Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 62 Ancient Knowledge
Harvey sat in his study, looking through some study notes he had taken during his college days.

"Starting from an intermediate spellcaster, every improvement in magical power is an interaction between cognition and thinking, a process of transforming knowledge into substantial power..."

"The most important thing for advancing from the beginner level to the intermediate level is to build a spiritual anchor that is unique to you. This requires the caster to integrate their understanding of the real world, their own existence, and their knowledge and beliefs."

Harvey closed the book, still feeling that there was something wrong with the theoretical knowledge taught by the teacher.

"Then why can I roam in the magic network space? I haven't successfully constructed my own spiritual anchor yet?"

Harvey felt that the problem might lie with his magic tattoo, which had become unrecognizable.

Although he had successfully engraved a third-level spell in the magic pattern and had the basic requirements to be promoted to a mid-level spellcaster, Harvey would never dare to take the risk of trying to be promoted before solving the problem of magic pattern mutation.

"Looks like I need to find an opportunity to personally go to the magical capital of Alayeh and get my promotion through legitimate channels..."

It's not enough to just pretend on the Magic Network forum. There will always be a time when you run out of excuses, and who knows when the newbie's true colors will be exposed. High-level spellcasters are not fools who can be easily deceived.

So Harvey could only temporarily turn his attention to the ancient knowledge he had obtained in the alien space rift in the past few days.

It now exists in one's consciousness in the form of a fruit of knowledge, and one can start learning at any time.

It was midnight, the time when the death energy in the magic network space was most active. Harvey did not need too much meditation guidance. He easily immersed himself in consciousness and began to try to analyze it with his mental power.

As soon as his mental power touched the fruit, Harvey discovered that its structure was extremely fragile. In the blink of an eye, it shattered and split into several glowing nuclei, which were scattered in Harvey's consciousness.

"Huh? The arrangement and distribution of these light cores are related and regular..."

Harvey, who had seen too many formulas in various disciplines in his previous life, keenly discovered the characteristics contained in them.

He tried to use his mental power to devour one of the light cores and immediately obtained the first key knowledge from it.

"The elements are broken..."

The second nucleus was also quickly absorbed by Harvey's mental power.

"Matter reorganization..."

These two nuclei are very close to each other, and there is obviously a certain regular connection between "breakage" and "recombination". It seems that subsequent experiments have added a new direction.

After absorbing two knowledge light cores in a row, Harvey's mental strength showed some signs of exhaustion. There was no way around it; this was the weak nature of a junior spellcaster.

He planned to stop there, rest for a night to recover his energy, and then start a series of experiments on the new knowledge tomorrow.

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Late at night the next day, Harvey took Asdalen and Reiner to the underground laboratory to make intensive preparations for the upcoming experiment.

He first used the limited liquid mithril in stock and, according to the magic knowledge he had absorbed yesterday, drew a simple fusion magic matrix. He activated it repeatedly through the energy gathering array and observed the integrity of the energy pathway in the drawing of the array.

"There's no problem with the energy pathway, and all the conversion connection points in the matrix can be activated normally..." Reiner stood next to the magic circle, holding the experimental record manual, and skillfully reported a long list of observation results.

"What about the matrix structure? If the structure is unstable, even if it is activated, it won't be able to maintain it for long, and the experiment will still fail."

When it comes to the research of new magic arrays, Asdalen is much more cautious than Reiner, and he can often point out the areas where negligence is most likely to occur in the first place.

Harvey was very pleased with the two lab assistants' meticulous and conscientious approach. "Alright, let's do one last check and then we're ready to begin!"

He took a pre-prepared research material from the laboratory table and placed it in the center of the magic circle.

"Shall we start with natural magic materials?" Asdalen asked with a frown. He still remembered that when he analyzed the beetle ore, he also started from this aspect, but with no results.

Harvey smiled and said, "That was Egno's suggestion. He said that natural magic materials are the most sensitive and fragile, meaning they are most likely to produce experimental reactions."

If the hybrid elf had not treated three people suffering from ulcers during the day and was now in a deep sleep due to exhaustion of magic power and mental strength, Harvey would have wanted him to come and observe the experiment.

The three of them stopped chatting and activated the magic circle's energy supply system. As the array lines drawn with liquid mithril in the matrix gradually filled up, each connection point lit up slightly and emitted a silvery-white light.

The magic plant material placed in the center of the magic circle slowly broke apart and disintegrated like weathering, turning into a small pile of light green powder.

Harvey signaled Reiner to record the results. "Begin Phase Two immediately: the reorganization experiment."

The mithril lines that were originally flowing on the magic circle instantly began to reverse, and the speed of movement far exceeded that of the first stage.

The pile of light green magic plant powder was gently lifted up by the invisible energy flow, suspended in the air, and finally gradually condensed into a ball of liquid substance the size of a fist.

"Huh? How come it became like this after reorganization? Shouldn't it turn back into its original plant form?" Reiner muttered while holding the small notebook.

Asdalen rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Reorganization only means the reintegration of the essence of matter, not the reversal of time. Do you think this is a magical experiment by a legendary spellcaster?"

Harvey was very satisfied with the experimental results.

This kind of fragmentation and reorganization means that he can bypass the most important extraction and refining steps in alchemy and directly obtain the material origin of the magic material, which is no different from cheating.

I didn't expect that the knowledge obtained from the monsters in the alien space rifts would be so advanced and powerful.

"With this array, we can try to reorganize magical plants in large quantities and achieve mass production of low-level alchemical potions..."

Asdalen quickly interrupted Harvey's beautiful fantasy, "Sir, the two energy-gathering arrays are now overloaded and can no longer support the energy supply of more magic arrays."

The corners of Harvey's mouth that had just curled up immediately froze, and he could only cough awkwardly twice to cover it up.

The situation is indeed as Asdalen said. In addition to maintaining the daily operation of the Magic Network Forum, the energy gathering array also has to repeatedly supply energy to a large number of charging magic stones to drive the huge combat alchemy beasts and working alchemy beasts.

Especially those "agricultural machines" installed on the farm, which consume more than 6 magic stones of energy every day.

We are indeed on the brink of an energy crisis...

Reiner saw Harvey's downcast expression and quickly spoke to liven up the atmosphere. With a slightly enthusiastic tone, he suggested, "Sir, let's try to reconstruct the beetle ore!"

Asdaren's eyes shone with soul fire, and he said angrily, "You haven't learned your lesson from the last experimental explosion, have you? My Lord was almost blown up to the ceiling."

Reiner's shoulders shrank, and he muttered softly, "But wasn't the lord alright in the end..."

"One lucky break doesn't mean you'll be lucky every time." Asdalen reminded sternly.

(End of this chapter)