Sword of Daybreaker

Those substances that glowed slightly in the dark cleared Gao Wen’s drowsiness directly by 70% or 80%. He ignored the gray-black things and would be directly involved in the big basket.

Soon, some pieces that were clearly different from the surrounding material were turned over.

Their internal "inlaid" light is brighter and more concentrated and stable.

From the appearance, these things are still black slabs, but in the loose structure there are many crystals that are as thick as crystals with a diameter of no more than one millimeter. These crystals are the source of light. Gao Wen crushed a piece of slab, carefully picking out a few crystals from it, and found that they were still shining, and they were even brighter after losing the influence of surrounding impurities.

Some kind of intuition allowed him to open his own magical ability, so some constant, shimmering, misty fog appeared in his vision: these crystals contained a certain magic.

Gao Wen pinched a crystal, and the fingers slowly applied, and the crystal finally broke: it was very hard, almost the same as the stone, but it was more fragile than the natural crystal that the magician used to process the staff and store the magic. And while being crushed, its light disappeared.

The magic escaped from it.

So what is this in the end?

Gao Wen frowned deeply. He wanted to take this thing to ask Herti for consultation immediately, but the latter might have fallen asleep at this time. The accident tonight must make her very tired, plus worry about during the day. It is not easy for her to sleep well in the construction of the camp.

Therefore, Gao Wen had to force his own thoughts and prepare to wait until early tomorrow to find Herti.

After the middle of the night, there was no more storm. The camp was surrounded by darkness and tranquility, as if the legendary midnight lady’s kingdom came...

Early the next morning, Gao Wen went to Herti’s tent with the fine crystals that would glow in the dark, and learned that Herti had already gotten up to the lab earlier, so he ran again. Hetty's Magic Lab.

This "magic lab" is located in the southeast corner of the camp. Near the dark mountain range, it is the only house in the entire camp that is built with stone and wood as the main material, and covers a large area, even if it is not redundant. The decoration, it can also be said to be the "luxury" here. This is not Herti's specialism, but the magic laboratory has requirements for the environment. Many magic and alchemy experiments are required to be carried out in a fairly quiet and stable environment. At the same time, the use of stone as a wall is also for the convenience of portraying the law. .

A magician is a fairly practical creature.

But in the eyes of laymen, this sturdy and atmospheric building is full of mysterious atmosphere. Amber suspects that Herti’s work in the whole day is to mix the potions and poisons with an old witch, but it is not. Dare to go in and confirm - afraid of embarrassment.

When Govin arrived here, Herti was busy between a pile of crystals - she had her own console in the middle of the lab, and the unusually large round table was divided into three parts, some of which were inscribed In the circle of law, and surrounded by various magic materials around the array, some of them are equipped with various bottles, cans and alchemy tools, while the third part has only one set of equipment, which is bought from the high price of Tanzan Town. Crystal resonator.

This is a device specially designed to study various types of crystals, as well as inscribed inside the crystal. It is an outstanding creation of the world's magicians. Its precision and beautiful appearance are in the civilian society of Gaowen in this era. The rough and primitive tools I saw were very different. It has a pedestal as the core. Three natural and different magic crystals of different sizes are fixed on the pedestal with brass organs. Around this core pedestal, there are several independent circular artificial water wafers with adjustable angles. Behind each wafer is a gray-white riser for imaging.

This is arguably the most expensive thing in the lab. Heti used it when he was careful, even Rebecca, the big niece who was a mage (although only fireball) wouldn't let it touch.

If Amber really dares to sneak in, it seems that he will really be beaten...

Gao Wen saw that Herti placed a lavender crystal in the center of the crystal resonator. Through the stimulation of three magic crystals around it, the target crystal resonated with it, and this resonance was in the ubiquitous magic environment. A "ripple" that can be detected is produced, through the artificial crystal flakes around the resonator, which form a picture that can be visually observed and projected onto the gray-white risers.

A clear rune structure can be seen on two of the risers, and the draft paper at the corner of the table is a sketch drawn by Herti according to the projection structure.

It seems that she is studying the ancient military crystals brought out from the treasure house in the mountains.

For Gao Wen’s sudden visit, Herti appeared to be somewhat surprised, because usually Gao Wen usually went back to check the progress of the project at this time, or draw a pile of drawings in his tent: "The ancestor? How come you?"

