Gawain and Hetty's unanimous questioning shortened Rebecca's neck by two-thirds at a visible rate - Gawain even wondered if he had spoken more harshly, and the girl might have been able to perform a trick on the spot.

But no matter how the neck is shrunk, it still has to be explained, Rebecca carefully looked at the two elders who were qualified to hang herself up and beat, and said honestly: "Don't blame me...... I was testing a new type of detonation substrate at the Rune Research Institute, and my aunt suddenly called me over to help with the experiment, so I casually put the detonation substrate in my pocket - and then put it on the experimental bench again......"

“…… You don't have a safety code for your magic experiments or something? Gawain looked at Hetty out of the corner of his eyes, "This dangerous thing can be put directly on the test table?" ”

In his opinion, Rebecca's operation is about the same level as welding a detonator saw bulb.

"Of course there are safety norms!" Hetty immediately corrected the names of the magicians, but then turned her head a little awkwardly, "But Rebecca she...... Since I was a child, I didn't give her much access to the lab, so she didn't have enough common sense in this regard, which was a problem for my education. ”

"Institutionalization really has to go deep into all aspects, especially in magic laboratories, you can't participate in experiments at will without receiving complete safety code education," Gawain shook his head and sighed, "Fortunately, it's just an initiating rune, and it......'s not very powerful in itself."

"But it stands to reason that this is not dangerous," Rebecca said a little aggrieved, "Although it is a detonation rune substrate, this thing is just a static rune group before it comes into contact with the magic source, no different from an iron plate engraved with patterns, how can it explode......"

Gawain frowned when he heard this, he knew that what Rebecca said was fine.

The detonation rune is different from the detonator on Earth, which itself has a certain risk of explosion, but the detonation rune itself ...... Actually, it won't be fried.

It doesn't have an energy storage structure in it, and if it wants to explode, it must be combined with a carrier that stores magical power - which is why it's far safer than Earth explosives like detonators in Gawain's eyes.

So since it blew up, there was only one explanation: there was a high-purity magic near it at that time that was enough to detonate.

"It must have something to do with that new ore," Gawain looked at the untested sample ores stacked in the other corner of the bench, all of which had been cut into fist-sized pieces, each with a faint sheen of magical materials, "Hetty, have you checked to see if they can store mana?" ”

"Without this property, although they have excellent magical conduction, they are completely unable to store mana, and the escape speed in this regard is about the same as that of purple steel or red copper," Hetty shook his head, "Could it be that strange magic field?" ”

This new ore has a lot of strange properties, such as the fact that it "volatilizes" mana into the air at almost the same speed when it is injected quickly, and if two ores are "volatilized" at the same time when they are very close to each other, then the mana will not dissipate immediately, but will form a strange "field", and this condensed magic field seems to have some unknown effect in the eyes of both Gawain and Herty.

Maybe...... It was the mana field that activated the detonation rune.

"It's very likely," Gawain nodded, "Hetty, you try to get that magic field out again, Rebecca, do you have any extra detonation runes?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Rebecca nodded happily, and then pulled a long cloth bag out of her mage robe, and poured it on the table, and there was a large pile of crackling rune substrates, which she picked from, "I'll take a look...... Scorching rays, small fireballs, detonation, detonation, detonation...... These are all for detonation! ”

Gao Wen was stunned to see that this stupid roe deer took out a large number of explosives in his hand, and cold sweat came down: "You keep these things with you?!" ”

"It's not all the time, haven't I been working with Jenny on the induction and simplification of the magic array for the past two days, so I brought some substrates with me."

“…… You'd better search Rebecca before she enters the lab," Gawain jumped out of the corner of his eye, looking at Hetty with a very serious look, "Didn't this kid blow himself up when he was so old?" ”

Hetty's expression was also a little subtle: "It's really strange to say, she has always been the only one who blew up others, she herself has been dealing with big fireballs all day long, and she has never blown herself up by mistake, at most she has been blackened in the face - this is really rare among those mages who often hurt themselves in the apprenticeship stage." ”

Gawain broke out in a cold sweat and signaled that the experiment could continue—but before he could begin, he ordered Rebecca to throw all the extra detonation rune substrates far enough away from the test bench.

Although the power of the simple detonation substrate explosion in that magic field seems to be very small, at most there are only some pyrotechnic effects, but God knows if this stupid roe deer will have some explosive catalytic aura, and if she really lifts the laboratory away, won't she be hung on the flagpole and beaten......

Once everything was ready, Hetty placed the Detonating Rune Substrate on top of a protective circle, then placed two new ores at a distance from the Rune Substrate, and then placed her hand on the two ores and began to infuse them with magical power.

