Summer is coming to an end.

The constellation Mars begins to shift towards the western sky at night, the heat begins to recede from the kingdom, the winds of the morning and evening become cool and pleasant, and after a few abundant rains, the autumn atmosphere is approaching day by day.

The mystical intricate magic runes floated in the air like stars, the crystal device used to display the rune structure was fixed to the alloy pedestal, the surface shimmered with a glow of magic, a low hum echoed in the laboratory, and Kamal floated silently between the illusory magic runes, the arcane light in his eyes as bright as ever.

This is the largest analysis room in the Rune Research Institute, and today's task is to analyze the technical data brought by the elves.

Several senior rune masters from the Rune Research Institute were transcribing the rune structures at several key points, while a tall, thin, bronde male elf stood beside Kamal, whose gaze occasionally fell on Kamal - it was clear that a powerful arcane creature was of particular interest to the elven magus.

Kamel didn't pay attention to the elven magister's gaze, he focused almost all of his energy on the runes that had just been translated and parsed, and after carefully observing its core structure, he couldn't help but say, "Master Banner - the core mechanism of this purification array is some kind of ...... Tone and resonance? ”

"You're right, Master Carmel," the elven magister known as Banner nodded, "After a long period of research into the Chaos Magic, we have found that it is still a kind of magic in essence, and not a 'highly polluting waste energy' as previously thought, and since it is a magical power, it is possible to order it by readjusting and resonating with it, which is the idea of 'purification'. ”

Kamal's gaze fell between the rune phantoms, and his tone gradually became a little excited: "In other words, you treat magic as a kind of 'wave' - and it worked?!" ”

"'Wave'......" The Elven Magister was stunned for a moment, and looked at Kamal in surprise, "You also introduced this concept?!" ”

“…… We only introduced this concept a while ago, and we still can't confirm it, so we can only use it as a conjecture," Kamel hummed, "and we applied the fluctuating properties of magic in the process of solving and reconstructing the teleportation spell, and its volatility has been confirmed mathematically and by example, but we still lack the key evidence—observable evidence. ”

"We introduced this concept forty years ago, when the great star magician Vilania proposed the hypothesis that magic is a fluctuation, and deduced the wavelength range of the theory of pure arcane magic through several models of arcane magic, and her theory was the basis for the purification array - but sadly, we were not able to obtain observable evidence ......"

Kamal suddenly turned around and looked at the elven magister in front of him with burning eyes: "You are also experiencing interference?" ”

"You've met with it too?!" The elven magister named Banner was surprised in his tone, and at this moment his attention was completely off Kamal's arcane body - this elf from the Silver Empire never thought that on the other side of the distant continent, in the realm of aliens, in the human society in full decline, human magicians were actually studying the nature of magic, let alone that human research had been so deep, and even encountered the bottleneck encountered by elves!

"Interference is everywhere, and the whole world is shrouded in a magical environment so powerful that it is impossible to observe at all," Kamel was also surprised that the elves were conducting the same research as humans, as if a lone traveler in the desert suddenly met a traveling companion with the same goal, and his "heart", which had long ceased to beat—even the "heart" that had long since ceased to beat—seemed to throb again, "What kind of experiment did you design?" ”

The elven magister quickly calmed down after a brief moment of shock, and he did not hide the problem: "Master Vilania has designed an interference experiment - we have prepared a pure arcane energy source to ensure that it has only a very small amount of 'impurities', and then gathered the arcane energy into bundles and hit a crystal lattice, which is made of a thin sheet of demonic suppression crystal, with two narrow slits left on it that are very close to each other. Theoretically, pure arcane energy will exhibit volatility after passing through the flakes of the Suppression Crystal: the mana waves passing through the two narrow slits should interfere with each other and form interference streaks on the projection plate coated with developer dust......"

"But there's only a white noise, isn't it?" Kamel followed, "Any pattern projected on the observation screen is covered by a much stronger natural mana field, just as it is unrealistic to observe a faint glimmer of light in bright light, in fact, the faint pure arcane energy may not even reach the projection panel, and will be neutralized by the mana field in the environment ...... the middle."

Banner sighed regretfully: "As you say, the experiment failed. It seems that you are ...... too."

"We also devised similar experiments, and the idea of the experiment was proposed by Duke Cecil," said Carmel, in a deep voice, "and we have not been able to observe the interference fringe, but the mathematics tells me that it should have existed." ”

The elven magister was a little surprised: "Gawain? Duke Cecil also has such attainments in the field of magic? ”

"The Duke is very learned, and has been exposed to transcendent knowledge and wisdom in seven hundred years of soul detachment," said Kamel convincingly, "but ...... He also can't solve the problem of the magic interference of the natural environment. Speaking of which, have you ever tried the Forbidden Magic Field? ”

"The highest-level forbidden magic force field only suppresses the magic reaction to a certain extent, and at the same time interferes with the caster's mental power to block the spellcasting process, and the magic power itself cannot be banned," the elven magister shook his head with a wry smile, "We have also tried to make a 'dark room' with expensive magic suppression crystals to block the magic in nature, but due to process limitations, we can't guarantee the complete isolation of the entire dark room, as long as there is a little leakage...... Interference came like a devil. ”

Carmel could imagine how hard the elves had gone into creating such a "dark room".

