Two weeks have gradually passed. According to reports from the wizards in the north, the time and space nodes are still in a closed state, and no abnormalities have occurred for the time being.
This undoubtedly meant good news. Raphael succeeded in delaying the pace of the undead as he expected and bought them enough time.
The parliament spent three and a half months using magic to build a three-kilometer-long protective bunker to block the entrance and exit of the valley. It also mobilized more than 300,000 troops to station in the northern border and deployed all kinds of new weapons. They moved here and were prepared to deal with an invasion at any time.
Preparations for war in foreign lands have also reached the final stage.
Nearly 70% of the wizards in the Parliament have arrived at the station outside the valley. A huge protective barrier has enveloped the entire valley, and a full fifteen Sunfire Cannons are pointed in the direction of the Space-Time Gate - this is one of the Parliament's biggest trump cards. one.
Each Sunfire Cannon can release [Atomic Breath] three times at its limit, and its huge power is enough to make any legend tremble.
Even if several speakers of the parliament work together to enter this valley, they may not be able to get out.
But their opponent this time is the Lord of the Undead, a veteran god who has controlled and devoured several worlds, and a high-dimensional life form beyond cognition. No one dares to say that such an arrangement can stop the opponent.
"It's a pity that the time is still too short to transfer all the magic crystal cannons and armored vehicles." Sanchez, who was in charge of the dispatcher, said regretfully.
Although the Congress had asked people to repair the railway early, the train's capacity was limited after all, and three months was far from enough. In the end, Sanchez even suggested waiting for a while.
In view of the difference in time between the two places, as long as Raphael and others persisted for two days, they could gain half a month of preparation time.
Although Lin En also felt that time was a bit tight, after thinking for a while, he still shook his head. "Master Raphael and the other wizards who entered the foreign land have completed what they should do, and the rest is a problem we should solve."
"And other places also need protection. If we focus all our power here and the opponent suddenly attacks from other time and space gates, the consequences will be serious." Lin En said solemnly.
Sanchez thought about the scene and immediately stopped talking, then complained about the huge laboratory that Lynn asked him to build in the north, where more than one-third of the labor force in the Congress wasted their energy.
Originally, Harrov asked him to send people to hollow out the entire valley and make a huge trap, but only half of it has been completed so far.
"By the way, how is the preparation of my particle collision laboratory? Is it completed?" Linn asked expectantly.
"It was built ten days ago. Didn't you send the alchemists over to confirm it?" Sanchez replied in confusion.
The laboratory that Lin En needed covered an area of several kilometers, and the workload was no less than that of the protective wall. It was also very mysterious, and even he was not told what it was used for.
"That's because building a venue is only the first step. As for what it is used for, you will know later!" Lin En said mysteriously.
Sanchez had to endure his curiosity, because later they would open the space-time door and let Lydia and others enter it to meet Master Raphael's exotic exploration team. They could not leave now.
The wait did not last long, as a silver-white fighter plane soon appeared in the distant sky.
Probably to take care of the two airships assisting the operation, Lydia did not turn on the supersonic mode, but even so, the extremely fast speed and beautiful appearance made Sanchez speechless when he saw a jet fighter for the first time.
Amidst a roar, the fighter plane smoothly completed the deceleration and landing operation, and parked on the specially built runway outside together with the two even larger airships.
Dennis and others immediately stepped forward to conduct final inspections and replaced the magic stones that drove the internal alchemy circle with new ones to ensure the supply of energy outside the territory.
"It seems that your flying skills have become more and more proficient, Lydia!" Linn stepped forward, looked at the halfling girl who had opened the windshield, and said with a smile.
Although Lydia performed very well during her first test flight, she still felt unfamiliar whether it was taking off, landing or cruising.
"Of course!" Lydia said proudly. Over the past two weeks, she had been practicing ultra-high-intensity flying for almost ten hours every day.
This is already very exaggerated, because when flying at three times the speed of sound, the body needs to withstand a lot of pressure. If Lydia had not become a wizard, and the halflings have a strong physique, I am afraid that she would have been able to survive long ago. Can't stand it anymore.
Even so, you need to drink a potion to treat physical injuries after every training session.
Lin En turned his head and asked the great wizards responsible for detecting the time and space gate to open the closed time and space nodes. Then he looked at Lydia again and reminded her solemnly.
"Be careful when you go in, Lydia! Entering a foreign land will directly interrupt the connection to the magic network. Then you will have to rely on yourself!"
"If you find that something cannot be done, exit as soon as possible. Your safety is equally important. Do you understand?" Lin En continued to ask.
"Don't worry, I promise to complete the mission!" Lydia smiled and made a military salute.
Lin En shook his head and said nothing. He handed the three alchemy creations to the halfling girl and explained their effects.
Since the magic network cannot be connected outside the territory, Lydia, who originally relied on the magic network link to cast detection spells, will lose the ability to locate enemies in high altitudes.
These alchemical creations can replace the role of the magic net and cast specific magic. One of them is used to help Lydia find Raphael and others in a foreign land.
Lydia put away the three alchemical creations, and after asking how to use them, she put down the windshield of the fighter plane and got ready to go.
The closed space-time door has also been opened. Its diameter is getting larger and larger, and soon exceeds forty meters. A large amount of magic power spurts out from the surging time-space nodes, and a small amount of sand and stones are swept together. Come in.
Lydia pressed the switch of the fighter's thruster and shouted loudly.
"charge!"
A long tail flame shot out from the huge nozzle at the rear, driving the fighter plane towards the surging space-time gate in front. The two airships beside it also rushed into the space-time gate while floating precariously.
