Sword of Dawn

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"Duke Cecil has built a large number of roads, which connect all major cities and raw material production areas, and cooperate with canals. They have a new magic device called a magic car, which is a mechanical vehicle that runs automatically...

"In order to manage such a large and complex system, their government affairs office is divided into multiple departments. Each department has clear responsibilities and corresponding supervision measures. Everyone is under supervision, and everyone is responsible for supervising others. Everyone has clear work and assessment standards—although loopholes cannot be ruled out, their government affairs office has reached an unbelievable level of efficiency and management ability. I copied their department list and can see All the rules and regulations of the..."

"It seems that the five-year mining rights in the White Sand Hills have not been wasted," Prince Edmund said suddenly on the chief seat, "We have finally seen something useful."

"Your Highness," Silas Lauren stood up and said, "It seems that your ideas about the New Deal before are not wrong—Duke Cecil just took a step further in this direction, and the experience he has come out means to us major."

"That's right," Prince Edmund nodded, his expression was extremely serious, "These experiences will make us stronger, and we must become stronger as soon as possible. Our time...is not much."

Yeah, time is running out.

In the main hall of the castle, everyone understood the deep meaning of Prince Edmund's words.

The Typhon Empire that was eyeing it... time for the Anzu people is running out.

Chapter 0533 Angre's Loom

In the spacious and bright magic laboratory, researchers wearing standard magician robes gathered around the experimental table. The bright light from the magic spar was cast from directly above, clearly illuminating the real object on the experimental table——in a piece of copper On the formed, one-foot-square metal sheet, the mysterious elemental runes and magic lines are arranged into an orderly array of magic power, and the nodes between the arrays flicker like breathing, forming a complete cycle of magic power. Every time the magic power circulates, it is outputting energy stably.

Repeatedly, stable and continuous, efficient and concise.

The mages in standard robes stretched their necks, looking at the thin metal plate on the experiment table with joy and excitement, and with a sense of nervousness, even the older mages held their breaths together with the young people, As if afraid that one breath would affect the magic circulation of those runes, in the silent laboratory, only a young black-haired female mage was clearly reporting the numbers: "28, 29, thirty..."

Gradually, some of the mages around broke the silence, and quietly followed the female mage to count: "31, 32..."

In the last few numbers, everyone couldn't help but speak. In the huge laboratory, a group of the most intelligent people read in unison like apprentices who just learned counting: "39, forty, 41... 42!!"

The number came to an abrupt end at 42, and after a brief silence, almost everyone cheered: "42! One cycle is complete!" "Stable operation, no disturbance!" "We succeeded!"

Among a group of cheering imperial mages, the young black-haired female mage Mary applauded with everyone in a slightly reserved and awkward way. She raised her head and looked at the only person on the scene who was not cheering—the old high-ranking mage. Standing next to the experimental table, still wearing the thick and old mage robe, when everyone cheered, the expression on his face was like a stone carving, as if he was an outsider who had nothing to do with this scene.

It wasn't until everyone cheered for half a minute that the old mage raised his hand slightly.

The crowd around the test bench quickly quieted down. They looked at the old man in black one by one, and everyone's eyes gradually became more respectful.

In the world of magicians, only knowledge and power are respectable capitals, and this old man named Daniel has both.

At least at this moment, everyone in this laboratory no longer cares about the squirming artificial nerve cords behind Daniel, and no longer cares about the old mage's unpredictable temper and mean-spirited way of speaking.

"This is the magic net, the Typhon's own magic net," Daniel's sinister eyes swept across the faces of everyone at the scene, and a smile seemed to squeeze out of his wrinkled face, although it was a smile , but there was a hint of sarcasm in that smile no matter how you look at it, but he is well known for his eccentric temper, and no one would doubt it, "Now, we have cracked the secret of the Ansu people, but this is only the first step .”

The surrounding mages nodded one after another, and some people echoed: "Yes, we still need to find ways to miniaturize and mass-produce quickly..."

"The magic net unit of the Ansu people is said to be as big as the palm of your hand, but its efficiency is comparable to that of the big guy we made," Daniel nodded, "so the next goal is how to shrink it. As for mass production...we The repulsive piston power machine has been trial-produced, and now there is a stable energy source, as long as the first punching machine is running, the magic net and the machine will naturally be able to replicate themselves."

"Use machines to produce machines..." a gray-haired magician said convincingly, "Master Daniel, you are really a genius."

"It's a pity that the Ansu people started earlier than us and went farther. It is said that they have not only created machines that can work, but even machines that can cast spells - His Majesty the Emperor is deeply disturbed by this, so we can't Stop here."

