Chapter 248 Hetty's Experiment
Gao Wen and Amber went to inspect the future "intelligence elite" of the 100th number. On the way, Amber found out the rumors he heard in the territory: "By the way, I just heard someone that a 'ancient great magician' has come to the territory?"
Gao Wen nodded: "His name is Carmier, you will see him soon."
Amber's eyes rolled around, and she didn't know what to think about, and suddenly a sentence came out: "Did you dug up people from the ruins in the mountain?"
"...It can't be said to be dug out," Gao Wen felt that the half-elf's words and sentences were subtle and problematic, "He was trapped in a different space..."
"That's what was dug out." Amber said naturally, then began to look at Gao Wen up and down, causing goosebumps all over the latter: "What do you mean by this look?"
"There is another person who lifted the coffin in the territory!" The half-elf-like lady slapped her, "Did you decide to dig one that is older than you because you are the only ancient person in the territory? But don't you also have a generation gap?"
Gao Wen suddenly felt that the knock on this guy just now was a little lighter...
However, Amber's nine-curved and eighteen-curved ideas and Geng's big mouth that he was not thrusting were not a day or two. Gao Wen had already developed a good immunity. As long as she ignored this guy, she would soon calm down.
But this time, Amber's balabala seemed to be more powerful than usual. Even though Gao Wen ignored her, she kept opening new topics by herself. After being nagged by this half-elf for most of the way, Gao Wen finally couldn't help but glance at her: "Why do you say so much this time?"
"Is there any?" Amber was stunned, then shook his head, "I don't think so!"
"You are a little nervous, right?" Gao Wen looked at the guy helplessly, "When you are nervous, you will talk a lot of nonsense, and you can't feel it."
After being reminded by Gao Wen, Amber realized that she had inadvertently exposed her emotional changes. While lamenting why a knight was so keen, she finally nodded awkwardly: "To be honest... it's a bit, but I'm not nervous about myself."
Gao Wen had actually vaguely guessed Amber’s thought: “Is it because of those people you brought?”
"It's almost..." Amber laughed dryly, "I just want to say... those guys are bastards, gangsters, liars, and thieves who grew up in the gutters are their main characters. Although they all swear to abide by the rules before they come, I know their basic principles... I hope you can be a little mentally prepared and don't get angry because of their vulgarity. Those... are actually a group of pretty good guys."
Gao Wen stopped and looked at Amber with a smile until the other party turned his head awkwardly, and he said with a smile: "It is rare to see you speak so carefully and excuse others in advance."
"I have lived a life-long relationship with them, although it has been many years ago," Amber curled his lips. "I wanted to take this opportunity to pull them, but their weight really makes me feel at ease."
Gao Wen shook his head with a smile, and suddenly raised a seemingly irrelevant topic: "Do you know the royal shadow guard who is loyal to Ansu's royal family?"
Amber was stunned for a moment and nodded suddenly: "I know, I met someone who went to Wangdu last time and I kicked out of the shadow world by me. I almost fainted as my grandson is the Royal Shadow Guard?"
Gao Wen: "...Don't be proud of your misunderstanding. If you really face the shadow guard at that time, you are not enough for him to deal with it. The Royal Shadow Guard is the most powerful stalker and intelligence personnel trained by the Ansu royal family. Since the beginning of Ansu's founding, they have been responsible for secretly defending the security of the kingdom and collecting various intelligences for the king. I am one of the original trainers of the Royal Shadow Guard."
"I seem to remember you said this," Amber frowned and tried to recall, "Oh, you taught them two-handed swordsmanship and physical training..."
Gao Wen was choked again. It was not good to try to show the B-Grade but was choked back continuously, but he still bit the bullet and continued: "...I did teach them these two things, but in addition to these, I also participated in the formulation of the full training process of Royal Film Guard."
Amber finally understood what Gao Wen meant, but her face was full of surprise: "Can you...you have to train those unseasonable guys according to the standards of training Royal Shadow Guard?"
Before Gao Wen could answer, she waved her hands hard: "Stop joking. I don't know how many pounds those guys have? What abilities can they have besides cheating and tricks? It's difficult to train to become ordinary soldiers, not to mention those elites."
"They don't need too strong force, and I don't expect to train them completely according to the standards of the Royal Shadow Guard," Gao Wen shook his head with a smile. "The Royal Shadow Guard is still different from the intelligence personnel I requested. I don't need a group of elite combatants...Intelligence collection, secret contact, identity disguise, and the use of spy tools, they can learn as ordinary people. You should have some confidence in them."
"I don't know what you're thinking," Amber looked at Gao Wen, who was confident and couldn't help scratching his hair. "But you always have a lot of ways, I believe you'll be fine this time."
At the same time, in the magic laboratory located in the southern part of the territory, Hetty and Rebecca, who was pulled as her assistant, were lowering their heads to test a strange "stone".
