A mage? A spell engineer!

Chapter 202 has a brilliant idea.

How did this serious mistake happen?

At the construction site, the owners, Bart and Jason, were discussing which projects to cut to reduce funding while holding detailed blueprints. The dwarves who were originally carrying loads and helping with the mortar work saw Rorschach working so well that the number of them was reduced from ten to eight, then to six. In the end, only Rorschach, the dwarf who directed Rorschach to lay the piles, and the three-person team operating the derrick remained.

They needed to catch the ringleader and give him a good beating. Rorschach was furious, but fortunately, Jason, who was equally enraged, gave all the guys who were slacking off a couple of hard knocks on the head, successfully making their helmets grow taller.

"We're sorry, Master Rorschach, we were wrong!" A row of dwarves bowed to Rorschach one by one.

"Alright, get to work. It's not my job that's being delayed."

A dwarf craftsman blinked: "Huh? This isn't your job, why are you so enthusiastic?"

"Yes," Rorschach suddenly choked up, then quickly added, "This is just one part of my magic training. To improve, one should seize every opportunity."

"I see. No wonder you're an intermediate mage, while Bart is only a beginner."

Hey dwarf uncle, if you can talk, then say more. If you keep going, Bart and I will each have to make a book of hatred and write down a name on it.

On the first day, the prototype of a wider and taller mage tower was already taking shape. Rorschach and the other citizens of Würzburg were amazed by the efficiency of the (hammered) dwarf master. Although the mage could catch up with magic, the professionalism and cost-effectiveness were indeed unmatched by these bearded experts.

Based on this, it seems that the Sky Tree Tower and Star Torch Tower, which were actually built by dwarves, shouldn't have taken too long to complete.

However, some construction sites were not open to the general public to watch. The next morning, the dwarves raised the barricades, and a heavy metal plate was pushed and rolled into the construction site.

Rorschach also got up early because what he was most interested in was the magic array that gathered environmental ether.

"Rorschach, can you understand this?" Jason squatted down and tapped the magic array plate that had been placed under the first-floor floor, producing a dull metallic sound. "But you're not allowed to write it down on paper." After he finished speaking, he continued working, connecting the mithril wires that were to be embedded.

Rorschach pinched the metal wire that was already connected to the magic circle and tried to absorb the ether. Sure enough, a small amount of ether flowed from the magic circle to him.

This is quite interesting. Rorschach's [Magic Control] can also change the distribution of environmental ether and condense it in a certain space. He can adjust the effect and draw the corresponding loop diagram himself or use the panel to draw it.

However, as an active magical transformation, the magic circle created by Rorschach would require the injection of magic power to activate it before it could function. But now, this magic circle can naturally guide magic power to gather and dissipate above it simply by existing. Since the tower is an upright cylindrical structure, the area where the environmental magic power is enhanced can cover the entire space inside the tower, and the power is continuous.

So this was a spontaneous process? Rorschach activated Arcane Vision, and at the same time, under Magic Control, he established a connection with the magic around the magic circle, sensing the trajectory of the flow within the metal disc.

There was a pulling sensation, no, it was more like a feeling of stickiness and tension. First, the circuits within the metal disc were very dense. Then, the magic that Rorschach was tracking, which already belonged to him but which he hadn't yet controlled, was being pulled along within these dense circuits, and after entering the inner circle, he suddenly lost all sense of it.

Clearly, some of the magic power had been consumed. Rorschach remained around the disc, sometimes circling, sometimes pausing to gaze at it. He also followed Jason's instructions and did not take out paper and pen to record anything, but instead relied on his "physical senses" to constantly probe and explore the operating principle of the entire magic circle.

So that's how it is. Rorschach had been bending over to observe, and his back was still a little sore when he straightened up. Just then, Jason came over to greet him: "We're going to wrap up the magic circle and lay out new carpets! Rorschach, what have you figured out?" Jason's tone was clearly teasing.

