Chapter 543: Their Own Quagmire
When Victoria returned to her room on the upper floor of Silver Castle, snowflakes were falling from the window.
This winter's snow... one after another, especially after the late cold months, the snow has hardly stopped.
Appropriate snowfall can bring good harvests in the coming year, but it will also make the cold months more difficult. After this snowfall, many villages and towns outside the capital will probably die again...
The cold wind from the north swirled over this ancient capital, stirring the snowflakes that fell from the sky into a hazy curtain. Maggie, the black-haired maid, closed the wooden window panels on the inside of the window, and the bleak scene outside the window was frozen. Isolated, the fireplace blazes in one corner of the room, keeping this gorgeous room warm and comfortable - the ice and snow outside the castle seems to be another world.
"Your face is not very good," Maggie asked softly while looking at Victoria who entered the room, while stepping forward to help the Duchess take off her cloak, "The meeting is still not going well today?"
"There are too many mediocre people sitting in those chairs—everyone's as short-sighted as a squirrel," Victoria shook her head. "It's worse that I can't get them out yet."
Maggie hung the cape on the shelf next to her, and said softly, "After all, this country still runs on them."
Victoria glanced at the maid who was also a servant and a friend. She knew that although Maggie was her maid in name, she had good knowledge and extraordinary power. This "Northern Steward" was the one she trusted the most. One of the people, when the two are alone, most topics can be discussed.
"The country doesn't necessarily have to rely on those old-fashioned nobles to function," the Duchess said calmly. "You saw it with your own eyes."
Maggie raised her eyelids and glanced at Victoria: "Yes, but the cost of doing so is very high, and there is another very important point - you, too, are a member of them, and an inseparable member."
Victoria was silent for a while.
Yeah, she can't go that way.
"Stop thinking about that, there is something more important," Maggie's words awakened Victoria from her brief thought. The dark-haired maid picked up a letterbox sealed with lacquer from a nearby table and handed it to the Duchess. "A letter to you, from the Grand Duke of the South, sent by the White Feather Griffin."
Victoria's eyes widened in astonishment, and while taking the letterbox, she said, "Duke Cecil?"
She instinctively smelled a disturbing smell from this letter—it wasn't long before she returned to the capital,
The Duke of the Southland hurriedly wrote a handwritten letter to himself, and it was still a letter sent by the gryphon messenger in this coldest cold month. What is so urgent?
She quickly opened the letterbox, took out the handwritten letter inside and unfolded it. After seeing the contents on it, her brows furrowed.
Maggie stood silently by the side, not asking about the content of the letter: although she and Victoria were close, they didn't go beyond that.
"Maggie," Victoria asked immediately after a quick reading of the letter, "when did the astrologers of the Mages Society report that the red pattern at the bottom of the sun has shifted?"
The black-haired maid recalled: "It should be the 10th of the Cold Moon."
"The 10th of the Cold Moon... the same day..." Victoria lowered her head and looked at the contents of the letter, "It can't be a coincidence..."
Then she noticed Maggie's slightly curious gaze, took a breath, and took the initiative to mention the contents of the letter: "Duke Cecil sent a warning that the magnificent wall changed on the 10th of the Cold Moon, and a large area of The overload lasted for three full days, and by the day the letter was sent, although the magnificent wall had returned to calm, Duke Cecil believed that the barrier had been permanently damaged during the overload..."
The eyes of the black-haired maid slowly widened, her surprise unreserved.
"It seems that I need to convene the royal family mages and royal scholars," the Duchess said in a deep voice, "In addition... there is a new round of noble meetings."
When talking about the word "noble meeting", Victoria couldn't help but bring a hint of fatigue in her tone.
However, she is very familiar with the Ansu system, no matter what she wants to do - even if she is the queen of Ansu - she can't avoid the nobles.
"It's a quagmire."
...
Light blue rune brilliance flickers on and off between the layers of overlapping rune substrates, and the surging arcane energy strikes a crackling arc, bursting out from between the energy contacts and the gears, On the experimental bench built for testing large-scale equipment, the heavy and complex power mechanism is slowly starting to operate under the impetus of magic, and the sound of steel meshing and turning is like a roar from weak to strong, causing the entire experimental bench to tremble slightly.
