"It's up to you to arm the ether."

Viscount Grant believes in Ian very much in this regard, after all, the armor designed by Ian can win awards in the imperial capital, so how can the gold content be questioned by a scumbag like him?

Although it didn't get the top few for various reasons, it was also because Ian didn't think about it for too long and was inferior in terms of versatility.

Now, Ian is quite famous in the circles of armor design, and his popularity is extremely high, which he himself could not have predicted.

As for the aether armament, it needs to be dismantled...... Truth be told,

It's not a big deal.

The aether armament originally needed to be disassembled and maintained frequently, but unfortunately, Viscount Grant was quite talented in the way of sublimation, but in terms of alchemy inscriptions and aether armament construction, he was completely ignorant, and this aspect has always been handed over to Elder Pud, and now it is nothing more than replacing it with the stronger Ian.

"Then I'll get started."

Ian would not be polite to Viscount Grant, he directly asked the other party to carry 'Zhenglan' to the warehouse area in the east of the city.

Here, the armor repair equipment that Ian brought from Xia Hui has been prepared.

Although the requirements for the Aether are a bit rudimentary, Ian doesn't really want to rebuild an Aether Armament, but only repairs some of his core equipment.

Not to mention, the core equipment that needs to be repaired, Ian has a full set of blueprints in mind.

In other words, repairing the expedition is a piece of cake for Ian, and his real purpose is to actually observe the design of the expedition, or rather, the design of the Aether armament of others.

Although he obtained the latest prototype of the Aether Armament from Grand Duke Thorin, many of the design ideas and concepts could not be directly utilized.

For example, a country that has just learned to build a thermal power station, let it learn wind power and hydropower, there is naturally no obstacle, nuclear fission power station can learn as long as it has been explored for a long time, but if it is directly plugged into the technology of nuclear fusion power station...... Even if it does learn, it doesn't have the technical hard power to build the materials and equipment of the fusion power station.

Ian's research on the Dead River Armament is stuck here: his foundation in the Aether Armament is not solid enough, and a lot of basic knowledge is only half-understood, so he needs to be remediated.

And Viscount Grant's half-crippled aether armament is an excellent learning material.

It is said to be half-crippled, but in fact, Zhenglan as a whole is actually quite intact.

On the repair table, Ian couldn't take his eyes off the all-metal armor in front of him.

The conquest has a sleek exterior armor shape, with layers of armor similar to dragon scales, which can not only provide strong defense and unloading capabilities, but also can spray high hot steam from between the gaps, allowing it to accelerate and move at incredible angles, achieving a ghostly maneuver that almost moves without inertia.

"Is it the equivalent of a vector spout all over the body? Combine sublimation skills with science and technology, combine strong and strong, and abandon weaknesses." The boy said to himself that this was a rather clever idea, and he directly carried out the white prostitution and recorded it.

In addition, there are many etching patterns on the surface of Zhenglan's main carapace, which are extremely elaborate inscription structures, and their abilities include 'controlling water flow,' vortex pressurization, 'water vapor atomization,' steam explosion unloading, and 'ice armor', and other water sublimation skills, and these sublimation skills can be found in the bloodline [Abyss Lizard Whale].

This is not a coincidence, the ether armament was originally by replicating the bloodline ability of the sublimation nobles, allowing them to study the sublimation organs in their bodies in a mechanical way.

The original aether armament was actually a research prop similar to a mannequin, but later it was discovered that as long as this research tool was slightly modified, it could achieve a combat power that was far greater than two with a sublimator of the same bloodline, especially when paired with an aether hearth, the combat power of the sublimator who could ignore the essentia reserve would soar.

Therefore, the real core of the Aether Armament lies in the Aether Hearth.

And the damage point of Zhenglan lies in the heart of the ether furnace.

"I'm going to start digging deeper."

Although Viscount Grant couldn't understand what the inscriptions that Ian had studied, he could still understand some of the mechanical structures and the various modules of his car, and the sublimated nobleman knew very well that all of Ian's processes were quite standardized, even far more proficient than Elder Pud, who had repaired this armor for more than ten years.

