91. Ideas
Adam was suspended in a light that shone directly from the void, the devil was ejected from Adam's mind, the mage's armor penetrated out of his body, and the runes that flashed on it began to dissolve under the illumination of the light, and slowly but firmly changed to another way of expression, Adam's own presence continued to rise, and everyone in the laboratory couldn't help but retreat under this pressure, and looked at Adam with awe.
"He, is this going to be promoted?" muttered an apprentice assistant, he had never seen an apprentice promoted, but he could only remember this when he saw the scene in front of him.
The devil was dizzy and had just come back to his senses, and he glanced at Korver with disdain: "Rare and strange, what is promotion for the master, this is not the first time." β
Korver suddenly turned back to the devil and asked, "Not for the first time?"
The devil was a little weak by his question, not the first time it was true, but the last time the situation was different, but at this time it did not show weakness, and boasted to Korver seriously: "Of course! My master is a genius, and promotion is too simple for him, and with the help of Uncle Garfield......"
The Devil was interrupted by another burst of light, and they felt themselves being repelled by the Aether and had to exit the lab, just as the perceptrons specially equipped for Adam began to sound alarms.
The mage at the top of the tower, Victor, suddenly came back from his meditation and said to himself, "You're going to be promoted? so soon?" His true body swiped lightly in front of him, and a crack opened in the space, and then the arcane clone stepped into the gap.
Mage Victor has the highest authority below the tower master, and theoretically he is free to enter any place belonging to the tower, but generally speaking, mages will not do this, and will choose a proper way to visit, but now that the situation is urgent, he can no longer care about this.
The devil was still boasting about his great achievements on the road of Adam's growth, but when he looked up, he saw a person suddenly appear in front of him, and he hurriedly lowered his head deeply and said respectfully: "Great Master Victor." β
Hearing the devil's words, everyone was stunned, saluted and looked at Master Victor with awe, not knowing why the master had come here.
Master Victor didn't have time to talk nonsense with them, he already felt that the promotion energy had reached a critical point, and if he didn't suppress it again, the process would be irreversible.
He placed his hand on the lab door, the special material that resisted the spread of the aetheric active environment vanished after a fluctuation, and with it was the ascending energy.
Adam fell to the ground and looked at Master Victor calmly: "Good day, Your Excellency. β
Master Victor was amazed, "You gave up the promotion?"
Adam nodded.
"You should know that the contract is not mandatory, and if you do get promoted, you won't get any punishment for it, and even then you give it up?"
Master Victor looked at Adam and felt more and more satisfied, there were few people who adhered to the spirit of the contract now.
"Starting next month, you'll double your experiment budget, and you'll still be at your disposal. β
Adam sensed that Master Victor had misunderstood something, and that the reason why he had given up the promotion was purely because the knowledge he had verified this time was not what he wanted.
He found that the mage world's knowledge of electricity and its series was really lacking, and a little research breakthrough could lead to a massive gift from the ether.
In the past few months, Adam has only verified a few theorems, including Coulomb's law, Ampère's law, Joule's law, Oster's experiment, etc., and the biggest breakthrough is to prove that there is a magnetic field around the current, and the current is generated by the directional motion of the charge, so the magnetic field around the energized wire is essentially generated by the moving charge.
This is not what he really wants to verify and rely on the knowledge of promotion, but Adam can no longer continue the experiment now, this time he forcibly dispersed the promotion energy with super willpower, if there is another time this process will be really irreversible, then he will lose the opportunity to become a war mage and enter a higher stage at one time.
However, the increase in funding is a good thing, and Adam is not stupid enough to push back the aether crystals that were sent to the door.
Adam remembered something, and while the dean was present, he asked directly, "Master Victor, is there any harmless energy that mortals can use in the mage world?"
Master Victor didn't know why Adam would ask such a question, he thought for a moment and then said: "Safe and harmless? In an absolute sense, no, most of the mortals in the Mage Continent use power stones as energy sources, but the power stones also show properties similar to magic power after being stimulated by spiritual power, so they are still harmful to their bodies." As for the places dedicated to mages, the precision instruments are powered entirely by runes and mana, and the mortals who work there usually don't live long. β
Master Victor looked at Adam's laboratory and suddenly realized: "I understand what you mean, it's not like no mage has tried this before, but compared to magic, the efficiency of the elements is very low, and the production of elements still depends on magic, so it doesn't make much sense." β
This is the mage plane's magic technology, which has been separated from mortals from the beginning.
In ancient times, the relationship between ancient mages and mortals was completely that of slave owners and slaves, they had no wisdom and no mood to study technology for slaves, but just blindly squeezed the productivity of slaves, and in modern times, the leap after the enlightenment of mainstream mages was almost instantaneous, so they did not develop technology suitable for ordinary people.
The mortal body is too fragile, and if you directly enter the etheric environment and be magically entered into the body, it will cause a complete collapse, which also creates the fact that the mage civilization skips the mortal and builds directly on the transcendent.
If in other worlds, this system built in the air will face collapse sooner or later, but relying on the strength of mages who are strong enough to ignore society, the mage plane is still developing rapidly and benignly, the world is getting bigger and bigger, mortals are endless, many mages will be born among mortals, and mortals who die working for mages will be replaced by others immediately, which leads to a close connection between mortals and transcendents, but vice versa.
And the most amazing thing is that even then there are no drawbacks in sight.
Mortals are satisfied with this state, enjoying the convenience brought by magic technology, and do not care about some death, and mages do not mind publishing the results of the research process that mortals can operate in exchange for benefits, piggybacking on changing the lives of mortals......