The crystals in the ruby vessel shattered into a puddle, and Gawain and Hetty stood beside each other looking at each other.

After being stunned for a long time, the corners of Gao Wencai's mouth twitched and he said: "This is a failure to ascend to the star, right?" ”

Hetty: "Huh? ”

"Ahem, I mean, what's going on?" Gao Wen hurriedly coughed twice and covered up the words that came out of his mind just now, "Is it that when the magic circle extracted energy, it used too much force and directly pumped it into slag?" ”

Hetty's eyes glowed with a faint arcane glow, and she carefully observed the traces of magic left in the ruby vessel, and the original excitement on her face slowly dimmed: "No...... I'm afraid it's a birth defect of this crystal......"

"Flawed?" Gao Wen immediately frowned, and vaguely had a premonition that the golden light of the non-chief krypton gold card flashed but it was a guarantee, "Is it a one-off?" If you recharge and then release it, it will definitely be destroyed? ”

If this is the case, then the value of this "artificial crystal" will undoubtedly be greatly reduced, but Gawain feels that he can accept it: in this world, the crystal that can store magic power is an extremely valuable material, and the magician divides this crystal into two qualities: high-quality crystals are pure and stable, can carve magic circles and run stably, so they are used as the core of various magic items, such as inlaying magic staffs, and the lower crystals cannot depict magic circles due to their poor stability, but they can be used as magic storage containers, It is also regarded as an important strategic resource by spellcasters.

But for a long time, energy storage crystals can only be obtained from nature, and artificial crystals cannot replace them at all, this is because artificial crystals have a serious "natural escape" problem, and the magic stored in the crystals will be lost at an alarming rate, and even dissipate within a few days, which is simply unusable, so artificial crystals have always been only used as auxiliary materials for magical items, and even as decorations in noble castles......

If Rebecca's crystals are just "disposable", in Gawain's opinion, the problem is not big at all, Herty has confirmed that these crystals are very stable, so it is a big deal to make disposable magic props, for Gawain, who is used to the industrial age, "disposable" does not mean that the practical value is low, but it is synonymous with cheap, fast, and mass production.

However, Hetty shook his head: "It's not a one-time thing, but the mana it stores can't be extracted and used at all." ”

This time, Gawain was completely dumbfounded: "How can this be? ”

"The loss of 'coordination' of mana probably occurs at the moment of extraction, and the originally ordered mana becomes a disordered 'waste energy' in the process, which dissipates in an instant, and even collecting it before it dissipates is useless, after all...... It's 'waste energy'. ”

Waste, a term used by mages, is also known as disordered magic, a type of magic that cannot participate in any magical reactions or be used to release any spells, and is as worthless as a note that has lost its tune. Discord magic is an ancillary product of many spells, and it is the "residue" of the mages after releasing their magic, and the most existential event of Discord magic that Gawain knows of is the explosion of the Deep Blue Well a year before the fall of the Gondor Empire - a large amount of Discord magic appeared inside the "Deep Blue", which directly caused the Deep Blue Well to run at full power but could not output any energy, and finally the furnace melted down and exploded.

What is stored in the crystal is magic.,Extract it but turn it into residue.,This is simply a strong device in some black-hearted games in the previous life.,What is put in is equipment and gems.,What is taken out is slag and a taunt trumpet in the whole server......

The facts are already clear, Rebecca has refined a small white crystal that can blow up the reinforcements in place (unmistakable).

Glancing at those powdery crystals in disappointment, Gawain shook his head: "Maybe when Rebecca can refine a usable energy storage crystal...... Anyway, I'm looking forward to it. Don't talk about this, I just saw that you were tossing those antique crystals, what are the results? ”

Hetty lifted her spirits, but her tone was apologetic: "I'm sorry, Ancestor, many of the circles and rune laws in that crystal have now been lost, and they are combined in an incomprehensible way, and the accuracy of the current crystal resonator is limited, and I can only distinguish a small part of it and restore it into a circle so far...... Please come over here. ”

Gawain followed, and saw Hetty take out some of the circle's drawings from her desk, which were not only the various symbols and lines, but also the notes written in Juanxiu's font, which were the notes she had left behind.

Gawain looked at the drawings, and Hetty said his thoughts beside him: "The magic system of the ancient Gondor Empire is very different from today's, their magic arrays are 'layered', each layer is connected by key nodes, and those nodes themselves are combined to be a kind of magic circle, as if the layers are nested. With today's technology, it's impossible to construct a circle of this structure, and I can't imagine how the ancient Magus Gondor could have stuffed this entire complex set of runes into a small crystal......"