On the monitoring platform, which is more than 20 meters away from the test bench, and there are two layers of magic shields in the middle, Rebecca and Carmel are standing between the technicians, paying attention to the machine and the machine in the distance. The operation of various magical devices around them, and beside them, each magician is also paying attention to the monitoring unit he is responsible for.
A dazzling spark suddenly appeared at the top of a tower-like device in the corner of the test bench.
"The No. 1 amplifier is overloaded!!"
"The No. 2 and No. 3 amplifiers are unbalanced - the protective tiles may have melted!"
"The core is heating up, the amplifier groups are interfering with each other—"
"Stop now!" Rebecca's eyes widened and she hurriedly shouted, "Stop immediately, stop!!"
A magician quickly got up and pulled a lever on the side of the console. However, due to the excessive movement, the lever was stuck in the middle of the running and emergency stop gears, and a strange humming sound came from under the console. It was heard that on the test bench more than 20 meters away, the electric light condensed by arcane energy began to burst out from the surface of each rune device.
"Let me go!!" Rebecca shouted at this emergency moment, and then picked up the iron staff that she never left, and slammed it on the console. She designed the entire console with her own hands. It is very clear where to smash at this time - although there should be no "smashing" operation according to the normal process - with a loud bang, a part of the console is completely sunken, and the magic connection below is interrupted immediately.
The arcane sparks that shot around on the test bench quickly weakened and disappeared, and the entire unit gradually stopped after a continuous low humming sound. In the corner of the test bench, a two-meter-high tower-like device emerged from the top. Billowing smoke - the whole set was mostly preserved, the rest were apparently badly damaged.
As soon as the device was shut down, the staff who had been waiting by the side rushed up. They rushed to the tower-like device and raised their arms to point to the alloy tower that was still emitting a billowing heat wave. The engineering magic terminal immediately released. A large piece of weakened ice cone technique, along with the impact of ice and snow containing magical power, the temperature of the entire tower began to drop rapidly.
Rebecca stretched her neck to pay attention to the situation near the experimental platform, and Camille's voice came from behind her: "How is the situation?"
"Don't think about it, just make a new one..." Rebecca said with a sad face, "Aunt Heidi will kill me... The last time I reported the budget of the restoration lab to her, her eyes were red... "
"...I'll report it," Carmel said after a brief silence. "Accidents and failures are inevitable in research."
"But burning eight amplifiers and two large magic engines in six days is not the same..." Rebecca still had a gloomy expression on her face. She raised her head and looked at this temporary construction with steel brackets and prefabricated panels. The large "laboratory" of the man felt a dull pain in his skull.
This is a newly built laboratory according to the instructions of the ancestors. It is located on the outskirts of the city, far from residential areas, and implements a safety isolation system and new operating procedures. It turns out that this arrangement has indeed greatly improved the safety factor of the experiment, but the success rate of the experiment... It seems a little Nothing has changed.
"Why on earth," Rebecca said to herself, "Why is it always stuck on overload and interference..."
A senior magician looked at the data recorded in the recent period and said: "According to the test, the dense arrangement and multi-layer overlapping of magic net units can indeed greatly improve the output, and the volume can also be stuffed into the front of the car, but with The result is the frequent overloading and mutual interference of the amplifier group and the repulsion mechanism - the magic power output by the multi-layered magic net is very problematic in terms of stability and purity."
"It seems that in order to make the multi-layer magic net practical, we must first find a way to solve the interference between each layer of magic net," Carmel continued, "In addition, the pressure of the power mechanism at the beginning is also a problem. We have to find a way to redesign the transmission and transmission mechanism, reduce the starting speed, and at the same time reduce the instantaneous pressure of the magic engine - the previous two magic engines were mechanically damaged due to excessive instantaneous pressure."
"It seems that mechanical transmission is not suitable for a behemoth like the 'Magic Energy Train', and the transmission device can't withstand such a big impact," Rebecca shook her head, "It really doesn't work... We can try the ancestors to raise 'Hydraulic transmission' once."
As she spoke, she frowned, because she thought of another question: "But it's not enough to reduce the instantaneous pressure of the magic engine... The mechanical pressure can be reduced, and the magic pressure of the amplifier and magic net can be reduced. Still no solution."
