Chapter 474 Rising Star
Whether it was Mercers, who had just left, or Thunder White, who was knocking on the door, they didn't know that the previous hurried encounter was arranged by Feige, or that they didn't think in that direction at all. In fact, Feiqi has been shaking reality through infinite zero runes, picking the one that is more in line with his heart, and then gradually realizing it.
This kind of control of reality is different from the change of reality by divine power, not to directly create results with divine power, but to use infinite zero runes to do more simulation exercises, and what kind of effect can actually be achieved in the end depends entirely on the on-the-spot performance. The Infinite Zero Rune simply gave Feige a laboratory for his surroundings, allowing him to apply his intelligence to human relationships. From the perspective of a unique person, the future he wants must and can only be reached through his own personal experience and experience.
In Feige's plan, Thunder White needs to remember today's events at some point in the future, and then investigate what happened in "Bridge Crossing" and her relationship with Feige, and prompt her to act accordingly. Trying to plant seeds like this is bound to be much more troublesome than using spells to change memories and thoughts, but it is more stable and not easy to see the problem. Thunder White is an important part of Feiqi's plan to save the world, and she will also be groomed to be a powerful spellcaster, so only non-magical methods are safe enough.
"Come in!"
Thunder White, who pushed the door in, didn't know that she had been calculated, and she told Feige about the disheveled Messers she encountered on the road. "You know, he blushed when I stopped him. I always thought that he would only put on a bitter melon face, or frown hard, but I didn't expect there to be other expressions. ”
"Forget about it. You are all important ministers, and you have to see each other often. Don't mention it again and don't spread it, so as not to be embarrassed. "Feige always looks like a stern teacher when he faces Thunder White alone, which is very different from his seriousness when he receives courtiers. "Your job isn't to oversee other stewards, and I have a lot of work to do here, so I don't have much time. How's the report I asked you to prepare?"
"It took me half a day, from the morning to the present, but fortunately I have not been lazy. Thunder White threw a scroll far away to Feiqi: "This is the total progress of the ten magic towers, and I have also compiled a specific table for each magic tower, including a summary of the construction progress and problems encountered." I finally finished it, don't read it. ”
She spread the ten scrolls she was holding in her arms on the table, then ran to the couch by the brazier and sat down, straightened her feet, and began to bake the soles of her shoes. It was a pair of blue dragon leather boots, which had a good affinity for lightning energy, and were a graduation gift from Feige and Shani to Thunder White - don't ask Feiqi where he got the blue dragon leather.
"I'll look at those scrolls in a moment, and this summary report is what I need the most. Feige opened the scroll and skimmed it quickly with both eyes. The ten magic towers built along the edge of the Sunset Mountains are the most important engineering projects of the empire except for the teleportation arrays built in various places, accounting for more than half of the treasury's revenue. A project of this magnitude, if placed before Feiqi, would directly drag down the finances of any country and lead directly to its destruction unless a miracle intervenes directly.
Thanks to the Shani Eng Eng Machine, it makes the production of rune boards faster, better and cheaper, and the efficiency is more than a thousand times that of hand-engraved runes in the past. With more rune plates and elemental gems, it became very cheap and convenient to use magic to fortify buildings, and it also made builders more willing to use spell construction methods, further increasing the speed of construction. By simply stacking the stones on top of each other and setting the correct rune plates, after three days the stones can merge with each other and become a solid whole, as if they were originally a single piece. Isn't that quicker than making and using fillers, and using a lot of high-level stonemasons and masons?
Feige quickly finished reading Thunder White's report, but he turned around and lingered for a while at the rune board usage statistics table. "You're using fewer rune boards than expected, is there any reason for that?"
"My research team and I have found a more efficient way to compress the area of the rune plate. After the reformatting, for example, the rune board that stabilized the magic tower has changed from the original group of eight pieces to five and a half pieces, doesn't this reduce the total number?" Thunder Bai raised his eyebrows proudly and said, "It's more efficient than your runes, you won't be sad, right?"
Fitch squinted, raised his left hand, and activated the Magic Matrix. Subsequently, he demonstrated to Thunder Bai the layered superimposed rune array, the rotating and stitching rune array, and the three-dimensional inlaid rune array...... As early as when solving the magic seal puzzle, Fei Qi had already used runes to form a magic circle in the three-dimensional direction, and no matter how much the plane efficiency of the rune board was improved, it was still not an order of magnitude to evolve from the surface to the body in the third direction.