"A machine capable of casting spells..."

The mages were buzzing with discussions. These extraordinary people from all over Typhon, who have outstanding minds and insights, and are good at studying various unpopular fields, naturally realized the deep meaning of Daniel's words. They were shocked by this concept that challenged common sense , even a little panic and resistance, but they can imagine the meaning behind this technology. For them, this thing is like a deviant taboo field-but now, the mission given to them by the emperor of the empire is to be deviant, to study taboos .

A strange sense of excitement is motivating them, they are extremely nervous, but eager to try.

Daniel left the laboratory, leaving the imperial magicians to continue to be excited around a pile of runes, and apprentice Mary followed behind him.

"No wonder His Majesty the Emperor wants to recruit researchers from outside the Royal Mages Association," Mary followed the steps of her mentor. She has been working in this imperial research facility for a while, and this life, which is different from the previous life in the Mages Tower, made her Her original rabbit-like personality has also changed slightly, at least, now she dares to express her opinions, "Probably only these people will not have such a big resistance after hearing the concept of 'machines that can cast spells', but instead Will it spark interest in research?"

"That's still a bunch of idiots...it's just a little smarter than the most stupid people," Daniel commented bitterly, "this kind of achievement can satisfy them...they don't even know how much lies behind it." Amazing math."

Mary wanted to say that things should be done step by step. It is impossible for people who have never been in touch with rune logic to think so profoundly after seeing the magic net for the first time, but she knew that if she said that, the instructor would definitely be angry, so she She wisely kept her mouth shut.

Daniel was in a pretty good mood at the moment. He raised his head and looked forward, looking at the long and straight corridors in the imperial research facility, as well as the neatly arranged rooms on both sides of the corridor and the coming and going of mages, scholars and alchemists. teachers.

This is the "Imperial Manufacturing Association" established by the Emperor Rosetta of Typhon himself. From the name alone, it can be seen that this is an organization completely different from the Royal Mages Association, various craftsmen's associations, and scholars' associations. Here, people with knowledge and skills are integrated together, working together to create practical new things and new technologies. Since the establishment of the facility seven years ago, several epoch-making technologies that can affect the entire empire have been produced here— —For example, the burning rock acidification technology that has been promoted across the country, the new road construction technology, and the new white crystal production technology that reduces the cost to only one-tenth of the original cost.

The facility was created by Emperor Rosetta, and its specific design - including the style of the laboratory - was penned by Windsor Mapel, president of the Royal Society of Mages.The female president with a reputation as a genius has drastically reformed the rules of traditional mage buildings, replacing the dark, cramped, mysterious but not practical private laboratories of the old style with spacious and bright large laboratories.

It is said that many traditional mages disdain the laboratory in the "Imperial Manufacturing Association", thinking that it has lost the mystery and nobility of mages, but in Daniel's view——

"Windsor has somewhat of a saving grace in the Design Lab."

He is very satisfied with the new laboratory designed by Windsor Mapel, because the spacious and bright environment reminds him of the "experimental space" created by the master.

Mary followed Daniel, and asked in a low voice at this time: "Teacher, are we going back?"

Daniel nodded slightly: "Well, you go to the office to sort out the materials first."

Mary responded, but before she left, a group of researchers with excited expressions suddenly came out from the corner not far ahead. After recognizing those people, Daniel and Mary stopped immediately.

"Ah! Master Daniel!"

The crowd walking not far away has noticed that Daniel, the master and the apprentice—whether it is because of his own strength and knowledge, or because of the introduction of the president of the Royal Wizards Association, Daniel already has a high status in this facility , so those people greeted each other when they were far away, and when they came to him, Daniel nodded his head as a response: "I'm about to go back—why are you so excited?"

"Ah, you should wait a minute, we have something for you to see!" A scholar in a white robe showed a bright smile, "There is a bold and clever man—a man from Anglet The watchmaker has brought a very interesting machine, and if your invention of the repulsive piston power machine solves the energy problem, that machine may come in handy!"

"The machine brought by the watchmaker?" Daniel raised his sparse eyebrows slightly, with a playful tone, "What is it for?"

"Driven by the water wheel, it can weave cloth!"

Daniel's expression didn't change, he just stood quietly for a while, and then said softly: "Oh... this is really good news."

……

Cecil City, inside the Lord's Mansion.

Gao Wen's pen for reviewing documents suddenly stopped. He raised his head and stared at the wall in front of him as if without focus. After a while, he let out a slight sigh and his expression became extremely serious.

Amber, who was waiting by the side, immediately noticed Gao Wen's strangeness, and she looked over curiously: "What's the matter? I wrote for nothing again?"

