In fact, to be honest, after encountering this metal egg, Gawain finally realized how lucky he is in his current situation - he has no amnesia, he is in a world that is also dominated by humans, he also has an identity that can smoothly integrate into the current world (although this identity is somewhat of a horror component), a satellite perspective that may be useful, and most importantly, he has memories from Gawain Cecil.

This last point is particularly important, because it is precisely because he has memories from both worlds that he can easily face this time and space where the physical rules are very different from those on Earth, and he can use the experience of "this world" to tide over difficulties when he cannot solve problems with Earth experience.

However, Nicholas Egg can't do this at all, and the situation of this metal ball is simply the other extreme compared to Gawain:

He had amnesia, he had no experience or knowledge to be effective in this world, he was captured as a test subject as soon as he arrived, and most importantly, he fell on the ground of a terrifying Homo erect ape in the style of an egg-shaped creature......

If it is said that Gawain is already in hell if he wants to farm and climb technology in a world with very different physical rules, then this ball simply smashed through the ceiling of all the kings in hell, and then fell into the cauldron of the lord of hell, and the bottom of the pot is still spicy durian.

Therefore, Gawain has to admire the adaptability and mental tenacity of this ball: in such a desperate situation, he can still live so calmly and become an excellent comic ...... Could it be because the nerves of metal creatures are harder?

"Hey, why didn't you speak all of a sudden?" Gawain was awakened from his thoughts by the voice of Nicholas Egg, and the large metal ball floated around the latter in a circle, "I want to hear your advice, what do you think I can do?" To be honest, I'm really looking for something to do right now......"

Gawain immediately thought about it seriously, in fact, he had been thinking about it before today: this metal ball from another world with wonderful abilities was probably just experimental material in the eyes of those Gondor Magisters, but in Gawain's eyes, it was a potential high-tech talent...... Qiucai, it's just that he knows that this ball has just woken up from its slumber, and I'm afraid it will take some time to adapt and adjust his mentality, so he didn't rush to force others to work, but now that Mr. Dan took the initiative to speak, he said while sorting out his thoughts: "You have the ability to control the flow of magic and metal, both of which can come in handy with me, but I don't know the specific parameters of your control of magic and metal, so it's not good for you to arrange." ”

"I don't really know much about controlling mana," replied the metal ball, "You call those energies magic, but we don't have such things in that world, and when I affect the flow of mana, I'm actually vibrating my own magnetic cell—an organ in my body that can generate high-frequency magnetic fields." In our world, when the magnetosphere vibrates, it can form a protective barrier on the surface of the body, but here I find that the barrier disappears, but it can affect the kind of energy that you call 'magic', causing it to fail for a short time......"

Gawain immediately interrupted the other party: "You say magnetic field? You're actually using a magnetic field to affect the flow of magic? ”

"That's right—even when you used 'magic' to talk to me, I actually felt its fluctuations with the magnetosphere...... Unfortunately, though I can feel magic and influence it with magnetic fields, I can't use magic like you 'mages', that female...... The magician named Hetty explained to me what psychic and spell models were, but I couldn't understand a word. ”

Gawain didn't pay attention to the other party's second half of the sentence, he was completely attracted by the fact that "magnetic field affects magic", and fell into great confusion: "Are you sure that the 'magnetic field' you generate is really the kind of 'magnetic field' that everyone in this world knows?" You know, the same term in two worlds is likely to refer to completely opposite phenomena! ”

"This can really be confirmed," Nicholas Egg floated up and down vigorously, as if imitating the nodding action of a human being, "A magnetic field is a magnetic field, of course, people in this world don't seem to have the concept of magnetic field, they only know magnetic force, and natural magnets can attract the kind of magnetic force of iron, but I have confirmed that the magnetic field generated by my magnetic cell body is the same as the natural magnet in this world...... What's wrong? ”

"I don't know what's wrong," Gawain smiled wryly and spread out his hand, "I've done a lot of experiments with the magnetic field, but I haven't found that it can affect the flow of magic at all, is it because the magnetic field I use is not strong enough?" ”

He still didn't finish half a sentence: in addition to using magnetic fields to affect magic, his experiments with magnetism and electricity were unsuccessful......

"Intensity? I don't think it matters, the magnetic field generated by the magnetic cell body is not strong," said the metal ball dangling, "Maybe it's because of the frequency, you didn't use a high-frequency magnetic field, right?" I remember how often those 'Magisters' used a vibrating magnetic field to scan me a thousand years ago...... Millions of oscillations per second? That seems to be the highest frequency they can come up with, but it's not even a tenth of the frequency of the magnetic cell body - why don't you try to turn up the frequency of the magnetic field? ”

Gawain's head was bruised: In such a broken place where the technology was still broken in the Middle Ages, where could he get a high-frequency magnetic field of tens of millions of hertz!

The Nicholas Egg is probably the only high-frequency source in the world that can produce a magnetic field of this frequency!

Knowing that there was no qualified experimental environment at this moment, Gao Wen first wrote down this matter silently in his heart, and then was about to ask about the other party's ability to manipulate metal, but just as he was about to speak, he suddenly saw that the door of the brick kiln factory was pushed open, a stupid roe deer...... Fireball Launcher...... Iron Head ...... Rebecca ran towards this direction in a frenzy.

"Ancestors! Ancestors! Miss Viscount shouted excitedly as she ran, "Come on! Come with me!! ”

Seeing the girl's excited appearance, Gawain's first reaction was to hide to the side: he was afraid that this stupid roe deer would have a twitch of his brain, and throw seventy or eighty big fireballs on his face......

