The sky slowly darkened, but more and more people gathered in the square, and the number of people had exceeded five thousand.

Most of these people were natives of Nilogaard, and the other half was a very complex composition, consisting of rebellious young people from the surrounding villages who came to see the bustle, adventurers and travelers who traveled from place to place, wizard hunters with excellent camouflage, and even strangers of unknown origin.

Most of the audience's attention was on the high platform in front of the square, and people were talking and appreciating all kinds of strange equipment on the high platform, but there were also many people who were completely distracted from the upcoming speech.

There are young men and women who take this opportunity to fall in love. There are business-minded vendors who take advantage of this opportunity to sell their small goods. There are also many businessmen and travelers who have seen and heard from all over the exchange continent. There are even some people who are unpredictable, looking around with a pair of eyes, their eyes are dark, and no one knows what they are thinking.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun sank down the distant ridge, and the sky suddenly became dark, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little gloomy.

Out of a natural fear of the dark, most of the ordinary people had a worried look on their faces, and even those who were quite knowledgeable became silent. The timid children all subconsciously shrank into the arms of their parents, lovers hugged each other tightly, and some people retreated in their hearts.

It was getting darker and darker, and the crowd was getting more and more restless, when Rosen suddenly walked to the center of the platform and said in a loud voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, now I will show Nilogaard's first great achievement, which is the light of thunder and light."

As the words fell, bright orange points of light lit up one after another in the sky around the square, and in an instant, a circle of bright lights lit up around the entire square. The brightness of one lamp was not enough to dispel the darkness, but hundreds of lights were lit around the square, and these lamps emitted a bright and steady pale yellow light, like golden sunlight, which instantly dispelled the darkness around the square.

People couldn't help but exclaim.

A child pointed to a light in the sky and exclaimed in surprise: "Mommy, look, there are so many stars." ”

Adults should be more reserved, exclaiming much lower, but almost all of the people present have never seen such a bright, steady and soft light in their lives, and many people have incredible expressions on their faces.

The red-haired woman who appeared before also lost her initial reserve, she looked left and right, her eyes were shocked and confused, and finally, she took out her pen and wrote in her notes: "This master magician of Nilogaard has made an extraordinary move, and has lit at least three hundred lamps at once. The master called this the light of thunder and lightning, and as far as I could see, the light of this strange lightning lamp was very bright, but it was not dazzling at all, and when hundreds of lights were illuminated together, the light produced was as if the day had come again. I carefully observed the structure of the lightning lamp, and found that the lamp was surrounded by a circle of colorless and transparent crystals, of course, it could also be glass, and there were some thin wires in the middle of the glass, one of which was always glowing bright yellow, and this wire was a bit like a small burning wooden stick, but the puzzling thing was that it kept burning without the slightest sign of extinguishing, I really can't think of a reason, maybe this is the power of thunder and lightning. ”

The man in black armor who was more than 2 meters tall was also taken aback, he had always had a slight smile on his face, but when he saw so many lights appearing, his smile disappeared all of a sudden, he looked at the lights, and his face showed awe.

As for the silver-armored young man with the big sword on his back, his expression didn't change much, he just squinted slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.

When the noise in the crowd subsided, Rosen began his speech for the evening.

He exclaimed, "Ladies and gentlemen, I know you must have thought these lamps were magical, that they must be unfathomable magic, right?"

"Yes" someone replied loudly.

"Isn't this magic?" objected

"It's definitely a magician's trick, or it's an illusion." Some people think they are smart.

Faced with a chaotic response, Lawson pressed down with his hands, and when the crowd quieted down, he smiled and said, "Then, next, I will show you how to make a thunderbolt lamp." Through this process, I will tell you that there is no unfathomable magic and no illusion deception. An ordinary person, even if he doesn't have any magical talent, only needs to use some daily visible objects, plus a little skill, to control the thunder and lightning, and even enslave the thunder and lightning."

"Wow"

The spectators in the square were in chaos again.

"Is this true?"

