Chapter 1278 Samuel, Repeating the Same Mistakes

Laboratory No. 003 on the second floor of the base.

After Ross brought Sha Duo here, he left directly, leaving Sha Duo waiting alone in the reception room outside the laboratory.

Almost half an hour later, the door of the laboratory opened with a clang. Although Xia Duo was not his true body, the influence of his bloodline still affected this body through his soul.

He could vaguely sense the sudden acceleration of gas inside and outside the laboratory, and then, an old man with silver hair and a hint of chaos walked out of it.

"I've met Vice President Samuel." Xia Duo quickly stepped forward to greet him.

While the old man was sorting out the slightly chaotic strings of the magic network around his body, he looked at Sha Duo with interest: "Are you McCard? The one who discovered the underground passage?"

"Yes."

"Um."

Samuel nodded and did not delve into this issue further, "Where is the plan? Show it to me!"

Xia Duo quickly handed over the two manuscripts and explained: "The one above is a new spell that can support existing communication and transmission spells. The one below is my personal idea. Please ask the dean. Please correct me."

"Two servings?"

Samuel casually took the manuscript, and when he heard Xia Duo's introduction, he couldn't help but look surprised, but then his attitude became a little colder, "In my place, there is no reason to use quantity to make up for numbers!"

After saying that, he opened the manuscript and only read the first page. Samuel once again showed a surprised expression. At first, he just took a tentative look at it. In fact, he didn't think that this person was not even an arcanist. What kind of improvements can the field staff put forward to the relatively mature positioning technology?

Even the reward for allowing McCard to enter the institute was just due to the tradition of the higher-ups consistently filling the institute with people.

But when Samuel saw the first page of the manuscript, he knew that he might be wrong. McCard might really be a talent that had been missed.

The first page of the manuscript had clear writing and distinct layers. Just reading the summary section made him resonate with the pain points of the teleportation mage, and he had strong expectations for the so-called [message and teleportation management spell].

Regardless of whether the spell is feasible, at least at this moment, Samuel recognized McCard's writing ability.

As we continue reading, concise and clear graphic expressions of arcane geometry appear in the manuscript.

These graphics may be difficult for ordinary mages to understand, but for Samuel, a senior arcanist, understanding these graphics is as easy as eating or drinking.

Even after reading the arcane geometric graphic expression of the spell, Samuel had already started practicing it in the reception room unconsciously.

Xia Duo saw this and did not disturb the other party. Instead, he began to carefully observe the other party's spell casting process. Even in the main plane, no senior arcanist would be willing to get so close to demonstrate spell casting for him.

Shado noticed that when Samuel cast the spell, the order of the spell elements was different from his own. After thinking about it for a moment, he understood that in order to reduce the casting time as much as possible, the other party did not start by shaping the energy circuit of the spell itself, but by shaping the energy circuit of the spell itself. It draws energy directly from the magic network.

After that, following the order of energy flow, the spells are cast one after another, just like when paving a road, completely ignoring the roller and just filling the material in front.

Xia Duo, on the other hand, first filled the pavement material and then drove the road roller to press it again.

There is no doubt that Xia Duo's spellcasting is more stable. Even if he makes a mistake, he can generally control the consequences more easily and avoid serious spellcasting accidents;

Samuel is fast, but it places extremely high demands on the caster's spell-casting skills and understanding of spells. More importantly, once a mistake is made, the consequences may be beyond his control.

Xia Duo compared the two styles, which can be said to be completely opposite ways of casting spells, and ultimately believed that safety was more important.

He prefers to use spellcasting tools to cast spells and eliminate the chance of errors caused by human factors as much as possible. This should become the mainstream of magical civilization.

It would be such a waste to let mages with research and production capabilities go to the front line.

"Sure enough, we still need full-time war mages!"

In fact, field personnel like "Mecard" are war mages in a sense. However, the current empire remnants cannot organize a large-scale legion counterattack, and can only use small teams to harass Cormanthor.

If there was no underground passage provided by Shado to contact the drow to open up the situation, even with the support of Ilfaran, the current situation would be somewhat improved. After all, even if Ilfaran supports again, it is unlikely that he will directly send a large number of troops to fight with Cormanso.

It’s nothing more than material and technical support.

If the remnants of the empire really knocked Cormanthor down, Ilfaran might be ready to stab him in the back the next moment.

…

After a while, Samuel had verified the [Transmission and Communication Management Spell] provided by Chateau, and when he looked at the next manuscript, he had another expectation.

"What could it be?"

Opening the second manuscript, Samuel only turned two pages before falling silent. It wasn't that he couldn't understand the importance of [Transmission and Messaging Mystery Lock].

But the current empire is simply unable to carry out such a huge project.

What's more important is that the lessons of the former border barrier are still in front of us. Today's empire survivors are very cautious about things that they do not fully understand such as Mystery Locks.

Seeing this manuscript, Samuel thought of a piece of news brought by the envoy from Ilfaran not long ago——

Elintar intends to provide the empire with myth lock technology and transform the current chaotic magic network environment in the empire's ruins into a special myth lock to achieve a strategic balance with Cormanthor.

If the above agrees, Ilfarang will also send high-level mages to participate in the construction of the Mystic Lock, and during the construction of the Mystic Lock, they will assist in the defense and counterattack of Cormanthor.

"well--"

Samuel suddenly shook his head, put away the two manuscripts, and then said to Shado: "[Teleportation and Communication Management Spell] is very practical. This is enough for you to complete the entry task and obtain the treatment of a level 1 researcher. Of course, because of you I haven't advanced to Arcanist yet, and my rank can only be set as Assistant Researcher. Even I can't change this.

"As for your idea, just pretend that you have never thought about it, and don't mention it to anyone in the future. Not everyone is as easy to talk to as I am!"

Hearing Samuel's words, Sha Duo was happy at first, but then he was shocked. He never doubted that the [Teleportation and Communication Management Spell] would allow him to pass the mission.

After all, in his opinion, the task was to test whether "Mecard" had basic research capabilities. Did the higher-ups really expect a field worker like him to make any major improvements?

Regarding the matter of the Mystic Lock, Samuel's words contained a strong warning. Xia Duo quickly thought that the empire had perished due to the Mystic Lock (border barrier). How could it happen again now?

"I was wrong!"

Sha Duo quickly expressed his gratitude to Samuel, but Samuel didn't take it seriously. He summoned Rhodes again and ordered: "Take McCard to obtain laboratory authority certification and receive the treatment of a Level 1 researcher."

"yes."