In late autumn, the mist gradually rises.

The foggy moon has not yet arrived, but Tifeng didu Alder South is a rainy and foggy city. As the frosty sky gradually moves towards the highest point of the sky, the mist has begun to visit this "young" capital more and more frequently, especially after a cold autumn rain, the fog arrives as scheduled.

The autumn rain is always continuous, and after the rain stops, sparse raindrops still fall from the sky from time to time. Between the cold rain and hazy mist, Aldernan's solemn black towers and lined up spires stood silently on both sides of the avenue. The black-haired female mage Mary wrapped in her slightly old black mage robe, lowered her head and walked quickly through the streets.

The breeze shield blocked the coldness of late autumn and the raindrops falling from the sky. However, the scenery in the fog still brought chills from the bottom of the heart. Mary subconsciously tightened her robe, and then the anger of her mentor Daniel appeared in her mind. If the mentor saw her walking on the street with her neck cramped like this, she might get angry again.

She shook her head, threw these unreasonable associations aside, and then raised her head and looked forward.

This is the streets of late autumn. In the countryside, it is impossible to see anyone on the streets at this time. However, in Mary's vision, there are more than a wave of figures walking in the mist.

The figures were wearing slightly thin old linen clothes, felt hats or dirty headscarves on their heads. Most of them were men with numb expressions, and some children and women with sleepy faces. Most of them were moving in one direction, walking hard and expressionlessly in the morning mist. These people walking on the streets seemed as weird as ghosts coming out of the mist.

Mary knew that these were workers who went to the factory to work in the textile factories, printing factories, rune foundries, and tartar-burning acid chemical factories. The number of workers began to increase since last winter, and these workers also started to increase last winter.

The factory brought prosperity, allowing the whole city to run at a shocking speed, and also allowing the little nobles who once lost their power and wealth to return to luxurious banquets and dances. As an apprentice to the great magician and a rising reputation in the Imperial Work and Manufacturing Association, Mary was fortunate to participate in the gatherings of those big figures. She knew more about how the factory owners quickly accumulated wealth. The wealth came from the amazing production efficiency of machines and the market bills that His Majesty the Emperor implemented in a timely manner, and even more from these walking dead... people.

But those factory owners don't care about this.

Mary knew that she knew how her mentor was driving all this behind the scenes, and she knew roughly what kind of plan was behind this miraculous factory boom. As an insider of all this, as the main assistant to the mentor's plan, the young female mage once again tightened her robe on the cold street, hurriedly passing among the "new citizens" with numb expressions.

Passing Pamel Street and through several towers on the edge of the Mage District, is where the mentor and several apprentices, including himself, live: a luxurious mansion located in the upper wealthy area.

This mansion with three floors of main body, two towers, two gardens, complete stables and servant houses was presented to the mentor of the Royal Society of Mages.

The gatekeeper was a familiar male apprentice. The young man with freckles had a slightly strange look on his face after seeing Mary. Before Mary spoke up, the young apprentice took the initiative to say, "The instructor is in the 'cellar', and he asked you to come back immediately after you come back."

cellar……

Mary's heart suddenly became nervous, but she quickly smoothed all the expression changes on her face and nodded slightly: "I understand."

She walked through the courtyard of the mansion, walked into the main house, went down the stairs, and came to the entrance of the cellar. In this place where ordinary apprentices and servants were always forbidden to approach, Mary saw two puppet slaves with empty eyes waiting at the door.

The young female mage swallowed, and she kept reminding her mentor that she had become more and more evident intimacy and kindness in recent times, and then pushed open the door of the cellar.

In this underground space that has been transformed into a secret laboratory by the tutor, the magic crystal light powered by the magic net made the whole room brightly lit. Mary soon saw the old wizard in black robe in a corner of the room. Behind Daniel, she saw a strange-shaped...chair.

It was an obvious magical creation, which was placed on a base engraved with runes. There was also a glimmer of light flowing on the side of the seat. Some weird metal dots were distributed on the inside of the backrest of the chair. The backrest itself seemed to be wrapped in some kind of magic leather. The moment when Mary saw the chair, she thought of the sacrifice device depicted in some horror stories.

Daniel raised his eyelids and stared at the female apprentice who was standing at the door with a little helplessness: "Come here, the master wants to see you."

Mary took a deep breath.

She didn't remember how she moved her footsteps to the chair, nor how she clumsily fixed her position with a belt and a lock according to the method assigned by her instructor. She had only one idea in her mind: the day finally came, and she was going to be sacrificed to the terrible "master" by her instructor...

She knew that there was a "master" behind the mentor. Of course, she knew that the knowledge and terrible plans that the mentor suddenly appeared were arranged by the "master". The fragments of those knowledge promoted the development of the magic technology of the entire Tifeng. The first step of the terrible plan changed the balance of power of the Aldernan nobles. In addition, there are algebra, three-dimensional geometry, calculus, rune logic... The knowledge is awesome, but it makes people realize what the "master" behind the mentor has.

It is said that only the indescribable evil gods in the foreign land will give "knowledge" in this generous way, and these "knowledge" all come at a cost.