So he was relieved to let Ian continue to disassemble.

Dismantling of the aether begins with the back, along the spine, opening the skeleton, and then inspecting it.

The capabilities of various sublimation modules around the Aether furnace are also very familiar, such as "Calling the Wind and Rain," "Three-State Transformation", and "Natural Essentia Domination of the Water System", these three abilities are the core, and the "Water Mist Field" and "Abyssal Sea Pressure", these two modules unique to the Aether Lizard Whale are located around the Aether furnace and enjoy the preferential treatment of direct energy supply.

Looking at these sublimation mods, Ian couldn't help but sigh.

If a human being wants to condense a sublimation organ with these abilities in his body, God knows how long it will take, and how much oppression it will cause to his life...... No wonder sublimators don't live a long life.

Not to mention anything else, the bloodline of the abyss lizard whale will replace the human blood with a pure liquid essentia, which is essentially no different from rocket fuel, it is used to deliver strong energy to the sublimation organs, even if the sublimator's body is extremely strong, but it can't withstand the destruction of the human body as a weapon.

Everyone knows that the vast majority of rockets are disposable!

And now, Ian has finally seen the heart of the ether of Zhenglan.

The heart and back of the Aether Armament, which occupies the heart and back of the Aether Armament, looks like a transparent crystal ball wrapped in layers of pentagonal metal lattice, and at the core of the crystal is an element crystal that presents a regular pentagon.

When activated, elemental crystals burn, releasing pure essentia, which will attract natural psionic energy from the surrounding space-time through a siphon effect, and then condense into the 'primordial ether' in the crystal ball, creating a chain reaction.

The energy that the Aether Furnace can provide is infinite until the Elemental Crystals are depleted, and the Aether Armament can squander essentia to its heart's content, unleashing a variety of wide-area powerful attacks that are difficult for humans to use frequently, and can even suppress an entire army in terms of firepower.

This is a relatively common ether hearth, with a total of twelve sockets, which can power twelve high-level sublimation modules at the same time, but this does not mean that it can support twelve 'abyssal sea pressures' at the same time, that is, the sublimation module that Viscount Grant urges the sea of clouds tsunami to launch an extermination attack, and each of the high-level sublimation modules will occupy three energy supply sockets.

A higher-grade Aether Furnace may only need one socket for the Abyssal Pressure to function properly, or it may have more sockets.

Ian could tell at a glance that the Aether Furnace was indeed flawed: its inscription essentia delivery channel was broken, reducing its operating time and energy delivery efficiency by more than a third.

Even if Elder Pude made a solidification effort, it was only to restore its operating time to a near-normal level, but it was still difficult for Zheng Lan to use the middle and high-level techniques of the third energy level.

As for tinkering, it's not that hard. Ian pondered whether to use Mithril to make a reinforced pipe to replace the broken shipping channel, or to use Morion Steel to make it rough enough to make it stronger, and the latter to leave it as it was.

Seeing that Viscount Grant was very happy to cooperate and had no doubts about himself, Ian didn't ask which one the other party planned to choose, but directly told him that he would use Mithril to repair the pipeline for Zhenglan.

And Viscount Grant was indeed unambiguous, he directly asked Lamar to fetch the vault of the Viscount's Mansion, and personally handed over the high-purity Mithril that was probably the only one in the entire Harrison Harbor to Ian.

"I will live up to my expectations."

Seeing that the viscount didn't say a word of nonsense, Ian also smiled and nodded, and began to pick up his collector's edition inscription repair equipment (kindly provided by Esengard) and began to repair the aether hearth.

There is no need to elaborate on the specific process of maintenance, in essence, this is no different from dusting on the construction site, at most, the operation fineness requires 100 million points, but it is nothing to Ian.

When Ian lifted the lithography pen, bright streaks of light lit up on the heart of the aether furnace, centered on the core crystal ball, spreading in all directions. Then, the surging essentia began to flow, and the faint blue water light filled the entire maintenance room in an instant, and the rich water essentia turned the place into the deep sea, and the heart of the aether furnace was the sun in the water, illuminating the faces of Ian and the ecstatic Viscount Grant.

