Chapter 586 Network Conference

In late autumn, the mist gradually rises.

The foggy moon has not yet arrived, but Aldenan, the capital of Typhon, has always been a rainy and foggy city. As the constellation Frostbita gradually moves towards the highest point of the sky, the mist has begun to visit this "young" more and more frequently. The capital city, especially after a cold autumn rain, the fog arrived as promised.

The autumn rain is always continuous, and after the rain stops, there are still sparse raindrops falling from the sky from time to time. Between the icy rain and the hazy fog, Aldernan's solemn black towers and row upon row of spires stand silently on both sides of the avenue. The black-haired female mage Mary was wrapped in her slightly outdated black mage robe, and walked quickly down the street with her head down.

The breeze shield blocked the cold air of late autumn and the raindrops falling from the sky. However, the scenery in the fog still brought a chill from the bottom of my heart. Mary subconsciously tightened her robe, and then the anger of her mentor Daniel appeared in her mind. Come - if the teacher sees himself walking down the street with his neck hunched like this, he'll probably get angry again.

She shook her head, tossing these gratuitous associations aside, then raised her head to look forward.

This is a street in late autumn. In the countryside, it is impossible to see anyone on the street during this season. However, in Mary's field of vision, there are more than one wave of people walking in the mist.

Those figures were wearing slightly thin old linen clothes, felt hats or dirty turbans on their heads. Most of them were men with numb expressions, and there were also some sleepy children and women on their faces. Going forward in one direction, walking with heavy steps and expressionless faces - in this morning mist, these people walking on the street are as strange as ghosts coming out of the mist.

Mary knew that these were the workers who went to work in the factories—the textile mill, the printing house, the Rune Foundry, and the petrochemical acid factory—the factories had been growing since last winter, and these workers had also been working since last year. Winter starts to increase.

The factory brought prosperity, made the whole city run at an astonishing speed, and brought those little aristocrats who had once lost their power and wealth back to extravagant banquets and dances, as the apprentices of the great magician, and as the empire. A rookie rising to fame in the Workers' Association, Mary was fortunate enough to have attended the gatherings of those bigwigs. She knew how quickly factory owners accumulated wealth, which came from the amazing production efficiency of machines and the timely implementation of market laws by His Majesty the Emperor. , and more from these walking dead... people.

But those factory owners don't care.

Mary knew, she knew how her mentor was driving all this behind the scenes, and she knew roughly what was the plan behind this miraculous factory boom, and as the insider of all this, as the mentor's main assistant in the implementation of the plan, Young The female mage tightened her robe again on this cold street,

Hurrying past the numb "new citizens".

Across Palmer Street, and through the towers on the edge of the mage's quarter, is where the tutor and several apprentices, including himself, live: a luxurious mansion in the upper wealthy district.

This mansion with a three-story main body, two towers, two gardens, complete stables and servants' rooms was given to the mentor by the president of the Royal Society of Mages.

The gatekeeper was a well-known male apprentice. The freckled young man had a strange look on his face after seeing Mary. Before Mary asked, the young apprentice took the initiative to say, "The tutor is here." The cellar', go there as soon as he asks you to come back."

cellar……

Mary's heart suddenly became tense, but she quickly smoothed out all the expression changes on her face and nodded slightly: "I see."

She walked through the courtyard of the mansion, entered the main house, walked down the stairs, and came to the entrance of the cellar. In this place where ordinary apprentices and servants were always forbidden to approach, Mary saw two empty-eyed puppet servants waiting at the door.

The young female mage swallowed. She kept reminding herself that her mentor had become more gracious and amiable recently, and then pushed open the cellar door.

In this underground space that has been transformed into a secret laboratory by the tutor, the magic spar lamp driven by the magic net makes the whole room brightly lit. Mary soon saw the black-robed old mage Daniel in the corner of the room, and behind Daniel , she saw a strangely shaped... chair.

It was an obvious magical creation. It was placed on a base engraved with runes. The side of the seat can also be seen with shimmering light flowing. Some weird metal dots are distributed on the inside of the back of the chair. The back itself seems to be It was wrapped in some kind of magic leather—the moment she saw this chair, Mary thought of the sacrificial devices depicted in some horror stories.

Daniel raised his eyelids, his yellow-brown eyes staring at the female apprentice who was standing at the door a little bewildered: "Come here, master wants to see you."

Mary took a deep breath.

She didn't remember how she had moved to the chair, nor how she clumsily held herself in place with belts and buckles according to the instructions given by her tutor, and she had only one thought in her head: that the day had finally come to an end. Here, she is about to be sacrificed by her mentor to that terrifying "master"...

She knows that there is a "master" behind the mentor. Of course, she knows that the mentor's sudden knowledge and terrifying plans are arranged by the "master", and the sporadic pieces of knowledge promote the development of Typhon's magic technology. , and the first step of that dreadful plan changed the balance of power among the nobles of Aldernan, in addition to algebra, solid geometry, calculus, rune logic... that knowledge was awesome, but more It can make people realize the nature of the "master" behind the mentor.

It is said that only an indescribable foreign evil god would give "knowledge" in such a generous way, and this "knowledge" comes at a price.

