High Above

  Chapter 737 Terra universe with deep water (5400, ask for a monthly pass at the end of the month!)

   "The matter of ether armament is up to you."

  Viscount Grant believes in Ian very much in this regard. After all, the armor designed by Ian can win an award in the imperial capital. How can a scumbag like him question the gold content?

  Although I didn’t get the top few for various reasons, it’s also because Ian didn’t conceive for too long, and he is less versatile in terms of versatility.

   Now, Ian is quite famous in the circle of armor design, and his popularity is so high that he himself could not predict it.

  As for the need for the ether armament to be disassembled... To be honest, it's not a big deal.

The ether armament needs to be disassembled and maintained frequently, but it is a pity that Viscount Grant is a bit talented in the way of sublimation, but he is completely ignorant of alchemy inscriptions and ether arm construction. This aspect has always been handed over to Elder Pude , Now it is nothing more than changing to Ian who is stronger.

   "Then I'll start."

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

  Here, the armor maintenance equipment that Ian brought from Xiahui has been prepared.

  Although the requirements are a bit crude compared to the ether armament, Ian doesn't really want to rebuild an ether arm, just to repair some of his core equipment.

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

  In other words, repairing Zhenglan is just a piece of cake for Ian. His real purpose is to actually observe Zhenglan, or in other words, the design ideas of other people's ether armament.

  Although he obtained the cutting-edge ether weapon prototype, the ‘Dead River Armed Forces’ from Grand Duke Sorin, many of the design ideas and concepts could not be directly used because it was too cutting-edge.

Just like a country that has just learned to build a thermal power station, there is no obstacle for it to learn wind power and hydropower. Nuclear fission power stations can be learned after a long time, but if they are directly given the technology of nuclear fusion power stations... even if it I really learned it, and I don’t have the technical hard power to manufacture the materials and equipment of the fusion power station.

  Ian's research on the Dead River Armed Forces is stuck here: his foundation in the etheric armed forces is not solid enough, and many basic aspects of knowledge are only half-knowledgeable, so he needs tutoring.

  Viscount Grant's semi-disabled etheric weapon is an excellent learning material.

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

  On the maintenance stand, Ian stared intently at the full metal armor in front of him.

Zhenglan has a smooth outer armor shape, and its layered armor structure is similar to dragon scales. It can not only provide strong defense and unloading capabilities, but also can spray high-heat steam from the gaps, making it unbelievable. Accelerate and move at an angle to achieve a ghostly maneuver that is almost inertialess.

   "Is it equivalent to having vector nozzles all over the body? Use sublimation skills to cooperate with science and technology, join forces, and abandon weaknesses." The young man thought to himself, this is a very clever idea, and he directly carried out prostitution and recorded it.

In addition, Zhenglan's main carapace surface has many etched patterns. These are extremely delicate inscription structures, and its abilities include 'manipulating water flow', 'vortex boosting', 'water vapor atomization', and 'steam explosion unloading' and 'Ice Armor' and other sublimation skills of the water system, and these sublimation skills can be found in the bloodline [Abyssal Lizard Whale].

  This is not a coincidence. The etheric armament originally sublimated the bloodline ability of the nobles, allowing them to mechanically study the sublimation organs in their bodies and optimize them.

The original ether armament was actually a research tool similar to a mannequin, but later people discovered that this research tool can achieve a combat effectiveness of one plus one far greater than two with a sublimator of the same bloodline as long as it is slightly modified, especially when paired with After the ether core, the combat effectiveness of the sublimators who can ignore the reserve of source quality will soar.

  So, the real core of the ether armament lies in the ether core.

  The damage point of Zhenglan lies in the heart of the ether.

   "I'm going to start a deep analysis."

Although Viscount Grant couldn't understand the inscriptions Ian studied at all, he could still understand some mechanical structures and various modules of his car. Norm is even far more proficient than Elder Pu De who has repaired this armor for more than ten years.