"Yes, that's it!"

The Viscount walked briskly, his face surprised, even a hint of nostalgia, staring at the aether hearth that glittered in front of Ian.

Viscount Grant carefully looked at the aether weapon passed down from the hands of the ancestors, although it had been repaired and replaced with many parts, including the aether hearth, it was still a symbol of the highest glory of the Grant family in the past, and it was the most boastful heritage and martial arts on this land.

However, this great wealth is covered with dust in his hands, and it is not a big deal that the Aether Furnace Heart is damaged, and it is not surprising that even the family does not have the technology to repair the Aether Furnace Heart, there are too many nobles who have no relevant talents in the family, and can only entrust outsiders to repair it, so the alchemy master is so respected.

The real shame is that the Grant family has been far away from the center of the empire for so long, that they can't even hire the relevant technicians who can repair the aether hearth.

Can ...... now But it's different.

The Viscount turned his head to look at Ian, who was also smiling, looking at his restoration.

- He has trained a future alchemist...... No, it's the alchemist now.

It took less than half an afternoon to repair the damage to the aether furnace so easily, and it was impossible for even the master of Gosai to have such an operation, at least he had to go through the operation process in his mind and think about it for a day or so before he could start repairing it.

But Ian got straight to the ground and repaired it all at once...... This only means one thing.

(This stinky boy, and Pude's old thing, and ** hiding a hand)

Viscount Grant scolded with a smile in his heart, he can be considered to have figured out that this group of white people likes to hide one hand in their bones, hide their strength, hide their inheritance, and now they also hide one hand in alchemy technology.

But soon, the viscount sensed that something was wrong—if Ian was really just hiding a hand, then why did he reveal it now?

Could it be ......

"Ian."

The Viscount asked tentatively, "Did you know that the repair of the Aether furnace will take at least a day or so?"

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Ian raised his head blankly, he looked at the viscount, and the kind of incomprehension from the heart could not be faked - Viscount Grant understood immediately: good guy, this kid is not hiding at all, he is just pure talent to the point of being incredibly good, and he doesn't think that repairing the aether furnace is a problem!

"Oops."

Ian secretly made a mistake at the moment, he really didn't expect that it would take a day to repair an aether hearth, the principle of this thing is indeed complicated, but the technical content required for maintenance is not high, an elite alchemist, a little proficient in inscriptions can be learned.

It's like building a car requires industrial capacity, but repairing a car is not that complicated.

Fortunately, Viscount Grant didn't say much, but patted Ian on the shoulder and said with a smile: "It seems that the teacher of my future child may not be just a master...... It's the great master."

As an ally who is almost in the same boat as Ian, he certainly won't bother with how talented Ian is - the more talented Ian is, the better, and maybe the future upgrade of the expedition will all depend on him.

"I'll leave the rest of the Mithril to you. Think of it as the tuition fee for your future child."

With a generous wave of his hand, the viscount gave Ian the remaining Mithril from the repair. There's really no purpose here, it's just a pure advance investment.

High-purity Mithril is not a cheap commodity, it is a raw material that can be used in any field, especially in the field of high-precision alchemy, and most importantly, it is difficult to buy even if you have money.

The dwarven kingdom of Ganter Righam is sitting on Terra because of it

The largest Mithril mine, so it was able to raise a fully armored army with a legion system, and resist the invasion of the two great powers of Yanjiang and Cangtian Royal Court with the strength of one country without falling behind.

"Then I won't push it back."

Unceremoniously, Ian took the small bag of Mithril and carefully put it in his arms - Mithril is not a complete metal, in Ian's eyes today, it is a perfect combination of primordial ether and matter, with essentia superconductivity, just like Morion steel, but it goes further.

Naturally, it is theoretically impossible to form a normal essentia superconducting substance such as Mithril, and it is necessary for an esserior sun to explode and form an extreme cosmic phenomenon such as an aetheric supernova, which is similar to the principle of the emergence of heavy metals.

But in this way, only one thing can be proven: this universe, at least before the birth of the second generation of stars, the primordial ether and even essrinsic and psionic differentiation have been completed.

