Master Tongtian

Chapter 299 The key to opening the door to the new world (23)

Three o'clock in the afternoon.

Fort Romil, the golden capital.

Royal Botanical Society Museum and Botanic Gardens.

The name of this place is grand, but in fact it is just a garden of less than 20 rams, and it got the prefix of 'royal' mainly because there is no competition.

The owner of the Botanical Academy is Bren Neisser, a level 5 archmage, an earl lord, the second prince, and the brother-in-law of the high-level 15-star mage Orogard.

Since he is the prince's eldest brother-in-law and has studied the unpopular knowledge of botany, it will be easy for him to give his manor a 'royal' prefix after a little digging.

At this moment, the 55-year-old Level 5 Archmage was wearing a leather apron, sleeves on his arms, and even his hair and beard were tied up.

‘Huchi~~Huchi~~Huchi~~~’

‘Gaji~gaji~gaji~~’

The movement is a bit strange, but if a glass worker comes, you will immediately know that someone is grinding lenses with a foot-operated rotary grinder.

Lens grinding is both a rough job and a fine job. It is one of the few elegant skills recognized by the upper class.

Because the ground lenses can be used to explore lofty areas such as the starry sky.

Of course, as a rare botanical master in the Golden Land, Bren naturally has no great interest in the stars.

The purpose of grinding the mirror was to see clearly the veins of the leaves.

As the feet continued to step on the ball, the cast iron grinding ball rotated slowly and quickly. A small water ball floated on the side of the ball, and another grinding powder floated on the other side, constantly falling on the ball, while the lens was covered by a third ball. The mage's hand controlled and pressed steadily on the sphere.

Just grind it like this for a while, take it out and check it for a while, then adjust the grinding angle and continue.

Just as he was concentrating on grinding, there was a knock on the door of the mirror-grinding room, and the weak voice of the housekeeper came in.

"Master, Master Dalian came to you and said that he brought you a precious gift that will make you jump with joy."

Bren was stunned for a moment, and when his hand moved, the lens suddenly shook, and an unforgivable flaw appeared.

He was suddenly filled with annoyance: "It's really the wrong time to come!"

In anger, he said: "Nothing in this world can make me jump with joy. Just let that kid wait for me."

Dallion was his personal apprentice. He spent twenty years teaching him from a ignorant kid to a high-level 12-star mage. He also found him a job at the Royal Academy of Arts. Decent work.

The relationship between the two parties is as close as that of father and son.

Therefore, when he said this, Brun knew that Dallion would definitely open the door and come in by himself.

Sure enough, not long after the words fell, the door was pushed open, and a young man's slightly sad voice came from the door.

"Teacher, you are so heartless. I brought you good things with good intentions, but you turned me away."

The lenses were worn out, and he was too lazy to continue polishing them. He wiped some paint on his hands and turned to look at the disciple who was smiling shamelessly.

"Tell me, what gift did you bring?"

Standing at the door was a young man in his twenties or eighties, with a cute baby face and a somewhat chubby figure. He looked very happy.

"Teacher, the thing is placed in your observation room, and I believe that when you truly understand the powerful function of this thing, you will definitely reward me as an apprentice greatly."

Brun took off his leather bib and handed it to the butler on the side, laughing and scolding: "Then I will reward you with ten pointers!"

Dallion chuckled: "As long as the teacher is happy, twenty lashes are no problem."

While the master and apprentice were chatting and laughing, they came to the bright observation room on the stone-roofed floor.

The so-called observation room, whose full name is the Plant Growth Observation Room, is a place used by Brun to study the growth patterns of plants.

In order to let more sunlight in, three walls of the entire room are equipped with expensive high-transmittance glass.

There is a huge solid wood long table in the middle of the observation room. On the table are various small tools and some dried specimens of plant leaves.

In the open space in the middle of the table, there is an exquisite wooden box, and next to the box is an exquisite mithril key.

The sunlight shines on the mithril key, reflecting a bright light, just like the secret key that opens the treasure house of divine knowledge.

Bren was stunned for a moment: "The workmanship of the shell is quite good. What does it contain?"

The apprentice no longer concealed anything and said softly: "The microscope produced in the Crescent Territory of Huangshui Highlands in the north was made by Master Luo Sen, the master of Liushu."

Bren's breath stagnated slightly: "The microscope that Master Helevin mentioned?"