  So he let Ian continue to disassemble with confidence.

  The disassembly of the etheric armament should start from the back, open the skeleton along the 'spine', and then inspect it.

The abilities of various sublimation modules around the core of the ether are also very familiar. The three abilities of 'wind and rain', 'three-state conversion' and 'water system natural source quality control' are the core abilities, while 'water mist field' and 'deep sea heavy pressure' are the core abilities. 'These two unique modules of the Abyssal Lizard Whale are located around the core of the etheric furnace, enjoying the preferential treatment of direct energy supply.

   Looking at these sublimation modules, Ian couldn't help feeling emotional.

  If a human being wants to condense sublimated organs with these abilities in the body, God knows how long it will take and how much pressure it will cause on his life... No wonder the sublimated person does not have a particularly long life.

Among other things, the blood of the Abyssal Lizard Whale will replace human blood with a pure liquid source, which is essentially no different from rocket fuel. It is used to deliver strong energy to each sublimated organ, even if sublimated The victim's body is extremely strong, but he can't stand this kind of destruction that uses the human body as a weapon.

   Everyone knows that most rockets are disposable!

   And now, Ian finally saw Zheng Lan's Aether Heart.

The core of the etheric furnace, which occupies the two major parts of the etheric weapon's "heart and back", looks like a transparent crystal ball surrounded by layers of pentagonal metal lattices. The core of the crystal is a regular pentagonal element crystallization.

When it is activated, the crystallization of the elements will burn, releasing pure source quality, and this source quality will attract the natural spiritual energy in the surrounding time and space through the siphon effect, and then condense into the 'primordial ether' in the crystal ball, producing a A chain reaction.

  Before the crystallization of the elements is consumed, the energy that the etheric furnace can provide is unlimited. The etheric armed forces can squander the source quality as much as they want, and perform various wide-area powerful attacks that are difficult for humans to use frequently. In terms of firepower, they can even suppress an entire army.

This is a relatively common ether core, with a total of twelve sockets, which can supply energy for twelve advanced sublimation modules at the same time, but this does not mean that it can simultaneously support twelve 'deep sea pressure', that is, Grant The viscount urged the sublimation module to launch the sea of ​​clouds and tsunami to launch the city-destroying attack. One of that kind of high-level sublimation module would occupy three power supply sockets.

  And a more advanced etheric core may only need one socket to allow the heavy pressure of the deep sea to operate normally, or it may have more sockets.

  Ian could see at a glance that Zhenglan's ether core was indeed flawed: its inscription source quality transmission channel was damaged, which reduced its running time and energy transmission efficiency by more than one-third.

  Even if Elder Pu De made solidification efforts, 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 skills of the third energy level.

  As for repairing, it is not difficult. Ian was thinking about whether to use Mithril to make a reinforced pipeline to replace the damaged transportation channel, or to use Morion steel to directly fill it roughly - the former will make Zhenglan stronger, and the latter will at most keep it as it is.

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

   And Viscount Grant was indeed unambiguous. He directly asked Lamar to fetch the secret treasure of the Viscount's mansion, and handed over to Ian the high-purity mithril that was probably the only one in Harrison Port.

   "I will live up to my expectations."

  Seeing that the Viscount didn't say a word of nonsense, Ian also nodded with a smile, and began to pick up his rare edition inscription repair tool (provided by Isengard kindly), and began to repair the ether core.

   There is no need to elaborate on the specific process of maintenance. In essence, this is no different from dusting on a construction site. At most, the precision of the operation is as high as 100 million points, but it is nothing to Ian.

  When Ian raised the lithography pen, bright light patterns lit up on the core of the ether furnace, centered on the core crystal ball, and spread in all directions. Next, the surging source quality began to flow, and the faint blue water light filled the entire maintenance room in an instant. The rich water system source quality turned this place into a deep sea, and the core of the ether furnace was the sun in the water, illuminating Ian and Mian Dai. The face of the ecstatic Viscount Grant.

