Master Tongtian

Chapter 336 Sir Hamilton (24)

After a while, under the guidance of the princess's confidant maid, Leliana, Rosen walked towards the guest room where Sir Hamilton lived.

On the way, Leliana whispered: "Master, set up a barrier of silence. I have something to say to you."

Rosen immediately complied: "The barrier is complete."

Leliana slowed down slightly: "It's news about Sir Hamilton."

Rosen immediately knew that it must be the princess's instructions, and was moved in his heart: "I'm listening."

"Sir Hamilton was born in a businessman's family, but he is extremely talented in magic. After being promoted to a high level at the age of twenty-six, he was valued by the Duke and trained with all his heart. He was promoted to master at the age of thirty-three. Now at the age of forty-four, he is already a peak master. Mage."

Rosen's heart was slightly shaken when he heard it, and he felt that there were so many magic talents in the Golden Land.

Some people come from humble beginnings and their growth is delayed for a while. But once they get into good times, they immediately fly into the sky like a dragon into the sea.

"Sir's talent for magic is truly astonishing."

Leliana smiled slightly: "Master, there is no need to be humble, no matter how amazing it is, it is not as amazing as you."

She continued the introduction.

"Perhaps because of his origin, this knight is very stubborn. He doesn't know how to turn like a charging bull. Even if he hits a boulder and his head is bloody, he will continue to charge forward over and over again."

"Because of this personality, as the minister of magic, he often talked back to the Duke. The Duke respected his achievements in magic and his pure temperament of focusing on research, but he just smiled bitterly every time."

"But no matter what, this is an extremely difficult person to get along with. To communicate effectively with him requires superb skills and tenacious patience."

Rosen understood and was not surprised at all.

Without such a tenacious temperament, I am afraid that I would not be able to rise from humble circumstances.

At the same time, I also think that Storm Duke has a pretty good personality. Although he likes to do big things, he also respects talents.

Of course, this talent must be ‘irreplaceable’.

"So, Hamilton is my commander?"

Because he had just been named Deputy Minister of Magic by the Duke.

Leliana nodded: "Yes in name, but you all do your own thing and don't interfere with each other."

Rosen sighed secretly: "We both serve the same duke, how can we not interfere with each other?"

The resources controlled by the Duke are also limited. If they are given to him, less will be given to others, so there will naturally be competition.

This kind of competition has nothing to do with personal grievances. It is a battle of paths and ideas as both parties want to pursue higher magical achievements.

If you don't do it right, your opponent will cause obstacles for you.

Therefore, you still have to find a way to have a good relationship with this great mage.

So he asked: "What does he like?"

"Yes, after research, he likes to play trial chess, and his chess skills are very high. He signed up to participate in this trial master tournament."

"Then, he especially likes to bet with others. Because of his outstanding ability, he can win the final victory every time he makes a bet."

"Hmm~~Interesting."

"Then he has other personality traits?"

"The rest is probably just extreme self-confidence."

"As we all know, the Queen's brother, Master Nailofa, has an extremely outstanding mind, but Hamilton's evaluation of him is that he has a good mind, but his bones are too soft."

This evaluation is really accurate.

As a pinnacle archmage with extremely high magical achievements, Sir Hamilton is indeed qualified to evaluate Nairofa, a level 5 archmage.

"What was Master Nailofa's reaction when he heard this?"

"It is said that he spread his hands and looked helpless."

"Haha~ Sure enough, one mountain is higher than the other."

This kind of crushing by pure intelligence is the most irrefutable.

At this time, the two came to a majestic yet exquisite white stone longhouse.

There is a tall stone tablet standing at the door of the house, which reads: "Master's cliff, the top of the world."

The longhouse is divided into three floors, and you can see from the wall windows that there are many rooms inside.

In front of the door of the house stood two guards with magic swords.

Leliana stepped forward and respectfully reported her identity before the guard let her go.

