used..."
Amber curiously looked at the metal plate that Gawain took out, and she recognized that it was sent by Rebecca not long ago. The thing seems to be a product from a machine manufacturing institute. This metal plate is only a little bigger than a palm and has a hexagonal shape. It is made using the latest "stamping technology" and is molded into a machine mold.It is an "industrial product" that is pressed out instantly, and on the surface of the metal plate, you can still see neat groove patterns, as well as magic materials embedded in the patterns.
This is a "universal substrate" with a magic circle engraved on it, and Amber thinks she has seen the rune structure on it.
After trying hard to remember for a long time, she said "Oh——": "Oh~~I know, this is the thing that Rebecca and Jenny drew before!"
"The honeycomb magic network unit is a basic unit that can operate alone. I engraved it on a movable universal base plate, and it became a 'part' that can be combined with other things at will. ," Gawain said, turning the base plate over to expose the empty grooves on the back of the base plate, "and these slots are connected to other things."
"So this metal plate is now. Is it constantly gathering magic power?" Amber looked at this new thing that was completely different from the traditional magic props. "Then what are you going to use the magic power for? Such a small magic network unit should have a limited amount of magic power, right? ?"
"It is indeed limited. With the output of this magic network unit, it is difficult to activate a level one spell, so we must first charge the energy into these crystals," Gawain pointed to the side. The inferior magic storage crystal, "After completing a charging cycle, the magic power in the crystal is extracted. Since the charging is continuous, the escape of the crystal is no longer a problem. You see, it is in this system It functions as a temporary register, used to store a small amount of magic power generated by the magic network unit. As long as the crystals form an array and are supplemented by a long enough charging cycle, such a basic unit must release enough It is completely possible to drive the magic power of high-level spells."
Amber's eyes widened when she heard it, and at the end she looked at Gawain with something wrong: "You guy... you really are. Are you sure you are a knight?"
"Um... As for such a big reaction?"
"How did you get such a lot of magic theories?" Staring, then he looked at the magic circle base plate and crystal in Gawain's hand with a look of disbelief - these things have not been put together yet, and they still lack many key runes and control magic circles, but it is obviously far away The completion was not far away, "Is this thing... considered a magic device? But it still seems to be just a part..."
"Yes, it is still a part, but a very important part. With it, I have completed the most important part of my plans: how to solve the problem of mobile energy when there is no fixed magic network power supply." Gao Wen smiled, "I plan to name it Magic Capacitor, what do you think of this name?”
“Magic Capacitor?” Amber blinked, “What does this thing have to do with electricity?”
"Uh...well, I didn't expect this," Gawain thought seriously and changed his words, "Then I decided to forceName it Magic Capacitor. "
Amber: "...and with something like this! ? "
Seeing Amber's stunned look, Gawain felt great pleasure, so he lowered his head happily and found the batch of drafts that he had not finished calculating before, preparing to continue calculating the hive magic network unit. There were several problems with power and charging efficiency, but not long after he started working, he suddenly heard a noise coming from outside.
"I'm going to see what's going on! ”
After saying these words, Amber disappeared in front of Gawain: as soon as Gawain wrote something, she would definitely become dizzy, and she would like to find an excuse to run away. .
But not long after she ran out, she came back in a rage: "Gawain! Gawain! Byron Knight is back! "
"He's back? Gawain immediately put down the pen in his hand and said, "Let him come in quickly!" ”
Knight Byron walked into the tent. After several days of exploration in the ruins, he looked quite tired and dusty, but the expression on the knight’s face But he was obviously very excited. As soon as he came in, he gave Gawain a knight's salute, and then said in an excited tone: "My lord! We discovered a hidden area in the ruins, which may have been the secret testing ground of the Gondor Empire! Not only did it contain a lot of intact equipment, equipment, and supplies, but... a small number of still legible manuscripts and documents were also found! ”