When Victoria returned to his room on the upper level of Silver Fort, the snow fluttering from the window was falling out of the window.

This winter's snow... one after another, especially after the cold moon, the snow has barely stopped.

Appropriate snowfall can bring a good harvest for the coming year, but it will make the cold moon more difficult. After this snowfall, the villages outside Wangdu will probably die many people...

The cold wind from the north hovered over the ancient king, and the snow falling from the sky was stirred into a curtain. The black-haired maid, Maggie, closed the wooden window panels on the inside of the window, and the chilly scene outside the window. Isolated, the fireplace burned in the corner of the room, keeping this gorgeous house warm and comfortable. The ice and snow outside the castle seemed to be another world.

"Your face is not very good," Maggie looked at Victoria into the room, and asked the female duke to slap the cloak and whispered, "Today's meeting is still not going well?"

"There are too many mediocrity people sitting in those chairs. Everyone's eyes are as short as the snow rats," Victoria shook his head. "What's worse is that I can't drive them out."

Maggie hangs her cloak on the shelf next to it and whispers: "This country is still relying on them to run."

Victoria saw this maid and friend's maid, she knows that although Maggie is nominally her own maid, she has a good knowledge and the power of the extraordinary. This "Northern Butler" is the most trusted. One of the people, when the two are alone, most of the topics can be talked about.

“The state does not have to rely on the old aristocrats to operate,” the Duke calmly said. “You have seen it with your own eyes.”

Maggie raised her eyelids and glanced at Victoria: "Yes, but it is very costly to do so. There is also a very important point for you, a member of them, and an inseparable member."

Victoria was silent for a while.

Yes, she can't walk that way.

"Don't think about it anymore, there is one more important thing," Maggie said, awakening Victoria from a brief thought. The black maid picked up a flaming-sealed letter from the nearby table and handed it to the Duke. "A letter to you from the Southern Grand Duke, Bai Yu Shi Yan sent."

Victoria widened his eyes in astonishment and said, "Duke Cecil?"

She instinctively sniffed out the disturbing taste from this letter. It was not long before she returned to the king. The Duke of the Southland hurriedly wrote a personal letter to himself, and it was still the coldest cold. What is the urgency of sending a letter from the lion's messenger?

She quickly opened the letter tube and took out the personal letter inside. After seeing the above, her brow wrinkled.

Maggie stood quietly, without asking for the letter: Although she is close to Victoria, she is not over.

“Maggie,” Victoria asked immediately after reading the contents of the letter quickly. “When did the astrologers of the Masters Association report the red-grain shift at the bottom of the sun?”

The black-haired maid recalled: "It should be the cold month of the 10th."

"The cold moon is 10 days... the same day..." Victoria bowed his head and looked at the contents of the letter. "It can't be a coincidence..."

Then she noticed that Maggie had a curious line of sight, and she took a slight breath and took the initiative to mention the contents of the letter: "The Duke of Cecil sent a warning that the magnificent wall changed on the cold moon on the 10th, a wide range The overload, the overload lasted for three full days, and the day the letter was issued, the magnificent wall has returned to calm, but the Duke of Cecil believes that the barrier has been permanently damaged during the overload process..."

The black-haired maid’s eyes slowly widened, and the horror was unreserved.

"It seems that I need to summon the royal family and the royal scholars," said the female duke, "and... there is a new round of aristocratic meetings."

When talking about the word "aristocratic meeting", Victoria's tone could not help but bring a trace of exhaustion.

However, she is very familiar with the Ansu system, no matter what she wants to do, even if she is the queen of Ansu, she can't get away with the nobility.

"It’s a quagmire."

......

The light blue rune brilliance flashes between the layered rune substrates, and the surging arcane energy strikes a squeaky arc, emanating from the energy contacts and the gears, On the test bench built to test large equipment, the heavy and complicated power mechanism was slowly starting to run under the magic force. The sound of steel meshing and turning seemed to be weak to strong, and the whole test bench was slightly trembled.