"Sit down, no matter what you see in a while, open your heart to accept it, don't have any resistance - otherwise you will be the only one who suffers." Daniel pressed Mary's slightly trembling shoulder, and said in a serious and cold tone on.

Mary thought that she might be the "price".

The teacher continued: "You will arrive at a pure space, where you will talk less and see more, because the master's family gathers there, and each of them is much wiser, stronger, and more noble than you. ."

Mary swallowed, and finally couldn't help but want to say something to ease her nervousness, so she said, "I... I see the 'Master' should... What should I say?"

Daniel's movements stopped, and his yellow-brown eyes stared at Mary. I don't know if it was an illusion, but Mary felt that there was a hint of praise for herself in those eyes.

"Say your name first," said the old mage with a serious face, while activating the rune trigger of the seat, "and then say - learning makes me happy."

"what……"

Mary let out a brief exclamation in confusion, but before she could ask, the sudden dizziness pulled her into the depths of a bizarre light and shadow illusion.

When she opened her eyes again, she was already in front of a vast space with high blue sky, boundless water surface, and a lot of wonderful metal platforms.

Mary found herself no longer sitting on the eerie "sacrificial seat", but on a comfortable high-back chair in front of a gorgeous, large round table with neat seating around it. , Some unknown people were sitting in those positions, and opposite the round table, a tall and burly man was watching him quietly.

Almost instantly, Mary realized that the man was the "master" mentioned by the tutor.

Although this is a round table where it is impossible to distinguish the priority from the secondary, the man's aura is obviously different from everyone else's.

Mary didn't expect the image of "Master" to be like this. She thought she would see a hideous and terrifying demon, or something more indescribable, but in any case, a "Master" in human form would at least let her She relaxed a lot, and when she was just relieved, the figure of the old mage Daniel also appeared in this space and sat on the seat beside Mary.

Daniel glared at the apprentice who was a little dazed: "What are you still doing?"

Mary just woke up from a dream, she quickly stood up in a hurry, and stumblingly said what her tutor asked her to say: "I... My name is Mary, I have no last name, and... and... learning makes me happy!"

The atmosphere at the scene seemed a little awkward, but Mary was so nervous that she couldn't feel the change in the atmosphere at all. She saw the figures sitting around the round table were all looking at her, and among them there was a spirit full of blue light. The body creature, the "spirit creature" looked at himself with interest and made a buzzing sound: "This child is quite interesting."

A beautiful and elegant woman in a long red dress smiled to herself: "You're a little nervous - relax."

A young lady with big eyes and long brown hair who looked energetic had a happy smile on her face: "Ah, you are the Mary who solved all the sixteen equations I came up with?! You are amazing. Hey! My name is Rebecca - by the way, did you really untie it yourself?"

Mary was a little sluggish for a while, and she suddenly felt that the unfolding of things seemed to be a little different from what she had imagined.

Gawain looked at the black-haired girl who visited the Origin space for the first time with a strange expression. He could see the nervousness and even the fear on the other side at the beginning, which made him a little dumbfounded: "Mary? Relax, welcome to join the Origin experiment. room."

"Origin Lab?" Mary was stunned for a moment, just about to ask what the Origin Lab was, but then she remembered that the instructor seemed to have mentioned this name when she was adjusting the chair before - just when she was most nervous I mentioned it, so she swallowed her question abruptly, and nodded hastily, "Okay, okay! I...I'm also honored..."

Daniel's face became ugly: "Shame."

Mary quickly shrank her neck: "I'm sorry, tutor."

"It doesn't matter, this child is very talented, and her talent is enough to offset her little helplessness," Gawain said, "and I'm curious how you describe this online meeting to this child, she looks a little nervous is abnormal."

"I only said that you wanted to see her," Daniel said flatly. "The Origin Lab is extremely confidential. Before entering the network, I told her almost nothing."

"...cautious, but justified."

Thinking of Daniel's painting style in the real world and the psychological shadow he caused to his apprentices, Gawain could fully guess what happened to this girl named Mary.

Forget it, let them solve their own problems.

Gawain shook his head slightly in his heart, then put the "newcomer" Mary aside for the time being and started the main topic of this online meeting.

"First, I'll bring some materials, Jenny, Carmel, Rebecca, activate your respective printouts, and print the materials in the real world."

As he spoke, Gawain activated the memory conversion function of the Origin Lab. In the mid-air above the round table, a large number of dazzling runes and lines were projected almost instantly, and split into concise pieces one after another. Clear flat disassembly drawing.

"This is the technical information of the elves, this part is their cooling rune array, this part is the schematic diagram of the cooling system based on oil coolant and using immersion heat exchangers, this is their anti-gravity array - it should not be complete, But for reference. In addition, there are also their shield projection methods and the idea of ​​stacking multiple layers of runes..."

"Wow!!" Rebecca stared at the complex rune arrays and dismantling diagrams of the device structure with wide eyes, and couldn't help but exclaimed exaggeratedly, "Master Ancestor, you have such a strong memory... You are stealing things. Better than Amber!!"

"Hetty, remember to hit after you go offline."

"Yes, ancestor."