And after Rebecca ran in front of him and finally got out of breath, Gawain asked her unhurriedly, "You finally blew up Herty's lab with a fireball?" ”

"Ah...... Yes?! Rebecca was taken aback by Gawain's words as soon as she gasped, and then waved her hand vigorously, "No, no!" I'm careful - I'm telling you, we're going to assemble that magic engine you proposed! ”

Gawain's originally calm expression was instantly replaced by surprise and surprise.

"It's already done?! Have you tested the machine? ”

"Not yet," Rebecca waved her hand, "waiting for you to go over and test it!" However, Aunt Hetty has already tested all its parts, and they are all according to the design drawings, and they can all achieve the corresponding results, so it should be fine......

"Don't say it, hurry up," Gawain couldn't hold back his excitement, pulled Rebecca and walked outside the brick kiln factory, and halfway through it he remembered that there was still a ball, so he turned around and beckoned, "You come too, you come too—look at the good things we designed!" ”

I'm afraid no one could have imagined that the "assembly workshop" of the first generation of magic engines would be so shabby.

It was a wooden shed next to the Cecil Iron Works, and apart from a few soldiers, it was no different from any other shack, and there was nothing in it that was reminiscent of high-tech or cutting-edge magic: except for the most intricate runes, which were done in Heti's laboratory, all the parts of the magic engine were hammered and shaped by the hands of blacksmiths and rune craftsmen, so there were no machine tools or precision molds. Rebecca and Hetty led the craftsmen to complete each process of the prototype in the most primitive and laborious way.

If it weren't for the fact that this world has magic aids, and Hetty's fire and plastic spells can help a lot, the final assembly and welding of the prototype would probably be a problem.

No matter what world you are in, it is not easy for anything to be born.

In the central clearing of the "assembly room", a large piece of burlap covered something less than two meters high, its outline was somewhat strange, and Gawain could only vaguely make out that one of the larger bulges was supposed to be a flywheel structure underneath, and its true face was still obscured.

The old blacksmiths, Hammer and Hetty, stood next to the prototype, along with a number of men, some of whom were Hammer's apprentices, and the other two were runesmiths from the royal capital who had just joined the realm.

"Rebecca had to run to find you herself," Hettie nodded apologetically to Gawain, "this kid is a bit reckless." ”

"She wants to tell me the good news herself, understandable," Gawain took a breath and looked at the machine, "open it and let me see." ”

Hetty waved her hand, and a translucent plastic hand appeared in the air, lifting the cover.

Underneath that was a weird-looking machine.

It has a vague shadow of a "distant relative" on the earth, with a huge flywheel, and a connecting rod and crank and crankshaft structure connected to the flywheel, but it is completely different from any power machine on the earth in Gawain's memory: it has no cylinder, instead it is a "repulsion mechanism" composed of slide rails, pistons, and pedestals at the middle end of the machine, and the piston is a square piece of iron, with four slide rails passing through its four corners, and fixed to a base at each end. On the side of the base facing the pistons, you can see a faint flickering magic circle, and on the outer edge of the two repulsion circles, there are runes that extend out, a long metal plate connected between the two repulsion circles, and the rune trigger structure on top is connected to one of the repulsion circles, which in turn is connected to the crankshaft of the flywheel by a connecting rod and toggle device.

Every time the crankshaft turns half a turn, the rune trigger will be flicked, and the corresponding rune will establish a connection with one of the repulsion circles, until the crankshaft turns the other half turn, and the rune trigger will leave this circle and enter the connection range of the other circle, activating the repulsion mechanism on the opposite side......

In addition to the rune trigger used to "switch the direction of repulsion", there is also a rune trigger that controls the "total energy" of the two repulsion circles, which is also controlled by a connecting rod, and the control lever is located on the side of the machine.

The special repulsion mechanism allows the machine to avoid the need for a cylinder structure, thus avoiding the greatest threshold of precision: mechanical precision, which is replaced by the precision required for magical runes, which happens to be the characteristic of "this world".

Hetty looked at the magic engine in front of her with some distraction, it had a completely different appearance and internal mechanism from any magical creation in this world, even if she herself participated in the creation of the engine, it was still inevitable that she would be a little distracted at the moment, but she soon came back to her senses and looked at Gawain: "Ancestor, please pull off the mechanism." ”

Located on the edge of the Cecil Steelworks, the engines can receive the energy from the Magic Net, and although there is no "amplifier plate" in the steelworks compound to enhance the efficiency of energy transmission, as a low-power verification machine, this energy is sufficient.

Gawain shook his head: "This is what we designed together, you two come with me." ”

Hetty seemed a little hesitant, but Rebecca didn't think about it that much at all, she couldn't control her curiosity anymore, and with Gawain's permission, she hurried to the side of the machine in two steps, and beckoned vigorously: "Aunt Hetty!" Come on! ”

Hetty smiled, put aside all his hesitation, and walked to Gawain's side.

The three hands were placed together on the handle that controlled the total energy connection, and Gawain counted down to three counts, and the three of them pressed the handle down with all their might.

The magic circuit was instantly connected, and the repulsion mechanism at the core of the engine was lit up, and as one of the magic arrays lit up, the rough and simple "iron piston" slowly moved in front of everyone's eyes.

As if to move the heavy flywheel, it was initially moving slowly, but as soon as the flywheel moved, the piston quickly moved to the end of the entire repulsion mechanism - the rune trigger for switching also took effect, and the first magic circle that lit up went out, and the other repulsive circle lit up almost at the same time.

The flywheel spun around a full circle, and then it went faster and faster, faster and faster – the whole machine was making a lot of noise and shaking, but it was actually running!