"Heresy blasphemy, this is blasphemy against the gods"

"No, ordinary people can really use magic"

"Master Rosen, you didn't lie to us, did you?"

Rosen smiled slightly, raised his hand to stop the commotion, and continued: "I know, you definitely don't believe it, because this thing has never happened before, but it couldn't happen before, just because it can't happen in the future." Now, I'm going to start showing that. Also, in order to prove the authenticity, I need to choose two helpers from the audience, whichever one is acceptable. ”

Under the high stage, people looked at each other, and many people were eager to try, but there were always some concerns in their hearts, and for a while, no one dared to take the initiative to take the stage.

Rosen sighed deliberately and asked again, "Isn't anyone willing to be my assistant?"

"I'll come"

A majestic voice came from the audience, everyone turned their heads to look, and saw the black armored man who was more than 2 meters tall and like an iron tower strode towards the high platform, and when he got closer, he looked up at Lawson and asked, "Master Lawson, can I do it?"

Such a strong man, with some apprehension and awe in his expression, seemed to be afraid that Rosen would refuse.

Without thinking about it, Rosen immediately stretched out his hand to invite: "Of course, anyone can." Please come on stage. ”

The black-armored man laughed: "Refreshing, then I'm here"

He exerted his strength with both feet, his body jumped up violently, and he jumped directly onto the platform seven or eight meters high.

The audience couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and many ordinary people had a look of horror on their faces, they had already realized that this strong man was definitely not an ordinary person, this guy was a monster

When a monster appeared in the square, many people immediately retreated in their hearts, and they just wanted to get away from this place as soon as possible. But the embarrassing thing is that the sky has completely darkened, and there is only light around the square, and there is no way back.

Wanting to leave but not daring to go, wanting to stay and fearing that these monsters would cause chaos, people stood trembling in place, not knowing what to do.

Seeing this, Rosen smiled and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the lights around the square will continue until dawn, and those who have come to Nilogaard tonight to listen to my speech are all my guests. If the guests are polite, I will treat them with courtesy. The guests were rude, and I, as the host, had to punish them as well. ”

Hearing this assurance, the panicked people calmed down a little.

Rosen added: "Right now, I still lack an assistant. Because I already have an Inhuman assistant, I hope that this time an ordinary person will come up. So, who wants to help me"

The crowd was silent, and no one responded for a while, apparently, no one dared to share the stage with the stranger.

Rosen was slightly disappointed: "Don't you even have the courage to try?"

Someone will respond, it is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, with big black eyes and bright eyes, ruddy cheeks, some small freckles, and an ordinary linen skirt, at first glance she is a peasant girl from an ordinary family.

The girl came alone, she blinked her big black eyes, and asked timidly: "Master, can I?"

Rosen smiled and nodded, his eyes full of encouragement: "Of course you can, come up." ”

The girl's face was full of excitement, and she trotted up the wooden staircase next to the high platform.

Lawson beckoned to the girl and said, "Come, stand beside me." ”

The girl was originally a little scared of the black-armored man, standing in the distance and not daring to step forward, after hearing Lawson's words, she walked around the black-armored man from a distance and stood on the other side of Lawson. In this way, with Rosen's body in the middle, her expression relaxed a lot.

With the assistants ready, Rosen turned to face the audience and continued: "As we all know, in order to master something, you first have to understand what that thing is. The second is to understand the rules by which such things work. This is true of thunder and lightning, and so is magic, as well as with the iron plough that farmers use to plough their fields, and so do the oxen that plough the fields. So, now, I'm going to ask, thunder and lightning, what is it"

As soon as a few words were spoken, the audience's attention was immediately attracted, and people couldn't help but think, what is thunder and lightning.

Lawson waited patiently for a while, then turned to the black-armored man beside him: "Tell me, what is the thunder and lightning in your acquaintance?"

The black-armored man stretched out his hand and scratched his head, smiling innocently: "I don't know. Thunder and lightning are silver and white threads that make a loud noise in the sky on a rainy day, and it is said that this thing is like a weapon of the gods. ”

Rosen nodded: "On the surface, it looks like this." So, what about you?"

