Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 152 Unexpected Original Technique

[In the theoretical knowledge we've been learning about the four basic elements of wind, fire, earth, and water, how exactly do they transform from pure magic energy within the magic web into elemental structures?]

Are these four basic elements formed from even more microscopic unknown elements? If so, what are these unknown elements?

Harvey was so shocked by the opening questions of this document that he couldn't calm down for a long time. He believed that even if he read the entire article, he would not be able to find the accurate answers to these questions in a real sense. After all, this was the ultimate problem that even as a time traveler, he could not solve.

But there are two key points that make Harvey particularly excited and puzzled:

Does the supernatural world also follow the law of conservation of energy?

Can the essential laws of magical elements correspond to the scientific concepts of the macro and micro levels?

In Harvey's opinion, the first question obviously involves the relevant research direction of the magic network. As long as we can figure out the formation and operation rules of the magic network, and how the magic energy is generated from the magic network, it can be continuously absorbed and utilized by the caster through meditation. This series of questions will naturally explore the energy essence of the magical world.

The second question is relatively easier to understand. Are the four elements in magic the basic elements of the material world? Harvey believes that there is indeed doubt. At least in many alchemical experiments he has conducted in the past, it has been confirmed that there may be more microscopic "elements" in many substances such as metals, minerals, magical creatures and plants. This is a fact that completely complies with the laws of physics.

However, apart from the four elements, the powerful spells involving mental power, soul, arcane astrology and space distortion made it impossible for him to truly combine the scientific knowledge and practical principles he learned in his previous life and apply them to the study of surreal magic.

Harvey took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and entered a stable state of research and study, reading this short theoretical document from beginning to end.

"In this author's eyes, the four basic elements of magic are described as closer to macroscopic forces."

"Perhaps, the true fundamental forces involved in this world should be called gravity, electromagnetic force, and...interactions of corresponding strengths and weaknesses."

"And the four elements are merely manifestations of their different forms of force..."

As his thoughts continued to deepen and extend infinitely, Harvey sat in a trance and entered a strange state of semi-meditation. This time, he was not directly guided into the magic network space, but was directly pulled into the dark universe in the spiritual anchor, floating in the air and looking at the blue planet at his anchor point in the distance.

This time, the universe he was in was no longer empty. A starry sky appeared around him, as if it had been temporarily cut and spliced together. It was extremely bright in the dark universe, and each star seemed like a strange light point that kept flashing.

An invisible thread extended from the star, connecting with the illusory projection formed by Harvey's mental power. At the same time, the blue planet called hometown also extended a slightly thicker line, closely connecting with Harvey, allowing him to maintain a stable position in the empty space of the universe in the two-way connection between the starry sky and the planet.

Harvey's emotions were very stable after entering a meditative state. After discovering the changes in the mental anchor, he immediately entered a state of observation and research.

"Does the connection from the starry sky and the connection from the planets represent the mutual pull between gravity and the force of action? Could this phenomenon be due to the inspiration I received from that theoretical article?"

Thinking of this, Harvey couldn't help but grumble, "Gravity, strong and weak interactions, and electromagnetism—the four fundamental forces of science—can actually be connected to the spiritual power and soul energy of the magical world. It makes me feel like science and metaphysics have been perfectly combined. No wonder even a great figure like Einstein sighed that the end of science is theology..."

Harvey forced down all the doubts in his mind, and began to extend equally thin mental tentacles from his own projection, slowly coming into contact with the abrupt star embedded in the void.

Soon, Harvey's mental tentacles followed the invisible line connecting him and touched the illusory star cluster. He randomly selected a bright star and gradually blended his mental power with the star.

Suddenly, he felt his mental tendril, like a taut guitar string, tugged violently by some force, and began to vibrate violently, causing his own mental projection to oscillate in unison. Harvey quickly detached several more mental tendrils, entwining them with the original, stabilizing the previous one, which was trembling continuously after being pulled, with the amplitude of the fluctuations increasing and almost breaking.

The connected star suddenly burst out with a brighter layer of starlight, and gradually spread this layer of silver-white starlight to Harvey's extended mental tentacles, stained these tentacles with the same dazzling silver color. The trembling gradually stopped, and Harvey only felt that the mental projection suddenly shook, and then began to be slowly pulled by the tentacles and began to float towards the starry sky.

When he was about to touch the starry sky, he felt a pulling force of the same strength from behind. Harvey clearly felt that it was the thick connecting line from his home planet that pulled him back, preventing him from falling directly into the strange sea of stars.

Under the pull of the two interacting forces, Harvey's mental projection began to slowly and steadily float and move between the starry sky and the planets in a regular route.

"Why do I feel like I'm a living satellite orbiting the earth..." Harvey didn't feel panicked at all. Instead, he was amused by this strange phenomenon.

The starry sky is connected to his projection, and the projection is pulled by the planets to rotate. The silver light spreading from the stars in the starry sky follows the connection of the mental tentacles and infects his projection.

Harvey felt that his sea of consciousness and magic patterns began to gradually expand and fill up. A steady stream of pure magic energy continued to flow into it, making his soul feel full.

He couldn't help but look up at the starry sky again, and found that the light of the connected star had dimmed a lot, as if it had absorbed energy from him and became exhausted.

Harvey's mind moved, and he tried to infuse the pure magic energy he had just absorbed back into the dim star along the tentacles of his mental power.

Sure enough, the star quickly became brighter again, but something even more magical suddenly happened the next moment.

The star, which had once again begun to shine brightly, suddenly emitted a burst of radioactive light, causing violent vibrations in the illusory space where Harvey was.

Harvey felt as if all his mental strength had been drained away at once, and he could no longer maintain the illusory projection. He had no choice but to break away from the mental anchor, end his meditation state, and return to the real world.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he found himself in the study room, with Asdalen, Reiner, Egno and others lying scattered on the carpet in a mess.

The entire study was in chaos, as if it had just experienced a serious experimental accident. The edges of the decorative tapestries on the wall were charred, the candles melted and dripped, and the "magic brain" instrument in front of him was emitting a puff of green smoke, as if it had overheated and was scrapped.

Tiny electric sparks kept flashing on the metal bodies of the two alchemical creatures. The worst off was the hybrid elf Egno, whose thick, messy hair stood up as if struck by lightning. He closed his eyes tightly and fell into a coma.

Reiner, who was lying on the ground, suddenly trembled, and the alchemical inscriptions on his head and chest lit up again. It seemed that after replacing the higher-end model, he recovered significantly faster, and his restart speed was far faster than Asdalen.

Harvey quickly crouched over, but didn't dare touch the metal body that was still emitting sparks. He anxiously asked, "What on earth happened in the study while I was meditating?"

"My... my lord..., you just... just now suddenly released an unknown... area attack spell while in a meditative state, and we didn't have time to dodge..." As soon as Reiner opened his mouth, his voice was filled with a crackling electric current, and his tone was extremely weird and funny.

Harvey sat down on the ground, his eyes wide open as he muttered to himself, "Now I know... besides gravity and strong and weak forces... how the last force I hadn't discovered in my spiritual anchor just now—electromagnetic force—exists and manifests..."

As a genuine mid-level spellcaster, he unexpectedly created an electromagnetic force spell that was not based on the four elements at all and was different from the pure arcane magic energy.

(End of this chapter)