Chapter 1171 Suspicious Clues

The latest website: Hearing what Gao Wen said about the current situation, Hetty's brows that had not been stretched very much finally gradually relaxed—in fact, as the grand consul of the empire, she also knew about this matter, but perhaps it was the Due to her life experience during the family's decline, it may also be due to her natural personality. In many cases, she can't be as optimistic as her ancestors, but she still understands one thing: the situation of the world itself will not change. If there is a slight change because of being optimistic or not, the only thing that can change these situations is the hard work of people.

"Don't worry too much about Project 115." Gawain looked at Hetty, and smiled to comfort his "descendant". "Rebecca and her assistant team are responsible for the technical and overall planning matters." Responsible, that girl may have jumped a little bit in other aspects, but only in the field she is good at is beyond others, you and I can't do better than her. Give her sufficient support, ask people to ask for money Give money—although this project is a huge investment, we now have the huge benefits brought by the circumcontinental route and the trading rail network, which is enough to support us to complete these plans."

"I understand, ancestor," Hetty nodded solemnly, "I will make arrangements here."

"Well," Gao Wen replied, and then seemed to suddenly think of something, "By the way, last time I asked you to investigate matters related to the Violet Kingdom, do you have any clues?"

"To find out all the influences of the Violet Kingdom on the magic systems of human countries in the past six hundred years...is a very large and complicated systematic work," Hetty said with a slightly embarrassed expression, "especially from the messy and obscure things of the old era." It may take a long time to find all the magic data originating from violets in the unsystematic magic books, sorry, ancestor, the progress in this area is still relatively slow..."

Speaking of this, she paused, and then said: "But although the overall progress is not much, when I counted those early data, I found some...suspicious points."

"Should it be suspicious?" Gao Wen frowned, "What did you find?"

"Messaging, the drawing rules of the violet circle, gravity manipulation, and the three evocation spells in the arcane field... These are the spells submitted by the royal magic advisors in the early days, and they clearly originated from the violet system," Hetty said. While speaking, he took out a sorted report from the filing cabinet under the table and pushed it in front of Gao Wen, "These kinds of spells have one thing in common: there is a black box structure, or they themselves are a complete 'black box magic'."

Gao Wen didn't read the document after receiving it, but he couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he heard Hetty's words.

"Black box..." He stood in front of Hetty's desk, quickly flipping through the documents in his hand, and saw that several common traditional spells were mentioned there, including the approximate time and date when they were introduced from the Violet system to the Loren system. The evolution process of the spell model - the specific traceability work is still in the early stage,

Therefore, most of the information on the document has vague descriptions such as "estimates, speculations, tentatives". However, from these brief information, Gao Wen can still see some clear clues.

These spells were introduced to Loren Continent one after another, but they were all widely used and spread afterwards; their spell models were difficult and complicated, and there was no clear theoretical explanation for a long time, so that Loren's mages They can only "copy" these spells intact to achieve their effects, which has led to almost no changes in the basic models of these spells for centuries, and only some details have been modified and optimized; The way they were introduced to Loren was not single, including the mages who studied from the south of Violet, and the "apprentices" who returned from studying in the City of Thousand Towers...

Sure enough, when these spells are scattered and distributed in society and everyone is accustomed to them, they all seem to have no problem, but when they are collected consciously and try to find "suspicious things" from them, certain clues will emerge Out.

"The spell model can't be analyzed, and the builders don't know its principle. They can only simply inject magic power to get the effect, but can't modify or split the rune structure, medium material, and energy flow in any form. Such spells are collectively called 'Black box magic', and before rune logic was widely used, this kind of 'black box' was almost everywhere in our magic system." When Gawain was deep in thought, Hetty's voice came from the side, " Of course, some of the black boxes are part of the human magic system, especially those related to the lost ancient Gondor magic system, but the other part..."

"The other part is from the Violet system, isn't it?" Gawain raised his eyelids from the document and looked at Heidi with a serious expression, "Are there any exceptions to the ancient magic that has been determined to originate from the Violet Kingdom?"

