Chapter 1529: First-Generation Machine Complete, Arcane Energy Like Water

Just like that, time quickly arrived at the end of April, and the final full-machine test and results demonstration for the Independent Arcane Fire Device finally arrived.

After undergoing multiple Magic Net environment stabilizations, in the center of the few remaining relatively intact Laboratories, within the Semi-plane overlap area, a behemoth nearly a hundred meters tall was continuously emitting intense Magic Aura.

At the edge of this behemoth, all participants in the Independent Arcane Fire Device project gazed with burning eyes at this miraculous Psionic Creation they had created entirely by themselves.

"Shall we begin?" Buluode was already somewhat impatient.

"Mm."

Xia Duo nodded heavily, but for this final test today, he did not want to initiate it himself; instead, he turned his head to look at Iolum:

"Teacher, you do it this time!"

It was only fitting that this project, which began with Iolum, should also end with Iolum; although it was just a formality, Xia Duo felt it was very necessary.

Otherwise, why would his hometown still have leaders cutting ribbons even in the modern era?

Iolum was only slightly stunned by this before stepping forward to activate the device without hesitation; clearly, he was not entirely indifferent to such formalities either.

As this spherical device, nearly a hundred meters tall, was activated, the intensity of the Magic Aura it emitted rose to another level, and at the same time, dazzling light began to appear on the surface of the device visible to the naked eye.

It was a bit like the ball lights in the dance halls of Xia Duo's hometown, except that the Independent Arcane Fire Device itself was a hollow sphere, so one could see the entire cone from the center of the sphere to the spherical surface glowing.

This Standard 1.0 Version of the first-generation Independent Arcane Fire Device integrated 256 independent Arcane Fires that were both independent of each other and connected in series, which meant—

At any given moment, this sphere only had 1/256 glowing!

But because the switching speed of the 256 independent Arcane Fires was very fast, it created a certain degree of persistence of vision effect, making the glowing area seen by the naked eye much larger than the area actually glowing.

It is conceivable that as long as the proportion of simultaneously activated independent Arcane Fires reached a certain level, it would look as if the entire spherical device was glowing.

It was just that Xia Duo would likely never have the chance to see this effect; this was attributed to his current body, which had undergone multiple Bloodline Awakenings and possessed extremely strong dynamic vision, making the switching speed of the first-generation device unable to cause a persistence of vision phenomenon for him.

The upgrade direction for future devices did not lie in increasing the switching speed, but in increasing the number of simultaneously activated Arcane Fires until all independent Arcane Fires were activated at the same time.

In this process, the requirement for switching speed was actually the slower, the better.

It was only now, when the device was relatively backward, that fast switching of independent Arcane Fires was used to compensate for the deficiencies of the materials themselves.

If the materials were sufficient, there would be no need to switch at all, and they could all be activated simultaneously; in that case, the power of the device would reach the maximum value for this model.

……

As the device ran steadily, Xia Duo's thoughts drifted far away; if this were before the discovery of the Arcane Energy Field, he would likely be busy collecting Arcane Energy right now.

But now, the Arcane Energy Field generation mechanism had been integrated into the Independent Arcane Fire Device, and as the device started, Arcane Energy diffused out from the device in the form of a field.

It quickly covered the entire Semi-plane overlap area; it wasn't that it couldn't be larger, but the test machine was designed to be this size, and adjustments after being put into practical use would not be complicated; it could be said to be quite convenient.

As for collecting Arcane Energy, compared to before, it was truly like heaven and earth!

Luowei and the others had long since placed more than ten pieces of Quasi-magic Equipment in the experimental area; once the Arcane Energy Field expanded, the equipment started automatically, and Arcane Energy Crystals were spat out from the equipment one after another.

They were even neatly stacked beside the equipment!

Basically, at least one Standard Arcane Crystal would fall out every second, and this was only the minimum output power of the first-generation machine.

When materials improve in the future, even the first-generation machine could theoretically output 256 Standard Arcane Crystals per second.

This number seemed somewhat unremarkable, but one must know that one Standard Arcane Crystal was basically the actual energy consumption of a standard 10th Circle Spell.

In other words, combined with certain conversion equipment, one first-generation Independent Arcane Fire Device could release 256 10th Circle Spells in one second.

That was a bit exaggerated!

But this was a future that was entirely possible to realize.

Even now, wasn't outputting one 10th Circle Spell per second powerful enough?

……

Soon, five minutes passed, ten minutes passed, and the device ran stably without a trace of abnormality.

Although only a few hundred Arcane Energy Crystals had been harvested in these ten minutes, which looked less than what was collected when the device disintegrated during previous failed experiments—at that time, it was at least over a hundred thousand, and sometimes even hundreds of thousands—

But the current device could run continuously; let alone hundreds of thousands of Arcane Energy Crystals, even millions or tens of millions would just be a matter of a month or so.

If one wanted more, it was nothing more than building more devices; if one wasn't enough, add a few more. Xia Duo could already imagine a future where Arcane Energy Crystals were as abundant as water.

"Teacher, how much longer can the Holy Relic support it?"

"At most no more than ten hours; considering that the process of lifting the suppression also requires time, we must prepare to shut down in at most one hour."

Xia Duo nodded silently; over these days, he had figured out how Iolum had relatively accurately created this large Magic Net Dead Zone.

In addition to the relevant spells themselves, there was a crucial Spellcasting Medium involved, which was the Holy Relic of the Magic Goddess.

The Holy Relic was to a certain extent equivalent to Divine Grace; if there were no Holy Relic, perhaps Iolum could have researched a method to create a Magic Net Dead Zone given enough time, but reality did not give Iolum that much time.

Xia Duo thought that the "taking a shortcut" the other party mentioned to him earlier, besides the point that the simulated dead zone was not a true dead zone, likely also referred to borrowing the power of the Goddess.

But Divine Grace was not infinite and would eventually run out; before that, if the dead zone here was not restored to its original state, it might result in a major accident occurring in Seventon.

……

An hour passed quickly, the device was still running stably, and the Arcane Energy Crystal Collector on the side had also successfully collected thousands of Arcane Energy Crystals.

"Time is about up, you can shut down the device, Xia Duo—"

"Understood."

Shutting down the device was not as simple as starting it; it was slightly more cumbersome and had a specific shutdown sequence, but it was still much simpler than casting a normal 9th Circle Spell.

Actually, the spherical center cross-section configuration scheme previously designed by Iolum had no shutdown function reserved at all, as he had thought about getting it right in one step.

The spherical center radial version designed by Xia Duo had included a shutdown function from the very beginning in order to facilitate inspection and maintenance at any time; this was also his consistent way of thinking.