The internal meeting between the legendary speakers did not cause too many waves in the outside world, but some keen wizards were still aware that the war was approaching.
Because the parliament made a breakthrough and accelerated the construction of various infrastructures, especially the railway network between major cities in the empire, which was the highest priority, it was ordered to be completed within two months.
In addition, the Parliament also transferred a large number of workers to the northern border and began to build various strong protective facilities there. The magic workshop also expanded its recruitment crazily, working overtime every day to produce weapons and ammunition.
Nowadays, the empire has a population of 20 million, and the number of workers alone has reached a huge number of 4 million. Various problems such as chaotic management, enslaving workers, and withholding of wages have followed one after another.
The most serious of these is food shortage.
After all, a large number of people leaving farming also means reduced food production and wasteful land. Fortunately, with the food collected from major vendors, they can still barely meet the new year's summer harvest.
The large farms covering more than half of the central plains ushered in an unprecedented bumper harvest under the combined effect of mechanical farming and magical fertilization. Tons of wheat grains were transported to various parts of the empire through the railway network, directly bringing this unsettled harvest to all parts of the empire. What started as a food crisis was nipped in the bud.
But whether it was the joy of the harvest or the haze brought about by the war, they were quickly overshadowed by another major news - the magic network developed by Speaker Lynn was officially operational, and any wizard, apprentice or even some outstanding students could Civilians can join in!
This is undoubtedly breaking news. Although during the academic seminar before, Lin En allowed tens of thousands of wizards to watch the results of the double-slit interference experiment through the magic network, but this time it affected hundreds of thousands of people throughout the empire. people!
As soon as the news came out, countless apprentices in the empire who were unable to complete their promotion due to limited talents were immediately overjoyed and joined the Magic Network one after another.
The most excited people are undoubtedly the graduates of the civilian college.
Alex is also one of them, but he is undoubtedly much luckier than others. He was born in the land of wizards and was among the first batch to enter the civilian academy. However, he was recruited in advance because of his excellent grades when he was only halfway through the course. Recruit and become an airship pilot that everyone envies!
However, after the war between the Parliament and the Empire ended, Alex did not rely on his military exploits to continue his promotion. Instead, he chose to return to the academy to study Olympiad mathematics, physics, chemistry and other subjects in depth.
Whether they are comrades or relatives, they all feel very confused about his decision. After all, civilians like them who have no magic talent, no matter how good they are in learning, will only end up entering the wizard workshop and working for the superior wizards. .
It is the dream of many people to be able to become a pilot and control a large and exquisite aerial airship.
But Alex gave it up. The reason was very simple. He was not satisfied with this. He was born in the land of wizards and knew a secret news. Speaker Linn... that magic star may have the power to make ordinary people become The wizard's method.
Because one of the other party's apprentices was a halfling who was recognized as having no magical talent. He wanted to become a wizard apprentice many times, but was rejected by Iyetta Academy. Finally, he relied on his outstanding alchemy airship to win the appreciation of Speaker Linn. Not only was he After being accepted as a disciple, he gained the ability to cast spells.
If he performs well in the civilian academy, he might be favored by a great wizard.
Of course, this probability is very slim. Alex has been in the academy for half a year, and he has excelled in almost all subjects, but he has not been able to meet any great wizard with a discerning eye. However, he unexpectedly waited for the opportunity of the opening of the magic network.
Alex, who had excellent grades, successfully became the first thousand people to test the medicine and received a copy of [Spirit Enlightenment Magic Potion].
This thing is actually a weakened version of the [Source of Magic]. It was originally used by apprentices to break through to formal wizards. However, now that promotion can rely on the magic network to increase computing power, it is safer, so it is no longer used.
The potion masters in the council weakened its effect to one-fifth of its original value, so that ordinary people could take it safely. However, the effect was also greatly reduced, and people could only gain a slight amount of magic power.
Fortunately, this is enough, at least it has met the minimum requirements for learning meditation and linking to the magic network.
