Although the territory has begun to build brick houses on a large scale, all the previous tents have been replaced, and a large number of wooden houses are being demolished and rebuilt in batches, Pittman's residence is still the same wooden house he originally used to live in - this has nothing to do with the little old man's hard work (in fact, he doesn't have this attribute at all), and it is not because Gawain is not serious about this old man, but because a large number of druids' spells are related to the organic environment, and their spell laboratory needs a lot of wooden substrate to act as a magic guide material. The wooden house was also more convenient for them to use magic to transform and catalyze, so the wooden house has been used to this day, and it seems that Pittman is satisfied with the intention of continuing to use it.

In fact, although the wooden house is still the same wooden house, it has completely changed its appearance after months of magical transformation by Pitman - the wooden planks that had been harvested and had lost their vitality had been "revitalized" by the druid's spells for a long time, and vines and branches grew out of the cracks in the wooden boards, making the wooden house more rigid and strong, and greatly beautifying its appearance, and the environment inside the wooden house had become warm in winter and cool in summer due to the effects of natural spells, and Gawain believed that it was a fairly comfortable place to live.

Otherwise, the old unscrupulous man who sells ointments all day long, rubs rice, drinks everywhere, plays cards, and has a bad habit would have come to change his house a long time ago...... Pitman wasn't the kind of guy who was willing to be poor, otherwise he wouldn't have run away to become an antique appraiser because the druids didn't make money......

Walking into the wooden house, which had been renovated (and renewed every day), Gawain saw the old druid who was busy with his head down next to the test bench, who had obviously noticed the arrival of the lord, but still did not raise his head: "Wait a minute, my lord, my side will be finished soon-the spell experiment cannot be interrupted, these equipment are a bit old, I have to keep an eye on it to ......"

Amber dismantled the other without hesitation: "Don't pretend, your pile of containers hasn't started to react - this kind of decent painting style that is obsessed with academic research, responsible for the truth, and has no time to take care of the lord is not suitable for you." ”

Gao Wen was halfway moved by Pittman's rigorous and serious work attitude when he heard the truth revealed by Amber, and immediately looked Pittman up and down suspiciously, while the latter straightened up from the side of the test bench, blew his beard and glared at Miss Half-Elf: "I just want to cheat some experimental funds, I'm easy!" Which end of the earth are you? ”

Amber rolled her eyes: "Nonsense, of course I'm the one who pays me." ”

"Ahem," Gawain quickly coughed dryly, interrupting the topic that was about to deviate, "I'm here to see the results of your experiment—you seem to have completed the most critical step in the dosage production?" ”

As soon as Pittman heard this, he put down the old alchemy props he had used to cheat the funds, straightened up triumphantly, and walked to the alchemy platform on the other side of the laboratory with Gawain: "You take a look at this first!" ”

Gawain walked over curiously, and he saw that on the alchemy table were a series of connected flasks, curved neck flasks, condenser tubes, distillation kettles, and other devices, which were commonly used by alchemists when dispensing potions, although they were quite complex combinations, but they were not special compared to the potions that Pitman had used to make potions - what was really special was the intricate magic patterns engraved on the surface of two of the containers, and a set of unfamiliar rune arrays in the center of the alchemy table.

Gawain was sure that none of these structures were found on normal alchemy tables and alchemy vessels.

"What are these?" Gawain asked curiously.

"This is the 'Druid Divine Circle' used to participate in place of the caster." Pittman blinked, rather proudly.

"Druid Divine Array?!"

"Yes," Pitman nodded, "As you know, the biggest problem we faced when trying to produce druid potions was that the caster had to be involved in the final 'enchantment' of the potion: only druid spells could catalyze these potions. ”

Speaking of this, Pittman paused, and then said: "Druid spells were born from ancient natural magic, which is completely different from today's conventional magic system, so there is no complete set of 'spell model-rune array' corresponding conversion system, that is to say, many druid spells cannot be converted into magic arrays, which leads to the fact that we can't rely on engraving magic circles on foreign objects to replace spellcasters like magic nets or heat ray guns...... This restricts the mass production of alchemical potions, as the number of druids is limited, and the total amount of mana per person is also limited. ”

Gawain looked at this unorthodox little old man in surprise: "So you successfully transformed the magic of the druids into a magic circle?" ”

"Strictly speaking, it's the ancient Druid Divine Circle—when the Druids were still the Cult of the God of Nature, druid magic was still used as a 'divine magic array' for divine magic," Pitman said in a low and solemn voice, "For this reason, I went through a lot of ancient texts—it cost me one hundred and twenty-seven gold coins to buy books, and the total amount of errand money for asking someone to buy books was ......"

"It's not appropriate to say this in such a solemn tone, I'll go back and reimburse you," Gawain directly interrupted the other party, "But I remember that the druid's magic has all failed, can those ancient magic arrays still be used?" ”

"Of course you can't use it directly, but look at these runes...... Don't you feel familiar? ”

Gawain was reminded of this, and only then did he notice that the magic patterns on the surface of those containers and the symbols on the alchemy table were indeed a little familiar, especially the use of mixing elemental runes and sacred symbols, which had a strong sense of immediacy......

