Summer is drawing to a close.
The fire constellation at night began to shift towards the western sky, and the heat began to recede from the entire kingdom. The wind in the morning and evening became cool and pleasant every day. It's getting closer than the day.
Mysterious and complex magic runes float in the air like stars. The crystal device used to display the structure of the runes is fixed on the base made of alloy. The surface is shining with the glow of magic power. A low humming sound echoes in the laboratory , Kamel quietly floated among those illusory magic runes, the arcane brilliance in his eyes was as bright as ever.
This is the largest analysis room of the Rune Research Institute. Today's task is to analyze the technical data brought by the elves.
Several senior rune masters from the Rune Research Institute were copying the rune structure of several key nodes, while a tall, thin, male elf with brilliant blond hair stood beside Kamel. The elf's gaze Occasionally it fell on Kamel. A powerful arcane creature was clearly of concern to the elven magister.
Kamel didn't pay attention to the eyes of the Elf Magister, he focused almost all his energy on the runes that had just been translated and analyzed. After carefully observing its core structure, he couldn't help saying: "Master Banner The core mechanism of this purification array is some kind of... tuning and resonance?"
"You are right, Master Kamel," the elven magister known as Banner nodded, "Through long-term research on Chaos magic power, we found that it is still a kind of magic power in essence, and It is not the previously considered 'extremely polluting waste energy', since it is magic, it is possible to order it by re-tuning and resonating, this is the idea of 'purification'."
Kamel's eyes fell between those rune phantoms, and his tone gradually became a little excited: "That is to say, you treated magic power as a kind of 'wave' and succeeded?!"
"'Bo'..." The elven magister was stunned for a moment, and looked at Kamel unexpectedly, "You also introduced this concept?!"
"... We only introduced this concept not long ago, and we still can't prove it, it can only be used as a conjecture," Kamel said buzzingly, "We applied the power of magic in the process of analyzing and reconstructing the communication spell. Volatility properties, both mathematically and practically, its volatility has been confirmed, but we still lack the key observable evidence."
"We introduced this concept forty years ago. The great astrologer Verania put forward the hypothesis that magic power is a kind of fluctuation, and deduced the theoretical wavelength of pure arcane magic power through several spell models of arcane magic. Scope, her theory is the basis of the Purification Array but unfortunately, we have not been able to obtain observable evidence... ”
Kamel turned around suddenly, looking at the elf magister in front of him with scorching eyes: "What you encountered was also interference?"
"You guys also met?!" The elven magister named Banner was not without surprise in his tone. At this moment, his attention was completely out of Kamel's arcane body. This elf from the Silver Empire never thought about it. However, on the other side of the distant continent, in a country of alien races, and in a fully declining human society, human magicians are also studying the essence of magic power, not to mention that human research has gone so deep, and even encountered We have reached the bottleneck encountered by the elves!
"Interference is everywhere, and the whole world is shrouded in a powerful magical environment, so that it is impossible to observe," Kamel was also surprised that the elves were doing the same research as humans, like a lone traveler in the desert Suddenly meeting a traveling companion with the same goal, his "heart" that had stopped beating or even existed for a long time seemed to be throbbing again, "What kind of experiment did you design?"
The elven magister quickly calmed down after a short shock, and he did not hide the problem: "Master Verania designed an interference experiment and we prepared a pure source of arcane energy to ensure that it has only a very small amount of 'impurities', Then the arcane energy is gathered into beams and hits a lattice, which is made of a thin slice of the obscuring crystal, and two narrow slits are left in advance on it. Theoretically, the pure arcane energy passes through the obscuring crystal The flakes will then exhibit undulations: the magic waves passing through the two narrow slits should interfere with each other and form interference fringes on the projection plate coated with developer dust... ”
"But there is only a piece of white noise, isn't it?" Kamel followed up, "Any pattern projected on the observation interface will be covered by a stronger natural magic field, just like observing a weak beam of light under strong light." It's as unrealistic as a glimmer of light. In fact, the weak pure arcane energy may not even have time to reach the projection board, and it will be neutralized by the magic field in the environment... "
Banner sighed regretfully: "As you said, the experiment failed. It seems that you also..."
"We also designed a similar experiment, and the idea of the experiment was proposed by Duke Cecil," Kamel said in a low voice. "We also failed to observe interference fringes, but mathematics tells me that it should exist."
The elf magister was a little surprised: "Duke Gawain Cecil also has such attainments in the field of magic?"
"The duke is very knowledgeable, and he has come into contact with extraordinary knowledge and wisdom in the state of soul separation for seven hundred years," Kamel said convincingly, "it's just... he can't solve the problem of the interference of the natural environment's magic power. Speaking of which, you Have you tried the forbidden magic field?"
