my age of magic

Chapter 540 38. Research Institute in the Tower of Pride
"Scholar Yerkes, about today's matter, I will go to the director to appeal." After the middle-aged magician said this, he left angrily with a pale face.

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that a second-rank high-ranking great magician could be turned pale with anger by a magic scholar who had just been promoted to ninth level and hadn't yet turned one. : 'The director please comment' such 'ruthless words'.

Regarding such "ruthless words", the Yerkes scholar was completely unmoved, and even bluntly said two words to the middle-aged earth magician: "Please do it!"

From beginning to end, there was no room for me to intervene.

In this way, on the first day I just stepped into the Tower of Pride Academy of Magic, there was such a competitor who I had never met but who hated me to the bone. I didn’t even know his name. Know.

The reason turned out to be because I was a newcomer, so the Yerkes scholar unceremoniously drove the assistant out of the laboratory, as if the assistant's departure was to make way for me.

The simple quarrel between the Yerkes scholar and the second-rank high-level magician lasted only a few words, and then I watched the middle-aged magician walk down the stone steps with a sullen face, and his figure disappeared into the corridor .

Yerkes' mood became worse. He stood on the balcony outside the small attic on the second floor for a long time in silence. The two young magicians moved all the mithril rune tablets into the laboratory in the attic, and turned to Yerkes. The Keith scholar saluted cautiously, and then left quietly under the dull atmosphere.

Before leaving, they couldn't help but secretly glanced at Helena, but obviously they pretended to be very reserved. As magician nobles, they still had their own little pride, but unfortunately until the end, they He also didn't catch a positive look from Helena, and in the end, he was worried that the Yerkes scholar would go crazy again, so he had to leave angrily.

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Walking into the laboratory in the small attic, I realized that the laboratory is not too big, it seems that the area is less than [-] square meters, and there is a row of standard shelves near the door.

There are various types of rune metal plates stacked at the bottom of the shelf. These rune metal plates are placed separately by category. There is a stack of rune metal plates coated with a light layer of magic red copper. This magic red copper plated The rune metal plate can be bought casually on the market, and it is very cheap, and the production process is also very mature.Marvin and I own such a blacksmith shop in El City that can process magic red copper rune metal plates.In addition, there are some rune metal plates coated with a layer of magic mithril. The cost of these rune metal plates is relatively high, and the processing technology is a little more complicated.

Some auxiliary materials and some small tools are placed on the middle layer of the shelf, while rows of magic ink are placed on the upper shelf.

Walking into the room, there is a test bench next to a window. The test bench is neatly tidied up. The row of magic engraving pens on the pen holder exudes a faint magical atmosphere, and the test bench placed There is a metal shelf, and a piece of magic parchment is laid on it, which looks like a structural diagram of the magic pattern circle.There is an unfinished mithril rune metal plate on the table of the test bench. The magic pattern circle on it is obviously only half drawn. I glanced at it casually, and the lines of the various runes on it are still very It is beautiful, but probably the drawer ignored the fit between the magic runes in order to pursue a little bit of beauty. In my opinion, this half of the magic circle has a big flaw. It seems that when the drawer drew it here , I can't draw any more.

On the wall on the other side opposite the test bench, there is a row of walnut brown bookshelves with very simple workmanship, which are filled with all kinds of magic books. After reading all of them, it is obvious that Yerkes' collection of books has not increased much in the past three years. This magic book is optional.

There is a writing desk under the bookshelf, with some magic parchment on it, and some samples of magic runes are scattered on it. For Yerkes, who has no talent for painting, it is very difficult to draw magic runes on the magic parchment. One thing, so he has been using some auxiliary tools, these rune templates can help him draw what he wants on the parchment, this kind of rune pattern can only be found in the laboratory of Yerkes scholars See here, because only he needs such aids.