The two entered the longhouse, followed the spacious staircase to the third floor, and then walked all the way inside along the bright and spacious corridor.

You can see exquisite portraits hanging on the walls on both sides of the corridor, with biographical introductions below.

Rosen looked over one by one and found that all those who could be hung on the wall were level 9 peak mages.

I couldn't help but secretly admire: 'It is really the pinnacle of the world. ’

Soon we arrived at the door of Archmage Hamilton's room.

Leliana asked the attendant at the door in a low voice: "Is Master free now?"

The attendant shook his head and replied softly.

"The master said not to disturb him in the last two hours. He has an important inspiration to practice. And now it's only been an hour and a half."

Leliana looked regretful, turned to Rosen and spread her hands, apologetically: "Then we can only wait."

For a person who a duke must respect, Leliana, a princess maid, naturally did not dare to disturb him.

Rosen said: "Then just wait."

It’s only half an hour anyway.

The corridor was very spacious and bright, and there were temporary seats for resting. Rosen walked over and sat down, and pointed to the chair opposite.

"Ma'am, you also sit down."

The royal attendant on the side immediately brought snacks and fragrant tea with gentle hands, and asked softly: "Two adults, do you still need to provide books for entertainment?"

Rosen thought for a moment: "Bring me some pen and paper."

"yes."

After the attendant brought a pen and paper, he said apologetically to Leliana: "Madam, I have an idea that I want to record, and I might leave you in the cold."

The small details greatly improved Leliana's impression of Rosen. She chuckled: "Master, just record it, don't worry about me."

Rosen concentrated on studying the two master-level spells Dora gave him.

A great tide spell, a flawless phantom.

These two master-level spells are the crystallization of the wisdom of Archmage Turan. Each spell contains exquisite wisdom and is also very complicated and cumbersome. It is much more complicated and delicate than the dragon scale armor provided by Anweniya. .

This kind of wisdom cannot be solved by simple super computing power. It must be analyzed bit by bit by Rosen himself.

He studied it for seven or eight days before he could fully understand the Great Tide Technique, but Flawless Phantom still hadn't fully understood it.

It can be clearly felt that his intelligence seems to be somewhat insufficient, and it is difficult to understand some exquisite spell structures.

"Sure enough, every peak mage is a representative of the highest level of intelligence of the human race. Their knowledge has its own system. It is not an ordinary difficulty to figure it out."

This is not the first time that Rosen has encountered this situation of absolute insufficient intelligence. He also occasionally encountered it when facing his wife Thrandis.

After many blows, Rosen also had a clear understanding of his own intelligence. It was much higher than the average person, but compared with the real top geniuses, there was still a gap.

The current achievements are basically due to super computing power and earth knowledge.

When he was concentrating, time passed quickly, and half an hour passed by in the blink of an eye. Rosen was distracted when a slightly familiar male voice suddenly came from beside him.

"Boy, I'm sorry to keep you waiting."

Rosen was startled, and when he turned around, he found that Hamilton was sitting opposite him, and Leliana was already standing respectfully beside him.

He hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Salute to the master."

Hamilton waved his hand: "I don't like these vain etiquette. Let's go to my room and talk."

After speaking, he said to Leliana: "You must not understand our topic. It will be a hindrance if you stay aside. Go back and report to the princess."

Leliana saluted again: "Yes, Master."

After she left, Rosen followed Hamilton into his room.

The room is also extremely spacious, more than 200 square meters, and is filled with warm sunlight, but it is not exquisite.

Or to be more precise, it was originally very exquisite, but because of Hamilton's large number of personal belongings, the living room was forced to look like a private workshop.

On the large square table, there is a strange creation about one meter long and wide. The main body is metal, but there are also wood, cotton and some unnamed alchemical creations.

It gives people a primitive and wild feeling of using whatever is available.

Hamilton took the initiative to introduce: "This is the prototype of the steam magic weapon. Through the conversion of steam, I can convert the magic power into the power of movement."