The two ores shone slightly, and Gawain could feel that a magic field was indeed generated in the process.

In his magical vision, an "environment" centered on two ores that was significantly stronger than the background radiation of the magic quickly took shape and filled the entire laboratory—perhaps even far outside the laboratory, and the glow of the magic shone in this area, flickering and flickering: it was, obviously, as Hetty put it, very unstable.

Turning off the magic vision, Gawain looked at the detonation rune substrate that was placed on the protective circle.

It hasn't changed.

"Doesn't seem to be responding?" Rebecca scratched her hair, "Is this board broken?" ”

Hetty finished the magic release, and the three heads came together to study why the "detonator" didn't explode.

Gawain remembered the details of Rebecca's description earlier: "Did you just say that before the detonation substrate exploded, you also had a piece of ore in your hand ready to input mana?" ”

"yes, and it's lit up a bit."

"This should be the problem," Gawain nodded, "that extra piece of ore probably played a special role. Find a piece of ore and put it next to the initiating substrate and bring it closer. ”

When everything was arranged, Hetty turned on the strange magic field again.

Almost as soon as the magic field appeared, the detonation base plate placed inside the protective circle turned into a bright ball of fire along with the ore next to it.

"That's it!" Rebecca jumped for joy, "It's vibe!" This must be resonant! ”

"Two of these ores will create a mana field when they are fed into mana at the same time, and will the third ore in the mana field resonate synchronously......" Hetty frowned slightly, analyzing the properties of these stones, and then looked at the remaining samples stacked in the corner, "But these things are also located in the mana field, why haven't they changed?" ”

"Maybe it's not resonance, it's some kind of ...... The transfer of mana," Gawain took a breath, suppressed the excessive excitement in his heart, and slowly uttered his guess, "Only the ores connected to the rune substrate or magic circle have changes, this is because they have 'energy-dissipating units', and the energy creates a flow within them, while the other ores naturally do not change because they do not have the next level structure that consumes energy. ”

"A transfer of magic? You mean transmission? Hetty looked at the unremarkable stones in amazement, "That's a ...... Interesting stuff. ”

"Their application prospects are very broad," Gawain looked into Hetty's eyes, "If this thing can be purified and mass-produced, maybe our magic net system can be expanded to an incredible scale!" The range of mana transmission will be greatly expanded, even beyond the territory! ”

Hetty frowned slightly: "But now the magic field it produces is too unstable, and it doesn't take too stable magic to detonate a rune baseplate, but it's not the same to drive those magic energy machines." ”

"So we need to continue to study and find ways to make it stable," Gawain said solemnly, "not only to be stable, but also to be controllable." What is the amount of this ore? ”

"According to the exploration team's estimates, there is a large area of weathering in the eastern extension of the Dark Mountains, and the loose and fragile rock layers are all underneath this strange new variety of ore."

"New Variety Ore ......" Gawain touched his chin, "The same is true for the Rebecca crystal that was fired before, and only the special limestone from the Dark Mountains can form that kind of crystal, and Pittman has also found medicinal herbs with completely special effects in that mountain......"

"I remember you saying that it was the corruption of the natural environment by the Demon Tide that caused the properties of many ordinary mineral plants to change," Hetty said, "and you guess that there will be more similar new resources in the southern foothills of the Dark Mountains......

"It's not the corruption of the Demon Tide, it's a gift from nature," Gawain corrected solemnly, and then looked out the window—through the window in this direction, he could see a small part of the Dark Mountains, "I'll go to the excavation site of the new ore and take a look at the so-called Tide of Destruction...... It seems that there is more to the world than you think. ”

While Gawain, Hetty, and Rebecca were researching the new Dark Mountains ore, another team was also active in the depths of the Dark Mountains.

Strictly speaking, it is active in the depths of the ruins in the mountains.

Byron Knight and his team had been in the newly discovered area for more than a week, drawing up detailed new maps, documenting all sorts of new discoveries, and sending two messengers to communicate the progress of the expedition and get a reply, Byron thought that the expedition had achieved very good results, and considering the pressure of the soldiers staying in the underground ruins for a long time, he decided that it was time to leave the place.

But just as he was sorting out the accumulated information and preparing to arrange his return, the two soldiers who were in charge of going to the front to investigate the situation suddenly ran back to the room that was temporarily used as an exploration base: "My lord, we found a ...... in front Strange place! ”

"Strange place?" Byron frowned, both of these soldiers were veterans and had been following him around for a long time, and they rarely reported a situation in such a vague way, which made him quite concerned.

"Yes, that's ...... A rotunda, but in the center of the hall there is a strange stone ring......"