Chapter 79 Rebecca's Success, and the Question of Magic

"So this is the 'Rebecca Crystal' you managed to make... well, yes, it looks the same thing."

Sitting in his tent, looking at the big basket of things that Rebecca excitedly brought over, Gawain nodded slightly.

It was a basket of gray-black and unremarkable strange substances. Some were loose like sand, while others were clumped together, but no matter what form it was, it was almost evenly inlaid with countless fine particles. For those "waste residues" that were created by confusion for the first time, the content of crystal particles in this basket of finished products was significantly higher, and the average diameter of the particles seemed to be much larger.

This shows that Rebecca not only found the formula, but also vaguely found the way to improve production.

Hearing Gawain's words, Rebecca, who was stubborn and downright with a low EQ, was immediately embarrassed. Miss Viscount scratched her face that was darkened by the smoke, and smiled like a seventeen-year-old and The silly roe deer who burned explosives in the cement kiln: "Hey... Mr. Ancestor, do you really think this thing can be called this name? Isn't it true that only very powerful people can name other things with their own names... "

"You invented these crystals, aren't you good enough?" Gawain glanced at the N+1-level great-granddaughter who lacked confidence, "Well, although there is still a lot of room for improvement, this is indeed possible. A re-implemented 'product' and the Rebecca Crystals name deserves it."

Rebecca entered a state of silly music: "Hey, hey hey..."

"Don't be silly, let's talk about how this thing was made," Gawain glanced at Tietouwa, dumbfounded, "Although there is luck in the emergence of any new material, I still want to know How could such good luck befall us."

"Oh, it's true, it's a complete coincidence," Rebecca scratched her face, "It was actually baked according to the original recipe you gave me, but yesterday I tried to restore the baking process and failed. After several attempts, none of the ratios worked - only then did I suspect the furnace, so I ordered a few kilns to be inspected, and found that one of the kilns had a large piece of the inner wall off..."

"A large piece fell off?" Gawain frowned, realizing that the key to forming these "Rebecca crystals" might lie in the pieces of the kiln wall that fell off, "So the materials used to build the kiln are also involved. reaction?"

"That's one of the reasons, because those furnaces also use rune heating, so they were built with quartz sand mixed in, and besides the quartz sand, another important reason is the stone from the Dark Mountains. "

"Stones of the Dark Mountains?" Gawain repeated.

"Yes,

I compared several sets of records, and found that the biggest difference between that furnace and the other furnaces has two points. The first is that the quartz sand used to build the furnace is mixed into the raw materials, and the second is that the limestone used in the raw materials is from the dark dug in the mountains. The other furnaces of limestone come from the banks of the Baishui River, as well as from the lumbering field in the west. If they are used as raw materials, even if they are mixed with quartz sand, it will not work..."

Two conditions, quartz sand and limestone from the dark mountains...

Gawain pondered a little, these two conditions are accurate conclusions drawn by Rebecca after multiple comparisons, and there is no need to doubt their authenticity, so what role did these two things play in this process?

Quartz sand can also be imagined, because it is a weak magic guide material. Although it is extremely cheap, it is also a genuine magic material, and it is one of the raw materials for making artificial crystals, but what about the limestone from the Dark Mountains?

Why can't limestone mined elsewhere?

He threw these questions out, and was taken aback by Rebecca's question.

Miss Viscount had never thought about these details at all, she scratched the back of her head: "I'm happy to patronize, I haven't thought about it..."

"The Dark Mountains were once shrouded in magic tides, and there are still traces of erosion by elemental tides in many places in the mountains," Gawain said thoughtfully, rubbing his chin, "Perhaps this process has changed the properties of some of these minerals... ...to give them the ability to participate in magical responses?"

In the absence of more experimental data and theoretical guidance, Gawain can only make such a bold guess, but no matter what the real reason is, now Gawain has determined one thing: "Rebecca Crystal" is in this It is absolutely unique in the world, at least in the Ansu Kingdom.

Usually, who would go to the dark mountain range to dig mountains and burn stones...

"After confirming that the key lies in the quartz sand and the Dark Mountains limestone, I tried several methods to improve the crystal ratio and quality," Rebecca continued, "I found that increasing the quartz sand ratio can increase the crystal yield, but Many crystals will be broken when they are released from the furnace. Increasing the proportion of limestone will improve the ability of the finished product to store magic power, but after a certain proportion, it will not form crystals. And I also found that the temperature and firing time have a particularly large impact... Yes There are too many items to be tested, and I can't finish them all in a while, so I burned them out according to the best method at present. Here, these are the ones in front of you."

Gawain asked bluntly: "Can ordinary people complete this process?"

"Yes, but the vast majority of people don't understand what you taught me about 'cross-control' and 'observation group', so they can only do what you taught them," Rebecca replied, " And they are very careless, and even if they are told how to do it, they will often get the ratio wrong, or remember the firing time wrong - the time control required to fire crystal is much stricter than that of brick firing."

