Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 72 Promotion in Experiment
Ten days later, in the backyard of the main castle of Harvey Territory, a newly built large workshop with brick, stone and cement structure was being topped off.

Harvey chose the location of this workshop in the backyard of his main castle, mainly to facilitate the excavation of a sunken passage leading directly to the underground cave.

In his plan, the construction location of the future planetary energy gathering array will be set within this large workshop.

Dozens of working alchemy beasts with slender arms are methodically assembling the main body of the energy gathering array instrument.

This was customized by Harvey from the Alchemy Exploration Society, Dragonstone Chamber of Commerce and the Cave City, and was directly sent to the territory using the magic network teleportation array through the connections of the forum members.

As for the improved magic circle needed to activate the energy gathering array, it needs to be drawn by Harvey himself. Asdalen will go to the valley outpost for support, and Reinard will also be responsible for the security of the territory. All research work has to be completed independently by him.

The underground space of the new workshop is larger than the laboratory. Harvey moved all the farmed beetle eggs and free-range beetle larvae here to prevent them from actively going to the magic stone veins in the cave and being absorbed and fused.

The next step is to fully catalyze these beetle eggs and larvae to maximize the scale of reproduction.

Before the valley outpost began its counterattack, Harvey had to ensure that all 500 soldiers in the territory were equipped with bullet-laden magic guns.

As for the more than one hundred old-type rechargeable guns that were eliminated, he left them for the newly recruited reserve team to use.

In this brand new military factory, Harvey assembled two assembly lines that could allow twenty working alchemy beasts to operate simultaneously. One was used to assemble and produce loaded magic guns, and the other to manufacture magic bullets.

In this way, once the beetle reproduction scale stabilizes in the later stage, it can basically ensure the stable production of 100 single-bullet magic guns and at least magic bullets every month.

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"Let's get ready to start drawing the formation." Harvey took a deep breath and picked up the bottles of magic solution that Egno had sent him. That was made by refining several kinds of magic materials needed to draw the formation based on the decomposition and reorganization magic formation developed by Harvey.

It is also paired with the most important material for drawing the formation diagram - liquid mithril.

Harvey summoned the wizard's hand, held an illusory magic feather pen in his hand, dipped it in a little magic solution, and began to draw the energy matrix on the base of the planetary energy array.

As the brushstrokes gradually drew out magical patterns of strange beauty, some tiny specks of light dust slowly floated out from the unfinished magic circle, began to attach to the main instrument of the energy gathering array, and solidified into constantly twisting silver-white inscriptions.

This is the alchemical item enchantment ritual that Harvey discovered from the mysterious alchemist's delusional book, created by the author.

If Harvey had the dual vision that could penetrate the two planes of reality and the magic network at this moment, he would find that the energy networks in the magic network space, as dense as blood vessels, were extending their tentacles into the real world through the dimensional barriers. Each network as thin as a capillary had a strange connection with an inscription on the main body of the energy gathering array.

This is the super magic circle that can teleport across the real plane, and the projection phenomenon it produces in the magic network space.

When Harvey had drawn the formation diagram to one-third of the stage, he felt that his mental strength was about to be exhausted. He barely held on for a while, but he already felt a slight pain in his head as if his thoughts were being drained away, making him dizzy and sweating.

Damn it! The book hadn't mentioned at all that drawing a formation required such a huge expenditure of mental energy. Harvey had originally thought he only needed to ensure his magic power was sufficient, replenishing it with recharged magic stones as he continued to draw.

Now I feel like I'm on the edge of a dilemma. If I stop drawing, all my efforts will be wasted, and all the precious magic solution and liquid mithril invested in the early stage will be wasted.

Harvey, who had deeply remembered the truth that waste is shameful, decided to hold on a little longer and urged the increasingly unstable mage's hand to speed up the drawing.

More and more light dust emerged from the magic circle, and the connection points of the array began to gradually emit faint energy fluctuations.

Harvey clenched his teeth, his face gradually turned pale, and the arms that controlled the wizard's hand began to tremble.

The mental power stored in the sea of consciousness has been completely exhausted, and severe headaches and dizziness continue to attack Harvey's willpower.

Suddenly, he felt the magic pattern within the magic network vibrate slightly. The three-dimensional magic pattern, with its ever-changing protruding edges and corners, suddenly expanded. The entire multifaceted, star-shaped magic pattern instantly transformed into a sphere covered in spikes.

Harvey only felt that a huge amount of mental power like a tide suddenly surged into his sea of consciousness, and almost in the blink of an eye, his almost dried up mental power became full again.

The endless wave of mental power from the magic pattern did not stop, and continued to pour into Harvey's sea of consciousness, constantly expanding the entire consciousness space.

All sorts of chaotic fragments of perception began to flash rapidly in Harvey's mind.

The warm touch of the mother's womb as a baby, the novel experience of learning to walk as a toddler, the scene of diligent study at the Academy of the Dead as a teenager, the confusion and helplessness of entering society as a young adult...

The memories of his two lives intertwined and merged, constantly washing over and over in his mind.

When Harvey came to his senses and opened his eyes, he found that he had unknowingly completed the drawing of the energy gathering array during the recent incident.

He closed his eyes again and began to meditate, and found that his magic pattern had returned to the shape of a polyhedron star, and the edges and corners on the surface continued to protrude and change.

Next to the ring of the instant spell matrix within the magic pattern, several other empty matrix spheres suddenly appeared, rotating around the small sphere engraved with the three-ring spell.

"I... was promoted?" Harvey stood there in a daze, a little unsure.

Research-oriented spellcasters will indeed have the opportunity to be promoted after completing the analysis of magical knowledge and spells.

However, a lot of preparations also need to be made in advance, such as alchemical potions to replenish mental strength, charging magic stones to restore magic energy, etc.

But he was clearly just drawing a modified teleportation array, and when his mental strength was exhausted, it suddenly triggered the movement of the magic pattern, and he inexplicably completed the promotion from a beginner to an intermediate spellcaster.

Where did that huge amount of mental power that surged into his sea of consciousness come from?

Why did I suddenly remember so many forgotten fragments of my previous life, and why did they become confused and integrated with the memories of my present life after traveling through time?

Harvey still felt a little uneasy, so he entered the magic network space again to observe his positioning magic pattern.

"To advance from a beginner to an intermediate spellcaster, one needs to build their own unique spiritual anchor, but I haven't even tried to build one. Why did I advance inexplicably?"

He tried to use his now abundant mental power to touch the mutated three-dimensional magic pattern, and suddenly there was a bang in his head, and the familiar magic network space scene disappeared completely.

Harvey found himself in a completely dark and silent space, surrounded by a thick blackness like ink, as if he was suspended in the boundless dark universe.

He vaguely felt that something behind him seemed to be calling him, and a long-lost sense of familiarity led him to turn around.

It was a blue planet with dark green and pure white lines interlaced on its surface, presenting an incomparable strange beauty.

It was suspended far away from Harvey, seemingly unreachable.

Harvey felt a pang of sadness in his heart and almost shed tears.

At this moment he finally understood that his spiritual anchor had been formed.

That is - hometown.

(End of this chapter)