He didn't stop in three dimensions, but continued to push and began to shake three dimensions. The dazzling pattern of the thunder appeared, and the three-dimensional rune array that was hazy because of the shock actually formed a spell at a higher level!
"Slow down, slow down!" Thunder Bai jumped up from the couch, his eyes wide open, his fists clenched, trying to keep calm in the excitement. "I suddenly had a lot of ideas, don't stop, don't stop!"
Feige knew at a glance that Thunder White must have had an epiphany, which was a very rare state, but Feige didn't plan to stop and wait for her. The runes continued to vibrate, more and more violently, and then all the magical energy that supported the runes suddenly disappeared. The ordinary world of three-dimensional space can no longer support their full existence, and these runes can only leave a partial projection of themselves. Projected above Feige and Thunder White's heads, these are a swarm of beehives that repeat the movements of expanding and shrinking, panning and rotating, and shrinking and turning outward.
The hive stayed for more than ten seconds, then was picked up by Feige and vanished. Thunder Bai sat back on the sofa thoughtfully, his eyes looking at the flames jumping in the brazier in front of him, but his eyes did not stay on it. Her brain was occupied by a hive circle, and an indescribable sensation pulled her mind away, twisting her perspective into a strange world.
Feige waited for her for five minutes, then snapped his fingers. Thunder White blinked, as if he had been awakened from a dream, and looked around in a trance. "Am I meditating?" she asked.
"Much more dangerous than meditation. I observe that you are trying to unravel what you cannot understand for the time being, and you are not sparing out mana and all your energy to do so. If you can't think of it, it's life-threatening. Fei Qi recited a spell, and a glass of warm absinthe flew into Thunder Bai's hand. "Don't go into that state again, be vigilant. Remember that the world is vast and the human brain is small. It's okay to take a little bit of the world, stuff it hard, and your head will explode. ”
Thunder White took a sip of absinthe, the pungent taste bringing her back to reality completely, and also distorting her facial expressions, both at the same time. She quickly put the absinthe aside, then fanned the wind with her hand and exhaled outward. During the time she calmed herself down, Feige kept a serious expression on her face, completely unamused.
"Okay, don't be so serious, it looks scary. Thunder White pursed his lips and said, "I admit that your magic ability is much higher than mine, and I don't deserve to be proud of this progress, let alone feel that I have surpassed you." But then again, since you can manipulate and use the Hive Circle, why don't you just tell me the real secrets inside? I've spent a lot of time studying those three books of yours, but I don't get as much as I did today. You ...... early."
"If you hadn't read those three books, you wouldn't have had any insights after reading them. "As I said, the world is vast, and the basic constitution of the world has space, and it is equally vast. Your eyes will limit your thinking, and only by breaking through the limitations of your horizon can you better embrace the world. ”
"Well, I made a note of it, and I'll tell my colleagues in the Magic Research Society as well. Principal, don't worry, with today's harvest, I will definitely be able to open my mind and understand the hive circle as soon as possible, so that I can catch up with the construction of the Emperor's Magic Tower next year. Thunder White blinked, his eyelashes flickered, and he probed his head and said, "You haven't said what is going on in this Imperial Magic Tower, but the hive circle must be included, right?"
"A hive can't be made into a fixed circle, it's not something that can be run by inputting mana. What kind of functions are in the Emperor's Magic Tower, you will know when you become an emperor, and now I will keep it a secret. Don't forget, there's the Knights of War and Balance in the Second World, and your sisters of the Divine Fragments in the Yongli Continent—none of which are fuel-efficient lamps. ”
"When I die, I will have no sisters. But the War Knight and the Balance Knight are difficult to deal with, especially the Balance, and those aunts of mine were chased by its monsters and ran to the territory of the War Knight to get rid of. Wait, why don't you talk about mutation and greed?"
