When Gawain arrived at the southeast corner of the camp, a group of soldiers had already gathered here - the Byron knights, who were patrolling nearby, heard the movement and immediately brought people over to maintain order and disperse the brave civilians.

But to be honest, even if no soldiers stepped forward to expel them, there were few civilians gathered: they were not only afraid of the authority of the nobility, but also afraid of the power of magic, Hetty's magic laboratory was undoubtedly a strange and terrifying place in the eyes of those who could not use extraordinary powers, and the explosions coming from the laboratory were even more terrifying.

Gawain saw a large hole in the wall on one side of the magic laboratory, and there was billowing smoke coming out of it, the smoke was mixed with a pungent smell of burning, and some magic power that had not yet dissipated was shining in the smoke, and Hetty and Rebecca had rushed out of the room, both of them were smoked and dusty, Hetty was in a mess at this time summoning water to clean up the soot from his hair and face, and Rebecca rushed up with excitement after seeing Gawain: "Ancestor! The power of art is really powerful! ”

Gawain pressed Rebecca, who was obviously a little excited, and looked at the two of them, as if they had just been rescued from the black coal kiln, the culprit and victim of the experimental accident: "Are you two okay?" Why did the wall blow up......"

The power of this explosion was a little more powerful than he expected - he originally thought that there was a protective magic, and the detonation was only some unencapsulated crystal particles, so it would not be too harmful.

However, he overlooked one thing: the explosion was not a gunpowder weapon on Earth, but a magical effect, and whether or not it was encapsulated in a hard, airtight container had a limited effect on the power of burst magic......

"The effect of a large number of crystal particles being detonated at the same time is a bit beyond expectations," Hetty finally used the summoned water to rinse himself up a little human, and after hearing Gawain's question, he stepped forward and replied, while angrily throwing a ball of water and smashing it on Rebecca's face, "Of course, more importantly, she put the two test samples too close!" Double the amount of crystal particles detonated at the same time! ”

Gawain glanced at Rebecca silently, thinking that the stupid roe deer might not be able to escape today's beating......

After confirming that the two of them were fine, Gao Wen was more or less relieved, and then it was time to care about the property: "Is the loss big?" ”

Hetty gave a look of pain on his face: "The magic array I used for my experiments was destroyed, but fortunately, at the moment of the explosion, I leaked most of my power in the direction of the vacant wall, and the precious crystal resonator was not affected - instead, half of the wall needed to be repaired." ”

Gawain glanced at Rebecca silently again, since the most valuable crystal resonator was not broken, the stupid roe deer should not be killed......

Rebecca was still completely unconscious, of course, it was also possible that she had not woken up yet, and noticed that the old ancestor had his eyes floating over several times, and she was stunned and asked: "Ancestor, what do you think I am doing?" ”

Gawain thought for a moment: "Do you resist the beating?" ”

Rebecca scratched her hair: "It's okay...... When I was a child, I often fought with wolves. ”

"Then it'll be fine," Gawain waved his hand, "how many samples will be used this time?" How well does the rune trigger work? ”

"That's it...... Two small piles," Rebecca gestured with her hand to the approximate amount, and a proud look on her face as she lifted the rune trigger, "And let me tell you, the rune trigger really works!" It's enough to connect it to the explosion circle as a starting energy, as long as the circle has this initial energy, the subsequent explosion process can be fully supported by those crystals, and I plan to try to see if the magic of the rune trigger can activate other types of rune groups next time...... Ahh......hhhhhh

Rebecca said as she spoke, and her thoughts diverged, and halfway through the divergence, she suddenly pulled her distant thoughts back, and began to make a small report to Gawain: "Ancestor, let me tell you, Aunt Hetty didn't believe what I said at first, and she didn't believe that the rune trigger would produce a magical impact when it closed, and she said that it didn't have a concentrating structure......"

Speaking of the rune trigger, Hetty really praised Rebecca: "That thing is indeed a very good invention, although there have been previous attempts by magicians to cut a complete circle and control the mana mechanism by reorganizing these parts, but no one has thought of turning this division and reorganization into a fixed pattern. Rebecca's rune trigger uses a pair of fixed runes as a 'connection key', which is very much in line with the 'universal' and 'normative' ...... you often tell us."

That's because Rebecca positioned the rune trigger as a product that "can be used by ordinary people" from the beginning, and she even thought that if the rune trigger was damaged, the blacksmiths and apprentices in the steel mill could repair it with their own hands, so she simplified the structure to the extreme, even to the point of only one set of runes.