Due to the pervasiveness of natural magic, magic interference observation experiments must ensure that the observer himself is also in a darkroom environment, and a darkroom that can accommodate the observer, even if the space is cramped, is also a huge volume of "box", the cost of the magic suppression crystal is secondary, to process such a huge crystal, and ensure that it does not have any "leakage points"...... Clearly surpassing the elves' craft technology.

Even elves can't do it, and humans probably can't do it.

"Our next goal is to turn to the elves of the Oguray Clan, the elves are small enough to burrow into very small dark rooms, and smaller dark rooms can be processed," Banner said with a sigh, "but it's hard to say if we can find elves willing to help, after all...... They don't like to be locked up very much. ”

……

Gawain sat behind his desk and quietly listened to Carmel's report.

“…… Lord, to sum up, the elves have the same problem as we do - the interference of magic in the natural environment. ”

"What a devilish interference......"

Gawain sighed softly, his thoughts fluctuating.

What exactly is the nature of magic?

This question has been haunting him since he opened the coffin, the ubiquitous forces of nature, the seemingly endless amount of energy, which has brought convenience and made Gawain deeply suspicious, he has always wanted to understand the nature and source of magic, and until now, he and his research team have achieved very little.

They can only be sure now that the source of the magic is inseparable from the "sun" in the sky, and that its essence ...... "maybe" some kind of wave.

Yes, although there are already some examples of applications, such as the magic network communication technology, and some calculation conclusions, but for this kind of real "thing", as long as there is no observable phenomenon for a day, it is impossible to completely determine its definition for a day, and at this stage, Gawain and Carmel can only say that magic power, "perhaps" is some kind of wave.

This is a regrettable situation.

It is there, its nature, its possible nature, is already being revealed, but the most crucial observations have become the biggest obstacle to researchers, and the magic of nature is everywhere - this has brought about the rapid development of magical technology, but also the great difficulties of some research projects.

The classic experiment that Gawain could think of to verify the volatility was the double-slit interference experiment, and he knew how it was achieved on Earth - but in this world, this classic experiment is difficult to verify, because the magic of the natural environment covers all the observed phenomena.

The strength of the magic in nature is far stronger than the two arcane streams that passed through the slit during the experiment, it formed a white noise on the reflector, and the pure one-way arcane flow that was supposed to interfere was completely erased from the traces of existence, and for the same reason, the experiment to observe the magic version of the "Poisson Bright Spot" was also unsuccessful.

The elves' idea was perhaps the best solution - to build a dark room and find a way to shield it from the magical distractions of the natural world.

However, it is not easy.

On the earth, if you want to avoid the influence of strong light in nature to observe the interference fringes, you only need to use the shading material to block it, but in this world, the natural substances that can block the magic are extremely rare and difficult to process, and the expensive magic suppression crystal is the most suitable material that can be found, it can really block the magic force, and the baffle in the double-slit interference experiment is made of it, but the magic suppression crystal must be processed into a dark room...... Even in the time of Gondor, it was difficult to do so easily.

"Actually, I have another plan," said Kamel, "using a more powerful arcane source to make the energy through the double slit exceed the natural magic base, so that we might be able to observe the interference fringes outside of the darkroom—or even if not, two burn marks, at least we can verify that the magic is a wave." According to my calculations, the existing rainbow cannon fully meets this condition. ”

"I've thought about this plan too, but the premise of this plan is that we have to find a material that is more stable and stronger than the Demon Suppression Crystal," Gao Wen frowned, "Although the Demon Suppression Crystal can block the magic power, it has a limit to withstand after all, something like the Rainbow Cannon...... Will burn any bezels. ”

Kamel fell silent.

After a short thought, Gawain asked, "Is the elven astrologist who came up with the concept of magic fluctuations called Verania?" ”

"Yes."

"Just forty years...... As an elf, she should still be working for the elven court today. ”

"Yes, according to Banner? According to Bai Yu, the astral sorcerer Vilania is still working for the Elven Court, and is continuing to research the magic power fluctuation theory, and she is also one of the developers of the 'Purification Array'. ”

"The elves are ahead of us...... It would be nice if we could work with them a little deeper," Gawain sighed softly, "Carmel, what do you think...... Using the remnants of the Magnificent Wall's magical connection, coupled with our Magic Web communication terminals, and a set of translation devices, can we establish long-range communication with the Silver Empire? ”

"It's a challenging idea, but I can give it a try."

Gawain nodded: "Then go and try it." ”