Summer is coming to an end.
The Fire Constellation at night began to shift towards the western sky, and the heat began to recede from the entire kingdom. The wind in the morning and evening became cool and comfortable every day. After a few abundant rains , the breath of autumn is approaching day by day.
Mysterious and complex magic runes floated in the air like stars. The crystal device used to display the structure of the runes was fixed on a base made of alloy. The surface shone with the glow of magic and there was a low buzz. The sound echoed in the laboratory, Kamel floated quietly among the illusory magic runes, the arcane light at his eyes was as bright as ever.
This is the largest analysis room of the Rune Research Institute. Today’s task is to analyze the technical information brought by the elves.
Several senior rune masters from the Rune Research Institute were copying the rune structures of several key nodes, while a tall, thin, male elf with brilliant blond hair stood beside Kamel. Next to him, the elf's eyes occasionally fell on Kamel - obviously, a powerful arcane creature made the elf magister particularly concerned.
Kamael did not pay attention to the gaze of the Elf Magister. He focused almost all his energy on the runes that had just been translated and analyzed. After carefully observing its core structure, he could not bear to He said: "Master Banner - the core mechanism of this purification array is some kind of...modulation and resonance?"
"You are right, Master Kamel," known as Banner The Elf Magister of Na nodded, "Through long-term research on chaotic magic energy, we found that it is actually still a kind of magic in nature, rather than the 'extremely polluting waste energy' as previously thought. Since it is With magic power, it is possible to order it through readjustment and resonance. This is the idea of 'purification'."
Kamael's eyes fell between the shadows of the runes. His tone gradually became a little excited: "In other words, you treated magic as a 'wave' - and succeeded?!"
"'Wave'..." The Elf Magister was suddenly stunned and looked at Kamel in surprise, "You also introduced this concept?!"
"...We only introduced this concept not long ago, and we are still This cannot be confirmed, it can only be regarded as a conjecture," Kamel said buzzingly. "We applied the fluctuation characteristics of magic in the process of analyzing and reconstructing the communication spell. From both mathematics and examples, its fluctuation has been obtained. It has been confirmed, but we still lack the key evidence - observable evidence."
"We introduced this concept forty years ago, when the great astrologer Velania proposed that magic is a kind of magic. The hypothesis of fluctuations, and deduced the theoretical wavelength range of pure arcane magic through several spell models of arcane magic. Her theory is the basis of the purification array - but unfortunately, we have not been able to obtain it. Observation evidence..."
Kamail suddenly turned around and looked at the Elf Magister in front of him with burning eyes: "You have encounteredIs it also interference? "
"Have you encountered it too? ! "The elf mage named Banner sounded surprised. At this moment, his attention was no longer on Kamel's arcane body - this elf from the Silver Empire had never thought that in a distant continent On the other side, in a foreign country, in a human society that is in total decline, human magicians are also studying the nature of magic. Unexpectedly, human research has gone so far, and they have even encountered the problems that elves have encountered. Bottleneck!
"Interference is everywhere, and the whole world is shrouded in a powerful magical environment, making it impossible to observe." Kamel was also surprised that the elves were conducting the same research as humans. It was as if a lone traveler in the desert suddenly met a traveling companion with the same goal. His "heart" that had stopped beating for a long time - or even existed for a long time - seemed to be throbbing again, "What kind of experiment did you design? "
The Elf Magister quickly calmed down after a brief period of shock. He did not hide this issue: "Master Villania designed an interference experiment - we prepared a pure arcane energy source. Make sure that it has only a very small amount of 'impurities', and then focus the arcane energy into a beam and hit it into a crystal lattice. The crystal lattice is made of magic-suppressing crystal sheets, with two narrow slits very close to each other in advance. Theoretically, pure arcane energy will show volatility after passing through the magic-suppressing crystal sheet: the magic waves passing through the two narrow slits should interfere with each other and form interference fringes on the projection plate coated with developer dust. ..."
"But it's just white noise, isn't it? Kamel followed up and said, "Any pattern projected on the observation interface is covered by a stronger natural magic field. It is as unrealistic as observing a weak beam of light under strong light. In fact, that weak The pure arcane energy may not have even had time to reach the projection board, and was neutralized by the magic field in the environment on the way..."
Banner sighed regretfully: "As you said Say, the experiment failed. It seems that you also..."
"We also designed a similar experiment, and the experimental idea was proposed by Duke Cecil," Kamel said in a low voice, "We also failed to observe interference fringes. But math tells me it should be there. "
The Elf Magister was a little surprised: "Gawain? Duke Cecil also has such attainments in the field of magic? "
"The Duke is knowledgeable and has been exposed to extraordinary knowledge and wisdom during his seven hundred years of soul separation," Kamel said with conviction, "It's just that...he can't solve the natural environment. The problem of magic interference. Speaking of which, have you ever tried the Forbidden Magic Field? "
"The highest level of forbidden magic field only suppresses the magic reaction to a certain extent, and at the same time interferes with the caster's mental power to block the spell casting process. The magic power itself cannot be banned. "The Elf Magister smiled bitterly and shook his head, "We have also tried to use expensive magic-suppressing crystals to create a 'dark room' to block the magic in nature, but due to technological limitations,We cannot guarantee the complete isolation of the entire darkroom, and as long as there is a little leakage... interference will appear like a devil. ”
Camel can imagine how much effort the elves have put into building such a “dark room”.