"There is no exception, at least the spells that can be accurately traced are without exception - either the whole is a black box, or the key structure is a black box," Hetty shook his head, "But..."

"But what?"

"However, quite a few of these 'black boxes' are already in the past," Hetty said with a strange expression on his face, and he didn't know whether he was relieved or feeling something. "Although the traditional mage system cannot remove these black boxes, but The emergence of rune logic has unlocked many 'black boxes' of the old era, including the classic spells mentioned in the report in your hand--message, anti-gravity magic, and great masters in the field of arcane evocation. Part of the magic, these things have become things that can be calculated by formulas and explained by the "segment split method" in Jenny's rune research institute, and some of them have even become "basic knowledge" in elementary education classes '"

Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to think in his mind, but soon he restrained his thoughts and turned his attention back to the Violet Kingdom: "These black boxes...do you think that the Violet mages spread it on purpose? ?”

"Do you suspect that the Violet Kingdom has been consciously creating such a 'hidden danger' in the human magic system of the Loren Continent for the past six hundred years?" Heidi frowned again, her expression became serious, "Actually...just now I also had the same thought when I got these materials. After all, so many spells originating from the Violet Kingdom have black box elements without exception, which really cannot but be suspected, and they also have those weird 'apprentice inheritance rules' ', those mysterious wandering mages, especially those in the misty city of a thousand towers..."

Hetty said in a deep voice, but shook her head in the end: "But these are not conclusive evidence—especially if it is placed in the context of the 'classical magic rules'."

"The rules of classical magic... core blockade, actively setting up knowledge barriers, taking pride in forming and maintaining a 'secret inheritance' isolated from the outside world, despising and even suppressing the behavior of analyzing classical magic," Gawain was born as a knight, but he was very concerned about it. I am no stranger to common sense in magic, and I couldn't help but sighed while talking at this time, "Indeed. The technical black box in the magic field is not necessarily out of malice, it is more likely to maintain the monopoly position of the traditional mage class on knowledge, What's more, the Violet Kingdom is a 'country', and it is very reasonable for them to block certain core technologies when imparting magical knowledge to Loren Continent - the magic devices we sell to other countries more or less have 'patent secrecy' in this regard '."

"The biggest suspicion of the Violet Kingdom is that they have gone too far - and not only have they done it for six hundred years, but they have always kept it secret, which makes people think too much." Hetty nodded, "After all, Although there are 'core secrets' in the magic devices we sell, we have always admitted this openly, and the Patent Protection Act is not a secret."

Gao Wen hummed, lowered his head and meditated for a while. He thought about the possible hidden dangers behind these "black boxes" and the possible purpose of the Violet Kingdom. After a while, he raised his head and said thoughtfully: "Anyway, …We are now gradually uncovering the technical principles behind these black boxes, and this direction is correct. No matter what purpose the Violet Kingdom created these black boxes, we are sure to hold the knowledge in our own hands.

"There are still many black boxes in the traditional magic system. Since these things have once again come into view and aroused our vigilance, it is necessary to do something targeted... Hetty, continue to count and trace those related to the Violet Kingdom. The traditional spell model should be traced back and located as soon as possible, and at the same time, it will be sent to the Rune Research Institute, so that Jenny can organize people to do targeted deciphering. This may be a long-term project, and if necessary, a corresponding technical department can be set up permanent office."

Hetty immediately lowered her head: "Yes, ancestor."

"Deciphering is one aspect," Gao Wen continued, "At present, traditional magic is still a very important part of social production activities--among those mages who use traditional magic, and in remote areas where magic technology is not yet developed , the old-style spell model is still dominant, and from the actual situation, it is impossible for us to disable these things in one go... then let the publicity catch up.