Many people who met the Yerkes scholar for the first time usually couldn't believe it. For a person like him who couldn't even draw complete magic runes, there was no reason why he could design some special magic pattern circles!
On the window sill, I saw a familiar figure. The magic puppet who already possessed elementary intelligence was sitting astride the window sill in a daze. On the vaulted sky dome of the tower, there are some star maps drawn on the sky dome, and each big star is replaced by a moonstone, which is embedded in the ceiling of the ceiling, emitting a faint light.

This magic puppet, which was born with elementary intelligence in the magic laboratory of El City War College, has been transformed beyond recognition except for its body and head. Yerkes installed eight arms for different purposes in total. There are all kinds of daily tools on the arms, such as brooms, rags, pliers, teapots, knives, scissors, etc. When I first saw this strange shape, I immediately thought of Edward scissorhands. It seems that this magic The puppet also becomes a thinking machine.

Helena followed me quietly, looking at the laboratory curiously. She was wearing a milky white leather skirt, exuding the unique temperament of a noble lady.

Yerkes invited me to sit down at his writing desk, and asked some magic puppet to bring us a pot of tea. Seeing its clumsy appearance, Helena couldn't help but ran up to take over the work of the magic puppet. Make us a pot of milk tea.And that magic puppet clumsily followed behind Helena, always trying to snatch the teapot back from Helena's hand, its clumsy appearance made Helena giggle non-stop.

I saw that the whole laboratory was so clean and tidy, which probably has something to do with this magic puppet.

The Yerkes scholar sat across from me and began to chat with me about some of his recent thoughts on magical runes.

He casually picked up a magic engraving pen on the writing table, separated all the runes on the parchment, and then reassembled them according to his understanding of the magic circle.

He said he wanted to rearrange the runes so that he could get first-hand data.

When there is a slight difference in the arrangement of the runes, it will have some subtle effects on the magic circle. Yerkes scholars believe that most of these effects should be negative. A slight change in the arrangement of the magic runes directly leads to In the end, the pattern of the magic pattern is somewhat out of shape and distorted. Even if such a magic pattern can be successfully operated, it will be affected by some debuffs in terms of efficacy.But if this kind of weak change can cause some unconventional changes in the magic pattern circle, and the distorted magic pattern circle will gain a gain effect when it is running. The arrangement of runes on the magic circle has been simply optimized.

That's right, Yerkes scholars want to optimize some simple magic pattern circles in the process of continuous experimentation and failure, and then find their common points from these optimized special cases, so that maybe Can improve the most original magic runes.

This seems easy to say, but it is very difficult to sit up, because this kind of endless experiment is very boring, and the price of optimizing a magic circle is hard, maybe it is necessary to draw Thousands of magic-weave magic circles will be able to find a magic-weave magic circle with some buff effects. Yerkes scholar still wants to successfully optimize a few magic-weave magic circles, so that he can use these magic patterns Runes, looking for their commonality.

This kind of idea is almost crazy, no wonder almost everyone is not very optimistic about his subject.

"No one knows better than me how difficult and difficult this road of magic exploration is!" He sighed.

The Yerkes scholar gently rubbed the handle of the teacup with both hands, and his eyes fell on the magic parchment on the table, on which was drawn a magic circle, but the magic circle drawn by Yerkes did not have any Magic fluctuations.

I am also deeply touched by the paranoia and willfulness of Yerkes scholars, but I think this is a common problem of many talented scholars.

"I think this idea is worth a try. In addition, we can improve these magic pattern circles in other ways. For example, we can change the ratio of magic ink herbs to make the ink more functional. "I thought about it, decided to support the Yerkes scholar's idea, and then added.

"Of course I have thought about this too, but it is not easy to find this kind of magic pharmacist who dares to try new formulas. Those old guys hiding behind the test tube and beaker shelves are extremely stubborn. In their eyes, any Zhang's magic potion formula is their precious wealth and cannot be questioned by others." Deep wrinkles appeared on the Yerkes scholar's forehead, and then he said: "Three years ago, I saw it in a magic newspaper. A paper on the 'Utility of Ningshen Flower Juice', that article is very creative, but unfortunately I have not been able to find the author of the paper, who can write academic views in these new fields, and I don't know who it is Where is it holy, but I guess it can't be those old pedants lying on the coffin boards."

