Chapter 75 Unexpected Results and Unexpected...

Those substances that shimmered in the dark directly eliminated 70% to 80% of Gawain's drowsiness. He ignored these gray-black things that would stain his body, and directly picked them up in the big basket.

Soon, some fragments that were clearly different from the surrounding material were turned over.

The light "inlaid" inside them is a little brighter, more concentrated, and more stable.

From the outside, these things are still black and compact, but within the loose structure there are many crystals that are no more than one millimeter in diameter, like crude crystals, and these crystals are the source of the light. Gawain crushed a piece of hardwood, carefully picked out a few crystals, and found that they were still glowing, and after losing the influence of the surrounding impurities, they became brighter.

A certain intuition led him to activate his magic power perception ability, and some constant, shimmering mists appeared in his field of vision: these crystals really contained a certain amount of magic power.

Gawain held a crystal, his fingers slowly exerted force, and the crystal finally shattered: it was very hard, almost the same as a stone, but it was weaker than the natural crystal used by magicians to process staffs and store magic power. , and while being crushed, its light disappeared.

The magic power escaped cleanly.

So what the heck is this?

Gawain frowned deeply. He really wanted to take this thing to Heidi for consultation immediately, but the latter was probably already asleep at this time. The accident tonight must have made her very tired, and she had to worry about it during the day. It's not easy for her to get a good night's sleep when it comes to the construction of the camp.

So Gawain had no choice but to forcibly suppress his thoughts, preparing to wait until tomorrow morning to find Heidi.

In the second half of the night, there was finally no more turmoil, and the camp was surrounded by darkness and silence, as if the kingdom of the legendary lady of the night had come...

Early the next morning, Gawain went to Hetty's tent with those fine crystals that would glow in the dark, and learned that Hetty had gotten up earlier and went to the laboratory, so he ran to Heidi again Heidi's magic lab.

This "magic laboratory" is located in the southeast corner of the camp, near the Dark Mountains. It is the only house in the entire camp that is built with stone and wood as the main materials, and covers a large area, even if there is no excess. It can also be said to be the "mansion" here. This is not that Hetty wants to engage in specialism, but the magic laboratory does have requirements for the environment. Many magic and alchemy experiments are required to be carried out in a fairly quiet and stable environment. At the same time, the use of stone as a wall is also for the convenience of depicting the magic circle. .

A magician is a rather practical creature.

But to the uninitiated, this sturdy and atmospheric building is full of mystery, and Amber always suspects that Heidi's job in it is to mix potions and poisons like an old witch, but it is not Dare to go in to confirm - for fear of being beaten.

When Gawain arrived here, Hetty was busy among the piles of crystals—she placed her operating table in the center of the laboratory. The unusually large round table was divided into three parts, and one part was engraved on it. There is a magic circle, and all kinds of magic materials are placed around the magic circle, some of which are filled with various bottles, jars and alchemy tools, while the third part has only one set of devices, which is bought at a high price from Tanzania Town. crystal resonator.

This is a device specially used to study all kinds of crystals and inscribe the magic circle inside the crystal. It is an outstanding creation of the magicians in this world. The rough and primitive tools I saw were very different. It has a pedestal as the core, on which three natural magic crystals of different sizes are fixed with brass mechanisms, and around the core pedestal are placed several independent circular artificial crystal pieces that can be adjusted in angle. Behind each crystal piece, there are also gray-white risers for imaging.

This can be said to be the most expensive thing in the entire laboratory. Hetty is careful when using it, and even Rebecca, the eldest niece who is also a mage (although she only knows fireball), is not allowed to touch it.

If Amber really dares to sneak in, it looks like he will really be beaten...

Gawain saw Hetty put a lavender crystal in the center of the crystal resonator, and through the stimulation of the three surrounding magic crystals, the target crystal resonated, and this resonance was in the ubiquitous magic environment. Detectable "ripples" are created that pass through the flakes of artificial crystals around the resonator, creating a visible image that is projected onto the gray-white risers.

A relatively clear rune structure can already be seen on two of the vertical boards, and on the scrap paper in the corner of the table is a sketch drawn by Hetty based on the projected structure.

It seems that she is studying those ancient military crystals brought from the treasure house in the mountains.

Hetty was a little surprised by Gawain's sudden visit, because Gawain usually goes back to check the progress of the project at this time, or draws a bunch of drawings in his tent: "Ancestor? Why are you here?"