"To explain the existence of the 'technical black box', organize reputable experts and scholars to publicize the limitations and inefficiency of the black box spells in the media, and publicize the new spell models optimized by the Imperial Rune Research Institute in terms of energy utilization, learning The advantages in terms of difficulty, let mages hesitate more when using these 'backward spells', so that they can accept new things faster.

"In addition, I also take this opportunity to solicit support from all walks of life. Spellcasters are invited to actively collect and report the 'black box spells' they know, and offer rewards to scholars who love mathematics and runic logic across the country to encourage the behavior of cracking black box spells." Those who make outstanding contributions can not only be rewarded with money, but also have medals issued by the empire, and their names can even be permanently engraved on the memorial wall of the imperial capital—for many mages and scholars, this kind of honor is even more important than money attraction.

"We've spent the past two years trying to turn the point of view of traditional spellcasters around, turning 'analysis of classic spells' from a despised act into an honorable, national service feat. It has worked, now we have to go a step further, we must not only encourage and praise those who actively break the tradition and analyze the old-fashioned magic, but also drive the stubborn groups who hold on to the incomplete and outdated black-box magic into the "ignorant" part of the propaganda. side—because it is true.”

Hetty nodded while listening, and after Gao Wen's voice fell, she couldn't help asking again: "Then about the Violet Kingdom, the promotion..."

Gao Wen immediately shook his head: "Don't promote the confrontation with the Violet Kingdom at this stage, because first of all, we have no evidence, and secondly, we are not sure about the purpose of the Violet Kingdom at all—especially when the alliance was just established, we still have We are trying to find a way to establish further communication with the Violet Kingdom, and there is no need to promote confrontation at this time."

Speaking of this, he smiled and spread his hands: "Besides, there is no benefit to gain - so just strengthen the publicity in the field of magic. After all, things like black boxes are not only found in the magic knowledge from Violet. There are still a lot of ancestral black boxes in human's own magic system."

Hetty nodded thoughtfully, "I understand."

"However, although we do not plan to take confrontational actions against the Violet Kingdom at this stage, due caution and investigations must continue," Gao Wen said again, "The hermit kingdom in the north...whether they are really a 'hidden danger' or not, Their way of doing things and their influence on the Loren continent in the past six hundred years are really alarming. I will let Amber continue to find ways to investigate the situation inside Violet, and you will continue to summarize the historical files. In addition, tell Victoria to focus on monitoring the mainland of the northern border, and the main range of activities of those Violet mages is still in the north...Since they are under our noses, they should always abide by Cecil's rules."

Hetty carefully wrote down everything Gawain explained, and then she noticed that her ancestor still had a thoughtful look on her face, so she couldn't help asking: "Is there anything else you want to explain? "

Gawain raised his head from his contemplation, and his words seemed to indicate something: "...I was thinking, who else would know more about that mysterious 'Mage Kingdom' than us."

Hetty guessed something: "You mean..."

"Who else understands mages better than the gods of mages?" Gao Wen crossed his arms and said in a deep voice, "Even if it is a goddess who has insisted on doing nothing for thousands of years..."

Hetty's eyes widened slightly, and she took a breath after being stunned for a moment: "Mirmina, the goddess of magic... This is indeed a bold breakthrough, but the risks involved are not small, right? After all, the goddess of magic and the dragon god Enya The situation is different, the latter has been completely 'decoupled' and can communicate with us a lot, while the goddess of magic has adopted a softer way of getting out of trouble. Her divinity and connection with the mortal world have not yet been completely released. If she tells Will something about Violet... cause her to reconnect with the mortal world?"

"You can try it." Gao Wen was quite open-minded. "If there is something she can't answer, she can just keep silent. Of course, when it comes to issues involving divinity, the process of just 'asking' has its own limitations." risk, so we need to do a good job of protecting the anti-divine barrier on the spot, and control the specific skills when asking—fortunately, I am quite experienced in this regard.”

While talking, he thought of Melita Purnia when he discussed those taboo topics with him, so his confidence became more abundant.

He is indeed quite experienced in this regard.