"I hope everything goes well." Sanchez sighed quietly as he looked at the airship disappearing from sight.
Once they enter the space-time gate, the connection between the two worlds is severed, and all they can do now is wait.
Lin En quickly turned his gaze back and interrupted. "Let's go, take me to the newly built laboratory to have a look!"
It’s enough to have other people here to watch. Two more of them is not much, and two of them is less. Not to mention that Lidya’s rescue mission doesn’t know how long it will take. If it is an hour, then it will be different. It takes a full seven hours to get here.
This time cannot be wasted!
Sanchez nodded and led Linn to fly out of the valley. The collision laboratory was not far from the fortress.
Firstly, it is to facilitate the transfer of personnel, and secondly, placing the laboratory here makes it easier to monitor the movement of the space-time gate.
Five minutes later, the two of them stepped into the huge laboratory together. Just like what they saw from the outside world, the interior of the laboratory was very simple and empty, but the huge ring-shaped device in the center attracted people's attention immediately. Sanchez's attention.
It was a very long pipe with almost no end in sight. The outside was shrouded in circles made of mithril, extending to the end of the field of vision. It was still vaguely visible. Each ring was covered with rings. It was burned with dense alchemical runes.
"How's it going? Is this thing working?" Lin En looked at several alchemists who were busy and asked.
"According to your instructions, the electromagnetic drive array has been set up, but it has not been tested yet!" the leader of the alchemist replied.
"Is this thing used to launch electromagnetic guns?" Sanchez asked curiously.
In his impression, the purpose of the electromagnetic drive array is generally to launch electromagnetic weapons.
After being improved by many great wizards in the Magic Research Institute, the latest rail gun of the Parliament can easily reach a speed of more than fifteen times the speed of sound. Its destructive power is very terrifying, and it can directly penetrate a steel plate with a thickness of more than half a meter. , if hit on the body, there will definitely be no bones left.
But even so, the launch track is only about seven meters long. This time, Lin En actually towered over such a large formation. With an electromagnetic acceleration device several kilometers long, the shells fired must have such terrifying power. Speed and destructive power.
Lin En shook his head in amusement, and then explained. "This is an electromagnetic cyclotron, used to accelerate particles!"
"Accelerated particles?" Sanchez frowned in confusion.
"Not bad!" Linn nodded. "Our current understanding of the internal structure of atoms all comes from guesswork and the results of alpha scattering experiments. If we want to verify whether this conclusion is correct, the simplest way is to knock them apart and see what is inside!"
"It's just that atoms carry negative charges at the same time, so they will repel each other when they get close. This requires extremely fast speeds to overcome this repulsion between atoms, so that they can collide smoothly." Linn explained. .
Of course, his real purpose was not to study the internal structure of atoms, but to find antimatter!
Use high-speed particles to knock elements apart and examine the structure inside... Linn's fantastic idea made Sanchez speechless, but it sounded like it was actually feasible.
Lin En didn't talk nonsense. Even if the field was expanded, the time to build the experimental site was too short, and even the vacuum pipeline could not be built. Then magic would be needed to replace some of the equipment's functions.
The alchemists immediately got busy, using magic power to control a stream of particles into the orbit of the accelerator.
Just one second later, Lin En activated the switch with the hand of the mage. Under the influence of the powerful electromagnetic force, the particle flow began to accelerate in circles within a several-kilometer-long orbit.
For every half rotation, its speed will increase by one thousand kilometers per second, and the increased speed will cause the particle flow to deviate slightly from its orbit. Its trajectory is like a vortex spiraling outside, and the speed is also getting faster and faster. faster.
At this speed, as long as it can hit, there is a great probability of knocking the nucleus away!
Linn focused all his attention on this particle stream, but such a fast speed completely exceeded the limit of his perception. Even if he concentrated on it, he could only detect a trace of the particle stream as it passed by.
After circling fifty times, its speed has exceeded 30,000 kilometers per second, which is one-tenth of the speed of light. This is already close to the limit speed within their capabilities.
This particle stream also successfully reached the orbit of the target. In almost a ten thousandth of a second, the two passed by each other at extremely fast speeds!
Lin En's mind suddenly became tense, and then he shook his head in disappointment. "It's a pity that I missed it."
"Come again, this time with double the particle flow!" Lin En glanced at the alchemists and continued.
A group of alchemists immediately followed suit and increased the number of particle beams in a group to four thousand. However, even so, if you want to successfully hit the target at high speed, you still need to rely on some luck. After all, both are too small!
Fortunately, for wizards, capturing atoms is not a difficult task, and they have enough materials to conduct experiments.
Lin En was also very patient. For more than four hours in a row, nearly thirty failures did not waver him.
However, for Sanchez and others who were already uncertain, it seemed a bit torturous, and they even began to doubt whether the method of knocking atoms apart through impact was really feasible.
At this moment, Lin En's expression suddenly changed, and he quickly focused his field on the impact point.
Sanchez's face also showed a look of intense astonishment. Although his perception ability was much weaker than Lynn's, he used some tricky methods, which was to focus on those targets.
And now one of those targets disappeared from his perception.
The alchemists present were also staring closely at the impact point. Although the microscopic particles could not be seen with the naked eye and were difficult to detect even with the perception of the legendary wizard, Linn deliberately arranged a cloud chamber around the impact point!
Just like when alpha radiation particles were monitored, the exploding high-speed particles shot into the thick water vapor, pulling out clearly visible fog trails... as if a fog flower bloomed in the void.
(End of chapter)