"Sit down, no matter what you see, open your heart to accept it. Don't resist any other things, otherwise you will be the one who suffers." Daniel pressed Mary's slightly shaking shoulder hard, and said in a serious and cold tone.

Mary thought that she might be the "price".

The instructor continued, "You will arrive in a pure space where you can talk less and see more, because the master's family gathered there, each of them is much wiser, stronger and more noble than you."

Mary swallowed her saliva and finally couldn't help but want to say something to relieve her nervousness, so she spoke: "I...what should I say when I see the 'master'?"

Daniel's movement stopped, and his brown eyes stared at Mary. I wonder if it was an illusion, but Mary felt that there was a hint of praise for herself in her eyes.

"Speak your name first," the old wizard said with a serious face, and activated the rune trigger of the seat, "and then say that learning makes me happy."

"ah……"

Mary let out a brief exclaim in confusion, but without waiting for her to ask, the sudden dizziness pulled her into the depths of a bizarre illusion of light and shadow.

When she opened her eyes again, there was already a vast space in front of her with a lofty blue sky, an endless water surface and a large number of wonderful metal platforms.

Mary found herself no longer sitting on the weird "sacrificial seat", but sitting on a comfortable high-backed chair, in front of her a gorgeous and wide round table with neat seats around the round table, some unknown people sitting in those positions, and opposite the round table, a tall and burly man was quietly looking at her.

Almost instantly, Mary realized that the man was the "master" mentioned by the instructor.

Although this is a round table that cannot distinguish between the primary and secondary, the man's aura is obviously different from everyone else.

Mary didn't expect the image of "master" to be like this. She thought she would see a hideous and terrifying demon, or some kind of indescribable existence, but no matter what, a "master" with a human appearance at least made her relax a lot. While she had just breathed a sigh of relief, the figure of the old mage Daniel also appeared in this space and sat on the seat next to Mary.

Daniel glared at the apprentice who was a little dazed: "What are you doing when you are still standing there?"

Mary woke up like a dream, and quickly stood up in a hurry, stuttering and saying what the instructor asked her to say: "My name is Mary, without a last name, and...and... learning makes me happy!"

The atmosphere at the scene seemed a little awkward, but Mary was so nervous that she couldn't feel the change in the atmosphere at all. She saw the figures sitting around the round table and looked at her. Among them, there was a spiritual creature full of blue light. The "spirit creature" looked at her with interest and made a buzzing sound: "This child is quite interesting."

A beautiful and elegant lady in a long red dress smiled at herself: "You are a little nervous and relax."

A lady with big eyes, long brown hair, and full of vitality, had a happy smile on her face: "Ah, you are the Mary who solved all the sixteen equations I made?! You are so amazing! My name is Rebecca and said that you really solved it yourself?"

Mary was a little dull for a moment, and she suddenly felt... the development of things seemed a little different from what she imagined.

Gao Wen looked at the dark-haired girl who had visited the Origin Space for the first time. He saw the other party's nervous and even fearful expression at the beginning, which made him feel a little amused: "Is Mary? Relax, welcome to join the Origin Laboratory."

"Original Laboratory?" Mary was stunned for a moment, and was about to ask what the Origin Laboratory was, but then she remembered that when the instructor adjusted the seats for herself, it seemed that she had mentioned this name when she was most nervous, so she swallowed her questions and nodded quickly, "Okay, okay! I...I'm very honored too..."

Daniel's face became ugly: "Shameful."

Mary quickly shrank her neck: "I'm sorry, mentor."

"It's okay, this kid is very talented, her talent is enough to counteract her little helplessness," said Gao Wen. "And I'm curious about how you described this online meeting to this kid. She looks a little nervous and abnormal."

"I just said you want to see her," Daniel said sternly. "The Origin Lab is extremely confidential. I almost didn't tell her anything before entering the Internet."

“…Prudent, but makes sense.”

Thinking of Daniel's painting style in the real world and the psychological shadow he caused to his apprentices, Gao Wen could completely guess what happened to this girl named Mary.

Forget it, let them solve their own problems.

Gao Wen shook his head slightly in his heart, and then put Mary, the "newcomer", aside, and started the topic of this online meeting.

"First of all, I bring some information, Jenny, Carmier, Rebecca, activate your respective printouts and print the information out in the real world."

While speaking, Gao Wen activated the memory transformation function of the Origin Laboratory. In the air above the round table, a large number of dazzling runes and lines were projected almost instantly and split into one concise and clear plane disassembly after another.

"This is the technical information of the elves. This part is their cooling rune array. This part is based on oil coolant and uses an immersive heat exchanger for cooling system diagram. This is their anti-gravity array that should be incomplete, but it can be used for reference. In addition, they have their shield projection method and the idea of ​​stacking multiple layers of runes..."

"Wow!!" Rebecca stared at the complex rune array and device structure disassembly diagram, and couldn't help but exaggerate, "Ancestor, you have such a strong memory... You are so good at stealing things than amber!!"

"Herty, remember to play after you go offline."
Chapter completed!