"Some things want you to look at it," Gao Wen said as he poured out the knots with finely divided crystal particles from his carry-on lambskin bag and looked at Herti's "workbench". "You are Study the array of the ancient crystals?"

"Yes," Hetty nodded, and her face was apologetic. "Unfortunately, the progress is not good."

As she spoke, she looked at the ugly pieces in Gao Wen’s hands: "These are..."

“Rebecca’s last tossed 'de-slag’, but I found something interesting in it,” Gao Wen said as he swayed the broken crystals embedded in the waste. “These things have magical reactions. ”

"Magic reaction?" Herti frowned, then carefully sensed it, and suddenly surprised, "Is there really?! What is this?"

"So let's take a look," Gao Wen picked out one of the fallen crystals. "Can your crystal resonator see its structure?"

Heti couldn't think of Rebecca's indiscriminate operation and even made such a strange thing - she thought that Rebecca's burning of stone in the shed all day was a random operation, even if it was arranged by Gao Wen. In the same way, after all, Rebecca has a lot of brains in this process, such as throwing grasshoppers into the kiln. She carefully picked up the crystals that Gaowen handed over and looked at them carefully. Hey.

"Is there no bigger point?" Hetty frowned at a bit of trouble. "It's so small, it's not easy to observe."

Gao Wen has no way: "This is already the biggest block, at least as big as rice."

"Well, I try hard." Hetty said while taking the ancient crystal in the center of the crystal resonator: its rune arrangement has been recorded and does not need to be tested.

Then Herti carefully held the "crystal" with only a large grain of rice with a small tweezers, placed it in the center of the symmetry of the resonator, and activated the three magic crystals on the pedestal.

After a short wait, several "screens" on the periphery of the resonator show some vague lines: they are not only very blurry, but they are as thin as transparent. If it is not Herti, the nearby magic crystal is extinguished in advance. Stone lamps, I am afraid that Gao Wen will not see them.

After all, the crystal that is the object of observation is too small.

"This structure...is indeed an artificial crystal, and it is very regular," Herti carefully discerned the shape of the lines, and carefully injected the lowest degree of magic into the pedestal, and with the injection of magic, projection The lines on it gradually brightened and stained like a rainbow, "can absorb the magic of the outside world and transform them into a form that is stable inside the crystal..."

Heti removed his magic and observed the subsequent changes in those projections.

After a few minutes passed, the projections on the riser did not change at all, and the organ itself had no movement to accurately sense the magic.

"Is the magic stored stably?!" Hetti showed a more surprised expression at this time. "The rate of escape... so low?!"

Gao Wen stared straight at the pedestal in the center of the crystal resonator. On that pedestal, the grain-sized "artificial crystal" was releasing the white light visible to the naked eye: it seems that as the magic fills, its brightness also rises. .

He immediately realized why he hadn't found anything mixed in the waste before the tent was dark: these "artificial crystals" were empty when they were just refining, and they wouldn't shine without magic. As the placement time prolonged, they began to spontaneously absorb the free magical energy in the atmosphere. This is a slow self-charging process. It has been charged for two days, and it finally can be slightly illuminated at night before it is finally discovered by Gao Wen.

Herti was also attracted by the peculiar nature of this crystal. She continued to infuse the crystal with uncontrollable excitement - and a crystal with only the size of rice could not accommodate much magic, so she soon discovered this. Things have entered a "saturated" state.

The tiny crystals begin to release a steady milky white shimmer, with no signs of self-disintegration due to saturation.

"So is this an artificial crystal that can store magic?!" Gao Wen looked at Herti with a surprise, feeling as if he had picked up the baby. "How about its maximum capacity compared with natural crystal? Stability? I See if it is always shining, what is its rate of self-loss?"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, I want to... I have to test the test seriously," Herti’s excitement was no worse than Gao Wen, but she kept the calm that a mage should have. She took the small one. The small crystal clips up to the side of the analysis with the magic array, while talking casually, "The problem of self-loss should not be great, although it is shining, but mainly the free magic in the air is affected by the crystal and resonates, crystal The magic of internal storage is not much loss, so it should be able to keep the magic for a long time..."

On the one hand, she put the crystal in a grooved "dish" made of ruby ​​and placed the vessel in the center of the magic array, ready to try to re-direct the magic stored in the crystal. come out.

The magic array started.

The crystal particles in the ruby ​​vessel made a "beep" sound, which turned into a piece of debris.