"Did your mage friends say there would be any trouble here?"

Arafa's many mages often searched the desert for various reasons, and now, there were only a few areas where they did not leave their tracks, and it was definitely not because the desert was too large.

"You just need to know," said the countess, with her hands outstretched, "that this ship will allow us to reach our destination safely." ”

"Okay. Magellan decided to put the question aside for the time being, "There's only desert there, what to do with digging?"

"Did I ever tell you that my wealth is endless. ”

The countess smiled and lowered her outstretched arms, turned and walked to the captain's quarters.

"To put it simply, I can solve everything with expensive magic when necessary. ”

......

What followed was a period of time, as they encountered quicksand and storms as they entered the area where the ruins were, but none of them affected the ship.

The next step was to determine the location of the ruins and excavate the relics, all relying on the countess's magical items, and Magellan and the others had nothing to do most of the time, just staying on the ship.

Taking advantage of his free time, Magellan began to sort out their harvest so far, including artifacts and various clues, as well as knowledge about the essence.

"The Anti-Essence Tester is such a very interesting thing......"

"Don't think about it, this kind of thing is too bulky and huge, and it consumes so much that even those who can bring it here can't create enough to reproduce the environment where the ancient essence gathered. ”

"Will there be a qualitative change when the concentration of essence gathers reaches a certain level? For example, magic gems only contain essences and the like......

"In fact, the latest research has established that essences never change qualitatively, and that the formation principle of magic gems is that a special collection of colorless gemstones fixes an extremely high concentration of essence. ”

In the end, Magellan could only reluctantly admit that the world's study of essence had raised the threshold for entry, which made him wonder why he had neglected this research before.

"The information related to the essence is the most confidential in the whole world," the countess's smile was still the same as before, but in Magellan's eyes, it was too much like schadenfreude, "It's a pity that a person like you, who grew up in an orphanage, caused trouble everywhere since he was a child, and escaped as an explorer before he became an adult, will never have the opportunity to meet him." ”

"Well," Magellan finally decides to postpone his plans to learn how to make magical items, "if you design something that isn't easy to make, I can help." ”

"What?"

"I'm still very experienced in working with metal," Magellan said in fact with a very restrained diction, and with his current physical fitness, there would be no better blacksmith in the whole world, "and with steady hands." ”

"Nope. ”

The countess ruthlessly refused.

"People without common sense can only rely on luck to do one thing well, and the probability of success will be so high that I go bankrupt. Helen opened the bookcase in a serious manner and took out another tall stack of thick books from it, "Read them all, not just memorize." ”

"Do I need an exam?"

Magellan unexpectedly discovers that he doesn't hate the feeling of being a student, and in fact, he has never experienced school life in this world.

"One of your ideas is valuable," the countess looked like a stern teacher, in fact she was indeed known for her beauty and sternness in the Royal Academy, "you can give it a try for me." ”

......

When a person stands in the desert and watches a huge pit in the sand dunes grow from nothing to a deeper, it is a subtle feeling.

It's like a person who has read all the knights in the world and looks at a new book that makes the protagonist break through, knowing that something great is happening, but not knowing what kind of emotions to use to face it.

The desert was deserted, except for the occasional disembarkation to help set up the countess's magic machinery, and Magellan spent most of his time on board learning about essences.

Dontès, who has nothing to do for the time being, will also read these books with him most of the time, and to Magellan's surprise, most of the time, Dantès can not only keep up with his progress, but even surpass him.

"As it turns out, you lack talent. ”

Magellan didn't care at all, but the countess always looked for an opportunity to talk about it, and it seemed to be purely a teacher's instinct, a radical method for the sake of the student's serious study.

Every time he thinks about it, Magellan can't help but laugh.

Despite this, in fact his talent was still far superior to that of Dantès, whose foundation was far worse than that of Dantès, but his progress quickly caught up.

Gradually, Magellan also became interested in the essence.

This is one of the most basic forces in this world, and the reason why everything in this world is what it is now is because of the existence of essence.

The essence affects everything, and at the same time, it is affected by everything, it is nature, but it is beyond nature, it is called magic, it can work miracles, but it is never harsh.

No one knows how profoundly the existence of the essence affects the world, and from ancient times to the present, the people who wield this power have pretended to be mysterious and secretive.

Now, with the rise of industry that harnesses the essence of magical gemstones, all mysteries have receded, and the power of magic has become something that can be seen everywhere in people's daily lives.

But the essence of the essence has never changed.

It will always be a mysterious force that common sense cannot explain and common sense cannot accept.

Many of the things recorded in the book were completely incomprehensible to Magellan and could only be forcibly memorized, and for Dantès, it was just common knowledge that he had known since childhood.

"In a sense, I'm not surprised that you lack common sense. ”

This is how the countess thinks about it.

As he learned more about the essence, Magellan became convinced that his conjecture was entirely possible.

But the countess didn't think so.

"The gathering of the essence is the most basic means of the current essence industry, but the reason why the industry is an industrial ......"

"It's because it's hard for just two people to do something like that. ”

Magellan knew what the countess meant, the essence gatherings that had appeared so far usually required a machine the size of a whole house, and even if they had this ship and a countess, it was impossible to copy one.

"But we can think differently. ”

The countess laughed: "At present, there are only two ways to theoretically form an essence gathering, and one can't do it, and that is to use magic gems. ”