Rosen turned to ask the peasant girl.

The peasant girl thought for a moment and said, "It should be a strange and powerful flame power, if there is a large amount of thunder and lightning, it can burn people to charcoal at once, and even cause a mountain fire." If it is a small amount of lightning, it can make people's bodies numb. ”

This answer was a little unexpected, and Rosen's eyes lit up slightly: "Interesting, very interesting, girl, it seems that you are good at observation and thinking." ”

"Thank you, Master, for the compliment." The peasant girl was so happy that she forgot to be afraid.

Lawson turned his head to look at the audience and continued: "These two assistants of mine, one saw the appearance of thunder and lightning, and the other saw the effect of thunder and lightning. It's all very good. However, if we want to understand the nature of thunder and lightning, we need more observation and deeper thinking. I guess you're waiting for my answer, right?"

"Yes." The audience responded in unison, including the beautiful red-haired woman. People have been piqued by Rosen's curiosity, whether they are ordinary or inhuman.

Unexpectedly, Lawson shook his head: "I'm sorry, I won't say this answer, because even I can't say with certainty that I recognize the nature of thunder and lightning." ”

Hearing this, many people immediately looked disappointed.

Rosen continued, "Tonight, however, I will show you a wonderful phenomenon that I have discovered by accident, a method that can easily create a small amount of lightning, a method that can be easily mastered by all. ”

As soon as these words came out, the audience, who was still a little disappointed just now, was suddenly full of anticipation, and everyone looked at the high platform with full attention.

Here, Rosen turned his head to look at the two assistants beside him, and he first said to the black-armored man: "This girl just said that a small amount of lightning can make people feel numb in their bodies. Next, I'm going to create a small amount of lightning in a simple way, and then let you feel the tingling touch all over your body, do you mind?"

The black-armored man was stunned for a moment, his face showed a hint of shock, and he hesitated for a while before he said, "Try it." ”

"Good."

Rosen smiled slightly, turned around and handed a piece of fur and a glass rod to the peasant girl, and then said, "Wipe the glass rod vigorously with the fur." ”

The peasant girl looked dazed, but she did so, and after she wiped it vigorously a dozen times, Rosen said, "Okay, then you take the glass rod and approach this gentleman's hair." ”

The peasant girl was a little frightened, but she did so, and the big man in black armor looked at the approaching glass rod, and his face was full of uneasiness, for fear that a bolt of lightning would burst out of the stick.

As the glass rod continued to approach, the black-armored man suddenly shouted: "Oh yo yo is wrong, something is wrong, my scalp is numb." ”

He didn't dare to stay where he was any longer, and took a few steps abruptly, far away from the peasant girl, and looked at the glass rod in her hand as if he had seen a ghost.

In fact, the static electricity on the glass rod is very weak, at most it can only pull up some hair, and ordinary people don't feel it at all, but this big man is highly nervous, not to mention, his body is far more sensitive than ordinary people, so as soon as the glass rod approached, he felt abnormal, plus the fear of thunder and lightning in his heart, so he fled in panic.

The audience didn't know why, but they only saw the black-armored man running away in fear, and they all felt very inexplicable.

Rosen asked, "Sir, what did you just feel?"

The black-armored man was shocked, looked at the glass rod in a daze, and said, "I feel that someone is pulling my hair, and my scalp is itching, and it is uncomfortable." ”

Lawson took the glass rod and fur from the peasant girl's hand, turned to the audience and said, "Look, these two materials are very ordinary, and they produce a small amount of thunder and lightning just by simply wiping them with fur. If you don't believe it, you can test it for yourself, and you can definitely experience similar feelings. In addition, both fur and glass rods can be replaced with other materials, and the key factor is to wipe them vigorously. ”

Before he could finish speaking, the audience had already started experimenting, and after a while, there were exclamations in the crowd, thinking that many people had already repeated Rosen's small experiment.