Gao Wen shook his head slightly: "No, it's because time has suddenly become urgent."

In Typhon, not very far away, a machine called "Angray's Loom" appeared.

The loom itself is not a shocking creation. In fact, in Cecil, practical spinning machines and looms have already entered the stage of industrialization and practicality, but "a watchmaker in Typhon created a practical machine and Send it to the Imperial Research Facility" itself reminded Gawain like an alarm bell.

The development of Typhon is about to accelerate, and it will enter the next era at any time.

Emperor Rosetta created an advanced imperial system, and this system is showing its power naturally—after decades of centralization, reform, exploration, construction and accumulation, Typhon’s society seems to have accumulated Breaking away from the power of the agricultural age, more and more craftsmen with knowledge and skills have the ability to transform their experience into technical products. The mages of Typhon... have already begun to walk out of the mage tower.

After so much accumulation, finally a brave watchmaker sent the machine he invented to the Imperial Research Facility, and this machine will surely gain the attention of Rosetta Augustus - that talented emperor will not Ignoring the function of this machine, after this instance happened, the motivation received by Typhon's technical craftsmen can be imagined, and the speed of Typhon's development... can also be imagined.

In this world with magical powers and an astonishingly fast transformation of many technologies from theory to practice, once the "Industrial Revolution" starts, its development speed will only be faster than that on Earth.

At this moment, Gawain was extremely grateful that he sent Daniel to Aldernan in time.

He raised his head and looked at the curious Amber beside him: "Go and call Pittman and Kamel—and Hetty and Rebecca."

Chapter 0534 Plan ahead

Soon, Hetty and Rebecca came to Gawain's study, followed by Kamel and Pittman—except for Hetty who came from the government affairs hall, the other three came from He was summoned by Kohaku from the laboratory of the Institute of Magic Technology.

As soon as Heti entered the door, Hetty noticed the serious atmosphere around Gawain. This atmosphere was so serious that even an Amber standing next to him couldn't dilute it, so she immediately asked, "Ancestor, what happened?"

"Before I get down to business, I think it's time to tell you one thing," Gao Wen said while looking around the room: the people here are the most trustworthy people around him, "you should know Well, I once devoured the soul of an eternal sleeper."

Hetty nodded: "Yes, that happened last year."

"From the memories of the Eternal Sleepers, I have deciphered the secrets of their spiritual network," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, "I have been accessing their network through spiritual connections for a long time—a lot of confidential information about them and Their technology actually came through this way.”

After the words fell, the people in the room couldn't help looking at each other, but their expressions were different. Pittman showed what he had expected, Hetty showed a pensive look after being a little surprised, and Amber had a face of "You old man Sure enough, he looked Gawain up and down with an expression of "bad, very" while Kamel flashed four or four times to show his politeness - Gawain didn't understand what his expression meant.

Rebecca couldn't help exclaiming: "Wow!!"

Obviously, everyone at the scene had more or less a thought or suspicion in this regard, only Rebecca, a silly roe...it was true until today. Where did it come from.

"I did guess that you were investigating the Eternal Sleepers through some secret means, but I didn't expect that you...connected to their network," Hetty said with a hint of exclamation, "Then you haven't told us about this before, Is it because you are worried about leaking secrets?"

"The ability of Eternal Sleepers to peek at memories and weave illusions is very tricky. I don't want them to know that their network has been infiltrated, so I can only hide it from the people around me." Gawain nodded, affirming Hetty's guess , "But it doesn't matter now, I have mastered part of the high-level authority of their network, and used this to exclude the believers of the Eternal Sleeper in the main city area of ​​Cecil."

Afterwards, Gao Wen briefly described the spiritual network of the Eternal Sleeper and the general process of his access to the network - he concealed his special power as a "satellite spirit", but used the spiritual power mutation brought about by his resurrection to explain your abilities.

Because sooner or later he will expand his power in the Eternal Sleeper Network, so Gao Wen planned to tell some reliable people about his access to the Eternal Sleeper Network a long time ago, but he never found the opportunity, and Daniel just sent The intelligence made him realize that there was no time to waste.

After Gao Wen told this part of the truth, Kamel, who has been in contact with the technology of the Eternal Sleeper, quickly connected his research all the time. The two arcane flames on his head became extraordinarily bright, and he stared at Gao Wen. Wen's eyes: "Since you have been able to access the spiritual network of the Eternal Sleeper with your own power...then the equipment you asked the Institute of Magic Technology to manufacture is for..."

"To expand the results of the battle, the mind network is a good thing, we also need to use it," Gawain nodded, and looked at Pittman standing beside Kamel, "Then, how about the non-implanted artificial nerve cord test? How is it?"

