Gawain and Hetty's questions in unison caused Rebecca's neck to shorten by two-thirds at a speed visible to the naked eye - Gawain even thought that if his tone was more severe, the girl might be able to perform a shrinking of her head on the spot. The unique skill that enters the belly comes out.
But no matter how much she shrinks her neck, she still has to explain. Rebecca carefully looked at the two elders who were qualified to hang her up and beat her, and said honestly: "Don't blame me... …I was testing a new type of detonating substrate at the Rune Research Institute, and my aunt suddenly called me over to help with the experiment. I just put the detonating substrate in my pocket - and then put it on the experimental table when I got here. Go..."
"...Don't you have any safety rules when doing magic experiments?" Gawain looked at Hetty with twitching eyes, "Such dangerous things can be put into experiments directly. Put it on the table?”
In his opinion, Rebecca’s operation was almost the same as welding a detonator and sawing a light bulb.
"Of course there are safety regulations!" Hetty immediately corrected the names of the magicians, but then tilted her head a little awkwardly, "But Rebecca...I haven't let her get close to experiments since she was a child. room, so she lacks common sense in this regard. This is my education problem."
"Institutionalization really has to go deep into all aspects, especially in magic laboratories, which do not receive complete safety code education. You cannot participate in experiments at will," Gawain shook his head and sighed, "Fortunately, it is just a detonating rune, and its power is not very powerful..."
"But logically speaking, it is not dangerous," Rebecca said a little aggrievedly, "Although it is an explosive rune substrate, this thing is just a static rune group before it comes into contact with the magic source. It is no different from an iron plate with patterns engraved on it. How could it explode? It's over..."
Gawain frowned when he heard this, and he knew what Rebecca said was correct.
The detonating rune is different from the detonator on the earth. The latter itself has a certain risk of explosion, but the detonating rune itself... actually will not explode.
There is no energy storage structure inside it. If this thing wants to explode, it must be combined with a carrier that stores magic power - this is why in Gawain's eyes it is far better than the earth such as detonators. Explosive safety.
So since it exploded, there is only one explanation: there was high-purity magic power near it that could detonate it.
"It should still be related to that new ore," Gawain looked at the untested sample ores stacked in the other corner of the experimental table. These ores were cut into fist-sized pieces. Each one had the luster of magic material floating slightly, "Hetty, have you tested whether they can store magic power?"
"Without this property, although they have excellent magic conductivity, they are completely unable to store magic power. The escape speed in this area is similar to that of purple steel or red copper." Hetty shook his head, "Could it be that strange magic field?"
This new ore has many weird properties, such as When quickly injecting magicThe magic power will be "volatile" into the air at almost the same speed. If the two ores are very close to each other and perform this "volatilization" at the same time, the magic power will not dissipate immediately, but will form a The strange "field", this condensed magic field seems to have some unknown function in the eyes of Gawain and Hetty.
Perhaps... it was the magic field that activated the detonation rune.
"It's very possible," Gawain nodded, "Hetty, try to stimulate that magic field again. Rebecca, do you have any extra detonation runes?"
"Yes, yes!" Rebecca nodded happily, and then took out a long cloth bag from her mage robe, and poured it on the table. , it was a pile of crackling rune substrates. She picked among the pile of substrates, "Let me take a look...the ones for scorching rays, the ones for small fireballs, the ones for detonation, the ones for detonation, the ones for detonation...these They are all used for detonation!"
Gao Wen was dumbfounded as he looked at this stupid roe deer and took out a lot of explosives. He suddenly broke into a cold sweat and said, "You just keep these things with you. Pretending?"
"It's not always the case. I've been working with Jenny on the simplification of the magic circle for the past two days, so I brought some base plates with me."
< p> "...You'd better search Rebecca before she enters the laboratory in the future." Gawain's eyes twitched, and he looked at Hetty with a particularly serious look, "Hasn't this child lived so long and done nothing about himself? Have you ever been blown up before?"Hetty's expression was also a bit subtle: "It's really strange. She has always been the only one to blow up others. She has been dealing with big fireballs all day long, but she hasn't accidentally bombed them once. If you pass yourself, your face will be blackened at most - this is really rare among those mages who often hurt themselves during the apprenticeship stage."
Gawain shed a cold sweat and signaled that the experiment could continue - but in Before starting, he ordered Rebecca to throw all the excess detonating rune substrates far enough away from the experimental platform.
Although the power of simply detonating the substrate in the magic field seems to be very small, with some pyrotechnic effects at most, God knows if this stupid roe deer will have any explosive catalytic halo, she really put the experiment If the room is blown up, wouldn't it mean that he would be hung on the flagpole and beaten...
After everything was ready, Hetty placed the detonating rune base plate on a protective magic circle, and then placed the distance rune Two new ores were placed at a certain distance from the base plate. Then she placed her hands on the two ores and began to inject magic into them.