"There is something I want you to see," Gawain said as he poured out the hardwoods inlaid with finely divided crystal particles from his lambskin bag, while looking at Hetty's "workbench", "You are Study the magic circles in those ancient crystals?"

"Yes," Hetty nodded, a little apologetic on his face, "It's a pity that the progress is not good."

As she spoke, she looked at the unremarkable pieces in Gawain's hand: "These are..."

"The 'scrap' that Rebecca tossed out last time, but I found something interesting in it," Gawain said while rubbing the broken crystals embedded in the scrap, "These things have magical reactions. "

"Magic reaction?" Heidi frowned, then sensed it carefully, and was suddenly surprised, "It's actually there?! What is this?"

"So let's take a look," Gawain picked out one of the fallen crystals, "Can your crystal resonator see its structure?"

Hetty couldn't have imagined that Rebecca's random operations would actually come up with such a strange thing-she felt that Rebecca burning stones in the workshop all day was a random operation, even if it was arranged by Gawain. The same, after all, Rebecca had a lot of ideas in this process, such as throwing grasshoppers into the kiln—she carefully picked up the crystal that Gawain handed over, and put it in front of her to watch carefully. Voila.

"Isn't there a bigger one?" Hetty frowned a little troubled, "It's so small, it's hard to observe."

Gao Wen had no choice: "This is already the largest piece, at least as big as a grain of rice."

"Okay, I'll try hard." Hetty said while taking down the ancient crystal in the center of the crystal resonator: its rune arrangement has been recorded, and there is no need to continue testing.

Then Hetty used a pair of small tweezers to carefully hold the "crystal" which was only the size of a grain of rice, placed it in the center of the pedestal of the resonator, and activated the three magic crystals on the pedestal.

After a short wait, some vague lines appeared on several "screens" around the resonator: they were not only very fuzzy, but also thin as if they were transparent. If Hetty hadn't extinguished the nearby magic crystals in advance Stone lanterns, I'm afraid Gawain won't be able to see them at all.

After all, the crystals to be observed are too small.

"This structure... is indeed a man-made crystal, and it is very regular," Hetty carefully distinguished the shape of those lines, and carefully injected the minimum degree of magic power into the pedestal, and with the injection of magic power, the projection The lines on it gradually brightened, and were dyed with a halo like a rainbow, "It can absorb foreign magic and transform them into a stable form inside the crystal..."

Hetty withdrew his magic power and observed the subsequent changes of those projections.

A few minutes passed, and the projection on the vertical plate did not change at all, and the mechanism of the resonator itself, which had the ability to accurately sense magic power, did not move.

"Magic power is stored stably?!" Hetty only showed a more surprised expression at this time, "The escape rate... so low?!"

Gawain stared directly at the pedestal in the center of the crystal resonator. On the pedestal, the "artificial crystal" the size of a grain of rice was emitting a white light visible to the naked eye: it seems that as the magic power is filled, its brightness is also rising. .

He immediately realized why he didn't find these things mixed in the waste when it was dark in the tent before: these "artificial crystals" were empty when they were just smelted. As the storage time was prolonged, they began to spontaneously absorb the free magic energy in the atmosphere. This was a slow self-charging process. After two days of charging, it could finally light up at night and was finally discovered by Gawain.

Heidi was also attracted by the peculiar nature of the crystal, and she continued to pour energy into the crystal with uncontrollable excitement - and a crystal only the size of a grain of rice would definitely not hold much magic power, so she soon discovered that this Something went into a "saturated" state.

The tiny crystals began to emit a steady opalescent shimmer that showed no signs of self-disintegrating from saturation.

"So this is a man-made crystal that can store magic power?!" Gawain looked at Heidi with surprise, as if he had found a treasure, "Then how does its maximum capacity compare to natural crystals? How about stability? I Seeing it glowing all the time, what about its self-depletion rate?"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, I still need... I still have to test the test seriously," Heidi's excitement was no weaker than that of Gao Wen, but she still maintained the calmness that a mage should have. He picked up the small crystal and walked to the magic circle for analysis next to him, saying casually, "The problem of self-loss should not be big. Although it is glowing, it is mainly because the free magic in the air is affected by the crystal and resonates. The magic power stored inside is not much lost, so it should be able to keep the magic power for a long time..."

While saying this, she put the crystal in a grooved "dish" made of ruby, and placed the vessel in the center of the magic circle, ready to try to redirect the magic stored in the crystal. come out.

The magic circle is activated.

The crystal particles in the ruby ​​vessel made a light "pop" sound, and then turned into a piece of slag.