I Made Scientific Magic

In the afternoon, dozens of wizards from the Iyeta School gathered in the spacious magic laboratory, thinking about the deep meaning in the words of the star of magic.

However, the young and energetic Eloque didn't have so many worries, and immediately replied. "Food is, of course, wheat, beans, and corn..."

Lydia also raised her hand high and replied. "We need to plant the seed in the ground, then water, fertilize, and repeat until it grows out of the ground!"

"That's right, you can say that!" Lynn nodded, then continued to ask with a smile. "Then do you know how plants convert various elements into nutrients that can be absorbed by us?"

Erok and Lydia were speechless for a moment. Even a three-ring wizard like Philip who focused on elemental science was stopped by Lynn.

They really haven't paid attention to how the wheat absorbs various elements in the land during the growth process, and finally becomes edible food.

Fortunately, Lynn didn't expect them to be able to answer, so he directly revealed the answer.

"It depends on photosynthesis!"

This is common sense that everyone in the previous Federation knew!

At the bottom of the entire ecosystem, plants convert carbon dioxide and water into organic matter that stores energy through photosynthesis, which is the source of biopower!

In ancient times, human beings obtained food through gathering and hunting like beasts. They were greatly affected by the environment, weather and luck, and were very unstable. Starvation was a common occurrence.

It wasn't until the two skills of farming and animal husbandry were pointed out that they had the ability to obtain food stably, which laid a solid foundation for large-scale herds and the formation of a country.

However, this kind of stability is also limited, maybe a drought, a large-scale war can burn everything!

Until the 21st century, humans used carbon dioxide, water, electricity (light) and a special catalytic enzyme to directly synthesize starch in the laboratory for the first time!

This result is undoubtedly revolutionary!

It means that from then on, the production of food will directly get rid of the dependence on land, light and environment, and can be directly produced in batches like assembly line operations!

Efficiency has been improved several levels!

To know the natural photosynthesis of plants, the transformation of inorganic matter into organic matter requires dozens of extremely complex biochemical reactions, which take several months, and the theoretical energy conversion efficiency is also very low, about 2%.

Artificially synthesized starch only needs eleven processes, and the energy conversion rate has also increased to 7%.

After entering the 22nd century, based on the needs of interstellar voyages and the establishment of nuclear fusion reactors, artificially synthesized starch once again ushered in a technological blowout innovation, and the energy utilization rate directly soared to about 20%. , down to six steps!

In addition, there are also technologies related to the artificial synthesis of wheat flour and corn flour in the brain. After all, these things are simply synthesized from some inorganic substances. Although the technical difficulty is higher, it is always the same!

Lynn extended his right hand while explaining the principles of magic.

The water vapor and carbon dioxide in the air were quickly stripped out, followed by a flash of thunder, and various trace elements were integrated into it under the control of spiritual power.

Using the void as the pot and the magic as the shovel, transform the inorganic into organic...

Lynn just showed his artificial bread technique in front of dozens of wizards!

After about fifteen seconds, grains of fine powder began to emerge in the void, floating and piling up together, forming a ball shape.

This is like a scene created in the void, which amazed all the wizards of the Iyeta School!

"water!"

Lynn opened his mouth again, and more water vapor was transformed into liquid water and poured into the powder. Then he quickly kneaded the dough with [Mage Hands]. for baking.

The dough, which was originally only one finger thick, immediately expanded due to heat, and turned into a four-finger thick, square bread brick!

It only took about three minutes before and after!

"This is my magic bread!"

Lin En urged [Mage's Hand] to put the bread bricks on the square table.

Ai Luoke, Kevin, Philip and others immediately surrounded them, with dozens of pairs of eyes staring at the bread bricks on the table, amazed at the magic work done by Lynn...

"Is it edible?" Lydia stretched out her hand and poked it. It was soft to the touch, unlike the bread she bought in the market, which was hard enough to be used as a shield and weapon.

"Of course!" Lynn said amusedly, otherwise what would he do with these things.

After hearing Lynn's affirmative answer, Lydia immediately tore off a piece and put it in her mouth.

"How is it? Is the taste okay?" Lynn hurriedly asked. Although he added a lot of trace elements in it to enhance its nutrition, it's hard to say how it tasted.

Lydia frowned and thought for a long time before finding an adjective.

"It tastes like a cloud!"

The girl's evaluation made Philip and others feel extremely curious, so they ate one by one, and then they understood why Lydia said that.

Because this kind of bread is soft and soft to the bite, not hard at all, and the taste is even much better than that of white bread. The only disadvantage is that it has no taste.

If it can be eaten with some soy sauce, it must be delicious!

"It seems that from now on we don't have to worry about food anymore!" Philip said excitedly.

Lynn's bread-making technique is really great, which means that wizards don't need to carry any food when they travel far in the future. They can extract the water vapor in the air when they are thirsty, and perform a bread-making technique when they are hungry. , it is simply not too convenient.

"I don't know how many rings of magic this is. Can apprentices use it? How much magic power does it need to consume?" Kevin asked a substantive question, that is, universality.

This is related to the scope of application of this technique.

"From the perspective of the difficulty of casting the spell, casting the [Magic Bread Spell] should be considered a three-ring magic!" Lin En said in a deep voice.

Kevin frowned slightly. There were only 2,000 third-ring wizards in the council. Even if they all performed this spell together, it would not be able to supply the entire kingdom!

Fortunately, Lynn spoke quickly. "We can separate each process and build a corresponding alchemy circle to make it, and the difficulty will be much lower."

"If it's just synthetic starch, it's even easier!"