The artificial nerve cord is not a technology developed from scratch. Since the biochemical engineers of the Doom Society created it, this biological-mechanical creation has experienced several times in the hands of the Doom and Eternal Sleepers. After ten years of development and improvement, Pittman, as a former double-material cultist, has mastered this technology himself, while Daniel has been studying his nerve cords for more than ten years, and has simulated a very The structure of the implanted nerve cord, so Gao Wen has ready-made materials, ready-made technicians, and a ready-made experimental processing environment. It doesn't take long to get a usable finished product. The only time-consuming thing is the sample. test only.

"In fact, a sample has already been produced a while ago," Pittman laughed quite proudly, and then looked at Rebecca awkwardly, "But during the test, something happened in Miss Rebecca's laboratory. Explosion, our side has also been affected a bit... so all the testing and adjustment work has not been completed yet."

Rebecca shrank her neck immediately, and Gao Wen recalled the situation at the same time, and realized that there was indeed such a thing——

Not long ago, Rebecca's laboratory used to test the power structure of the magic train exploded, and the experimental accident even caused serious personal injuries. At that time, Pittman and his druids and alchemist apprentices were the first batch When I arrived at the scene, Pittman mentioned that he was testing the nerve cord...

This is a regrettable and painful thing, but the accident has already happened, Gao Wen can only accept this fact: "Then what is the result of the test at the current stage?"

"Non-implantable nerve cords are indeed feasible. They can establish a stable and reliable connection between the human brain and the magic device. At the same time, the damage and pressure on the human body are also reduced to an acceptable level, but there are many shortcomings," said Pete. Man said, "First of all, the current anti-interference ability is still too poor, because there is no direct connection between the nerve cord and the cranial nerve, and the subconscious mind of the human brain cannot be effectively controlled, so the tester is easily confused by the external environment after 'immersion'." wake up', which requires an environment that can effectively isolate external interference, followed by a short-term 'cognitive disorder', some testers continued to have hallucinations for several minutes after the connection ended, we suspect that this is due to neurological The cable is not directly connected to the brain, so that the brain cannot perceive the occurrence of 'connection interruption' in time after a long period of connection, and as a result continues to be immersed in the illusion of inertia."

"I have a plan for this," Kamel added next to Pittman as soon as Pittman finished, "We can design a scenario that has a strong cue before the connection is lost-let the brain know that it will go back to the next step." In the real world, this may reduce the duration of subsequent cognitive disturbances."

"How can this 'interruption scenario' be [-]% consistent with the process of nerve cord disconnection?" Pittman raised a question in response to Kamel's suggestion, "If the 'interruption scenario' occurs, but the nerve cord is not disconnected, or the nerve cord Disconnected, but there is a problem with the interrupted scene, and the brain of the connected person may fall into a more serious state of cognitive disorder..."

"We can make three confirmations during this process. The nerve cord controller sends a signal that it is about to be interrupted, and sends it to the illusion generating matrix, indicating that it is ready to disconnect. After the illusion matrix receives the signal, it returns to the nerve cord controller, indicating that it is ready. Get ready, after the nerve cord controller receives the second feedback signal, it will return a final confirmation signal, indicating that the two parties have completed synchronization. After receiving this signal, the illusion matrix will generate a prompt for the brain to interrupt the connection, and at the same time, the nerve cord will shut down. - This minimizes the chance of synchronization errors."

"Oh? Your idea is okay... that's right! We can also apply this idea to the magic network communication, so that maybe we can solve the current situation of signal dislocation in remote areas..."

Once the technicians entered the technical discussion session, it was like a different person. Even Pittman began to discuss various experimental plans with Kamel in a serious manner, but Amber, who was watching the excitement, fell into a sluggish state after the topic suddenly turned to technical aspects. status, she listened to the little old man and Pittman discussing each other sentence by sentence for a while, before she couldn't help poking Rebecca's arm: "What are they discussing... can you Do you understand?"

Rebecca thought for a while, and said with a natural look: "Yes."

amber:"……"

A huge sense of frustration enveloped the heart of the half-elf girl—Gao Wen noticed the change in the expression of the shame of all things and deeply understood it. He guessed that Amber's mood at the moment was probably the same as suddenly knowing that the girl in the class with him had failed math. It's a feeling that my guy is actually a bigot who is fluent in [-] languages...

But this is not a laboratory, Gao Wen had to interrupt the discussion between Kamel and Pittman: "Since you have the next plan, then complete the follow-up test as soon as possible, I need you to complete it in the shortest possible time." It is practical to connect devices.”

