After exiting the Invisible Hand Auction House, Ed sat back at the desk in the Palace of Thought and opened the ancient book that could contact Catalina.
She should have gotten the news of Jaros's "disappearance" by now.
Ed was always a little uneasy. Although Jaros's sword did not hurt her, his sycophants must have had a major impact on Catalina's worldview that was almost built on knight novels.
If it were Ed himself, he wouldn't even listen to Jaros's nonsense and would just shoot him. The job of an investigator is inherently divided between right and wrong, and you cannot be a crow by cherishing your feathers.
But Katarina is different. She is the kind of person who really weighs her conscience on the scales. She thinks seriously about ethics and responsibility and tries to lead by example.
But after all, it is a towering spire in human society. Countless sages have spent their whole lives searching for an answer but still can't find an answer. What can an eighteen-year-old girl do?
For most people living in reality, nobility is a useless virtue.
He opened the book, and sure enough, Catalina was still worried about Jaros's remarks:
[Honorable Sir, there is a question that I am thinking hard about but cannot find the answer to. Perhaps only your wisdom can answer it. In your opinion, is there an absolute code of right and wrong in our world? Is there a perfect law that can judge all righteousness and unrighteousness in the world? 】
Below this line of text there is another line of small print:
[One more thing to ask, do you know of a way to make the armor portable? I want to know where I can get treasures like "storage space". 】
It seems that she finally realized the biggest problem with Wujin Armor.
Ed smiled. Since Catalina still has the mind to ask other questions, it means that she has not been overwhelmed by obsession.
The biggest problem with the Black Gold Armor is that it is difficult to carry around. Although the weight of an armor box is not unacceptable to extraordinary people, as a noble daughter, Catalina cannot carry a large box out anytime and anywhere.
Another disadvantage is that it takes too long to wear. It took Ed fifteen minutes to put on Catalina's armor for the first time, but he estimated that it could be reduced to about two to three minutes if he was skilled in the steps.
Experienced lone knights can also wear armor for themselves with the help of special auxiliary tools, but it takes too long, at least five minutes, and there is no one around to protect them.
Five minutes, sometimes are insignificant, sometimes they can decide too many things - such as life and death.
As for the plan to make the black gold armor portable, Ed has not thought about it: he has also considered reshaping the black gold armor through the secret keeper program to make it fit his body.
Theoretically speaking, as long as the carrying capacity of the dream catcher is high enough, all the accessories of the Black Gold Armor can be transferred to the dream and used as a piece of dream equipment - just like the crystal scythe, as long as you carry a portable set with you The skeleton shell serves as the crystal attachment point.
This solution has two difficulties that cannot be solved:
First, the Black Gold Armor is too large and consumes a huge amount of energy every time it is used, even one to two orders of magnitude higher than the Crystal Sickle Blade - even for the wealthy Oakland family, this consumption figure is too high. Exaggerated.
Second, there is an upper limit to the carrying capacity of the dream catcher. As a special ritual instrument, the configuration of the dream catcher determines that it cannot be infinitely large, and there is a limit to the mass and volume of objects that can be brought into the dream each time. Ideas such as "making a dream catcher with a radius of 50 meters and bringing the entire house into a dream" are pure fantasy.
Maybe some parts can be barely carried, but the breastplate and greaves as an integral part cannot be input into the dream through the Dream Catcher.
As for the "storage space" Catalina mentioned, she probably learned the concept from knight novels. At least so far, Ed has never heard of such convenient items or props in the real world.
How should I reply...Should I tell her directly that there is no solution for the time being? Will this shake the status of "Your Excellency the Keeper of Secrets" in her mind?
"In fact, it is not difficult to solve this problem. In fact, this armor seems to have the ability to self-compress." Sylvie suddenly said from the side.
"Huh? Why do you see that?" Ed was about to pick up his pen, but immediately stopped.
Sylvie gently raised her finger, and the shadow of the black gold armor suddenly appeared in front of her:
"The gilt lines on the armor are not pure decorations, but phase loops arranged according to certain rules. Wujin is a metal with special properties and hardly reflects light, which means that it has the ability to absorb light. Extremely strong. If you set up the circuit in advance and then illuminate it with light of a specific frequency and intensity at the appropriate location, then..."
I saw her placing her palm gently in front of the breastplate of the black gold armor, and a bright golden light lit up from her palm. Then a miracle happened——
Like snow hitting the scorching sun, Wujin began to melt, squirm, and collapse along the lines of the golden threads, and finally gathered into a cube in her palm.
At the same time, the gold threads were folded, turned, and spliced in an orderly manner, finally forming a 3×3×3-shaped skeleton. The cooperation between the two was as seamless as gears.
A Rubik's Cube?
In front of you is a three-level Rubik's Cube, the most common educational toy in the streets. The only difference is that the surface of this Rubik's Cube exudes a dark and deep metallic color unique to Wujin.
There is a slight difference in color on each side. It was a subtle gap that Ed couldn't describe, jet black, jet black, pitch black? Although both are black, they are completely different.
"The principle is simply to dissipate most of the mass of the armor by expelling it from the spatial level. A state like this can only last for 30 seconds at most, and then it will return to the black gold armor."
Sylvie held the Rubik's Cube and shook it gently in front of Ed. It seemed like it could hardly feel the weight, like a hollow metal box.
It’s only 30 seconds, so what’s the point? Ed believes that the person who originally made it would never do it just to show off his genius creativity:
"So how do you keep it in its current state?"
"It's very simple, disrupt it so that the six sides of the Rubik's Cube contain six different colors at the same time, and then it will be in a stable locked state. If it is not disturbed by the outside world, it will rotate slowly through inertia and rotate within 130 seconds. Restore it after a year.”
Sivir handed over the Rubik's Cube and showed a sweet and evil smile:
"How about it, Mr. Smart, do you want to try it?"