On the monitoring platform, which is more than 20 meters away from the experimental platform and separated by two layers of magic shields, Rebecca and Carmel are standing between technicians, paying attention to the distant machine and machine. Around the various magic devices, and each of them, each magician is also paying attention to the monitoring unit that he is responsible for.

A dazzling spark suddenly appeared at the top of a tower-like device at the corner of the bench.

"The first booster is overloaded!!"

"The No. 2 and No. 3 amplifiers imbalance protection tiles may have melted!"

“The core is warming up and the amplifier groups are interfering with each other”

“Shut down immediately!” Rebecca widened his eyes and yelled out loudly, “Shut down immediately, stop!!”

A magician quickly got up and pulled a lever on the side of the console. However, due to the excessive movement, the lever was stuck in the middle of the running and emergency stop, and a strange humming sound was from under the console. It was reported that on the experimental platform more than 20 meters away, the electro-optic light condensed by the arcane energy began to emanate from the surface of each rune device.

"Let me come!!" Rebecca yelled at the emergency moment, then picked up the iron wand that he never left, rounded it and squatted on the console, and designed her own console. It is very clear at this time that although there should be a "砸" operation in accordance with the normal process, the operation is accompanied by a loud bang, part of the console is completely sunken, and the magic connection below is also interrupted.

The arcane sparks from the experimental platform quickly weakened and disappeared, and the whole unit gradually stopped after a continuous low humming sound. At the corner of the test bench, a two-meter-high tower-shaped device emerged at the top. Most of the whole set of thick smoke was kept, and the rest was obviously seriously damaged.

When the device was shut down, the staff who had already waited for it rushed up. They rushed to the side of the tower, and raised their arms to point to the alloy tower that still radiated the heat wave. The project used the magic terminal to release it. The large-scale weakened cone of ice, accompanied by the magical snow and ice impact, the temperature of the entire tower began to decline rapidly.

Rebecca stretched her neck and watched the situation near the test bench. From behind her came Carmel’s voice: “How is the situation?”

"Don't think about it, make a new one directly..." Rebecca said with a sad face. "Aunt Herti will kill me... When I last reported the budget of the repair lab to her, her eyes were red... ”

"...I will report it," Kamal said after a brief silence. "Accidents and failures are situations that must be encountered in doing research."

"But it’s not the same for six days to burn eight amplifiers and two large magic engines..." Rebecca is still a frowning face, she looked up and watched the temporary construction with steel brackets and prefabricated panels. The large "laboratory" feels a faint pain in the skull.

Here is a new laboratory in accordance with the instructions of the ancestors, located in the suburbs, away from the residential area, the implementation of the safety isolation system and new operational procedures, it turns out that such an arrangement has greatly improved the safety factor of the experiment, but the success rate of the experiment... seems a little No change.

“In the end, why?” Rebecca said to himself, “Why is it always stuck in overload and interference...”

A senior magician looked at the data recorded in the recent period and said: "According to the test, the dense arrangement and multi-layer overlap of the magic net unit can greatly improve the output, and the volume can also be inserted into the front, but with The magical power output from the magic nets, which are frequently overloaded and interfered with by the ampere mechanism and the repulsion mechanism, is very problematic in terms of stability and purity."

"It seems that if you want the multi-layer magic net to be practical, you must first find a solution to the interference between each layer of the magic net," Carmel continued. "In addition, the pressure on the power mechanism at the start is also a problem. We have to find ways to redesign the drive and shifting mechanism, reduce the starting speed, and reduce the instantaneous pressure of the magic engine before the two magic engines are too much instantaneous pressure to cause mechanical damage."

"It seems that the mechanical transmission is not suitable for the monster of the 'magic train'. The shifting device can't hold such a big impact." Rebecca shook his head. "It's not good... we can try the ancestors." Once a 'hydraulic transmission'."

As she spoke, she frowned, because she thought of another question: "But the light pressure of the magic engine is not enough. The mechanical pressure can be reduced, the magic pressure of the amplifier and the magic net." Still can't solve it."