Under the gaze of a potion master, Alex took the potion with a slight trembling and drank it in one gulp. The cyan liquid was poured down the throat, and then bursts of bone-chilling pain and burning were felt all over his body. feel.
But Alex didn't care, because he felt the existence of magic power for the first time, his body seemed to be boiling, and his soul was jumping for joy...
"Very good, the 345th person in the seventh experimental group has no adverse reactions..." The potion master glanced at Alex and quickly recorded the data on the page.
It took about ten minutes for Alex to come back to his senses from the physical transformation caused by the potion. Then he quickly closed his eyes and tried to communicate with the magic network. A magic wave flew into the distance at the speed of light, and soon It was quickly received by the magic base station.
It was a feeling that the brain was about to explode. After Yali adapted, he realized that he had come to a dark and endless void, with gray runes suspended in the air, as dazzling as stars.
Alex subconsciously touched the rune closest to him. A large amount of information suddenly poured into his mind, and the gray rune also turned into color.
It was a basic spell [Elementary Material Deconstruction]... Alex quickly understood the information in it, and even had a rough grasp of the magic techniques. He couldn't help but touch the other runes.
This time, no message came, instead a reminder tone sounded.
[Ding, a ring of high-level elemental magic - multiple - ice blade, requires a minimum mental power rating - apprentice (not achieved), elementary chemistry diploma (achieved). 】
Alex was obviously stunned for a moment, but he quickly understood the meaning of the prompt. Of course he had a junior chemistry diploma. After all, he passed the chemistry exam with excellent results.
As for the mental power rating, Alex checked and found that his rating was only 0.4, which was still 0.1 short of the minimum standard for an apprentice.
With clear goals and progress, Alex was not discouraged. After making up his mind to go back, he must work hard to train his mental strength and reach the standard of a wizard apprentice as soon as possible. Later, he learned two basic spells in the magic network. They are [Mage's Hand] and [Water Condensation Technique].
Alex opened his eyes again, and then started experimenting. Driven by the [Mage's Hand], the books on the table immediately levitated.
"Magic, this is magic!" Alex was so excited that he couldn't describe it. He didn't expect that he had actually become a wizard.
However, the mental power of an ordinary person is limited after all. Even if Yali is the best among civilians and takes the [Spirit Enlightenment Potion], after maintaining the [Mage's Hand] for about thirty seconds, a message comes from the brain. Feeling dizzy, I quickly canceled the spell.
The potion master recorded Alex's performance one by one, but looked at him with a somewhat complicated expression, because from today on, magic miracles are no longer the exclusive preserve of gifted people, and he doesn't know if this change is good. Still bad...
In fact, there were many wizards who had the same grudge against the Magic Network as he did. There were even some radical wizards who viciously hoped that something would go wrong in the Magic Network built by the Magic Star.
Although the empire's hereditary aristocracy has been uprooted, there are faint signs of another revival. With the rise in status and strength and the improvement of the living environment, the theory of magical bloodline has also quietly emerged.
The main idea is that wizards are noble, and their bodies are filled with magic blood, so they can control the incredible power of magic!
But before this trend of thought could develop a large enough audience, it was broken by the magic network built by Lin En.
The establishment of the Magic Network system means that even civilians without any magical talent can gain power comparable to them through learning, and naturally there is endless opposition.
Fortunately, this sound did not last long and became smaller and smaller. The reason is that more and more wizards have discovered that the magic network is too convenient!
Calling computing power to assist promotion is only one of the functions. You can also intuitively see your remaining magic power reserves, test your approximate physical fitness, assist in the conduct of magic experiments, and even assist in combat to a certain extent - but this is an advanced option. , not everyone can apply to call.
According to rumors, the magic star also plans to continue to add communication and currency transaction functions...
This made the wizards who gradually became familiar with the magic network reluctant to let it go. Correspondingly, the voices of opposition naturally decreased a lot.