"Do you really want me to tell you?" You asked the question. Rorschach reviewed his thoughts: "First of all, the most ingenious point is that the outer ring of the entire magic circle is very dense, each unit is very small, and there should be an uneven coating on the surface. The two layers of metal with different magic conduction efficiencies provide a slight potential difference."

"However, this is not enough. It can only make the ether flow directionally from the outside to the tiny units inside, which is not enough to maintain the increase of the magic concentration of the entire tower. Therefore, the second ring is composed of multiple stacked magic control units. The tiny flow of the previous unit can just activate the structure of the second ring, thus obtaining the effect of 'magic control', giving more ether the power to flow and transporting it to the next level."

"Like dominoes growing from small to large, only the slightest uneven distribution provides the potential difference to 'topple the first domino,' and then the rest are linked together. From this perspective, the manufacturing process is also about recording circuits from the inside out, and finally applying an uneven coating." If we consider environmental magic as the system, the process is obviously unsustainable and snowballing, just as it is impossible to obtain a perpetual motion machine by continuously pumping water through capillary action. However, starting from the second stage, some magic is consumed and transformed into spell effects, maintaining the trend of increasing concentration.

Jason's beard twitched, and he finally stopped Rorschach from continuing: "Rorschach, you don't need to say anymore! Let's hurry up and lay out the floor and start setting up your magic circle! I'm convinced."

"Looks like I wasn't wrong." Rorschach revealed an innocent smile. This idea only requires a basic brass base and a small amount of metal plating with high magic affinity. If the inner and outer rings of this magic circle are interchanged, allowing it to pump magic power outwards, it can obviously replace the mithril metal rods of the "nuclear reactor version" collector, greatly reducing manufacturing costs. In this way, replicating and improving Unit 1 in Byrne becomes possible, at least Rorschach won't have to eat black bread for three years straight.

"Master Rorschach, please do it."

Rorschach first used a ceramic cup to demonstrate his design for protection. The inside and outside of the cup were covered with the design circuits drawn by Rorschach. It was placed upside down on a shallow dish filled with alchemical ink, essentially a model of a mage tower.

Bart, Amelia, and Jason all watched him perform.

"Leaving aside attacks such as transformation and enchantment, the most common evocation attacks can be divided into kinetic and other energy attacks, the latter including potential energy magic of various attributes."

"For other energy attacks, my solution is the pre-charged [Blue Light Barrier] that can be triggered at any time." For Rorschach, this spell was developed by himself, including the magic circle version. He was familiar with it, easy to use, and had been tested over time. He could shape it according to his own will.

"As for kinetic attacks, if they come from a regular army, the most threatening to buildings are, of course, artillery shells. My idea is a combination of [Arrow Reversal], [Feather Fall], and [Slowness]. Rorschach didn't know the first spell before, but last night he went to the guild to buy a scroll and successfully got reimbursed by Bart. Bart was greatly discouraged that he learned this little thing with just one learning scroll."

"But the damage that [Arrow Reversal] can resist is very small." Bart brought this up last night, but Rorschach kept it to himself at the time.

"I learned and incorporated the first spell merely to check for high-speed moving objects. The real power lies in the latter two high-energy-consuming spells." He picked up a small pebble and launched it at the cup with [Arrow]. The circuit lit up, and the pebble immediately lost most of its kinetic energy, floating lightly downwards.

Rorschach explained that [Feather Fall] and [Slowness] cannot be sustained without a target, so they can only be in a pre-activated state. However, the energy-efficient [Arrow Reversal] field can operate continuously, and even if the momentum change is small, it can be activated specifically by the latter two spells.

Using his knowledge of magic array construction, Rorschach adjusted the conditions for what was considered an "arrow". Now, for the cup and the entire mage tower, only high-speed moving objects will trigger protection and interception, so normal passage will not be affected.

"You can poke it with your finger very quickly, and the effect is different from touching it slowly." The combination of the three spells is like an invisible non-Newtonian fluid covering the tower.

(End of this chapter)