Chapter 1291 Life Extension, Rhodes Promotion

Next, Sha Duo continuously and repeatedly activated the [Force Field Shield] chip, trying to obtain the limit of the chip's service life, but until Ross came to him, he could not find anything abnormal about the chip.

The higher the purity of the mithril thread, the higher the magic energy flux, and the less likely it is for elemental transmutation reactions to occur, but accordingly——

The thinner the mithril thread, the lower the magic energy flux, and the easier it is for elemental transmutation reactions to occur.

The transmutation reaction of elements will reduce the purity of mithril filaments, which will reduce the magic energy flux. When it reaches a certain level, it will cause the energy circuit to fail.

That is the "life limit" in the usual sense.

The mithril wire used in Chateau's trial-produced [Force Field Shield] chip is extremely thin, so thin that it cannot be produced directly. Instead, it must be etched into the substrate and then injected with mithril liquid.

According to his initial judgment, as long as it is activated more than ten times, the probability of obvious abnormalities will increase to the point where it is difficult to ignore.

But now, he has inspired it no less than thirty times without any abnormality.

This means that Xia Duo made a mistake in judging the properties of mithril. When the purity reaches a certain level, more magical properties may appear.

Or perhaps, the purity of the previously untested mithril particles was much higher than expected, making the final service life longer.

If it is a mutation in the properties of mithril, it means that mithril of almost unlimited purity is not needed to meet the future development of the chip industry;

And if the purity of the previous mithril material is higher than expected, it also means that [Element Extraction] is more efficient in refining high-purity mithril.

This means that the future consumption of mithril materials by the chip industry will be much less than expected.

These two possibilities, no matter which one they are, are rare good news for Xia Duo.

It's easy to verify. You just need to repeat the previous steps of preparing materials, and then test its purity and magic energy flux.

But now, Shado is not prepared to do this. On the one hand, the laboratory's mithril reserves are no longer enough to support him in conducting a high-consuming experiment. In addition, Ross is still waiting for him!

Shado had a rough idea of ​​why Rhodes was looking for him. If nothing else, it should be that Rhodes' level 1 project on the structure of the "Sith Ring" was completed and he wanted his signature and evaluation.

…

In the lounge.

Xia Duo casually took the research project summary report that Ross carefully handed over. When he opened it, a strong academic atmosphere hit his face.

From topic selection and conception, to analysis, experiments, and finally the conclusion, the full text of the report is neatly structured and well-detailed. It even includes the sources of cited materials and experimental costs at the end.

The full name of Rhodes's research project is "Practical application and research on the two special equivalent transformations of the fifth layer of the Magic Network's 'Sith Ring' structure in spell promotion."

The so-called "Sith Ring" refers to a set of spell element units discovered and named by the Sith Grand Arcanist. It is essentially a specific combination of the fifth layer of the Magic Network's strings.

But in the past, the Imperial survivors had already conducted very detailed research on the Sith Ring. It was not easy for Rhodes to innovate, so he could only start with several special equivalent transformations of it.

It can barely be regarded as a special research project focusing on experiments that has not been studied before.

Of course, there is no doubt that this is designated as a level 1 project.

For Xia Duo, the so-called "Sith Ring" structure has actually been discovered in the main plane long ago, and he is very familiar with it.

The design blueprint of the Tower of Time's "upgrade and downgrade" backup array system includes the "Sith Ring" structure. When Shado first came into contact with this, he had not yet become a high-level mage!

Looking at this report now, it always feels like going back to the past.

After reading the report carefully twice to make sure that there were no serious flaws in it, Xia Duocai signed the cover of the report with "McArdle"'s name and left a note that had been stored in the institute's management center. magic mark.

Of course, it is indispensable to give Rhodes an "excellent" evaluation.

Seeing the big "Excellent" mark on the project report, Rhodes grinned excitedly, smiling like a three-year-old child. He held the report tightly in his arms and said excitedly:

"Sir, thank you so much. With this evaluation, when I advance to become an arcanist, I can apply for the level 1 researcher rank immediately."

"This is what you deserve."

That being said, it is indeed the case, but Rhodes is still very grateful to "McCard". If he were still in the Brado Laboratory, this last "above average" evaluation might have been delayed for several years!

"Send the report to the management center! This is the first project that the laboratory has applied for. There should be no suspense if it passes. I would like to congratulate you in advance here, Researcher Rhodes!"

"Um!"

Ross nodded, responded with a heavy voice, then trotted out of the lounge with excited steps, and continued to run outside the laboratory.

…

A moment later, Sha Duo received a subpoena from Rhodes. During the subpoena, Rhodes mentioned that the project report had been approved by the management center and thanked Sha Duo again.

Two days later, Rhodes invited Sha Duo to observe his advancement process. Sha Duo was quite surprised by this. At first, he only thought that Rhodes' promise to open up the advancement process to him was just a casual talk, but he didn't expect it to come true now.

However, he did not refuse.

Although he himself has long understood the process of advancing to become an Arcanist, he has never observed other people's advancement, whether in the main plane or the projection plane!

There may be some unexpected gains from this observation!

…

In the long and narrow passage corridor.

Sha Duo and Ross were walking side by side, but the direction they were heading in made Sha Duo's heart move, and he subconsciously asked: "Are you going to advance to the second floor this time?"

"Yes, I received a notice from the management center and arranged for me to go to Laboratory 001 on the second floor to advance."

"Laboratory No. 001 on the second floor of the negative two?"

This laboratory number inevitably reminds Sha Duo of the previous laboratory No. 003 of Vice President Samuel. Could it be that he is going to the dean's laboratory?

He threw this question to Ross, but he didn't expect Ross to give an unexpected answer: "Laboratory 002 is the dean's laboratory, and Laboratory 001 is prepared for advanced arcanists. Others Researchers are all advanced there.”

In terms of understanding of the institute, Xia Duo couldn't keep up with Rhodes. Since Rhodes said so, he basically thought that was the case.

Being able to leave Laboratory No. 001 to the advanced level instead of the director of the institute can somewhat illustrate the importance attached to the advanced mage and advanced arcanist.