Chapter 464: Foundation

Murphy remained at the camp and began leading the wizards in constructing the Magic Net nodes.

At this time, he possessed another identity—Merlin.

Not many wizards had actually seen Merlin in person, as many mistook him for someone else due to Murphy's demonic form. More importantly, the propaganda Merlin had once used to deceive the wizards had branded him as their savior, and Murphy, having saved the camp, fit this image even better.

As for the remaining god-children, whether due to his life-saving grace or his immense power, they kept their mouths shut about him killing Merlin. Coupled with the fact that Murphy himself never denied it, the identity of the god-child Merlin was easily usurped by him.

In fact, after he began training the wizards to meet the requirements for constructing the Magic Net, the wizards identified with Murphy's identity even more. Legend had it that the god-child Merlin was the wizards' savior, a master of magic, and the greatest wizard of all. Clearly, Murphy fit this image perfectly—there was likely no one in this world who understood magic better than he did.

It was clearly impossible to teach these wizards, who relied almost entirely on instinct and unreliable hearsay to use magic, to become masters of magic through ordinary learning methods. Fortunately, Murphy had a way to cheat using the Seeds of Soul.

After bestowing the Seeds of Soul containing the necessary knowledge upon thirteen wizards, Murphy had an absolutely loyal initial team. They then organized the wizards to construct the Magic Net. In truth, Murphy did not need to expend much energy; aside from occasionally checking the construction progress, he spent most of his time on the pre-training of the Magic Net's large-scale model.

Time flew by, and several months passed.

During these months, under Murphy's guidance, the wizards gradually became familiar with the refining methods for high-quality magical metals. They built a mountain copper smelting furnace to mass-produce the high-quality mountain copper required for the Magic Net.

At the same time, the work of refining special magic power was basically completed.

A large number of wizards had already gathered in this camp, and after the news spread that Murphy had defeated the Angel Legion and was teaching the wizards magic, more and more wizards flocked here. It was not too difficult to find wizards with single, prominent magical attributes among this multitude.

Although the quality and polarity were far inferior to the magic power of the god-children, Murphy was only using this magic for show anyway; he had actually prepared the polar magic power to drive the Magic Net long ago.

Seven months after arriving at the camp, Murphy's Magic Net large-scale model finally completed its pre-training.

Thus, Murphy announced that the Magic Net construction ceremony could begin.

On this day, all the wizards in the camp gathered in a valley at the foot of the mountain, which had been chosen as the first Magic Net node.

For the sake of stability and safety, the Magic Net node was designed to be underground.

Murphy glanced at the rock beneath his feet, and with a thought, his own magic power rose, resonated, and expanded outward.

He did not rely on a wand, nor did he borrow a crow antenna or a magic radar. He was expanding the range that his own magic power could cover and influence without relying on any external objects.

This was something no wizard had ever been able to do before.

But for Murphy, it was merely a natural result.

Having used magic antennas so many times, Murphy possessed a vast amount of experience in operating them, and theoretically, he had long since mastered the laws of magic wave propagation. Now, by expanding his cognitive scale and extending his magic control ability to the microscopic level, he could adjust the flow of magic within his body, turning himself into a magic radar.

He didn't even borrow the Nibelung Ring; relying solely on his original magic power, he spread the magic fluctuations to an area of several hundred meters in radius.

But this was only the beginning. The magic power spreading outward was not a single entity; rather, it was projected into a multi-dimensional matrix by Murphy through the micro-structures of his internal magic flow.

By adjusting the micro-structures of his internal magic, he could influence the overall direction and range of the magic matrix.

Thus, the magic fluctuations began to shrink, gradually compressing into a cylindrical shape with a radius of thirty meters. As Murphy fine-tuned the micro-structures, the originally smooth and continuous extension continued to shrink, forming a cliff-like boundary.

He compressed the magic fluctuations, which should have been continuous like thermal radiation, into an area with a clear boundary.

At the same time, the magic level inside the area gradually tended toward average, while the magic level outside the area continued to decrease until it approached zero.

Only then did Murphy slowly open his eyes and sigh with a hint of regret.

"Currently, my control over magic power can only reach the nanometer level at most, so I cannot achieve an absolute magic boundary; there will always be some magic power with fluctuation intensity lower than my control ability leaking outside the boundary. If I go a step further and can explore the cognitive scale down to the femtometer level, perhaps I could touch the boundary of material entities, thereby constructing an absolute domain in the realm of matter."

However, the current effect was already more than enough.

He could make his magic power act only within a cylinder with a radius of thirty meters, while outside the cylinder, the leaked magic fluctuations were not even as much as a flea.

"Fossil to Mud," he said softly.

With him as the center, the ground within thirty meters suddenly collapsed, then turned into a pool of liquid and sank to the bottom, forming a large pit with extremely neat edges on the spot.

Murphy naturally hovered above the large pit, while those liquids were compressed and guided by Murphy's magic power. First, they formed a cylindrical basin body 100 meters underground, with a diameter of 30 meters, a height of 20 meters, and a thickness of only 50 centimeters.

Then, a complex honeycomb structure with an unknown number of cells was laid out at the bottom of the basin.

Next, "Mud to Stone."

The entire fluid structure solidified instantly, turning into a hard solid like black crystal.

If anyone were to analyze these solid materials, they would find that due to high pressure and thorough mixing, the original stone had been pressed into a complex-type crystal based on silicon-iron oxides. Its structure was extremely complex and stable, its texture was incomparably hard, and it looked like translucent black crystal, but it was actually a type of ultra-high-strength ceramic.

Even more terrifying was that every part of the ceramic structure looked absolutely smooth and flat. The inner wall of the cylindrical basin looked like it had been drawn with a compass, and every edge of the ceramic honeycomb was a near-perfect line. Every surface in the entire structure was smooth enough to be used as a high-precision mirror.

If someone were to use chip-level detection methods to inspect it, they would find that the material undulations on those planes or curved surfaces would not be higher than three nanometers.

Using processing precision sufficient to manufacture chips, Murphy built a massive structure of tens of thousands of cubic meters in an instant.

Although the wizards and those watching god-children could not yet understand the horror behind its precision, the mere fact that he had dug a deep pit capable of holding a skyscraper and built a complex architectural structure after saying only two sentences was enough to make them marvel.

The god-children couldn't help but whisper to each other, and some of the doubts they had about the Magic Net effects Murphy had spoken of earlier began to diminish at this moment.

These reactions were all within Murphy's perception. He chuckled inwardly; a large part of the purpose of this Magic Net project was actually marketing, and it seemed this preemptive opening had been effective.

"The foundation is laid. Bring all the mountain copper."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 465 =====