"Every magic creation needs to be experimented with, and the enemy is the best test subject. In addition to being the Emperor and your Headmaster, I have to find a way to weaken the Second World. I told you that I am very busy, so you grow up as soon as possible and share my worries as soon as possible. ”
"I can share your worries now!" Thunder Bai patted his head and said angrily: "I was just interrupted by your hive array, and I almost fell for your distraction again! I came to you to report something important, whether it is for His Majesty the Emperor or the Headmaster, it is good news." ”
Feiqi's eyelids lifted, and finally a little interest came from his voice: "Say, what good news." ”
"I couldn't read the three books on the Hive Circle, so I went to your other notes for inspiration, and found a lot of information about the Spell Construct, the Golem. I looked closely at it and found the Golem so interesting, so I designed one myself. Thunder White took out a stack of papers, at least fifty sheets, and it was densely packed with blueprints. "This is the Golem I designed, and I haven't officially named it yet, but I want to call it the Emperor Golem! Hehehehe, guess why?"
"It's definitely not going to look like me. Feige didn't take the blueprints, and the interest in his voice vanished. "What do I want a Golem for? My biggest problem right now is the lack of people, not the lack of Golems!"
"This golem can be used to grow potatoes, build roads, fight off wild beasts, fight bandits, and do some of the heavy lifting of daily transportation. Everyone said that planting potatoes, building roads, and fighting were the three major characteristics of the emperor, hence the name of the emperor golem. Look at it!"
Fei Qi reluctantly took the paper and skimmed it quickly, and Thunder White explained it vividly. "The main component of this golem is mud, which is mainly the energy of the earth and water elements. The exact shape can be varied, but the most effective one is a fat man with a big belly and a tall, cylindrical slender head. I designed the rune to make it tame, like a hard-working farmer, autonomously absorbing water and soil from its surroundings to repair itself to a limited extent, and it can also absorb humus to make fertilizer, so it can grow crops on its body!"
"Potatoes are the best because the plants are shorter, they don't block the view, and it's easier to take care of. My idea is that this Emperor Golem will have the ability to control the earth and water elements, and use it to rest the roads and grow crops. When needed, let the team control them to fight and repel enemies. I did the math, it wouldn't cost too much, but it would be ten times as much as it would take to raise a child into an adult......"
Ten times that, that sounds like a lot, but considering the time saved, it's nothing. Is it just that this thing can really be used for farming? Fei Qi frowned slightly, looked carefully at the Golem's rune system, and quickly calculated. It's a complex golem with unique features, not something simple that can be seen through at a glance. Fei Qi couldn't get through the more than fifty pages of design drawings for a while, but the rune magic array he could see at least had no obvious loopholes, and it looked like that.
"Did you make this golem, and show me the real thing, isn't it better than these blueprints?"
"Well, I've been busy building granaries and rune cold storage lately, and I haven't been able to pull my hands out. I want you to look at the design first, and if you can point out the shortcomings. After all, you're the strongest mage I know!" Thunder White smiled and raised his eyebrows, obviously patting his ass.
"I only need to look at the blueprints to know the shortcomings?, are you a god to me?" Fei Qi returned the blueprints to Thunder Bai, and his tone became very stern: "Let's not say anything else, just this golem, the height is only four meters, and the width is also limited. Water elemental creations cannot be stacked high unless they turn into ice. So, does it make sense how many potatoes can grow on this golem, and who can eat it?"
Thunder White seemed to have been waiting for Fei Qi to ask this question, and replied without hesitation: "It can recover on its own, so as long as the working group is properly directed, it can use its own body to transplant crop seedlings and place them on the mountains, as well as some places that are not easy to cultivate in patches." After that, it used its runes and elemental powers to make its own fertilizer, carry water, and care for the seedlings. Because of its earth-making abilities, it can easily go to places that are difficult for ordinary people to reach—the reclaimed land is much larger than the surface area on it! It can also do heavy work such as ploughing, and it can also sow seeds, remove pests, and harvest day and night......"
Feige interrupted her and said, "I don't have that many elemental gems for them. How do you solve this problem?"
"If I add a little cost to install the fire elemental gems, I still have room for them to design an energy storage and conversion device. Open its chest and add firewood to it, like a stove. Those calories are then used to supplement the consumption of elemental gemstones. What do you think of this idea?"
"I don't think you can do it. Feiqi's cold voice was exchanged for a snort of unconvinced by Thunder White.