It is imperative to improve the average quality of workers.

However, there are not even a few qualified cultural teachers in the territory... All the people who can read and count are already overworked, where can they find someone to form an educational team?

Go to Tanzania for employment? There are not many people in Tanzania who can read! People who can read and write are either the sons of merchants or the "decent people" who have entered noble mansions and serve as housekeepers and clerks. How could these people be willing to come to such a stupid place to follow the pioneers? serfs and paupers...

Gawain touched his head. Whenever a new problem appeared, he would always do this subconsciously, as if he was confirming his hairline...

"Lord Ancestor?" Rebecca said cautiously.

"No, it's fine, this is a long-term problem to be solved," Gawain waved his hand, "You should continue to produce according to this 'optimal plan' first, and try a better ratio when you have time. All in all, these crystals The more particles, the better, and it is even as important as the output of steel. By the way, you have to find a way to extract the mixed crystals. These black residues are useless. You can try to smash them After sifting with water, the crystal is much harder and heavier than the residue, and it should be easy to separate after washing with water.”

Rebecca nodded as she listened, and after Gawain finished speaking, she leaned over with a smile, and asked in a low voice like a fishy kitten: "That... Mr. Ancestor, I heard Aunt Heidi say, are you? Are you planning to make this crystal into a magic tool that will explode?"

"Almost the same thing," Gawain glanced at the girl who always had fantastic ideas, "What do you think?"

"You are planning to use the detonation circle from the Gondor-style crystal on this crystal," Rebecca's eyes sparkled, "but have you figured out how to detonate it?"

Gawain frowned, this was exactly what he was thinking about.

The detonation circles in the ancient crystals of Gondor, like the common small circles, belong to the magic circles that cannot be recharged by themselves. In other words, they need an external magic source as a "start-up energy" for subsequent detonation. In Gondor In the crystal, this part of the energy is provided by the crystal itself, but in the "Art No. 1" he conceived, there is no such energy.

The magic power stored in the Rebecca crystal cannot be extracted to participate in other magical reactions, except that it is directly blown up as an explosive, so the detonating magic circle attached to the Rebecca crystal must use other magic power to act as " Starting power”, so where does this part of the magic come from?

Use another energy storage crystal as a "detonating battery"? Then this loses the meaning of "cheap".

Use the magic of the magician to activate the magic circle? Then this loses the design goal of "making it accessible to ordinary people".

"Just say it straight, you can tell you have an idea from the look in your eyes." Gawain glanced at Rebecca, the girl in front of her was really not someone who could hide things, even if she didn't ask, she probably wouldn't be able to hold back. Stop talking about your thoughts.

"That's it," Rebecca really didn't give a shit, "I studied the detonation circle and found that the magic power it needs to activate is actually quite small..."

Gawain nodded: "Of course. After all, it is a magic circle that will be used for self-destruction when the crystal is about to fail. Its activation energy requirements must have been optimized many times."

"Then I discovered one thing," Rebecca continued, "that 'Rune Trigger' that I invented, when it closes for a split second, it produces an extra burst of magic. It's weak, but it does exist... "

"Wait!" Gawain interrupted Rebecca instantly, he vaguely realized that he had captured a key issue that had been overlooked for a long time, "You said that the rune trigger structure will generate magic power when it is closed? Are you sure? Isn't that the magic power that escapes from the magic net buried in the ground?"

"I confirmed it several times, because I have a strong sense of magic since I was a child, so the 'seeing' is very real," Rebecca nodded vigorously, "The rune trigger has an extra effect when it is closed. Magic power, and I also found that it is not just the rune trigger, as long as a complete rune group is disassembled, and then closed again, there will be an 'instantaneous magic power' generated, and this instant magic power comes and goes quickly. Quick, just a blink of an eye, but if it's going to detonate something, that's a blink of an eye."

Gawain immediately fell into deep thought, and almost woke up when Rebecca was so nervous: "Ah... very good, very good, then you can follow your own thinking and use your rune trigger and that Let's try the combination of the detonating array. If you can ask Hetty to help, just say I ordered it."

Rebecca smiled instantly, but before she was about to leave, she suddenly remembered something: "Ah, by the way, Mr. Ancestor, have you thought about what this explosive prop should be called in the future?"

After Gawain thought for a while, Baoxiang replied solemnly, "Art."

Rebecca: "Hey? Does this have anything to do with art?"

Gawain looked serious: "It's called art."

Rebecca rolled her eyes and thought about it, thinking that her ancestor might have another meaning, so she nodded happily: "Yeah! Art!"

Rebecca left happily, but Gawain sat in the tent for a long time and could not calm down.

He was fiddling with a pen in his hand, turning it around unconsciously, and when he realized it, he realized that he had written a line of words on the scratch paper:

Magic, what is magic?

(Ah, I actually updated another chapter?)