Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 151 The Buried Genius
After successfully achieving his goal of joining the Federation anonymously and persuading the legendary spellcaster Mr. Scorching Lord to agree to upload the magic literature and research results collected and organized by the Federation to the forum for public sharing, Harvey devoted all his attention and time to writing code to build the forum's magic encyclopedia.

According to the verbal agreement between him and the Lord of Scorching Heat, Harvey was responsible for providing the technical work of developing and producing this online magic library, but the screening and uploading of literature materials would be the responsibility of the members recommended by the Federation themselves. In addition, all the magic knowledge shared by the Federation, after being paid for by other members, could be used by all Federation members in the forum to obtain part of the points earned.

Harvey thought that the other party's requests were reasonable. After all, the foundation for building this magic encyclopedia came from the Federation. He himself did not have so much energy and time to organize and screen those massive academic documents, and he had to rely on manual transcription and typing to upload them to the spellcaster forum.

I heard that the upgraded version of the Mage's Hand improved by high-level spellcasters - the Hand of Control, can control several pairs of virtual magic arms at the same time to complete tasks such as document transcription or experimental operations. I wonder if the high-level spellcasters assigned by the Federation to be responsible for this part of the work will rely on this technique to complete such a huge amount of heavy work.

The Burning Lord also specifically stated to him that they would not hand over all of their collected documents to the forum for public sharing in the short term. After all, in order to facilitate this cooperation, the Chief had used his position and reputation to forcefully push it forward despite the strong pressure and questioning from the conservatives within the Federation. Therefore, the knowledge involving cutting-edge research results and original techniques could not be directly handed over to Harvey for the time being.

Harvey also directly expressed his understanding and agreement with this point. Food must be eaten bite by bite, and outdated ideas and conservative behavior cannot be changed overnight.

"Once you all truly experience the benefits of sharing and communication through my Magic Encyclopedia, you will naturally join this vast wave of internet knowledge sharing..."

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Soon after Harvey completed the coding and function launch of the Magic Encyclopedia, three members of the Federation who had been on standby for a long time quickly applied to officially join the Spellcaster Forum.

Harvey gave them editing and uploading permissions for the encyclopedia section. Considering the progress of content screening and manual uploading, he estimated that this new knowledge payment section would be officially open to forum members in a month at most.

As for Harvey himself, he can check the fresh documents and materials uploaded by these three dedicated high-level spellcasters in real time on the server host of the Magic Network every day.

Although most of the information currently involves research on general spells and in-depth analysis of magic theory, compared to the outdated teaching content Harvey learned in the Mage Academy, it still allowed him to gain a lot and consolidate the theoretical knowledge he had learned before.

For example, this book "Dictionary of Ancient Wizard Spells and Continental Common Language" interested Harvey very much and greatly helped him decipher and analyze the ancient wizard knowledge shared with him by Asdalen.

There is also an ancient magic book called "The Book of Summoning and Fables", which was also deciphered by the spellcasters in the Federation who were good at translating ancient spells. After the key points were marked in detail, it was reorganized and compiled into literature suitable for modern spellcasters to read.

Although these contents do not fall within the scope of the necromancer's magic research, they have greatly broadened Harvey's theoretical horizons. After all, the necromancer is the most typical specialized wizard among spellcasters. Limited by his own magic faction, most of them can only focus on the study of death energy and soul and flesh magic.

Harvey's research in necromancy mainly focuses on soul transfer and life alchemy. This is the goal he has been pursuing since his time at the Undead Academy. Facts have also proved that his choice and efforts ultimately achieved results far exceeding those of his predecessors. With the blessing of the traverser's strange spiritual anchor, he successfully realized the experiment of transferring souls from living beings to alchemical creations.

"I wonder if Professor Gavin, who slapped the thesis in my face, would be shocked if he knew about my current research results..." Harvey thought of his thesis advisor, who is now a mid-level necromancer of the same rank as himself, and couldn't help feeling as if he was in another world. He had only graduated from the Mage Academy three years ago.

"Sir, please come and take a look at this research document..." Sitting side by side with Harvey in the study, Asdalen, who also owns a "magic brain" instrument, is now using Harvey's trumpet - Kel'Thuzad, to help Harvey browse and review the Federation information that has just been uploaded.

As an ancient wizard and a half-blood, Asdalen is more knowledgeable than Harvey in both magic theory and knowledge, so he is specifically responsible for searching and organizing content that can help Harvey in his research direction.

"Oh? Is it the literature on soul research? I remember that the materials they uploaded recently hardly involved this part..." Harvey stood up curiously and came behind Asdalen.

In fact, it is not that the Federation is deliberately keeping it secret. The main reason is that the magical documents related to soul research are extremely rare. Most of them are a bit on the edge of the scope of forbidden magic, which makes it impossible to pass the review. Naturally, they are not within the Federation's collection targets.

Asdalen murmured, "I don't think this document strictly refers to a particular type of sorcery research... but rather... a very broad theoretical exposition, a completely new theoretical exposition. I've never heard of it before, and I find it truly novel and interesting."

This completely aroused Harvey's curiosity. He quickly sat in the seat vacated by Asdalen and began to concentrate on reading this strange document, which did not contain much content.

The straightforward and concise statement of views at the beginning of the document immediately attracted Harvey.

I believe that the magic of ancient wizards was primarily derived from imitations of other magical creatures, and was based on ignorant and clumsy exploration...

While modern magical theory is still based on the research of ancient wizards, it has begun to explore the origins of magic and the laws of energy. Fortunately, we are truly beginning to understand the essence and principles of the extraordinary powers of this world...

What is the essence of the extraordinary?

[Why were we able to discover the magic network? And draw endless magical energy from it for our own use?]

[Where does the endless energy within the magic network come from? How is it generated?]

When Harvey saw these three seemingly abstract questions, he felt that they were quite enlightening.

The author who dared to raise this question actually began to think about a question that even Harvey, a time traveler, could not accurately answer - will this world full of extraordinary powers also obey the law of conservation of energy?
(End of this chapter)