Chapter 489: Encapsulation, Elemental Foundation
The encapsulation of magic items is easy to say, but it is actually not difficult to do, it is nothing more than wrapping the exposed three-dimensional mesh spherical Mithril structure and energy core with other materials.
The easiest way to do this is to stuff it directly into a box, but Mithril is not an extremely strong metal, especially if it needs to maintain a certain purity, Mithril filament is actually very soft.
It's just that the spherical structure supports each other, so that people can hold it in their hands without deformation, but if the acceleration changes, then deformation is inevitable.
When Xia Duo released the test task, he emphasized that it should be handled with care and not with force, just to prevent the two laboratory versions of the communication instrument from being directly damaged before they could complete the test of the limit of use.
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General Purpose Laboratory.
Xia Duo chose crystal, a relatively balanced and relatively cheap gemstone, as the encapsulation material, but before the formal encapsulation, there is another very important link, that is, the encryption of the Mithril structural parts.
In fact, it is also the encryption of spells, through the encryption transformation of arcane geometric figures, the strings of the magic net that need to be linked do not change, but the combination of elements of the spells reflected in it has changed.
At this time, if an outsider wants to crack it, because the combination of elements has changed, such a combination of elements in turn will not be able to produce the magic effect before encryption.
Generally speaking, it means that after the encryption transformation, only the form of the spell element has changed, but the essence of the inside remains the same, and if you want to cast the spell successfully, you can only do it according to the original form, and the transformed form will be invalid.
Of course, no encryption is a panacea, and there is still a risk of being cracked, so color-resistant mages are relatively cautious when selling magic items to the outside world, and they are basically magic items with common spells.
Unless it's for your own use, you won't make your own exclusive spells into magic items.
Communication magic weapons, in fact, there is no need to encrypt them, after all, spells have to be released, and other mages can also make similar communication magic weapons, which is just Xia Duo's habit.
The program code on the earth also has an encapsulation link, which is used to hide the specific details of the program code, leaving only a public interface, which has the purpose of simplification, but also has the meaning of encryption.
In addition, encryption can also distinguish the Chardo version of the communication mage from other mage products, so that new functions can be added when it is updated and iterated later.
A reforged and encrypted Mithril structure is much smaller overall, about the size of two adult fists together.
The five-colored gems that are the core of the power have not changed, and are still set in the delicate Mithril structure, but they are less spaced apart than before.
There are two main levels of encapsulation – the level of elemental energy, and the level of matter.
At the level of elemental energy, it is necessary to make the elemental energy of the encapsulation material compatible and hidden from the prototype of the magic weapon, while the material level is compatible and hidden from the substance.
Generally speaking, only the use of encapsulation materials such as gemstones will involve the encapsulation of the elemental energy level, and ordinary materials only involve the encapsulation of the material level.
There is a special method for using crystal encapsulation in the Tower of Time, that is, using an elemental potion called [Crystal Softener] to directly transform the crystal into an encapsulated state, and then shape it into a spherical shape through the [Mage's Hand], and when the encapsulated state subsides, it is a normal crystal.
Xia Duo didn't understand the existence of [crystal softener] very much at first, and felt that one more material would cost more, but in the actual packaging process, he found that the so-called packaging state was actually the semi-elemental state of the crystal.
It can complete the encapsulation of the elemental energy level and the material level at the same time.
And if according to Xia Duo's own ideas, the crystal is directly melted and wrapped around the prototype of the magic weapon, it can only be the encapsulation of the material level, of course, he has also done this kind of encapsulation experiment.
As a result, the crystals used for encapsulation and the five-colored gems that were the core of the energy were all blown up.
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The crystal in the molten state is no longer a normal crystal, its internal elements have changed, and it is difficult to encapsulate it as a magic weapon, even if the wrapping step is successful, there will be problems with subsequent cooling.
According to this, Xia Duo can be regarded as confirming a reality that he has always had a hard time accepting - the material foundation of the wizarding world lies in elements and energy.
This is completely different from the concept of the essence of energy and matter on the earth, where there is no pure energy, and the so-called energy is nothing but the movement of matter.
But in the wizarding world, although Xia Duo had read books about the inner plane before, the world described in the book had its roots in the inner plane, and the inner plane was in the energy state, or the elemental state.
Although there have been many experiments or phenomena that have verified this before, Xia Duo's long-term belief that "energy and matter are one, and the essence is matter" is influencing his judgment.
The wizarding world may also think of energy matter as one, but in essence it is energy, pure energy that can exist independently.
Therefore, many things cannot be judged by common sense, such as the concept that "crystal and molten crystal are not the same substance", which is easy to understand in the wizarding world, and the elements are different, so naturally they are not the same substance.
Even a lot of things that were confusing before are very easy to understand.
For example, [Flying Technique], placed on the earth, it is anti-gravity, related to gravity, and is essentially space-time distortion, what a powerful energy it requires!
But in the wizarding world, the threshold of [Flying Technique] is only a mid-level mage, not to mention a big handful, but it is definitely not a small number, and it is also an individual, such a magical magic cannot be explained by just one sentence of transformation spell.
The root of this may be that the essence of the world is energy, and all its epitaxial genera are changes in energy, so finding the trick to achieve anti-gravity flight is not as difficult as imagined.
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In the General Laboratory, Xia Duo put down all his work and fell into deep thought, and the explosion of the encapsulation experiment made him completely confront his cognitive limitations and the impact of his experience on Earth for more than twenty years.
Leaving aside the so-called "promotion and abandonment", because two completely different worlds, there is no need to compare them at all, but the concept must keep pace with the times, of course, this concept only lies in the perception of the world.
As for other aspects, Xia Duo felt that there was no need to change for the time being.
Because it is only the adjustment of the worldview, or the expansion, in fact, it also involves the composition of the personality, if the entire three views are subverted, then Xia Duo or not Xia Duo will have to put a big question mark.
Fortunately, this world is not the world of headshots, otherwise, this kind of adjustment to the essence of the world should be enough to meet the standard of headshots.
Fortunately, the magic here is based on "use", which is more like a scientific concept, and is not directly connected to cognition, no matter what you think, the magic is there.
After pondering, Xia Duo felt that his whole person was much more transparent, if the epiphany could be upgraded, then he would probably be able to upgrade two or three levels!
After that, Xia Duo no longer rejected the phenomenon that was inconsistent with the past cognition, of course, it was not to completely abandon the past, which could not be put aside, but to face it positively and delve into its inner principles.