Due to the pervasiveness of natural magic, magic interference observation experiments must ensure that observers It is also in a darkroom environment, and a darkroom that can accommodate observers, no matter how cramped the space, is still a huge "box". The price of the magic-suppressing crystal is second, and it is necessary to process such a huge crystal and ensure that it does not have any The "leak point"...obviously exceeds the craftsmanship of elves.
Even elves can't do it, let alone humans.
"Our next goal is to ask for help. For the goblins in the Ogure tribe, the goblins are small and can fit into a very small darkroom. It is possible to process smaller darkrooms," Banner said with a sigh, "but it's hard to say whether we can find it. Goblins willing to help, after all...they really don't like being locked up. "
...
Gawain sat behind the desk and listened quietly to Kamel's report.
"...Lord, to sum up the above According to the description, the elves encountered the same problem as us-magic interference in the natural environment. "
"What a devilish interference..."
Gawain sighed softly, with thoughts in his heart.
What is the essence of magic?< /p>
This problem began to bother him soon after he uncovered the coffin. The ubiquitous natural force and the seemingly endless huge energy not only brought convenience, but also made Gawain deeply suspicious. , he has always wanted to understand the nature and source of magic, but until now, he and his scientific research team have still achieved very few results.
They can only determine the source of magic and the sky. The "sun" in it is inseparable, and its essence... "maybe" is some kind of wave.
Yes, although there are already some application examples, such as magic network communication technology, there are also some. Some calculation conclusions have been drawn, but for this kind of real "thing", as long as no observable phenomenon can be found, its definition cannot be completely determined. At this stage, Gawain and Kamel can only say - Magic, "maybe" is some kind of wave
It's a sorry state of affairs
It's there, its nature, its possible nature, is already there. , however, the most critical observation has become the biggest obstacle in front of researchers. The magic of nature is everywhere - this has brought about the rapid development of magic technology and also brought huge difficulties in certain research projects. < /p>
The classic experiment that Gawain can think of to verify volatility is the double-slit interference experiment. He knows how double-slit interference is achieved on the earth - but in this world, this classic experiment is difficult to obtain. Verification, because the magic in the natural environment covers all observed phenomena
Nature.The intensity of magic in the experiment was far stronger than the two arcane flows that passed through the slits during the experiment. It formed a white noise on the reflection plate, and the pure one-way arcane flow that was supposed to cause interference was completely erased. There are traces, and for the same reason, the experiment to observe the magic version of the "Poisson bright spot" also failed.
The elves' idea may be the best solution-to build a dark room and find ways to block the magical interference of nature.
However, this is not easy.
On Earth, if you want to avoid the strong light in nature to observe interference fringes, you only need to block it with light-blocking materials. However, in this world, natural substances that can block magic are extremely rare and difficult to process. , the expensive magic-suppressing crystal is the most suitable material that can be found. It can effectively block magic. The baffle in the double-slit interference experiment is made of it, but the magic-suppressing crystal must be processed into a dark room... Even in the Gondor period, it was difficult to do so easily.
"Actually, I have another plan," Kamel said. "Use a more powerful arcane source to make the energy passing through the double slits exceed the base value of magic in nature. This may be able to Interference fringes are observed outside the dark room - or even if they cannot be observed, two burning marks can be observed. At least we can verify whether the magic is a wave. According to my calculations, the existing rainbow light cannon is completely consistent with this. Conditionally."
"I have also thought about this plan, but the premise of this plan is that we need to find a material that is more stable and stronger than the magic suppression crystal," Gawain frowned, "Suppression Although the magic crystal can block magic power, it has its limit after all. Something like the rainbow cannon... will burn down any baffle."
Kamael fell silent.
Gawain asked after a brief thought: "Is the elf astrologer who proposed the concept of magic fluctuation called Vilania?"
"Yes."
"Only forty years... As an elf, she should still be working for the Elf King's Court today."
"Yes, according to Banner Bai Yu, Astromancer Velania is still working for the Elf Court and continues to conduct research on the theory of magic waves. She is also one of the developers of the 'Purification Array'."
"Let's go, elves. In front of us... it would be great if we could reach deeper cooperation with them," Gawain sighed softly, "Kamail, do you think... using the remaining magic connection of the magnificent wall, plus our With a magic network communication terminal and a translation device, can we establish remote communication with the Silver Empire?"
"This is a very challenging idea, but I can give it a try."
p>Gawain nodded: "Then let's try it."