"Yes, and it is many times more powerful than the microscope predicted by the master. It is so powerful that it opens an incredible new world."

Bren's heart trembled a little: "New world?"

“For example, it can help you see the truth hidden inside the leaves.”

"Such a new gadget is expensive, isn't it? How much did it cost?"

"Sixteen thousand crowns, and there are only ten in total in the entire imperial capital."

"In order to help my tutor get this microscope, I spent all my savings. Tutor, you have to compensate me well."

As an archmage and the lord of the Ruby City in the Middle Realm, Bren was certainly able to come up with this money, but he was also a little surprised.

"Is it so expensive?"

"All I can say is that the high price just complements its powerful features."

"That's right."

Bren stepped forward, picked up the key and inserted it into the keyhole. He couldn't twist it at first and didn't dare to use force for fear of breaking it.

The disciple's voice immediately came from beside him: "Inject mana, mentor."

Bren did as he was told, and felt the key vibrate slightly, with a faint tingling sensation, before twisting it again.

There was a crisp "click" sound, and the door of the box opened. Inside was a device that I had never seen before, but it was very exquisitely made and made of very strange materials.

Brun carefully took out this expensive equipment worth 16,000 kronor, observed it carefully, and made an evaluation.

"The workmanship is very good, and it uses unique petrochemical materials, but the materials used alone are far from worth the price."

Dallion smiled slightly and took out the mirror case from the side: "Tutor, that's just the frame, the real value is here."

He gently opened the lid and saw 8 exquisite lenses inside.

Bren glanced at the camera and was shaken violently.

"Good glass~good lens!"

He picked up an eyepiece and looked carefully, and found that the glass inlaid in this thing was really good, pure, white, like a diamond. Looking carefully again, he found that there was a number marked under the lens.

Looking at the other shots, I found that each shot was marked with a number.

Dallion knew his mentor's thoughts as soon as he saw his eyes and explained immediately.

"There are two types of mirrors. One is an eyepiece and the other is an objective lens. The product of the two numbers is the specific magnification."

"By the way, there is one in the objective lens that is quite unique."

"This is it. It's called an oil lens. It has the highest magnification. When using it, it needs to be combined with this special transparent oil."

As he spoke, he demonstrated to the instructor.

"Look, the eyepiece is installed here, the observation lens is installed like this, and the one below is the constant light array, used to supplement the light."

Bren understood: "So, the set of lenses you have equipped now can magnify 500 times?"

"That's right."

Bren felt his heartbeat speeding up. He leaned into the camera to observe, but couldn't see anything.

"There's nothing."

"Teacher, don't worry. Let me show you how to use it."

This method was taught step by step by the opponent's technical specialist, and it took him a long time to learn it.

After completing the course, I feel a sense of accomplishment.

He first took out a stack of very pure and flat square glass from the wooden box. After carefully adjusting it according to the instructions for use, he took a small amount of fresh leaves and placed it on the observation platform, and carefully adjusted the focus.

"Teacher, please look, the new world is in the mirror."

Bren leaned over to take a look. After taking a look, he felt a rush of blood rush into his brain, and his head was slightly dizzy. He quickly closed his eyes and calmed down for a while, then he leaned in and looked again.

At this sight, my mind is completely immersed in it.

"It turns out that veins are hollow pipes. It turns out that leaves are made of small particles stacked up one by one."

"Mentor, this small particle has been named 'cell' by a biologist named Vivian."

"She discovered that all life is made up of accumulations of small particles called cells."

"At the same time, there are very obvious differences between the cells of beasts and the cells of plants."

Hearing this, Bren suddenly felt a little disappointed and couldn't help but sigh.

"Um~~Am I late?"

Dallion could completely understand his mentor's thoughts and immediately comforted him.

"Teacher, although you are a step late, you are also the first batch of guests to see the new world. After all, there are only ten microscopes in the entire imperial capital."

"As far as I know, the number of microscopes in the entire Golden Land does not exceed 20. Except for these ten in the Imperial Capital, the others are all in Crescent Town."

"I've heard of Master Liushu, but Crescent Town. The name is a bit unfamiliar."

"Everyone will know soon, Master."

"Why?"

"Because Master Rosen has been canonized as a baron by Master Sophia of the North, and Crescent Town is his fiefdom."

"And not only did he make the microscope, but he made other wonderful things, all of them very good, very strange and very useful."