They opened a large open space in the center of the magic laboratory, and the ground was laid with "portable honeycomb magic nets" spliced with rune substrates to facilitate disassembly and disassembly. Between the honeycomb units of the magic net, three red copper substrates used to conduct magic power were placed in a font shape, and in the center was a "stone" that was dozens of centimeters high and roughly obelisk-shaped "stone".
The surface of the "stone" has a deep purple luster, and the texture is between crystal and metal. It is the purified and recast Holme raw stone.
In order to purify this strange magic material, Hedy and Hammer of the metal smelter have put a lot of effort into it different from ordinary metal ores. Holme raw stones cannot be smelted and casted through simple high-temperature calcination. After the temperature continues to increase, these rough stones will only split and eventually become useless powders like sand. Although Nicholas Egg successfully overcomes the symptoms of "allergic cold" for Holme raw stones, his metal control ability does not have an effect on these ores. Finally, it solves the purification problem, but it is a seemingly unintentional wrong operation.
Hedy accidentally poured the acid solution used for the experiment into the container where the original samples were stored, but found that the ore that did not enter the oil and salt would be dissolved by the acid solution. The useless components in the ore became filtered residue during the reaction with the acid, and the acid solution itself finally became a smelting powder after a series of subsequent reactions, replacement and purification. After a series of melting and casting of these ore powders, Hedy obtained the first pure Hom crystal.
Confirm that this precious Hom crystal has been stably connected to the magic net, Hetty turned to look at Rebecca who was standing next to a magic circle in the corner of the room: "Can you sense the magic field over there?"
Rebecca glanced at the sensing crystal in the center of the magic circle. The crystal was emitting a slight light, and more than a dozen runes around the crystal lit up three: "There is there! But the intensity is still very low..."
Hedy frowned slightly and looked at the Hom Crystal connected to the Magic Net: "Well... After purification, it becomes easy to release the magic field. It can work by connecting it with the most basic magic net unit. This shows that purification is indeed effective, but the strength of the magic field has not changed much... Is this thing the upper limit of the magic field release is so large?"
Rebecca recalled and said, "I remember when you injected an extra magic into the crystal just now, the strength of the magic field increased for a moment..."
Hetty frowned: "Is that true? Why didn't I feel it?"
Rebecca was a little unconfident: "That probably I saw it wrong..."
"No, we can try it," Hetty was a person who would not let go of any details. When Rebecca heard this, she immediately picked up her staff, moved the front of the staff close to the purified Hom crystal on the ground, and then released the simplest magic-blocking magic trick. "Do you see if the sensing crystal has changed?"
"It seems to be lit up a little..."
"What does 'like' mean?" Hetty glared at Rebecca, "How many times have you said it, the magic experiment is very rigorous, and you cannot use the word 'like', 'probably'! Let's try again!"
Hetty and Rebecca were busy testing the purified Holme crystal, while in the Rune Research Institute, which is quite far from the Magic Laboratory, Carmire was studying the "textbooks" that Jenny took out with great dedication.
This ancient mage from a thousand years ago eagerly absorbed all the knowledge that could be useful in this era. Whether this knowledge comes from a knowledgeable scholar or a small fourth-level rune master, as long as it is useful, he is willing to learn. Although he felt quite disdainful when he first learned that a girl who was not even a junior mage was leading the rune research in the territory, after seeing the rune logic materials that Jenny took out, the ancient scholar who loved to study was deeply impressed by this novel theory.
Jenny looked at the incredible magician in front of her with a complex emotion of awe and joy. She was startled when she saw Carmier at first sight. After knowing the other party's identity, she fell into tension and uneasiness. Although she had adapted to the relaxed and respected new life under Cecil's leadership, the pressure from the advanced magician continued to be suppressed in her heart. In her mind, the powerful magicians were all arrogant, cold and terrifying. These powerful spellcasters not only disdained the weak like themselves, but also regarded their research results as deviant. Even contemporary magicians are like this. How proud and elusive should an ancient magician who lived a thousand years ago to today?
She was ready to face Carmier's anger and was ready to maintain the dignity of rune logic in this situation. However, she did not expect that the ancient magician was not angry at all after seeing rune logic, but instead showed great research interest.
This made her very happy. It turned out that the great magicians or magicians were not so inhumane.
Carmire lowered his head and read for a long time, and only raised his head after reading the distractions. He seemed to want to say something, but before he spoke, his body suddenly shook slightly and then made a puzzled voice: "Hmm?"
Jenny suddenly became nervous: "Master Carmier, what's wrong with you?"
The arcane light flow on Carmire's body gradually stabilized: "I don't know... I suddenly itched."
In the magic laboratory far from the Rune Institute, Hedy once again placed the staff at the top of the Hom crystal, and while preparing to release the magic, she reminded Rebecca: "I need to look carefully this time, and you must count how many runes are lit up!"
As he finished speaking, a small white light burst out from the front of Hetty's staff, and the Hom crystal lit up slightly.
In the Rune Research Institute, Carmier just controlled the energy-shaping hand to put down the information in front of him, and his body shivered again.
Jenny became nervous again: "Master Carmier?"
Chapter completed!