Mage? Spell Engineer!

"This is a printed copy of the paper." Kano carefully took out the worn pamphlet. Seeing that the instructor was treating it with care, and the paper was already a bit tattered, Rorschach turned over it with extra caution.

"The Movement of Energy in Magical Fields and Its Principles" by Baron Wilhelm van Leipzig.

These days, if you want to publish papers publicly, there is no unified newspaper or periodical, so you print and publish pamphlets yourself.

Rorschach first read the previous summary. The author believes that if the concentration of magic power in the environment is less than a certain limit value and the density of other energy is greater than a certain limit value, the energy will tend to be converted into magic power.

The author puts forward the idea of ​​transformation: by continuously inputting real-world energy in a very small area, and continuously consuming or exporting magic power, it may be possible to achieve the conversion of energy into magic power.

"It has been almost ten years since this paper was published, but it has never been taken seriously. After all, we have believed that only ether can be transformed into other elements and energy since ancient times."

Rorschach focused on the experiments that verified the principle: the author spent a lot of money to obtain three grams of high-purity mithril - a metal that is resistant to high temperatures and sensitive to magic. One end extends into the 1100-degree forge, and the other end is connected to the circuit of the [Light Technique] scroll.

In the paper, the authors claim that the scroll was successfully activated. Rorschach was a little doubtful: "Did the replication experiment succeed?"

"We changed the energy. We used mid-level magic [Chain Lightning] to continuously bombard the silver nugget, and a trace amount of ether was also detected." Paulina handed over a schematic diagram of the device.

"Only use silver, not mithril. But using magic to obtain electrical energy seems loose. It is best to produce electricity strictly through non-magical means."

"So this involves new problems. We need better power generation and discharge devices. The Alchemy Department sent several prototype machine drawings, and we are now looking for the most efficient one."

Is this to create a pre-project for the original project, and then have a pre-project of the pre-project?

Fortunately, the application value of the two front-end projects is great.

"This Baron William, we infer from the name that he is from the Empire, but we cannot find this person among the imperial nobles. And this pamphlet soon ceased to be circulated, and even the magic guilds across the continent only collected three copies. ." Cano recalled.

Either the pamphlet itself was not printed much, or the empire realized the value of this paper and implemented controls before most mages also realized it.

Maybe it's both factors.

Pascal opened the paper bag, which contained a large number of mechanical drawings. "We are mages! Why does the Alchemy Department give us the job of tinkering with machines? Do you think we are dwarves?"

Brother, how did you become a mage? There is only one apprentice among you, but Rorschach did not say so.

Paulina: "What the Alchemy Department means is that none of the existing steam engines on the market can meet our requirements. It would be too expensive to try out all these prototypes. Let us choose ourselves."

"Shirking responsibility! If it doesn't meet the requirements, then they will say: You chose it yourself." Pascal knocked on the table.

What was beyond Rorschach's imagination was that the technology tree dwarf, the power-generating rotor, had already invented it in the old empire. Ferromagnetism is considered a sacred substance by the dwarves, and during the process of offering sacrifices to the first-generation dwarf king, they discovered: This thing can generate electricity!

There are illustrations in the information: dwarves circling around a Tesla tower-like device, singing and dancing in the electric light. Perhaps the illustrator's skills were limited, and the dwarves were drawn like goblins.

These guys... the dwarves are using their lives to beat the gods! Luo Xia was filled with emotion when reading the information.

As for the numerous steam engine prototype drawings submitted by the Alchemy Department, Rorschach took them over and looked through them. The Alchemy Department is a subtle component of the magic guild and the magic tower. It is faintly located at the lower level of the contempt chain in the mage group: Are you going to study alchemy? Are you really poor or do you have poor spellcasting skills?

But the Alchemy Department is an indispensable part. It is not only an organization that maintains the operation of magic facilities, but also produces alchemy potions and scrolls on a large scale. It is an important cash cow for the magic guild - they may not be able to turn stone into gold, but Really making money!

The old man who worked on magic tools in the Alchemy Department was always in the dark. One day, he suddenly received a task from the chief professor to make a steam engine that was better than the dwarf power furnace. The amount of funding would depend on the results first.

The old man is angry! After staying up for several days and nights, Valuana's per capita hair loss was successfully reduced by a few tenths of a tenth of a million points, and what he got in exchange was a drawing in Rorschach's hand that looked unreliable at first sight.

Why is this boiler so weird? Can it be removed? It would be a good idea to carve a magic circle to keep warm. Rorschach discovered that the old buddies in the Alchemy Department were all great inventors, but they were only "inventors".

"I want to go to the Alchemy Department." Rorschach proposed. Kano thought about it and nodded in agreement: "Yes, but you must not express your stance and don't let go of the plan they are giving now."

The Alchemy Department is not as full of lunatics as the ones stuck in some academy, jumping bombs and digging mountains every day. Of course, the old man may not be mentally normal.

The man who received Rorschach couldn't tell whether he was thirty, forty or fifty years old. He seemed to have a thin sense of presence. The only thing that impressed people was the deep dark circles: "Snow, the person in charge of the Alchemy Department, the second level Mage."

"Rorschach, nice to meet you." Luoschach saw the sparse golden hair on the other person's head, swaying in the air waves of the machine.

"The first to third floors are our alchemy potion production line. Master Rorschach, you are still young and have no children. It is recommended not to go to the second floor. The machines on the first floor are our packaging workshop. We have spent a lot of thought on ensuring the effect of the potion. .”

"Why are you giving birth here?"

Master Snow took out a delicate purple potion. The liquid in the glass bottle was a slightly viscous oily liquid: "This is our exclusive product. It is kept under our noses for confidentiality and convenience for us."

As he spoke, Snow pulled out the cork and raised his head to drink. His facial features seemed to be twisted into a ball. When he stretched again, he was already radiant: "For personal use. Do you need it? Energy potion, pure herbal medicine, and the Valuana man Favorite effect.”

"Thank you, I have a lot of energy recently." Luo Xia still remembered the warning not to go to the second floor, so it was because of evil, right? Why can you still claim those kinds of effects?

"Youth is the most precious wealth, Master Rorschach!" Snow patted the young man's shoulder solemnly and finally got to the point.

The magic weapon workshop and blank scroll production workshop belonging to the magic guild are both located on the banks of the Seine River, using the power of flowing water to drive the machinery in the workshop. Once the plan is finalized, the drawings can be sent to the workshop for trial production.

"The dwarf boiler and the power furnace are both very good, very good." Snow rubbed his hands: "But I think the design of our Alchemy Department is not bad, as long as you finalize it from the twelve plans."

"I'm sorry Master Snow, I don't have the right to make the decision." Rorschach and Snow walked to the design room of the Alchemy Department, where several old guys were working on drawings and playing with slide rules.

There were hundreds of parts spread out on the table in the center, and each part was labeled. It smelled of metal and animal fat, reminding Rorschach of the fitter workshop in his previous life, when he was a metalworking intern.

"The power furnace of the dwarves, three thousand golden pieces of His Majesty the King. It's a pity that after it was dismantled, it couldn't be put back together." Snow scratched his head, maybe there would be no more hair to scratch soon, and he drank another bottle of energy potion.

The experiment took longer than expected. I haven’t saved the manuscript recently and posted it late. Sorry.