"I know that as a great master of gravity, you will definitely think that this thing of mine is rough, but this thing of mine can be constantly improved, and it does not require a high level of spellcasting ability."

"Your gravity spell can't do it, at least not now, can it?"

When saying these words, Hamilton's posture was very low, because he was also shocked by the idea of ​​stars floating in the sky due to strong gravity.

Rosen nodded in approval: "The penetrating power of the gravity spell is indeed too strong."

Using physical objects to assist spell casting can greatly reduce the difficulty of casting spells and greatly improve the efficiency of mana utilization.

for example.

Use a semi-closed iron pipe with one end open, and insert an iron ball slightly smaller than the inner diameter as the launching ammunition.

Then, as long as you imagine an explosive flame in the closed space behind the iron bead, you can launch the iron bead at high speed with high accuracy, exerting very good lethality.

The iron pipe can perfectly compress and restrain the mana flame, and can help with aiming.

As a result, this natural throwing technique was reduced from a 3-star spell to a 1-star spell, and its mana utilization efficiency also increased to almost 100%.

Other spells derived from ordinary natural phenomena can easily do similar things.

But only the gravity spell doesn't work.

Rosen has yet to find a substance that can perfectly bind the gravity of magic.

Even the spell-breaking Serjin's effect is very average.

Therefore, one can only use mana to restrain gravity.

As a result, the difficulty of casting spells will naturally be greatly increased, making it difficult to popularize it.

Mana efficiency is greatly reduced, resulting in a large amount of wasted mana.

"But I can improve the efficiency of mana utilization by increasing the number of spell casting stars."

Hamilton understood immediately.

"You mean the low-level spell juxtaposition method?"

Rosen nodded: "That's right."

A four-star low-level logical gravity spell has a mana efficiency of up to 90%.

Rosen connected multiple low-level spells in parallel to obtain the same spell power as high-level spells.

Hamilton laughed: "This plan is feasible."

"But you have to combine 10 four-star spells in parallel for the total power to be equivalent to a high-level 14-star spell, but the difficulty of casting the spell becomes 40 stars."

"No mortal can use such a complex spell."

Rosen immediately said: "But you can also use parallel casting techniques to reduce the number of stars. Of course, the reduction is not complete. Achieving the same driving force is always more complicated than a single spell."

A similar method was adopted on Sky One, but due to the sharp increase in the number of casting stars, compromises had to be made. In the end, a mixed solution of high-level, mid-level, and low-level was adopted to improve efficiency as much as possible.

Hamilton nodded repeatedly.

"What you said is very good. At first glance, it is clear that a mage with sufficient practical experience is much better than those academic mage who simply imagined it. It is no wonder that he can achieve such achievements now."

But as soon as he finished speaking, he patted the steam instrument on the table, with a hint of pride on his face.

"But my steam magic weapon is different. Even a magic apprentice can control it perfectly as long as he has enough magic power."

Rosen hadn't fully understood this steam magic weapon yet, so he said, "Master, can you introduce it to me in detail?"

"Of course you can."

Hamilton began to introduce his big baby in detail.

After listening, Rosen understood that this thing was essentially a heat engine, but because it was assisted by various black technology-like spells, its starting height was greatly increased.

For example, the thermal efficiency of the baby in front of you directly reaches 10%, but on Earth, the efficiency of Watt's improved steam engine is less than 5%, and even the later gasoline internal combustion engine is almost between 30 and 45%.

From Rosen's demeanor, Hamilton felt that he valued him and was very happy.

He continued the introduction.

"My steam magic weapon also has another feature, that is, the larger the scale, the higher the efficiency, and the upper limit of thrust is extremely high."

"If you have the cooperation of your endless mana core and create a giant steam magic weapon, it will be an easy task to push the Lord of the Ocean."

Rosen nodded in approval and gave his final evaluation.