On the magic parchment on the writing table is a magic pattern circle drawn with the skill 'Elegance of the Wind'. This kind of agility-enhancing magic skill of the wind system is what I am least good at.

Scholar Yerkes guessed my concerns, patted the back of my hand, his fingers were slender and dry, he comforted me and said: "I will redesign the magweave circles about some water systems, initially we should start from the simplest Starting with the magic skills, the one you are most familiar with should be Ice Shield!"

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While chatting, Yerkes seemed to remember something, and then asked me: "When we met yesterday, you mentioned the dismantling of some ice magic skills?"

When he was discussing the academic issues of magic, his eyes would become very bright, and he would be intoxicated by it. The Yerkes scholar's liking for the magic circle has reached the point of obsession.

Helena and the magic puppet sat by the window boredly, watching the scenery outside the institute quietly. Looking from here, the whole institute looked like a gorgeous castle, except that the buildings were a little lower.

I once again introduced my understanding of the magic of 'Ice Wall' in detail. Regarding this magic skill, I can disassemble it into three independent and simple magic circles, 'water gathering' and 'shaping' Ning Bing' these three steps, and then I made a demonstration in front of the Yerkes scholar, and then expressed my thoughts. I think that with the Yerkes scholar's understanding of the magweave circle, I can pass this Simple magic skills, develop a combined magic pattern structure.

The biggest feature of this magic pattern structure is that it can instantly erect an ice wall in front of the owner. This huge ice wall can prevent the opponent from escaping and resist the opponent's attack. It is a very practical skill. However, if this magic skill is to be drawn on magic equipment, the user needs to have a strong mental strength and carrying capacity, so this kind of magic pattern structure that can release an 'ice wall' requires high wearing conditions, and Difficult to be accepted by consumer groups.

Because of this, I found another way and thought of using a combined structure to reduce the carrying capacity of this magic equipment.

My idea is that Yerkes scholars designed such a breastplate. This breastplate is divided into three parts. On these three different parts, three different but somewhat related magic patterns are drawn separately. In this way, the load-bearing capacity on each piece of armor is not so high. I named this kind of armor: "Ice Sealed Armor"

In the magic laboratory of the El City War College, Yerkes and I successfully made a combined magic pattern structure on the body of the rock golem. Because this structure was too huge, we made it became combined.

But now I am making this combined magic pattern structure, the purpose of which is to reduce the carrying capacity of the knights. By reducing the demand, warriors before one turn can also wear the magic pattern structure.

Obviously, the feasibility of my idea is very high, and Yerkes was already a little tempted by what I said, and then I began to skillfully shape 'water', 'shaping' and 'ice' on the magic parchment After drawing three magic pattern circles, he took the trouble to draw the entire magic pattern circle of 'Ice Wall Art' on the parchment, and then talked with Yerkes about the magic spell of 'Ice Wall Art'.

Yerkes has been completely obsessed with these four ice magic skills, and he began to search for the interrelated things among them.

The whole afternoon passed like this. When Helena and I got up to say goodbye, the Yerkes scholar was still obsessed with repeatedly verifying the relationship between the four magic skills, and had no time to pay attention to us. He said: "You guys go out the same way, I won't see you off."

Then suddenly remembered something, raised his head suddenly, reached out his hand to find a round badge in the drawer under the desk, and threw it over.

I quickly reached out and caught it.

Yerkes continued to bury his head on the writing table, while carefully studying the ice magic runes, he said: "Come early tomorrow afternoon, we should be able to try to make the first version of the combined magic pattern structure, This magic circle is suitable for engraving seals on breastplates..."

(End of this chapter)