At the end of the corridor on the west side of the third floor of the castle is a large room with double doors, which was originally a place for servants to eat, but it is obvious that in recent generations the Gray family has not been able to provide for too many servants, and the whole castle was empty before Colin moved in, and now this room has been converted into an office space with several cubicles, and the large long table is covered with all kinds of books, drawings, and equipment......

On the door of the room, a rectangular wooden sign is hung that reads "Magic Research Laboratory".

Almost everyone who passes by the doorway will hear the never-ending discussion in the room.

"I'm willing to bet that the aminophen test solution will be able to react with carbonbenzene, and the results of the reaction will be beneficial to the design."

"Have you ever experimented? Why? ”

"I don't have the conditions to do this kind of experiment, but the calculations and deductions won't lie, and you've been studying pharmacy from Miss Coral for two weeks......"

"Pharmacy has a fart to do with this!"

“……”

Wald pressed his temples with some headaches.

At first, the lord asked him to choose suitable candidates to be assistants among the 87 magic apprentices, and after interviewing them, he selected twelve people.

Later, I found that my vision was really vicious, each of these apprentices had a very high research enthusiasm and good talent, but perhaps it was their own investment that affected them, after entering the "magic research room", these little guys were more than one volume, and they worked hard when they had a task, and they worked hard to find a task when they didn't have a task.

It is often rumored in the fortress that the "magic laboratory" is full of crazy people.

There are even people who almost blow themselves up when they are doing experiments in the room.

So much so that Colin had to formulate a "laboratory safety code" in advance to prevent these deadly guys from blowing up the fortress one day and cheapening the orcs for nothing.

"Mr. Wald, you have seen my protocol, and I can assure you that the energy fluctuations produced by the mixing of these two reagents are of the same nature as lightning. If successful, as the Lord said, it will be the greatest discovery in this world since the 'Black Water' refining technique. ”

"Your idea is very good, the reagent method is indeed a worthwhile idea, I have discussed it with adults, but there are still nineteen mixtures to test in front of you, and we don't have so much material waste."

Wald thought for a moment, "But to be honest, your experiment is the one with the highest success rate of all the experiments so far...... I'll go to the lord and talk about it again. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Wald......"

Wald let out a long sigh of relief as he walked out of the room.

Compared with these rising stars, he is simply a normal person.

He walked slowly through the wide, bright corridor, through the dimly lit and steep staircase, over the rooftop covered with Miss Jennifer's potted plants, and finally to the Lord's study.

Wald straightened his clothes and knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

……

Colin reclined back in a soft chair in an unsightly posture, holding a report dozens of pages thick in his hand and reading it carefully, if it weren't for the great improvement of the paper, the same contents would probably need a box to hold.

"The reagent method is very good, and there is still some progress on my previous proposal."

"These kids are ...... Clever, but a little too bold...... Neham even thought about using a giant kite to lure the lightning down to test his experimental hypothesis. Wald's voice was full of helplessness.

"It is said that Gilman Magister Burke Mreyas did something similar, and he wanted to use his powerful wind spell to directly contact the thunder and lightning to verify its nature, but unfortunately gave up at the last moment." There was a hint of adoration and a lot of regret in Colin's words.

"If he really did it, it could have opened a new era, but it could have just fallen, but unfortunately we didn't see the results." Wald smiled in response.

"Lord Burke Mreas has always been a great magister." Colin thought that his Wind Nuclear Collider was inspired by this man, and his heart was truly in awe.

Wald agreed: "It's a pity that he died young, and the only person who can do this in this era is His Excellency 'Storm Guide'." ”

Colin smiled, "The teacher won't take such a risk." ”

Roman Sagan's main concern in his life was to create space magic, and it was impossible to do such a thing as channeling thunder.

Although this matter is also of great significance.

"Then if you agree, I'm going to do the experiment that Neham proposed first, after all, we have limited materials." Wald came up with the purpose of coming here.

"You decide." Colin handed the protocol back to Wald.

"By the way, my lord, once this energy fluctuation is confirmed, what should we give it a name?" Wald did not leave immediately.

Colin fell silent for a moment.

The project that the Magic Laboratory is working on is obviously "power generation". But this is very different from the real sense of electricity generation on Earth. This is one of Wald's many brilliant ideas, and he believes that since lightning can ignite trees, it should naturally be related to the fire element, so he has been following this line of thought.

Colin originally thought that it would not be difficult, but after experimenting with it, he found that it was not that simple.

There is no electromagnetic induction in this world!

Cutting magnetic inductance lines with a coil does not generate current!

It is not even known whether the so-called electricity is generated by the movement of electric charges.

Colin came back to his senses, and it seemed that after crossing over, he had indeed never encountered an electrostatic effect.

This largely confirms his previous belief that the physical basis of this world, as well as the microscopic level, is likely to be very different from that of Earth.

If you think about it, it's right to be different, otherwise you can't explain the logic of the four elements and magic.

However, this is clearly a serious blow to Wald's "power generation" project.

Since he couldn't use electromagnetic induction to obtain electricity, and lightning was a fact, his first thought was naturally electrochemistry, but unfortunately he didn't have a talent bonus when he was on Earth, and he didn't know much about these theories that should be more mature and clear than magic.

Exploring the essence through phenomena is the most basic quality of every magic researcher.

To this end, Colin sacrificed some of his time studying space magic to help Wald design several experimental protocols for making simple "batteries" using reagents.

Inspired by him, the researchers in the Magic Lab threw themselves into it as if they had seen a new world, and it was only then that a crazy magical apprentice like Neam was born.

This kind of energy, which is both electricity and not electricity, and it seems that in the end it can only be obtained by magical means, is indeed difficult to describe in precise words.

What's more, even if the reagent method is used to successfully "generate electricity", it is impossible to apply it as a conventional means in practice due to cost and technical reasons.

"Let's call it 'magic energy.'" Colin came up with a name almost perfunctorily.