"Although the master's steam magic weapon is clumsy when used for flying, it can be used to drive a boat, pull a carriage, or even push a waterwheel to pump water and open a mine."

"So, our research each has its own use, and there is no problem of replacing each other."

At least for a short time.

Hamilton became even more happy after hearing this.

To be honest, he was really worried. He was afraid that the steam magic weapon he had spent many years researching would be eliminated by the times before it was even born.

Then the energy he spent in the past five years has been wasted.

Now that the two sides have discussed it carefully, they feel that their worries are gone, and their impression of Rosen is also very good.

After chatting about spells for a while, he asked: "Master Rosen, the treatment the Duke gives you should be enough to satisfy you, right?"

As an Eastern Mage and the Duke's Minister of Magic, he personally hoped that a genius like Rosen would settle in the Eastern Region.

As for the arrogance of the people from the East, they have long been erased by Rosen's unattainable wisdom.

Rosen didn't hide it either: "The Duke has made me a god-given earl. As the great lord of Feiyu Islands, I think it's good."

When Hamilton heard about the earl given by God, he was still a little envious, but when he heard about Feiyu Islands, his envy disappeared without a trace.

"Flying Fish Islands? What's so good about that poor place? Are you going to shovel bird poop?"

Rosen didn't bother to explain. It was better if the other party didn't understand, so as not to give birth to jealousy due to envy.

"Master, I am deeply attached to the land. As long as you give me land, I will be happy."

Hamilton didn't understand: "What's so good about land? If you don't bring it with you in life, and if you don't take it with you in death, how can you enjoy the joy of focusing on studying magic?"

Upon hearing this, Rosen knew that Hamilton was a pure scholar, and he felt relieved.

This kind of person can get along very well as long as you give him enough respect and recognition.

He also likes to get along with this kind of people the most.

Future competition for resources should also be healthy competition.

So he smiled slightly: "This can be regarded as my hobby. Just like the master, although he focuses on magic, he also loves trial chess, isn't it?"

That's right.

Hamilton nodded to express his understanding, but then advised: "I play trial chess just for fun. But running a territory requires a lot of effort, which will greatly waste time and energy."

"The earl needs to carefully consider the importance of this. Don't become a slave to the land. You have wasted your important time all day long for a group of common people."

Rosen could feel that this was the other person's sincere thoughts, so he nodded seriously: "Thank you, Master, for your kind words."

After a pause, he revealed his true intention.

"I am very interested in the idea of ​​a master's magic container. I wonder if I can exchange this knowledge?"

In fact, with the Shente Core, the demand for magic storage containers is not high, but it is still necessary to serve as a buffer against unexpected events.

For example, if the divine iron core suddenly breaks down, if there is no buffer, the floating city flying in the sky will really fall down. After all, human power cannot lift such a heavy thing.

With the high-density magic storage container, the large amount of stored magic power can be used to top it up immediately, which greatly improves the reliability of the large floating city.

But upon hearing this, Hamilton showed a hint of embarrassment and coughed slightly.

"Actually, my mana container has just started. What I said before are just predicted results. I don't know if it can be achieved."

As soon as he heard this, Rosen understood. This guy had almost no real product and was just bragging for attention.

He was a little disappointed and unwilling, and asked again: "Then there must be some basis for speculation, right?"

Hamilton just chuckled.

"Yes, I do, but this is the knowledge I am most proud of, and I will not exchange it easily."

The more he said this, the more Rosen felt itchy, so he said: "Master, let's make a bet?"

Hamilton's eyes suddenly lit up: "How to bet?"

"Play Judgment Chess, play fast chess in 5 seconds. If I beat you within 300 moves, just let me take a look. If I can't win, I will give you 200 Fusa of Titan Divine Iron?"

As soon as he heard that there were so many divine irons and the bet was so beneficial, Hamilton immediately took out the Judgment chess.

"It's a bet!"