Naturally, bread cannot be made from starch alone, but it is definitely not a problem at all as the daily food of the poor!

It only needs to consume carbon dioxide, water, electricity and mana!

The former two are everywhere, and the latter two need to use the council's lightning guide stone and magic stone reserves.

"But... will this consume too much?" Kevin said again hesitantly. The daily rations of three million people consume a small amount of energy!

"Don't worry, we won't need to think about energy issues after a while." Lynn patted Philip on the shoulder and said with a smile.

They discovered a new magic stone mine not long ago. As for electricity, isn't there a nuclear fusion reactor that will be built soon?

In fact, the Federation's artificial food technology was not really widely used until nuclear fusion and positive and negative matter annihilation technology were developed!

After dispelling the doubts of Kevin and others, Lynn turned his head and looked outside the door, and said.

"Lauder, come in!"

After receiving the order, Lauder, who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, walked in quickly on his artificial leg.

After entering the door, his first glance was at the half-torn bread on the square table.

According to Lauder, who has a very limited understanding of magic, this piece of bread was conjured out of thin air by Lynn using magic!

It is a miracle of void creation!

No wonder Master Lynn dared to let him sell nearly half of his wheat reserves in just a few days!

"Come and taste it too!" Lynn reached out and stuffed the remaining half of the bread to Lauder.

The latter was also very excited, and directly broke off a piece and put it in his mouth, which melted in his soft mouth.

"Sure enough, it's the same as the clouds!" Lauder said with emotion. "If this kind of magic bread can be delivered to the market in large quantities, probably no one will buy wheat anymore."

I just don't know what kind of expressions those wealthy merchants and nobles who are frantically harvesting grain will have when they see this thing?

Lauder thought to himself, but he didn't forget the business, and immediately took out a secret envelope from his pocket.

"Lord Lynn, this is the list of people collected by the psionic wizards of the council. They raised the price of food this time, trying to blame the cholera kingdom."

Those nobles hid themselves behind the scenes, relied on remote control of various caravans to buy a large amount of wheat, and even killed many cronies in charge of operations, trying to cut off the possibility of their traceability.

However, there are no secrets under the soul search. Those psychic wizards spent several days, but they still went all the way down the line. The team makes contact.

Grand Duke Gard, Marquis of Mortain, Earl of Bell, Earl of Herder...

This list is very long, covering almost all the great nobles in the northern part of the kingdom. If it was changed to a year ago, every name on the list would be enough to affect the stability of the entire kingdom.

"There is also information about that person. According to the investigation of the wizards, he seems to be involved in the plan of the Cholera Kingdom!" Lauder said very cryptically.

Lin En nodded, not too surprised, how could the nobleman dare to make such a big fuss without the other party's acquiescence.

But it just happened to save him looking for a reason...

"How much food has been released now?" Lin En put away the file in his hand and asked casually.

"About 90,000 tons of wheat, totaling 173,600 imperial gold coins..." Lauder reported excitedly.

This is simply a money grab!

The most important thing is that this is just the beginning. They still have half of the wheat that they have not thrown out. That is the real big deal. After all, according to the current momentum, wouldn't it be easy for the price of one kilogram of wheat to increase by one or two hundred times?

Lynn thought about it, and felt that it should be about the same.

Although those nobles have accumulated very rich for generations, the cash they can spend is estimated to be about one million imperial gold coins, which may not be able to buy all the wheat.

After finishing the happy news, Lauder thought about the bad news. "There has been massive famine in the west of the kingdom and the Northern Territory due to the skyrocketing price of wheat."

Although the parliament is in charge of the entire kingdom on the surface, in fact it only has absolute control over the 'cleared' southern, central and eastern territories that have just been captured, and the rest of the areas are still under the control of the nobles.

Now that the nobles are busy buying wheat to make money, naturally no one can care about the life and death of the poor in the territory.

Lauder knew very well that the star of magic still cared about the poor, so when he talked about the scene of hungry people eating grass and trees, he tried his best to think carefully about his words.

However, to his surprise, Lynn didn't show the slightest sign of anger or worry, but instead ordered with a smile.

"It's just right, let Raeder go to work, bring some food over there, and then distribute the replaced flintlock guns to them!"

This... this... firing a gun?

Lauder was astonished. He didn't expect Lynn to use such a rough method to solve the problem.

Or in other words, from the time when the food was gradually released to push the nobles into the game, the star of magic should have already planned the follow-up coping strategy.

"Your wisdom is so vast..." Lauder hurriedly flattered, but there was a bit of sincerity in his tone.

The aristocrats' messing around is equivalent to completely losing the hearts of the people. Coupled with the operation of releasing food and firing guns, they can easily regain the kingdom's western and northern territories, and win the hearts of the people along the way.

Lynn didn't care about Lauder's flattery, and continued to ask how the grain collection plan he ordered was going.

"It is true that a small number of caravans have sold their food, and most of them are the people of the kingdom who are selling food to us at a low price." Lauder replied truthfully.

"This really...surprises me." Lynn was a little dumbfounded, but this also proved that their strategy of improving the living standards of the people has achieved good results.

One must know that the current price of wheat on the market is several times their purchase price, yet the villagers are still willing to sell grain to them at a low price.

There was a slight smile on Lin En's face, and then he suddenly said indifferently. "Let's lower the purchase price per kilogram of wheat to fifteen coppers tonight!"

"Yes, Lord Lynn." Lauder couldn't help wiping the cold sweat off his brow. Before that, he still couldn't understand why the star of magic wanted to collect food at a price far below the market price. Now everything is clear.

This is not the price of harvesting grain, it is clearly the countdown to raising the butcher's knife!