On the other side, Lin En also received the experimental report on the [Spirit-enlightening Potion].
"Have all one thousand people succeeded? It seems that we can consider large-scale promotion." Lin En thought to himself. He was not surprised by this result. It was just to let one person initially possess magic power, which was not too difficult.
The only problem with large-scale promotion is the lack of materials. Each bottle of [Spirit Enlightenment Potion] requires the consumption of a lot of magic medicine reserves. Even if the Parliament occupies the entire continent and obtains part of the church's magic medicine reserves, it will not There is only enough to make 50,000 bottles.
However, this time the magic net was laid throughout the empire, the gains were huge. Now the number of official wizards connected to the magic net has reached 19,000, and the number of apprentices has exceeded 300,000.
Lin En, who tried the magic network link, found that with the blessing of computing power, he was only a short distance away from the limit of the nine-ring wizard.
Thinking like this, Linn turned his eyes to the open books on the table. Recently, he took the time to read the books written by [Element Controller] Altok. Indeed, he can only use Crazy is not easy to describe.
It was filled with all kinds of unfounded speculations and fantasies. Fortunately, Lin En still managed to find some clues about quantization from the few words in it. It seemed to be related to his own soul. He also had some vague guesses about how to do it. , but I’m not 100% sure,
He has also taken the time to write the quantum theory that integrates the special and general relativity. It is divided into ten manuscripts and is ready to be published one by one. Only the great wizard and above can view it.
If they can get rid of the great wizards' fear of microscopic phenomena before the war begins when the Lord of the Undead invades this world, then they can gain a few more legendary combat powers.
Finally, there is the issue of obtaining antimatter!
This is the weapon that Lin En agreed to use to deal with the Lord of the Undead. It destroys everything through the powerful power brought by the annihilation effect of positive and antimatter. However, how to obtain antimatter becomes a problem!
Antimatter is like the mirror image of ordinary matter, like the Taoist theory of yin and yang. Everything has its positive and negative!
It’s just different from what many people imagine. Antimatter is actually not uncommon. On the contrary, it is everywhere. There will be a steady stream of positive and antiparticles in the surrounding space and in the body.
They exist for a very short time, and often annihilate each other and release into energy the moment they emerge.
When this phenomenon was first detected, many scientific researchers in history even called the law of conservation of energy broken!
Because these positive and negative particles appear out of thin air, and may even emerge from the vacuum without warning.
Of course, subsequent research has proven that the law of conservation of energy is still stable, but the vacuum is not really empty, or that the federal technological level cannot truly discharge all matter and energy.
As for antimatter extraction devices, there are many in Intelligent Brain. For example, the most advanced antimatter extractor has an antiparticle trap set up inside, which can capture antiparticles emerging from the vacuum and store them.
However, it is obvious that they cannot produce such a convenient high-tech technology, so they still use some ancient methods, such as the collision of high-energy particles.
When enough energy is used to smash particles, some of that energy is converted into antimatter.
This required the use of the Demonized High-Speed Particle Collider, which he had already started building in secret, but it was not announced to the public due to confidentiality reasons.
"I just don't know if antimatter can also be analyzed and manipulated by magic..." Lin En thought secretly. This is also the issue he is most worried about, because mass production of antimatter is almost impossible at their level, and there is not enough time. .
The only solution is to create some antihydrogen atoms, then analyze them through the [Great Disintegration Technique], and then use magic to produce them on a large scale, just like they magicize nuclear explosions, and construct corresponding spells to cast [positive Antimatter annihilation]!
Lin En was thinking about it as he sorted out the manuscripts, and then called Alok and asked him to compile some of the manuscripts on the theory of relativity into a volume, make a hundred copies, and send them to the great wizards in the parliament who were studying quantum phenomena.
It's a pity that time is really short. There are only about three months left. If they can have a few more years, then they will definitely be much more relaxed...
(End of chapter)