However, if it had been a pre-era civilization, it might have been possible to artificially create Mithril through extreme experimentation...... The same is true for Adamantite.

"The technique of artificial Mithril must be mastered."

Thinking of this, Ian said goodbye to Viscount Grant, and the other party couldn't wait to rearm the ether as soon as possible, and experienced for himself whether the repaired expedition returned to perfect condition, and did not stay.

"By now, I've mastered the idea of creating aether weapons."

Back at home, Elam, who was in meditation training at the Huaiguang Church, happened to be thinking alone, "I have the materials and equipment, and I can build a prototype when I return to the territory, and then optimize it according to the advanced technology of the Dead River Armament."

"You have to understand all the technologies, not only the most advanced, but also the old ones in the past, so that you can be considered sound."

Ian not only has the blueprints of the expedition in mind, but also through the process of dismantling and restoring, he has thoroughly mastered the technology of how to make the Aether Armament: "The only difficulty in the Aether Armament is the Aether Heart."

"I also know its principle, which is to create a essentia vacuum through pure essentia, attract spiritual energy to converge into the primordial ether, form a space bubble, siphon the surrounding natural spiritual energy, and obtain quasi-infinite energy."

"The only problem is that in the space bubble, the 'channel' that collapsed and was used to siphon the essentia of the surrounding space-time ,—— space and time was very similar in nature to the 'wormhole.'"

"For earthlings, the Aether Hearth is a 'tidal engine' that creates a wormhole and intercepts the natural psionic energy that wants to pour into the other side of the wormhole and converts it into energy...... That's what it's really about."

"But here's the question—where does this passage lead?" Ian muttered to himself, this was the only thing he couldn't figure out.

At this moment, the young man's heart remembered the scene he had seen through the 'Guidance Star' before.

It is the 'primordial ether sea' that runs through infinite parallel time and space and the past and future, permeating the infinite ......

"Could it be ......" Ian clenched his fists, and Ian's eyes widened, "The Aether Hearth is a semi-infinite tidal engine created by relying on the nature of the primordial Aether to penetrate time and space?"

"It is connected to other parallel universes, and through the different 'etheric pressures' between the two universes, energy is obtained......

"Yes, that's it—it's no wonder that every civilization in this universe seems to build an Aether Furnace, even as a standard for a 'Tinder ship...... It's that simple!"

After thinking about this, Ian suddenly opened his mouth, originally he didn't understand why the space bubble would create such a powerful siphon effect, but now that he thinks about it, it is much simpler - the aether in the next universe is less than that in their world, or rather, it is less than the aether around the star field of Terra, so it will naturally guide the aether to flow towards the universe next door.

Of course, this is not absolute, if each parallel universe connected to the aether hearth is different (most likely), then when there is more ether in the next universe than on Terra's side, the principle of the aether hearth will have to be reversed, not siphoning, but collecting the aether gushing out of the channel that resembles a white hole!

This may also be why pre-epochs

The reason why civilization can't stably produce the Aether Heart...... They weren't sure what the universe was behind each aether hearth, and of course they could only make half-finished products!

However, after the euphoria, there was a burst of nervousness.

Ian looked up at the sun in the sky outside the window.

The young man quietly stared at the scorching sun in the sky, and he slowly exhaled: "According to my guess...... The inscription is probably a 'essentia directive' created by some powerful civilization."

"And the manipulation of psionic energy is also a complex program that is extremely suitable for the thinking of intelligent life.

"If nothing else, essentia and psionic energy, and even the primordial ether, are probably not natural creations......

Ian was silent for a moment before sighing, "In this way, the truth behind the Star Prison may not be as simple as I imagined."

"This universe where Terra is located...... The water is very deep."

Emotions don't change anything.

Even if a part of the truth of this universe is guessed, until it is confirmed, the guess is just a guess, not to mention that even if it is true, it will not help Ian develop his territory and strengthen his strength.

So, after writing down a few logs with a silver chip, Ian put aside his guesses and dialed the communication device directly.

He's going to talk to Master Gosai about the Atlan Megacity farm, Andor, and the little crystallized dragon clone.