The mainstream mages of this world, who would have thought of this?

As for the "magic standard value" that Rebecca seemed to casually mention just now, Gawain also kept it in mind.

Although with the technical level of modern human beings, they do not have the ability to accurately measure and standardize the operation of magic power, but in the Gondor period seven hundred years ago, there was actually a germ of this aspect, and some mages had thought about how to use this huge energy more accurately and standardly in the face of the almost endless magic provided by the Deep Blue Well, but it was a pity that the Deep Blue Well exploded before they could think about the result.

But since I want to develop on the basis of the "magic" of this world, it is a matter of time before I standardize and standardize.

"Let's fix the magic lab first, and then the explosion experiment with those crystals will continue," Gawain said after a brief moment of thought, looking at Hetty and Rebecca, "but the way the experiment needs to be adjusted...... Those crystals were more powerful than expected, and it was too dangerous to continue testing indoors. I've given you the gentle slope on the east side of the camp near the riverbank as a testing ground, and it's open enough to test this kind of thing. Also, think about how you can make a corresponding container that can be used as a shell for the Rebecca Crystal, so that it can be turned into a real usable weapon. ”

Rebecca and Hetty nodded their heads and jotted down these orders, and Gawain thought for a moment before suddenly remembering something quite crucial: "Wait, and- have you ever thought about how to delay the detonation of the circle?" ”

"Delayed detonation time?" Hetty didn't react for a moment, but then realized that not everyone could use the plastic hand to press the rune trigger from a long distance like herself.

With the current operation mechanism of the rune trigger and the explosion circle, it belongs to a kind of thing that detonates when pressed, which means that this thing is simply a self-detonation artifact, and after pressing the button, the enemy does not know if he dies, but he must be dead anyway......

In this regard, the Gondor Ancient Crystal relies on the "friend or foe identification" function that is almost black technology to ensure safety, and there is also a very complex set of detonation mechanisms in the crystal that automatically run after leaving the master's control, but this part of the rune group is simply an alien creation in the eyes of today's mages, and it is difficult to draw on paper, let alone restore.

Hetty had a lot of runes and circles in her head, and tried to use these things to meet the "delayed detonation" request put forward by her ancestors, she thought of adding a slow charging structure to those rune groups, when the rune trigger was pressed, it would start to fully charge, and the energy would be full before it would trigger the next level of detonation circle, but it was clear that the instantaneous magic provided by the rune trigger could not meet this at all.

Rebecca's head was racing in her head, but in addition to runes and circles, there were also a lot of springs and connecting rods......

She was trying to satisfy her ancestors by means other than magic.

This is the difference in mindset between a mage who knows a lot of spells and a mage who can only use a fireball.

Two Zeng Zeng Zeng who were full of ideas...... The great-granddaughter left with the task given to them by Gawain, and Gawain stood where he was, looking at the still smoke-emitting magic lab.

Enchanted ...... The world.

Sure enough, even the first sound of art is completely different from the earth.

As a blast that requires a specific magic array to detonate, the Rebecca Crystal is not a problem with its power and safety, but it has encountered great trouble in delaying its detonation.

If it's fire on the earth. Medicine, all it takes is a fuse.

In the blink of an eye, Cecil's pioneering camp had been entrenched in the land for a month, and the men and supplies promised by King Francis II had not yet arrived, but there was already clear information that they were on the way - this year's flood season on the Dolgon River was half a month later than usual, and those aid from the hinterland of the kingdom were delayed on the way.

For these delays, Gawain can be said to have been mentally prepared: in this world where everything is slow and backward, he cannot count on others according to the precise and efficient social background on the earth, so his camp construction plan is not affected in the slightest, and it is still proceeding according to the established rhythm.

A large number of tents in the camp have been turned into sturdy, long-term wooden houses, and at this stage when cement is temporarily hopeless, Gawain's next step is to have the craftsmen open up a new area on the west side of the camp and build a brick kiln to fire adobe bricks - although it has failed to make cement in this world, it is still possible to burn bricks, a technology that already exists in this world.

It's just that the traditional brick-burning relies on manual labor, which is extremely inefficient, and the corresponding finished product is expensive.

However, before his plan could be implemented, a sudden change disrupted the rhythm of the camp's construction.

Several serfs who had gone to the mountains in search of quartz sand fled in terror, two of them were not lightly wounded, and one of them had remained in the mountains forever.

They were attacked by "aberrations".