"The highest-level anti-magic force field only suppresses the magic reaction to a certain extent, and at the same time interferes with the caster's mental power to block the process of casting the spell. The magic itself cannot be banned," the elf magister shook with a wry smile. Shaking his head, "We have also tried to create a 'darkroom' with expensive anti-magic crystals to block the magic power in nature, but due to technical limitations, we can't guarantee the complete isolation of the entire darkroom, and as long as there is a little leakage... Interference Appeared like a demon."
Kamel could imagine how much effort the elves put in to create such a "dark room".
Due to the pervasiveness of natural magic power, the magic interference observation experiment must ensure that the observer himself is in a dark room environment, and a dark room that can accommodate the observer, no matter how cramped the space is, is a huge "box". Secondly, to process such a huge crystal and ensure that it does not have any "leakage points"... Obviously, it exceeds the craftsmanship of elves.
Even elves can't do it, and humans probably can't do it.
"Our next goal is to seek help from the goblins of the Ogulei tribal country. The goblins are small in size and can get into a small dark room. It is possible to process a smaller dark room," Banner said with a sigh. "But it's hard to say if we'll be able to find goblins willing to help, after all...they don't like being locked up very much."
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Gawain sat behind the desk and quietly listened to Kamel's report.
"... Lord, to sum up, the elves have encountered the same problem as us. Magic interference in the natural environment."
"What a devilish disturbance..."
Gao Wen sighed softly, his thoughts fluctuated.
What is the nature of magic
This problem began to haunt him shortly after he was unmasked. The ubiquitous natural force, the seemingly endless energy, not only brought convenience, but also made Gawain deeply suspicious. All along, he He wants to understand the nature and source of magic power, but until now, he and his scientific research team have achieved very little.
They can only confirm now that the source of magic power is inseparable from the "sun" in the sky, and its essence... "maybe" is some kind of wave.
Yes, although there are already some application examples, such as magic network communication technology, and some calculation conclusions, but for this kind of "thing" that actually exists, as long as there is no observable phenomenon, it will not be able to completely Determine its definition, at this stage, Gawain and Kamel can only say that magic, "maybe" is some kind of wave.
This is an unfortunate situation.
It is there, its nature, its possible essence, is ready to emerge, but the most critical observation has become the biggest obstacle in front of the researchers. The magic power of nature is everywhere, which has brought about the rapid development of magic technology. It also brings great difficulties in some research projects.
The classic experiment that Gao Wen can think of to verify volatility is the double-slit interference experiment. He knows how the double-slit interference is realized on the earth, but in this world, this classic experiment is difficult to verify, because the magic power in the natural environment Covers all observed phenomena.
The magic power in nature is far stronger than the two beams of arcane flow passing through the slit during the experiment. It forms a white noise on the reflector, and the pure one-way arcane flow that should have interfered is completely erased For the same reason, the experiment of observing the magic version of "Poisson bright spot" also failed.
The idea of the elves may be the best solution to build a dark room and find a way to shield the magical interference of nature.
It's not easy, however.
On the earth, if you want to avoid the strong light in nature from affecting the observation of interference fringes, you only need to use light-shielding materials to block them, but in this world, natural substances that can block magic power are extremely rare and difficult to process. The expensive anti-magic crystal is The most suitable material that can be found, it can really block the magic power, the baffle in the double-slit interference experiment is made of it, but it is difficult to process the anti-demon crystal into a dark room... even in the Gondor period. Easy to do.
"Actually, I have another plan," Kamel said, "Using a more powerful arcane source to allow the energy passing through the double slit to exceed the base value of magic power in nature, so that interference fringes may be observed outside the dark room." Or even if you can’t see it, it’s good if you can see two burn marks, at least we can verify whether the magic power is a wave. According to my calculations, the existing rainbow light cannon fully meets this condition.”
"I've also thought about this plan, but the premise of this plan is that we need to find a material that is more stable and stronger than the Obscuring Crystal." Gao Wen frowned, "Although the Obscuring Crystal can block magic power, it has to withstand it after all." Ultimate, that rainbow cannon thingy...will burn out any baffles."
Camille fell silent.
Gao Wen asked after a short thought: "Is the elven astrologer who proposed the concept of magic fluctuations called Verania?"
"Yes."
"Only forty years... As an elf, she should still be serving the elves court today."
"Yes, according to Banner Baiyu, the astrologer Verania is still working for the Elf Royal Court, and is continuing to conduct research on the theory of magic fluctuations. At the same time, she is also one of the developers of the 'Purification Array'."
"The elves are walking ahead of us... It would be great if we could reach a deeper cooperation with them," Gawain sighed softly, "Kamael, what do you think... use the remaining magic connection of the magnificent wall, plus With our magic net communication terminal and a set of translation devices, can we establish remote communication with the Silver Empire?"
"It's a challenging idea, but I can give it a go."
Gawain nodded: "Then go and try."