"The magic power of the Rune Array is rigid...it's really difficult to handle," Camille said hummingly, "even if the load on the magic engine is reduced when it starts, it is difficult for the amplifier to keep it running. Small challenge."
This is a common problem faced by most magic machinery: no matter how sophisticated the magic machinery is, no matter how complex its functions, its core essence is still a "magic circle".
Since it is a "magic circle", the magic power consumed by each magic circle activation is fixed. The "effectiveness" of this spell may be affected by the casting materials and the environment, but the mana it consumes is a fixed value. .
Even if the starting pressure of the mana engine is reduced to a minimum, the mana required for its operation will be 100% faithfully reflected on the amplifiers and magic net units that power it. How many repulsion runes will be consumed? Mana, without the slightest discount.
The result is that the mechanics of the magic engine may be able to withstand it, but the runes of the power supply part should burn out or burn out, just like today.
Problems follow one after another. Before each problem can be solved, it seems that a series of new problems will emerge, mechanical structure, material strength, magic interference, the load of each device... All obstacles are piled together, and they are almost incomprehensible. Come up with ideas.
Just a quagmire.
Rebecca looked at the Arcane Master in front of her, and suddenly couldn't help but ask: "Master Carmel, what was the transportation in the Gondor Empire back then? It stands to reason... such a huge empire must also need similar A large transport vehicle for the magic train, right?"
Hearing Rebecca's question, Carmel couldn't help revealing the color of his memories: "In those days... we did not use mechanical magical transportation, but borrowed the power of large elemental summons to transport goods, such as summoning Hurricane messenger and wave messenger, they are powerful enough to move mountains and seas..."
Rebecca was stunned when she heard it: "This... Elemental creatures of such a high level can also be summoned and controlled? How did you get them to help?"
"It's very simple, make a summoning contract to give half a ton of dark blue magic crystal..."
"Okay, you don't need to say anything."
Deep blue magic crystal! Half a ton! ! Not to mention the hurricane messenger, I am afraid that a wind element lord can kneel and deliver goods to you Gondor people?
Rebecca marveled at the behavior of the local tyrants of the Gondor Empire in the past, but soon, the problems encountered by the magic train project in front of her still filled her mind.
Miss Marquis covered her forehead: "Headache hurts..."
Carmel looked at this talented but somewhat childish girl, and couldn't help but want to comfort her, but before he could speak, Rebecca suddenly raised her head: "Actually, I think... Is there something wrong with this idea? Or... can we change it in another direction?"
"what do you mean……"
"Concentrating the power on the front of the car looks simple and rude, but it is too difficult to achieve. It is very unstable to force these powerful things together," Rebecca said while thinking, her wonderful brain is fast It started running, "Master Carmel, do you still remember that we had a plan at the time, that is, if a high-power locomotive could not be built, we would distribute several lower-power magic engines to several carriages of the entire train. Come on, make a power car..."
"I remember that the problem with this solution is the synchronization and coordination of the various power cars," Carmel said as he pondered. "Do you think... the synchronization and coordination will be simpler than the problem we are currently encountering on the front of the car?"
"What if?" Rebecca said, "Anyway, we have made plans for both schemes, and now the key components of the device on the front of the car have also burned out and must be rebuilt, so why not just build an additional experimental platform to use the power What about the decentralized plan? Of course, the power concentration plan on the front side will not be given up, you can continue to work hard, maybe the two plans can complement each other, and you will find a breakthrough! "
While speaking, the girl thought again: "Also... I've been thinking recently, can I use the continuously running weight reduction magic circle to reduce the load of the entire train... But weight reduction is a spell that takes effect in a range, specifically How to control its effective area and prevent the train from being unbalanced when turning has to be carefully considered... But I think these may be the direction of breakthrough. "
This is really optimistic thinking.
However, looking at Rebecca's enthusiastic eyes, Carmel found that he was also infected - maybe there is some truth?
"Okay," the ancient arcane master nodded, "to make the plan tonight, we will go to Ms. Heidi tomorrow to apply for funding."
"...Hey? Didn't you go?"
"Let's go together," Carmel said buzzingly, "You are the director of the entire Magic Energy Technology Department, and you need to go in person when there is a major change in the project."
What the Great Magister said was justified and justified.
Rebecca can't believe it.
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