At this moment, people suddenly became more and more convinced of Rosen's words and looked forward to them more and more.

Rosen continued: "Of course, using friction can produce lightning, but there are so few lightning that at best it can only make people feel numb in the scalp, and it is far from enough to light a lamp. So, I found a new way to get more lightning. ”

This time, people were looking forward to it even more, and many people stared at the high platform without blinking, for fear of missing something, even the silver-armored young man with a giant sword on his back was also solemn at this time.

On the high platform, Rosen took out two fist-sized potatoes, he handed them to the two assistants, and asked, "What is this?"

The black-armored man took the potato, sniffed it, sniffed it, and tasted a small piece of it, and then said, "It's a potato, a boiled potato." ”

The peasant girl also nodded, "It's indeed potatoes, cooked." ”

Rosen took out another pile of metal pieces, some black and some red, he handed them to the two assistants, and asked, "What are these?"

The peasant girl said, "The black is iron, and the red is copper." ”

The black-armored man also nodded in agreement: "That's true." ”

Rosen took out more than thirty boiled potatoes, took out more metal pieces, and asked these materials to be handed to the assistant for inspection, and after confirming that they were all ordinary materials, he said: "Next, the two of them put metal pieces on the potatoes, one potato and two metal pieces, one of which is iron and the other is copper. Plug in each potato. ”

This was very simple, the black-armored man and the peasant girl did as they were told, and soon, more than thirty potatoes were inserted with metal sheets.

At this point, the audience couldn't see clearly, so they didn't know what Lawson wanted to do.

The pretty red-haired woman began to take notes again: "The master began to fiddle with the boiled potatoes, which was very puzzling. ”

On the high platform, Lawson took out some more wires, he handed them to the black-armored man to check, and asked, "What is this?"

The big man looked at it, touched it with his hand, and bit it down with his mouth: "It's an ordinary thin wire." ”

"Good."

Lawson picked up the thin wire, connected more than 30 potatoes full of metal pieces in series and parallel one by one to form a potato battery array, and then pulled out the positive and negative wires, handed them to the black-armored man, and said, "You try to put them together." ”

The black-armored man was not afraid this time, and smiled: "I'll try." ”

In his opinion, this is a pile of boiled potatoes, no matter how you fiddle with it, even if it is full of metal pieces, it is still potatoes, can it still go to heaven?

He took the two electrodes and put them together.

Sting

There was an electric spark on the electrode, and at the same time, the wire quickly became hot, and in a breath, it began to turn red. Where did the black-armored man dare to pinch it, he threw the electrode aside, and shouted again and again: "Strange things, strange things, potatoes can actually bite people"

He looked at the wire straight.

Rosen laughed, took out another electric lamp, turned around and handed it to the peasant girl, and said, "You put the electrodes on the two iron plates of this lightning lamp." Be careful not to let two wires come together. ”

The peasant girl did as she was told, and when she put the wire on the electric light correctly, the electric light immediately lit up, giving off a soft yellowish glow.

The audience couldn't help it anymore and exclaimed one after another.

"Potatoes and thunder, I'm not mistaken."

"It's incredible"

"God, did you hide thunder and lightning in potatoes?"

The red-haired woman's lips opened slightly, and after a while, she picked up the note and wrote: "It's incredible, it's incredible, this young master of magic, actually created a large number of thunder and lightning out of potatoes. This lightning bolt is powerful enough to melt the wire."

When the commotion of the crowd subsided, Rosen smiled, "You see, I have created more thunder and lightning with the most ordinary materials, enough to light the lights, enough to melt the fine wires. If you're interested, when you get home, you can make the same potato battery, of course, this method is a bit of a waste of potatoes, haha. ”

"Hehe" The audience laughed, and many people had already made up their minds to get a similar thunderbolt potato when they went back.

But the speech didn't stop, and Rosen continued: "As you can see, I've created more thunder and lightning. However, there weren't enough thunderbolts, so I continued to look for ways to create more and more stable thunderbolts. As a result, I really found it."