After a few seconds, he suddenly realized what this was: in the ruins of the mountains, in the shadow realm, that large hybrid circle used to control and bind the flesh and blood of the gods! That magic circle was drawn by mixing elemental runes with magic symbols!

Gawain showed a surprised expression: "Is it a technique excavated from the ruins?" ”

"That's right," Pitman nodded, "at that time, you had rubbed all the magic circles you found in the ruins of the mountain, but Lady Hetty couldn't do much research about the magic circles inside, so she asked me to help—although the druid's magic has been lost, as an ancient profession that attaches great importance to inheritance, we have always preserved and passed down those sacred symbols as purely academic materials, and Lady Hetty asked me to help identify the meaning of those symbols, and in the process, I discovered a bold attempt in the Gondor Empire......"

"Dare to try?" Gawain frowned, and from Pittman's tone, he had a hunch that this was probably not a simple secret.

Of course, this may also be a new posture for the little old man to cheat the funds, if this is the case, it will be better to solve it, and it is enough to smoke - anyway, he has a seven-hundred-year-old coffin spirit + seven-million-year-old satellite essence, and he doesn't have to worry about being accused of disrespecting the old man if he beats anyone in this land......

Of course, if someone says that he beats an old man to be child abuse, then he can only admit it.

Luckily, Pittman wasn't really cheating this time: "They're trying to 'find an interface to divine power.'" ”

As he spoke, the little old man pointed to the magic patterns engraved on the container and alchemy table: "Unless the doctrine is strictly followed, the divine power cannot be used by people, which is a shackle recognized by the world, but the magisters of the ancient Gondor Empire obviously intend to do something rebellious, and they designed this hybrid circle to bypass some kind of 'prohibition' set by the gods, so as to mobilize the power of the gods through the power of magic." Judging by the clues you've found in the ruins in the mountains, their attempts have clearly been successful, or at least partially successful—they've found the 'access point' to control the magic with magical runes. Although with our current technology, there is no way to completely restore that complex set of hybrid magic circles, nor can we create a powerful energy source that is enough to drive it, but the idea of arranging the runes can still be used as a reference for one or two......"

What Pittman said was not only amazing, but also seemed promising, but Gawain couldn't help but wonder: "I remember that there were people who tried to use the power of magic to perform magical spells, but they all failed, and one of the Holy Light Priests was even swallowed by the Holy Light...... Are you sure there is no risk in this technology? ”

"There must be risks, there are risks in any magic, but controlling them is a must for us," Pitman nodded, "I also know about the failed attempts you mentioned, we discussed them last time, and now it seems to me that their failures are actually the wrong way." ”

"Going the wrong way?"

"That's right, they're on the wrong path, those who try to use magic to control magic and fail, they just forcibly replace the symbols in the magic with elemental runes through the way of elemental translation and substitution, as if they are trying to translate an elven book in this way by replacing every word in the elven language with a human lingua franca with a similar meaning, although the words are replaced, but because of the differences in grammar and word formation rules, the things made by this substitution can only be bullshit," Pitman shook his head, The Magus of the Gondor Empire were much more skilled, realizing that it was impossible to 'translate' the power of the gods in the human 'language', so they created an 'interface', which did not try to translate the symbols in the divine arts, but drew the magic array, and then set up the magic runes for control in various key positions, and used materials with both spiritual and demonic guidance in the input and output stages. In this way, they indirectly changed the divine power from the original 'rigid energy' that had to be operated strictly by the teachings, to the 'flexible energy' that could be easily used by mortals like magic. ”

Somehow, when Gawain listened to Pittman's description of replacing the magic symbols with elemental symbols, the word "machine translation" came to mind.

Is this the otherworldly version of the machine flip killing people......

"So, you've mastered this 'interface' technique?" Gawain shook his head, shook out the unreliable associations about "machine flipping" in his head, looked at Pitman and asked.

"I can't say that I have mastered it completely, after all, what you asked people to print back is only some magic arrays, not the original research materials of the Gondor Empire, and I have to study those magic arrays for a while to figure out what the specific principle of this interface is," Pitman said honestly in this kind of professional and risky field, "Now I just found a little bit of a way to use it, and connected it to the druid's ancient magic array." ”

Pitman stroked his beard as he said this, and a smile appeared on his face: "Strictly speaking, what I did on the Druid Circle was the opposite of what the Magus of the Gondor Empire did - they drew power from the Divine Magic, but the Druid Divine Circle was no longer able to release energy due to the fact that the Divine Array had long since failed, so I reversed the process and used magic power to 'charge' the Divine Array to make the latter work." Of course, there is a certain degree of loss in this process, but the loss is not too large, and the energy loss caused by this reverse transformation is completely acceptable with the support of the new honeycomb magic net. ”

The old druid raised his hand and pointed to a corner of the set of devices on the alchemy platform: "You should have noticed that it leaves a port here to connect with the magic net, so as long as it is connected to the magic net, the power of the magic net will be converted into the energy of the magic array through this 'divine power inverter array' on the alchemy platform, thereby catalyzing the potions in these two containers, as if an ancient druid priest was casting a spell on them, turning the ordinary herbal juice in the container into a magic potion......"

After finishing his explanation, the old druid let out a long breath and turned to Gawain: "My lord, this is the way I found to mass production. ”