The two ores glowed slightly, and Gawain could feel that a magic field was indeed generated during this process.
In his magic vision, centered on two ores, an "environment" whose intensity was significantly higher than the magic background radiation quickly took shape and filled the entire laboratory-may even extend to the experiment. There is a wide area outside the room, and the brilliance of magic shines in this area, flickering brightly and dimly.Erratic: Apparently, it's very unstable as Hetty said.
Turning off his magic vision, Gawain looked at the detonating rune substrate placed on the protective circle.
It remains unchanged.
"It doesn't seem to be responding?" Rebecca scratched her hair, "Is this board broken?"
Hetty finished the magic release and the three heads came together. , study why the "detonator" does not explode.
Gawain remembered the details of Rebecca's previous description: "Did you just say that before detonating the base plate to explode, you also had a piece of ore in your hand to input magic power?"
"Yes, and it also lit up."
"The problem should lie here," Gawain nodded, "That extra piece of ore probably played a special role. Find a piece of ore and detonate it Put the substrates together and bring them closer.”
After everything was arranged, Hetty turned on the strange magic field again.
Almost the moment the magic field appeared, the detonating substrate placed in the protective circle turned into a bright ball of fire along with the ore next to it.
"Sure enough, this is it!" Rebecca immediately jumped up happily, "It's resonance! This must be resonance!"
"Two such ores are input with magic power at the same time. Will a magic field be generated, and will the third piece of ore in the magic field resonate simultaneously..." Hetty frowned slightly, analyzing the characteristics of these stones, and then looked at the remaining ones piled in the corner. Sample, "But these things are also located in the magic field, why don't they change?"
"Maybe this is not resonance, but some kind of... magic transfer," Gawain took a breath and suppressed He suppressed the excessive excitement in his heart and slowly expressed his guess, "Only the ores connected to the rune substrate or array will change. This is because they have 'energy-consuming units' and energy is generated inside them. Since there is no lower-level structure that consumes energy, other ores will naturally not change. "Transfer of magic power?" Hetty looked at those mediocre materials in shock. An ordinary stone, "This is really... interesting stuff."
"Their application prospects are very broad," Gawain looked into Hetty's eyes, "If this thing can be purified and mass-produced, Perhaps our magic network system can be expanded to an incredible scale! The transmission range of magic power will be greatly expanded, even extending beyond the territory!"
Hetty frowned slightly: "But now it generates The magic field is too unstable. It does not require stable magic power to detonate a rune substrate, but it is different to drive those magic machines."
"So we need to continue research and find ways to make it stable. The method," Gawain said seriously, "is not only to make it stable, but also to ensure that it is controllable."
"According to the estimation of the exploration team, the quantity is quite large. , there is a large weathered area in the eastern extension of the Dark Mountains,Underneath those loose and fragile stone layers are all this strange new variety of ore. "
"New type of ore..." Gawain touched his chin, "It was the same as when Rebecca crystal was fired before. Only special limestone from the Dark Mountains can form that kind of crystal. In addition, Pitman is also there. Medicinal materials with completely special effects were discovered in the mountains..."
"I remember your ancestor said that it was the corruption of the natural environment by the demonic tide that caused the properties of many ordinary mineral plants to change," Heti Said, "And you also guess that there will be more similar new resources at the southern foot of the Dark Mountain..."
"This is not the corruption of the demonic tide, this is a gift of nature," Gawain said seriously Di corrected, and then looked out the window - through the window in this direction, he could just see a small part of the Dark Mountains, "I will go to the excavation site of the new ore to take a look, the so-called Tide of Destruction ...It seems that what he has brought to this world is more than imagined. "
While Gawain, Hetty, and Rebecca were studying the new Dark Mountain ore, another team was also operating deep in the Dark Mountain.
Strictly Generally speaking, they are active in the depths of the mountain ruins.
Byron Knight and the exploration team he led have been active in this newly discovered area for more than a week, and they have mapped out a detailed new map. The map recorded various new things discovered. Messengers were sent twice to communicate the progress of the exploration and received replies. Byron believed that this exploration trip had achieved very good results, considering that the soldiers had been in the underground ruins for a long time. Staying here would accumulate pressure, and he judged that it was time to leave this place.
But just as he was sorting out the accumulated information and preparing to make arrangements for his return, two soldiers were responsible for going to the front to investigate the situation. Suddenly he ran back to the room that was temporarily used as an exploration base: "Sir, we found a... strange place in front! "
"Strange place? "Byron frowned. These two soldiers were both veterans and had been exploring with him for a long time. They rarely reported the situation in such a vague way, which made him quite concerned. < /p>
"Yes, that is...a rotunda, but there is a strange stone ring in the center..."