"Wow"

Now people are shocked, the thunder and lightning potatoes are enough to melt the wire, if it is stronger, it will not be comparable to the thunder and lightning in the sky

People looked at the high platform expectantly, waiting for Lawson to demonstrate a more powerful way to make lightning.

Lawson didn't live up to expectations, he moved away slightly, revealing the grotesque thing behind him, which was a large wooden box made of iron and wood, two meters high, almost completely closed, revealing two tat needles on one side, and on one side, a huge iron crank.

Lawson pointed to the wooden box and said, "This is the thunder motor I made using a new method. It's also made from the most common materials, but the manufacturing method is a bit complicated, and I can't explain it for a while. The only thing I can guarantee is that the average person will be able to use it easily. ”

The audience was a little disappointed because, unlike the previous two times, this time the thing was terrifying, but there was no specific production method. Still, people are looking forward to the power of this thing.

Rosen smiled and said to the black-armored man: "This gentleman, you are very strong, and your strength must be very strong, I need you to do me a favor, is it okay?"

The black-armored man nodded: "How to help"

Lawson pointed to the iron crank on the side of the wooden box and said, "Hold it and turn it hard." ”

"It's easy."

The black-armored man stepped forward, held the crocker, and turned the crank up with a fierce force, but it could be seen that he was not easy to turn, because the muscles of his whole body were bulging, and his face was flushed. ”

Lawson said, "Work harder, turn faster." ”

The black-armored man immediately strengthened his strength, and the crank turned faster and faster, and there was a clattering noise in the wooden box, as if something was spinning rapidly.

As the crank turned faster and faster, suddenly, there was a loud clicking sound between the two iron needles on the other side of the wooden box, and a silvery-white arc of lightning appeared in the air between the iron needles

"Oh"

There was an irrepressible exclamation from the audience.

The black-armored man on the stage was also startled, he also saw the arc, where did he dare to continue to shake the handle, he jumped backwards and withdrew more than ten meters away.

But though he retreated, the crank was still spinning at high speed, and the arc was still between the two iron needles, jumping and flashing, emitting a dazzling white light that was moving.

After an exclamation, everyone on and off the stage was silent, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the constantly flickering arc, and only a huge shock was left in their hearts.

The beautiful red-haired woman was stunned for a long time, and finally came back to her senses, and wrote in her notebook: "At first glance, it is a bulky wooden box, and even when the crank is turned, there is no magic smell. However, as the crank increased, the lightning appeared so suddenly, it crackled, scorched the air, and gave off a spicy smell. It is not known how this wooden box was made, and what so-called ordinary materials were hidden inside. In this world, I'm afraid that only that young magic master can explain all this, and now, I have to say that this master's understanding of thunder and lightning has reached an incredible level, as if it is the thunder god of the mortal world. ”

On the stage, Rosen took out two more thunderbolt lamps, one for the black-armored man and one for the peasant girl: "Two assistants, thank you for your cooperation, this is my gift to you." And that's all for tonight's thunderbolt speech. After that, I will open a lightning academy in Nilogaard, if anyone wants to learn more about thunder and lightning, they can join the academy and become my student. Whether he is an alien or an ordinary person, as long as he is willing to learn, as long as he is willing to obey the laws of Nilogaard, then I am willing to teach. Well, thank you again, thank you very much. ”

As soon as these words came out, many people were immediately moved, and the black-armored man rushed forward, knelt down in front of Rosen is body, and said loudly: "Master, please accept me as a disciple." ”

The peasant girl was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and immediately knelt down: "Master, I am also willing to become your disciple." ”

As soon as the two took the lead, many of the audience in the audience were excited, ready to join the academy and learn about thunder and lightning. Even the red-haired woman, who had been recording before, was quite moved.

But at this moment, the silver-armored young man with a heavy sword in the audience suddenly said coldly: "Rosen, if you teach mortals the knowledge of the gods, aren't you afraid of blasphemy and divine punishment?"