Chapter 52: Changing Mindsets
This time, when Xu Yi left Camilla's exclusive research room, he was no longer as disgraced as last time, but held his head high and smiled triumphantly.
Steele had been waiting outside for two hours, and he was already very anxious, and when he saw Xu Yi coming out, he immediately rushed over, looked at Xu Yi and asked expectantly, "How is it? Grandpa, what did he say?"
Xu Yixiao stretched out his right index finger and middle finger to Steele, and gestured a "V" gesture representing victory, and then remembered that Steele couldn't understand the meaning of this gesture at all, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Your Excellency the Great Magician agreed." ”
"Promised?" Steele exclaimed in surprise, looking Xu Yi up and down, his face full of curiosity. "Grandpa, he actually agreed! I said Xu Yi, how did you convince grandpa? Could it be that you actually used the legendary dark enchanting magic on grandpa?"
"How could I be that kind of thing?" Xu Yi glared at Steele angrily. "Besides, your grandfather is a great magician, and I don't even know how to use magic on him for a guy who hasn't even passed the magician level certification assessment, don't you think he died fast enough?"
"Then how did you get Grandpa to agree? He hates merchants the most, let alone working with them. Steele continued to ask, puzzled.
"Well...... Xu Yi paused and sighed helplessly. "Your Excellency the Great Magician can't help it. After all, magicians also have to eat, and the problem your grandfather is facing now is very realistic, that is, there is no money. Although he is an old man, these stubbornness are nothing compared to this magic tower that has condensed all his efforts. Besides, it's better to work with me than with other merchants, and if I am a businessman with a conscience and have the status of a magician, it will be relatively easy for His Excellency the Great Magician to accept. ”
A trace of gloom flashed across Steele's face, nodded slightly, and sighed: "Yes, if it weren't for the fact that there was no way, Grandpa would definitely not agree to do this." With that, he turned his head and glanced at the door of Grand Magician's exclusive research room. "I'm going to see him. ”
Seeing Steele push open the door and walk in, Xu Yi thought about it and turned to leave the magic tower.
I had a detailed conversation with Grand Magician Camilla for two hours just now, and Xu Yi could be said to have gained a lot.
One of the most important takeaways is that he has finally established a cooperative relationship with Grand Magician Camilla.
Since it is the study of magical machinery, magic naturally occupies an extremely important proportion in it.
Prior to this, most of the magic machines Xu Yi studied could be regarded as light machines, and the magic array used was not a high-level magic array, which could be completed with his current strength.
However, when Xu Yi was about to develop a magic ripper, he encountered a problem that he had long anticipated, that is, his own magic strength was not enough.
Because the magic scarifier needs to complete a large area of loosening work, the power required greatly exceeds the magic machinery developed by Xu Yi before, and after Xu Yi's detailed calculation, it is determined that if this magic scarifier uses the wind system circle as the power, it also needs a minimum of six wind system circles to meet the requirements.
Although Xu Yi's magic strength has been improving by leaps and bounds, after all, the time is still short, and now he is only between the third and fourth level magicians, and he can only master some fourth-level magic and magic arrays, and he is powerless against the sixth-level magic array.
Even if Steele, Evita and Akali were slightly higher than Xu Yi's magic strength, they were also unable to complete the sixth-level magic array, so Xu Yi had no choice but to think of coming to Camilla's great magician for help.
Speaking of which, Xu Yi should also be grateful to the royal family of the Lampari Kingdom, if it weren't for their sudden reduction of Camilla's funds this time, which caused His Excellency the Great Magician to encounter an economic crisis, Xu Yi would probably still be swept away by him directly this time, and where could he finally persuade Camilla to agree to cooperate with him.
Xu Yi was not in a hurry, he knew very well that even if the Grand Magician Camilla agreed to cooperate, the prejudice against the businessman in his heart would not disappear so easily, so this time he just took out the idea of the magic ripper first and let the Great Magician Camilla study it together, and did not make more requests.
I have to say that a great magician is a great magician, not only far surpassing Xu Yi and others in terms of magic strength, but also far surpassing them in vision, insight and realm.
After Xu Yi explained the design concept of the magic ripper in detail, Grand Magician Camilla only said one sentence and let Xu Yi stay for a long time.
"Since it's to loosen the soil, why use the wind system circle instead of the earth system?"
Hearing this sentence at that time, Xu Yi stayed for a while and slapped his forehead hard.
Stupid!
Grand Magician Camilla is not wrong at all, since the function of the magic ripper is to loosen the soil, then using the earth system circle is the simplest and most effective, far from using the wind system circle as a power to urge the soil loosening function.
Xu Yi understood at that time that he was completely limited by stereotyped thinking.
Because in the original world, almost all machines use various energy sources to convert power, and then use power to drive machinery to operate, so when studying magic machinery, Xu Yi has always used this idea to consider.
Xu Yi developed the first magic machine in the Sainz continent was the magic fan, and found that the wind system magic circle as a drive can almost completely simulate those power machines on the earth, so when he researched it later, he started from the perspective of simulating those machines on the earth, and the most used natural is the wind system magic circle.
However, now reminded by Camilla's words, Xu Yi suddenly discovered that he had actually entered a misunderstanding.
In the end, the continent of Sainz is still different from the earth, and the biggest difference is magic.
Although it cannot be compared to the highly developed industrial system on Earth, magic has its own advantages.
Xu Yi had previously lamented the efficiency of the magic array's transformation of magic crystals to generate power, and now he found that magic also had the powerful advantage of being flexible and diverse.
In the case of this magic scarifier, if it is according to Xu Yi's design ideas, then it is similar to the scarifier on the earth, using the power drive brought by the wind system array.
Because considering that this ripper will operate on a lot of barren and hard soil for a long time, Xu Yi considered the high power requirements in the design, and finally determined that it was a minimum sixth-level wind system array.
However, after being reminded by Grand Magician Camilla's words, Xu Yi quickly changed his mind and used the earth system circle to think, only to find that only a second-level earth system magic circle, the Earth Splitting Circle, could fully meet this requirement.
It even needs to be designed more exquisitely, and the effect is much stronger than Xu Yi's previous design!
And in this process, what Xu Yi values most is not that the design of the magic ripper can be simplified a lot and the cost can be reduced a lot, but that his mind has suddenly broadened.
If Xu Yi only used the rich mechanical knowledge he mastered on the earth before, and then borrowed the power of magic to imitate the machines one by one, then after this, Xu Yi discovered the diversity of magic, and he could completely change the overall design idea, and truly combine magic with the special mechanical knowledge he possessed.
In other words, the magic machines that Xu Yi developed before can only be regarded as magic power machines.
And this new version of the magic ripper that has been researched and designed after discussing with Grand Magician Camilla is the real product of the combination of magic and machinery! It represents the true integration of the two civilizations of the Sainz continent and the earth!
Thinking of this, Xu Yi's steps unconsciously became brisk.
As a mechanical engineer, his research heart was already burning, and he couldn't wait to rush back to the factory and start working on a new magic scarifier with the dwarves in charge of researching and manufacturing machine tools, led by Canby.
But when Xu Yi stepped on the path leading to the factory, he looked from afar, but was stunned to find that the open space in front of the two factories was surrounded by people at this time, and there was not even a gap left in the black.
Looking at the loud and noisy situation in front of him, Xu Yi felt a sigh in his heart.
Is something wrong?