Kamel bent down slightly, and made a voice trembling with energy: "As you wish."

Pittman asked curiously: "Is something happening on the side of the Eternal Sleeper? Why are you so anxious all of a sudden?"

Gao Wen shook his head, and said in a deep voice, "It's not the Eternal Sleeper that happened, but Typhon."

This time, even Pittman was at a loss.

How could this still be in contact with Typhon?

"At Typhon's side, I arranged a dark line," Gao Wen said unhurriedly, looking at the puzzled faces around him, "I will tell you the specifics of this dark line later, and now I want to tell you It means that the people of Typhon... are about to enter the era of the magic industry."

Among all the people, the one who reacted the fastest and also the most was Hetty.

"Magic industry?!" The butler Cecil exclaimed, "They also created magic nets and magic machines?"

"It's not scary that they created magic nets and magic machines," Gawain glanced at Heidi. "In fact, their 'magic net' technology itself is in my plan."

"In your plan?" Hetty was taken aback again, and then noticed Gawain's half-smile, she was thoughtful, "Do...do you have any plans?"

"Indeed." Gawain nodded slightly, and said something that surprised everyone present, "I am going to help Typhon...help them enter the era of magic industry, and it will be a great help."

Others can't see it, but Gawain himself knows that the magic industry in the southern border was actually opened by him forcibly - relying on the experience of his previous life, relying on the huge materials in the treasure house in the mountain, relying on the situation after the disaster and the ready-made resources of this world. Technology accumulation, he directly skipped a lot of processes that need time to accumulate to be able to progress step by step, and lit up the technology line of Magic Industry with leaps and bounds. His development method can greatly compress the time (because a lot of trial and error has been skipped , wayfinding process), but there are hidden dangers of weak foundation and over-reliance on "strongman politics". The time saved in the early stage must eventually be paid as a price in the process of making up for these hidden dangers.

And Typhon...it completed the normal accumulation.

Even though Rosetta the Great may take many detours, even if the Typhonians have to stumble a lot in the process of trial and error, this empire that has completed normal accumulation will soon form a crushing position against Cecil after entering the industrial age. Potential.

Without him, there are a lot of people and a lot of food...

Driven by the general trend, Typhon's magic industry era is unstoppable. They already know Cecil's magic net, and new technological breakthroughs are constantly appearing in their own country. They have greatly increased food production, education and systems. It is also constantly developing. In this case, even if Gao Wen did not arrange Daniel, there will be other Typhon scholars who will understand the secret of the magic net and come up with their own magic machine. It's better to give it a push.

"Heidi, do you still remember the statistics I asked you to count?" Gawain looked at his great-great-granddaughter, "About our factory production history data, the operation of the Production Coordination Committee, progressive businessmen and new aristocrats investing in industries." Condition……"

"Yes," Hetty responded, "and counting every month."

Gao Wen nodded in satisfaction: "Very well, I need these data, and more aspects..."

Next, he will give Typhon a big gift.

That is a gift sweeter than "Magic Web".

Chapter 0535

Typhon Imperial Capital, Aldernan, a special small-scale banquet is being held in the noble district.

Bright magic spar lamps illuminate the spacious main banquet hall. Golden tassels hang from the high roof, forming a gorgeous curtain above the hall. Soft and cheerful tunes echo in the interior space, and the music carries The intoxicating and extravagant atmosphere unique to Typhon's "Nightingale Year" period - the nobles from the central Typhon area like this kind of music from the previous era, which seems to remind them of the "good times" before the Empire's New Deal , They like to dance in this nightingale-like melody, remembering the era when nobles could still enjoy a lot of privileges and control all the wealth of a piece of land.

However, today, many years after the implementation of the New Deal, they can only reminisce to this extent in a melody.

This kind of private banquet, which only invites a few close friends, is destined to not have too many guests. A dozen invited guests stand together in twos and threes, talking casually in the hall. The mellow wine and exquisite snacks are not too much By attracting these high-society visitors, their attention was almost always on the small improvised platform in the center of the hall-there was an oddly shaped machine with an iron frame and a series of The complex connecting rods, gear mechanism, and the neatly arranged cotton threads between the metal rods in the upper part of the machine make people think of "spinning", but this is the first time everyone has seen such a weird loom .

The guests stopped around this machine intentionally or unintentionally, discussing or speculating in low voices about the origin of this machine and the purpose of putting it here by the host of the banquet. The atmosphere does not match the atmosphere, and it is certainly not for decoration to place it in the center of the hall, so what is the purpose of putting it here for the host of the banquet—Viscount Hermiel, an orthodox nobleman?