Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 540 Temporary meeting supported by new communication
Does the Archmage want to sleep?
Rorschach had read some self-cultivation books before, which boasted that one would not feel sleepy if one was full of energy. In his opinion, fullness is a physiological phenomenon, and not feeling sleepy is called insomnia!
Anyway, this guy is an engineering student who doesn't believe in that. Even in the other world, he is busy every day, just looking forward to taking a break late at night. There is no Internet during the break, and Rorschach is not a person who can appreciate singing and dancing. What else can he do? Sleep.

Although his physical condition has improved, it is just like his habit of using a mobile phone. In the past, the function was poor and he had to restart it frequently. Now the function is good, but out of habit he still refreshes the overall status.

With his physical fitness and such a mentality, Rorschach did not feel any special feelings about waking up in the middle of the night. He just felt that he had slept enough and could continue with the new day's work.

Rorschach walked through the silent corridor of the Mage Tower. Now there was another circle of corridors outside the hall, where more fixed portals could be arranged. In addition to managing the school and teaching, Caroline had spent most of her time recently tinkering with new links.

Many of the doors here are waiting to be connected, and even Rorschach doesn't know where they will be connected to in the future. Anyway, let Caroline do it.

Find the workshop and push the door open.

He spread out the design manuscript of the starship and wrote and drew on it casually. With the success of the trial model, many experiences and lessons were accumulated. The main design work of the ship to be launched this time will be undertaken by the Tower of Mysticism. In fact, Feuerbach "outsourced" this job to Rorschach.

There is also a very large device in the workshop. The main body is a receiver, which is finally connected to a crystal ball.

Crackling.
The machine was making a sound of receiving a signal. Rorschach was a little surprised: "Who could it be at this hour?"

He turned the knob of the device and the crystal ball began to glow erratically, flickering in a variety of colors as he adjusted the knob.

Finally, Rorschach found the corresponding channel, and the crystal ball suddenly emitted the brightest light, projecting a very real figure.

"Can you hear me? Hello, hello?" the other party poked his head in.

You obviously can't see me. Rorschach sighed and cooperated to open his transmitter, but he did not choose to open the other party's [Advanced Phantom] channel, only transmitting the voice over: "Master Kober, I can hear it here."

"Haha, it turns out you didn't sleep."

Cobb's actions were still guided by his playfulness. His phantom at this moment was wearing red pajamas and a red and white pointed hat - not to show off his identity as a great wizard. According to him, all robes in the Forest Tower were green, and in order to separate work and life, he chose red pajamas.

The indicator light and crystal ball continued to flash. Rorschach made some adjustments and a new user of the device came online.

In about the time it took to drink a cup of energy potion, almost all the device owners came online. The last one was Kano. He thought he had not started the communication, so he burped and scratched his head while trying all the operations he could. In fact, his full-body image had already been projected onto Rorschach's workshop.

This new communication system, which uses Advanced Phantom as the terminal representation method, is only being tested among the members of the Senate.

It seemed to be some kind of wonderful synchronicity. All the elders were awake, and then the archmage's habit made them all go to their own laboratories/offices, where they saw the experimental device that was constantly crackling and receiving signals.

By chance, an impromptu 13+1 meeting was put together.

In the end, no one turned on the full-body projection, but at 3: in the morning, thirteen D phantom heads surrounded the crystal ball and floated in Rorschach's workshop. Other mages also realized that something was wrong and modified the spell frequency of the sender, turning it into illusions of various symbols.

There are bird heads, animal heads, runes, and the Tower of Light and the Tower of Darkness all chose white and black spheres, which reminded Rorschach of the symbol of "origin and end" seen in the Most High.

He himself had a cartoon-style Labrador dog head and sighed silently: The first batch of avatars in the magical world are 3D full color, so good.

"I didn't expect it to develop into a night talk. Should we conduct our meetings this way from now on?" Kano suggested.

The ball of the chief of the Tower of Light expanded and shrank as he spoke: "This device is the same as the communication system. It requires manual maintenance and physical transfer. It is not secret enough, especially when it is opened to more people in the future."

"We can establish our dedicated line." With the rapid development of communication magic and aerospace engineering in recent years, a new generation of communication system integrating the best current technology is finally put into trial operation.

Because the ground stations of the communication network were frequently interfered with, the wizard, who was inspired by the starship project, thought of launching the communication relay station into the sky.

So at the highest level of the atmosphere, they released the "Permanent High Altitude Airships", trying to make these airships stationary relative to the ground coordinates, or cruise on fixed routes, as new transit stations.

At the same time, supported by new technologies and theories such as [radio communication] and spell weaving theory, the way of communication has also changed. In the past, sending messages based on teleportation arrays was called "real transmission", but now there is "virtual transmission" in the form of [advanced phantom].

It is not about direct remote casting, but about extracting casting elements and sending key information through communication. The receiving end needs to parse and control the terminal's spell array to complete the spell. This is also an idea derived from the "descriptor" in the spell cloud.

The guild plans to launch more atmospheric cruise airships and fixed airships in the future, preferably unmanned and self-sustaining. After the construction of the telegraph network, the switch technology has also matured. It only requires maintenance ships to regularly connect with the transfer station and dedicated personnel for maintenance.

"If you want to do this and that, you have to expand your stall so much, will the guild have enough people?" A master pointed out a problem - the burden on the magic guild is already heavy enough.

Rorschach said as a matter of course: "Then train more people. Many operations obviously do not require spellcasters."

"This is the wisdom of the Master, so keep it."

"But this is technology! If we don't use it, it's a worthless secret." Rorschach choked.

The mages of the Empire, Valois and Byrne are already accustomed to the participation of ordinary people in various projects. These great mages, whether actively or passively, have at least accepted the facts, such as Byrne's large industrial complex.

"Nowadays, the education level of ordinary people is also improving. The knowledge taught in many so-called 'graduate schools' is enough to cultivate talents that we can use. There will be a shortage of people everywhere in the future, so we might as well recruit more of them, regardless of whether they can cast spells or not." Kano couldn't help laughing and said, "Anyway, the Empire and we have already done this." His eyes finally fell on the portrait of "White Dog".

Seeing that no one questioned him anymore, Rorschach immediately had many thoughts. He had been challenged several times before, all because of this question. Now a new tone was set in just one impromptu meeting. Times have really changed.

But his happiness was only temporary. Rorschach interrupted the topic and talked about his own concerns: "We both came online at the same time. What an interesting coincidence. I woke up in the middle of the night, but I don't remember why I woke up. Is there anyone like me?"

Unexpectedly, seven or eight of the remaining thirteen people were in the same situation as Rorschach.

After a short sleep, Kano realized something was wrong: "Everyone here is a great wizard, which seems to be a sign of synchronicity."

"Is there anything unusual?" The more he asked this, the more uneasy Rorschach felt.

Kano recalled: "The transmutation dust layer began to flicker in the afternoon, and the release signal ball from the starship was interrupted. However, this happens occasionally. At least until tomorrow, if there is still no report, the emergency plan will be activated."

Kober thought of one: "Today the National Guard reached the Oder River.

"Oward's communication node is offline today, and we are trying to repair it. It seems to be a battlefield there. It is said that the specialist sent by the Imperial Capital has not responded yet, and the node is still offline."

The above are all things that happen from time to time during this period and are not particularly serious anomalies. Especially during the war, it is common for guild nodes to go offline.

Suddenly, a pale ray of sunlight pierced through the night sky, and many of the mages' portraits turned away, indicating that they were in a place with windows just like Rorschach.

It was already past four in the morning in winter. Rorschach widened his eyes to make sure he had read the clock correctly.

(End of this chapter)