"Right, that is it!"

  The Viscount walked forward quickly, with a look of surprise on his face, even with a look of nostalgia, he stared at the heart of the etheric furnace shining in front of Ian.

Viscount Grant carefully looked at the etheric weapon inherited from his ancestors. Although it has been repaired and replaced many parts, including the etheric core, it is still the symbol of the highest glory of the Grant family in the past. It is the most bragging heritage and martial arts on this land.

However, this great wealth is covered in dust in his hands. Damage to the ether core is not a big deal. It is not surprising that the family does not have the technology to repair the ether core. There are too many noble families who do not have relevant talents and can only entrust outsiders to repair it. That's why master alchemists are so respected.

  The real shame is that the Grant family has been away from the center of the empire for so long that they can't even invite relevant technicians who can repair the ether core.

  But now...it's different.

  The Viscount turned his head and looked at Ian who was also smiling and looking at his repaired work.

  —He produced a future master alchemist... no, a master alchemist now.

It took less than half an afternoon to repair the damage of the etheric furnace core so easily. It was impossible for even Master Gesai to do such an operation, at least he had to go through it in his mind The operation process, after thinking about it for about a day, can start to repair it.

  But Ian started directly and repaired it all at once... This only means one thing.

...

  Viscount Grant laughed and cursed in his heart, he figured it out, this group of white people always like to hide their skills, hide their strength, hide their inheritance, and now they also hide their alchemy skills.

  But soon, the viscount realized something was wrong—if Ian was really just hiding something, why did he reveal it now?

  Is it possible...

   "Ian."

  The viscount tentatively asked: "Do you know that the maintenance of the ether core takes at least a day or so?"

"what?"

Hearing this sentence, Ian raised his head in a daze, and he and the Viscount looked at each other. The kind of incomprehension from the heart couldn't be faked - Viscount Grant immediately understood: Good guy, this kid is not hiding at all, he It's just that the pure talent is so good that it's unimaginable, and I don't think it's a problem to repair the ether core at all!

"Oops."

Ian secretly made a mistake at this moment. He really didn't expect that it would take a day to repair the ether core. The principle of this thing is indeed complicated, but the technical content required for maintenance is not high. An elite alchemist can learn it with a little proficiency in inscriptions what.

   It’s like the industrial capacity required for building a car, 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 my future child's teacher may not be just a master... but a master craftsman."

  As an ally on the same boat as Ian, of course he won’t worry about how talented Ian is—the more talented Ian is, the better, and maybe the upgrade of Zhenglan in the future will all depend on him.

   "The rest of the mithril will be handed over to you. It will be the tuition fee for future children."

  The viscount waved his hand generously, and gave Ian the mithril left over from the maintenance. There is really no purpose here, it is pure investment in advance.

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

It is precisely because of the largest mithril mine in Terra that the dwarven kingdom of Ganterigum was able to raise a full-armored army of legions, and used the power of one country to fight against the two major kingdoms of Yanjiang and the Royal Court of Heaven. The invasion does not fall behind.

   "Then I won't give in."

Ian was not polite, and directly accepted the small bag of mithril, and put it in his arms carefully-mithril is not a complete metal, in the eyes of Ian today, it is a perfect combination of original ether and matter The finished product has the superconducting ability of source matter, just like Morian steel, but it goes a step further.

  Under natural circumstances, it is theoretically impossible to form a normal source-mass superconducting substance like Mithril. An extreme cosmic phenomenon such as the formation of an ether supernova can only be born after a source-mass sun explodes, which is similar to the principle of the emergence of heavy metals.

   But in this way, it can only prove one thing: in this universe, at least before the birth of the second generation of stars, the differentiation of the original ether and even the source matter and spiritual energy has been completed.

  However, if it is a pre-epoch civilization, it may be possible to artificially produce Mithril through extreme experiments... The same is true for fine gold.