"The magic power of the rune array is rigid... it's really hard," Carmel said. "Even if you reduce the load on the start of the magic engine, it's not good to keep it running." Small challenge."

This is a common problem faced by most magical machinery: no matter how sophisticated the magical machinery is, how complicated the function is, its core essence is still a "magic array."

Since it is a "magic array", the magic power consumed by each magic array is fixed. The "effect" of this spell may be affected by the casting material and the environment, but the mana consumed is a fixed value. .

Even if the starting pressure of the magic engine is reduced to a minimum, the magic power required for its operation will be 100% true reflected in the booster and magic net unit for its power supply. How many repulsive runes are consumed? Mana, there is no discount.

The result is that the mechanical structure of the magic engine may be able to resist, but the rune of the energizing part should burn out, just like today.

One problem after another, each problem is still not solved, it seems that there will be a series of new problems, mechanical structure, material strength, magic interference, load on each device... all obstacles are piled up together, and almost no reason Clue.

It is a quagmire.

Rebecca looked at the Arcane master in front of him and suddenly couldn't help but ask: "Master Carmel, what is the transportation of the empire in the past? It is reasonable to say that a huge empire must also be similar. What about the big transport of the magic train?"

When I heard Rebecca's problems, Carmel couldn't help but reveal the color of the memories: "When the year... We didn't use mechanical magic vehicles, but borrowed the power of large-scale summons to transport goods, such as summoning. Hurricane messengers and wave messengers, their power is strong enough to move mountains and seas..."

Rebecca listened in a sneak peek: "This... such high-level elemental creatures can also be summoned and controlled? How do you get them to help?"

"It's very simple, to conclude a summoning contract to half a ton of dark blue magic crystal..."

"Okay, you don't have to say it."

Dark blue magic crystal! Half a ton! ! Don't say that the hurricane messenger, I am afraid that the lord of the wind can come to you to deliver it to you.

Rebecca marveled at the local tyrants that had just smashed the empire, but soon, the problems encountered in the magical train project were still filled with her mind.

Miss Marquis slammed her head: "Brain pain..."

Kamal looked at this talented but somewhat childish girl, could not help but want to comfort, but before he spoke, Rebecca suddenly raised his head: "In fact, I think... we are in front of us Is this idea wrong? Or... can you change your direction?"

"what do you mean……"

“It’s simple and rude to focus on the front of the car, but it’s too difficult to implement. These powerful things are very unstable when they are forced together,” Rebecca said while thinking, her wonderful brains are flying fast. It's working, "Master Carmel, you still can't remember that we still have a plan, that is, if the high-powered front is not made, we will distribute several smaller power magic engines to several trains of the entire train. On, make a power car..."

“I remember that this solution encountered the problem of simultaneous coordination of the various power cars,” Carmel said while thinking. “Do you think... Synchronization will be easier than the problems we are currently having in the front?”

“What if?” Rebecca said. “In any case, we have planned both sets of plans, and now the key components of the front-end device are also burned. We must re-do it. Why not just build an experimental platform and put power on it? The scattered plan is also taken out to try it out. Of course, the power concentration plan on the front of the car will not give up. You can continue to work hard. Maybe the two sets of plans can complement each other and find a breakthrough!"

As he said, the girl thought about it again: "In addition... I am still thinking about whether I can use the continuous weight loss method to reduce the load of the entire train... but the weight loss technique is a range-effective spell. How to control its effective area, to prevent the imbalance of the train when steering has to be considered carefully ... but I think these may be the direction of breakthrough."

This is really an optimistic idea.

However, looking at Rebecca's passionate eyes, Carmel found that he was infected too. Maybe it makes sense?

"Okay," the ancient arcane master nodded. "Today's plan is done. Let's go to Miss Herti to apply for funding tomorrow."

"...hey? Isn't you going?"

"Go together," Carmel said. "You are the head of the entire Magic Energy Technology Department. You need to go there in person if there is a major change in the project."

The big magician said that it is justified and righteous.

Rebecca did not believe it.