"Never before have so many good things appeared in the imperial capital at once. Everyone is going crazy trying to grab them."

"Oh~~ Master Luo Sen, this young man turned out to be a baron. Tsk tsk~ I thought he was a genius scholar, but now I see that he is also very good at sneaking into camps."

Generally gifted scholars will be completely immersed in their own research fields and ignore the world. Such scholars will not go long and will soon be tripped up by the hardships of the world.

But it would be interesting if a talented scholar could also take care of the interests of the worldly reality while focusing on research.

For such a person, his future achievements will not be too low.

Regarding his mentor's evaluation, Dallion shrugged: "If he didn't become a baron, I'm afraid he wouldn't have the money to study this microscope."

Bren nodded in approval: "You are right. Apart from anything else, just to research the glass used in this lens will probably require a huge investment."

Dallion said another piece of news: "But even so, we still offended the greedy ones."

Brun was startled: "What's going on?"

"The Marquis of Broken Leaf City is building connections all over the world to block the trade routes in Crescent Town. If I guessed correctly, the Marquis's envoy must have also arrived in your Ruby City."

Upon hearing this, Brun sneered coldly.

"I know what Seraf is thinking without having to guess. I'm too lazy to pay attention to him."

After saying that, his mind returned to the microscope, and he clicked his tongue in wonder.

"Hmm~ This shot is really beautiful, just like a work of art, tsk tsk tsk~~~"

He quickly changed to the highest magnification lens, continued to observe the leaves, and then made a new discovery.

"Hey~ I can vaguely see some strange little things in the leaf cells, which seem to be able to respond to my magic power."

"The same Master Vivian called it the mana bubble and proposed the mana bubble theory. This theory points out the right direction for breaking through the high-level confusion and the master's cliff."

Bren had heard the name 'Vivian' for the second time, and was very curious about her magic bubble theory, so he said, "Introduce this mage."

Dallion began to introduce the mage in detail to his mentor.

At the end, he shrugged: "It is said that she was Master Rosen's lover, so she got the world's first microscope."

"Oh~ What a lucky girl."

"However, she can't see a whole new world by herself. There are always corners that she hasn't discovered."

He also wants to borrow this artifact to take a closer look, and maybe he can discover a new gadget that will make him famous in history.

"Teacher, I think you have forgotten one thing."

"What?"

"You forgot to reimburse me for the purchase."

"And if you don't reimburse me, I will have to drink cold water next month, because in order to buy it, I urgently borrowed three thousand kronor from a friend."

"Then, at the Golden Lake University Conference next month, I can only wear last year's old clothes to attend the conference."

Bren laughed and called the housekeeper loudly: "Afu~Afu~"

The butler quickly asked: "What are your orders, Master?"

"Go get twenty thousand crowns for my stingy apprentice, and tell him to get out of here."

"Thank you, mentor."

Dallion left happily, and when he got outside the door, he smiled again.

The instructor gave me 20,000 yuan and made 4,000 yuan.

The businessman gave himself another two thousand in favor.

I made a net profit of six thousand from going back and forth, which is equivalent to my income as a magic professor for three years.

On the other side, Brun's mind was completely focused on this powerful microscope, and he began to continuously observe the various plants he collected.

After looking at it, he discovered a shortcoming of this microscope, or to be more precise, it was a personalized problem he encountered.

"Although the observer interference is reduced as much as possible, the cells are too fragile."

If he concentrates for a moment, his cells will deform or even rupture. This action of concentration is natural and difficult to control.

"The anti-interference array is fine, but the spell-breaking materials used are too poor. Fortunately, the lens can be used. Why don't I find someone to order a new frame."

I quickly gave up the idea.

"This thing is a complete set, and it is so precise. If you move the frame, you may not be able to see accurately."

"It seems that we need to send someone to Crescent Calm to make a stronger microscope."

For him, the spare money of more than ten or two hundred thousand can still be easily spent, and it can also directly provide a lot of cherished magic materials.

So, he shouted: "Afu~Afu, write a letter for me. I'll read it and you write it."

Ah Fu appeared behind him like the wind: "Yes, Master."

After Ah Fu wrote a few words, Bren changed his mind again: "Forget it, I'll just go to New Moon to get it."

His requirements were too complex, and only through face-to-face communication and real-time modifications could he get what he really wanted.