Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 71 Planetary Energy Array
Harvey had thought that the reason why the ancient wizard built a wizard tower in this desolate land must be because there was something special about it.

But what he never expected was that people built the tower here entirely because there was a magic stone vein deep underground.

Moreover, judging from the quality and type of the original ore, it is also a high-level charging magic stone, which is more valuable than the elemental magic stone.

This kind of luck is even more incredible than the one in the news from the previous life where someone was walking in a mine and kicked out a Star of Africa diamond.

Harvey realized that he was now sitting on a huge gold mine. If he could not keep this secret, it would be no different from sitting on a barrel of explosives.

The reason why those energy-absorbing beetles are attracted to the magic stone ore and then absorbed and fused by the ore is essentially because the quality of these ores is too high and the pure magic energy they contain is too rich. Instead, the beetles undergo a transformation from living organisms to beetle ores the moment they come into contact with them.

Harvey even had some doubts as to whether the densely packed magic stone ore pillars in the cave were formed after a long period of time by beetles clinging and fusing together.

"Sir, how are we going to dig and dismantle these ores?" Reiner looked at the towering magic stone pillars and fell into the consumption anxiety after getting rich suddenly.

Normal magic stone ore mining requires that the magic stone ore that has been fused with ordinary rocks be peeled off from the rock as a whole. No fragmentation or damage should occur, otherwise the quality of the ore will be greatly reduced immediately.

But Harvey had never heard of this kind of magic stone pillar anywhere before, which was not accompanied by rocks but was formed directly and purely.

It is definitely unrealistic to directly dig and smash the column. Such a large piece of giant magic stone ore may cause an energy explosion if destroyed by external forces, and then the entire cave will collapse, which will not be worth the loss.

Moreover, even if Harvey could obtain a large amount of high-grade magic stone ore now, apart from satisfying the needs of his own territory, he would not dare to trade or sell it at will and exchange it for gold pounds.

The flow of high-level magic stones, even if it is only a small amount, will immediately cause price fluctuations in the magic stone market, and will be targeted by the Federation's investigators known as hounds in minutes.

Harvey, whose identity as an undead mage was already discriminated against, and who was also charged with illegally mining magic stone, could foresee that in the near future the Federation's battle mage corps would directly attack the territory, creating a terrifying scene of fireballs and ice blades washing over the ground.

"First, I'll try to obtain the method for cutting and decomposing high-level magic stone ore from Mr. Frost Giant, the ore identification master on the forum. Then, I'll consider the mining plan and purpose of this batch of ore."

Harvey sternly warned his two assistants, "Absolutely do not tell anyone else about this mine. Egno and Pierce need to keep it secret for now. They interact with so many people on a daily basis right now, and it's easy for them to let their guard down and let the news slip."

Reiner and Asdalen nodded in affirmation at the same time. Fortunately, they did not consider bringing ordinary soldiers and other auxiliary personnel for this exploration of the cave. Otherwise, even if Harvey didn't have the heart, they would probably sneak out in the middle of the night to silence them.

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After returning to the underground laboratory, Harvey asked Reiner to arrange for the engineering alchemy beast to seal the entrance of the cave, and let the bear-shaped guard alchemy beast be stationed directly at the entrance, and set up several automatically triggered warning alchemy beasts to ensure that everything was safe.

He quickly returned to the study on the second floor of the castle and began to search through the boxes and cabinets for a precious book that he had brought to Jackdaw Town when he left the academy.

It was a book said to be written by a mysterious independent alchemist, and was believed to be filled with all kinds of bizarre inventions and creations, almost all of which were fantasy books.

Harvey's best friend and venture capitalist from college, Ash Lambert, bought it for several hundred gold pounds at a secret auction of spellcasters out of curiosity and a desire to have money to spend.

He flipped through it a few times and then completely lost interest, so he just gave it to Harvey.

Harvey had briefly read some of the content and thought that most of the ideas and concepts were indeed fanciful and completely impossible to realize in reality. But after seeing those thick and complete pillars of high-level magic stone in the underground cave with his own eyes, he realized that the idea was indeed unrealistic.

Suddenly I remembered a concept described in this book - the design idea of a higher-level teleportation array that goes beyond the continental teleportation array.

It can realize two-way transmission of spatial planes, and the author calls it a planetary plane transmission array.

This plane teleportation array does not mean connecting and teleporting reality and the magic network. Harvey's current express version of the teleportation array can realize the interaction between the two.

The plane teleportation described in the book refers to the spatial plane between reality and reality, such as directly teleporting humans to the devil's land in another space, the hell where demons live in legends, or the underworld filled with death energy.

This design has no basis or verification results, and it doesn't even have a trial stage. It is a purely theoretical idea.

Because in order to reach the stage where magic array depiction and teleportation experiments can be carried out, one condition that must be met is to build the teleportation matrix directly on a large and complete high-level magic stone vein.

By extracting the rich and pure magic energy from the magic stone veins and continuously providing driving energy to the teleportation array, the successful operation of the teleportation array can be guaranteed.

Anyone who reads the theoretical assumptions described in this book will probably sneer at them and call them fairy tales.

But now, Harvey found that he seemed to really have the prerequisite to meet this terrifying idea - a complete and huge high-level magic stone vein.

Isn’t it right under your butt now?

But he had no interest in realizing the fantasy of teleporting from the human world to hell and the underworld.

Putting aside whether hell and the underworld really exist, even if they do, he doesn't have the courage to teleport there to deliver food to those horrible alien races.

No mid-level arcane spellcaster skilled in summoning magic dares to claim that they can fully control the lower-level demons and underworld ghosts summoned from Hell and the Underworld.

What's more, I am just a newbie beginner spellcaster.

What he was really interested in was if the continental teleportation array could be transformed into an energy-gathering array like "Unit 0" and "Units 2 and 3" to provide an endless supply of magic energy for the Magic Network Forum and alchemical life.

Then, logically speaking, can the planetary teleportation array also be transformed into an energy-gathering array with more abundant energy supply and stronger power?

If the three energy-gathering arrays that I am using now are small thermal power plants.

Once a planetary energy gathering array is truly established, doesn’t it mean that one will own a small nuclear power plant?

Harvey felt that if he wanted to completely get rid of the energy crisis caused by the rapid development of technology in the territory, he might really have to rely on a nuclear power plant to solve it.

(End of this chapter)