   "The technology of man-made mithril must be mastered."

  Thinking of this, Ian bid farewell to Viscount Grant, and the other party couldn't wait to rebuild the etheric armies as soon as possible, and personally experienced whether the repaired Zhenglan would return to perfect condition, and he didn't want to stay.

   "Up to now, I have mastered the idea of ​​manufacturing ether weapons."

  Back home, Elan was receiving meditation training at the Huaiguang Church. He happened to be thinking alone: ​​"I have all the materials and equipment. I can manufacture a prototype when I return to the territory, and then continue to optimize it based on the advanced technology of the Dead River Armed Forces."

   "To thoroughly understand all technologies, not only the most advanced, but also the old technologies in the past, this is considered healthy."

  Ian not only has the design drawings of Zhenglan in his heart, but also thoroughly masters the technology of how to manufacture ether weapons through the process of dismantling and restoration: "The only difficulty in ether weapons is the ether core."

   "I also know its principle, which is to create a vacuum of source matter through pure source matter, attract spiritual energy to converge into the original ether, form etheric space bubbles, siphon surrounding natural spiritual energy, and obtain infinite energy."

   "The only problem is that in the space bubble, the 'channel' that collapses and is used to siphon the surrounding space-time source quality - the nature of this channel is very similar to the 'wormhole'."

"For the people on earth, the ether core is to create a wormhole, intercept the natural psionic energy that wants to flow into the other side of the wormhole, and convert it into a 'tidal engine' of energy... This is its true essence .”

   "But here comes the question - where does this passage lead to?" Ian murmured in his heart, this was the only thing he couldn't figure out.

  At this moment, the young man remembered the scene he saw through the 'Guiding Star' before.

  The infinitely parallel time and space, the past and the future, permeated with the infinite 'primordial etheric sea'...

   "Could it be that..." Clenching his fists, Ian opened his eyes wide: "The core of the ether is a semi-infinite tidal engine made by relying on the original ether to penetrate the nature of time and space?"

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

   "That's right, that's it—no wonder every civilization in this universe seems to manufacture an etheric core, and even regards it as a standard configuration for a 'fire ship'...it's that simple!"

After figuring this out, Ian suddenly realized. At first, he didn’t quite understand why the etheric space bubble would create such a powerful siphon effect, but now it’s much simpler—the ether in the next-door universe is more powerful than their world. Yes, or in other words, there is less ether than around the star field of Terra, so it will naturally guide the ether to flow towards the next universe.

Of course, this is not absolute. If the parallel universes connected by each etheric core are different (most likely), then when the next universe has more ether than Terra, the principle of the etheric core must be reversed. , not a siphon, but a collection of aether gushed out of a white hole-like channel!

  This may also be the reason why the pre-epoch civilization could not stably manufacture etheric cores... They are not sure what the universe behind each etheric core is, of course they can only produce semi-finished products!

  However, after the joy, there was a burst of tension.

  Ian raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky outside the window.

  The young man stared quietly at the scorching sun in the sky, and he let out a breath slowly: "According to my guess...things like inscriptions are likely to be the 'origin instructions' created by a powerful civilization."

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

   "If there is no accident, the source matter, spiritual energy, and even the original ether are probably not natural creations..."

  Ian was silent for a while, then sighed: "It seems that the truth behind Prison Star Prison may not be as simple as I imagined."

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

  Sentiment does not change anything.

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

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

  He wants to find Master Gesai to talk about the breeding grounds of Atlan Giant City, Andor and the clone of the little crystal dragon.

   Ask for a monthly pass at the end of the month!

   It can be regarded as finished, go to bed!

   This schedule has completely collapsed. The only way to deal with it now is to get through it slowly (calm down)

   For the principle of the etheric hearth, you can read Asimov's "The Gods Themselves", which was also mentioned in the previous article, but I am afraid that some readers may not understand it, so you can use an analogy

   Of course, not exactly the same!

  (end of this chapter)