Gawain raised his head and said with a smile: "They first prepared a room that was almost free of dust and suspended particles, then built a huge magic circle model with magic guide materials in this room, then evacuated the air in the room, and finally illuminated the magic circle model with powerful magic from the deep blue well, and on the 'focus' of the illumination, a blank crystal to be processed was placed. Through a special polarization technique, the magic will imprint the layered magic circles layer by layer on the inside of the crystal - in this way, once the magic is irradiated, a set of magic circles will be branded into the crystal, and twenty-seven will be made in one minute. ”

With a "snap", one of the dipping pens in Hetty's hand fell to the ground and fell in two.

Damn, were the ancients so powerful?!

"So that's where my view is most different from that of people of my time – you think that a lot of things are precious and rare, and it's a matter of course for masters to work on them and pass them on to people from generation to generation, but in my opinion, it's normal for these things to be cheap and mass-produced. It's a pity that the deep blue well has been lost, and the first generation has died again, and it is inevitable that you will develop like this. ”

Hetty's face was strange, and he deeply felt that the descendants had disappointed the old ancestor again......

And at this moment, Gao Wen's eyes were suddenly attracted by the magic array on one of the drawings: "Huh? ”

Hetty hurried forward, and after seeing where Gawain's line of sight was, he explained, "That's the magic circle that controls the crystal's self-detonation. As you know, the last function of these crystals when they are on the verge of collapse is to self-destruct, so this layer of the circle is branded in a separate location from the other rune groups, and it is exceptionally simple, so it is easier to restore. However, the identification of friend or foe related to this detonation circle cannot be restored, and I still haven't been able to find which runes have achieved this incredible function, and I really lack talent in this area......"

"Wait a minute, don't care about how those identification runes are organized," Gawain interrupted Hetty's self-criticism - this eldest granddaughter is good, that is, once she thinks that the ancestor is unhappy, she will immediately fall into a state of self-criticism and self-reflection, which makes people very big, obviously a royal sister queen who walks casually, but in front of him, it seems like he is always being bullied, "I saw the annotation you wrote here...... You say that this magic circle is different from the regular magic circle, not to release the energy in the crystal to the outside world and then generate an explosion, but to detonate the energy inside the crystal, and use the crystal itself as a burst? ”

Hetty was stunned and nodded, "Yes." Ordinary similar magic circles will direct energy from the energy storage crystal to produce effects in the outside world, but because the function of this magic circle is self-detonation, it skips the guidance step, but directly detonates the energy in the energy storage crystal, and the exploding crystal fragments will also have a strong lethality. To be honest, I've never touched this kind of magic circle before, and although it's not complicated, I'm afraid that any magician in his right mind won't use it, and this thing will directly destroy the precious energy storage crystals......"

Hetty said and said, obviously, she was not stupid, and had quickly realized the usefulness of this thing.

She and Gawain looked at the ruby vessel on the bench, and the trace amount of crystal dust in the ruby vessel seemed to glow again in their eyes.

That's the brilliance of art (conviction).

"The magic extracted from those crystals will be turned into waste energy in an instant, but they are in a stable state when they are stored in the crystals...... "Gawain said slowly, "Then let's not extract it at all, how about it be better to detonate it directly in the crystal." ”

Hetty also said slowly: "Yes, anyway, this 'crystal' is made from stone, and it is worthless......

Magicians in their right minds will not use a burst circle that will blow up the energy storage crystals together, this is because the energy storage crystals are very valuable, and they only need to add a structure to the explosion circle to export energy, and they can release the burst magic on the premise of keeping the crystal, since the effect is exactly the same, why destroy a crystal?

But what if there was a crystal whose stored mana could not be exported at all, and which was worthless on its own?

It was born to blow itself up - it was as straightforward and iron-headed as its inventor.

Gawain's mind was filled with a myriad of exciting and bold ideas, all accompanied by brilliant fires and shocking sounds, which were the future, the hope, the sword and shield to defend the people and the land, and the light to dispel the dark clouds caused by the failure of the trial gunpowder......

It's art.

The artistic ones are not good, and they are on the same level as the Louvre.

Gawain suppressed those exciting thoughts, and suddenly asked a very practical question with a strange face: "How do we engrave a burst circle on a crystal that is only the size of a grain of rice?" ”

Hetty also calmed down, and thought about the question seriously, and then said uncertainly, "Perhaps...... It doesn't have to be engraved in the crystal, as it's an 'interference' circle. ”

(Damn, it's on the shelves the day after tomorrow!) ）