Chapter 277 The long-awaited flash of inspiration
The establishment of the optical communication technology project has made Duke a big stone in his heart, and he can devote himself to the research of ring replication materials.
The news of this experiment was not kept for a long time, and soon spread in the industry.
After all, even Kiston Rage personally participated in the experiment and let Duke study it like a guinea pig.
But Duke didn't care about the leak.
Ring duplication material is not a new topic. Suktala alone has been studying it for hundreds of years. It can be said that there is no one in the circle of arcanists in Shenjiao City who is unaware of the subject of ring duplication material, but no one followed suit.
Even the great arcane mages can't figure out why, how can the ordinary arcane mages study it, that is, Suktara's obsession is too deep, so he will be entangled in the direction of the ring copying material.
Even the student she had single-handedly brought up, Sorel, the 2nd-ring arcane mage, changed direction and began to study the life box.
It can be seen that most arcane masters don't think this is a direction that can be researched.
"Can Lord Duke produce results?" Joanna Lynx asked a group of arcanist friends at the academic salon she held.
This academic salon is relatively shabby, with only 1-level arcane mages and 2-level arcane mages participating.
Of course the host, Joanna Lynx, is a 1st-ring arcanist who takes the arcane route, so it doesn't matter if she is not professional in academics.
Chat and gossip more than academic exchanges.
"I don't know, what about the direction of ring copying materials, it's really a bit unpopular." Carlos, the ring 2 arcane mage, said.
"But I think it's possible. I have full confidence in Lord Duke for some reason." Margot, the arcane mage of the 1st ring, said, she is a woman, and said with emotion, "I still remember that it was here at the beginning, and Lord Duke also participated in the competition." Go to Joanna's Salon."
"It's a pity that the facts have changed now." Carlos was also quite emotional.
Joanna Lynx said: "Actually, it didn't take a long time, that is, five or six years ago."
Margot said: "It's true that it hasn't been a long time, but it feels like a long time has passed... It's really that Lord Duke's promotion speed is too fast. In just a few years, he has become such a big figure as a high-level arcanist. It's incredible!"
She said, looked around at the people in the salon again, and said with emotion: "On the contrary, it seems that we have been standing still for the past few years."
"This is also a helpless thing." A young arcanist shrugged his shoulders, "Even if it is a promotion from the 1st ring to the 2nd ring, it is difficult to do it in less than ten years, let alone the promotion from the 2nd ring to the 3rd ring. It's not that we are too mediocre , Standing still, Lord Duke is really a genius."
"Comparing with geniuses is very tiring, so my suggestion is that we should think less." Another arcanist interjected.
Although everyone knows it, it cannot be compared with Duke.
Comparison will only hurt the self-confidence of myself and others.
But the topic cannot be separated from Duke, even in the previous salon, I don’t know how many times I have talked about Duke.
"Joanna, can you still see Lord Duke often now?" A female arcanist suddenly thought, "If you can invite Lord Duke to our salon, then our salon will be popular in the entire Heijiao River." well-known."
Joanna rolled her eyes: "Don't think about it, okay, what can we talk about in our salon, can Lord Duke come over and chat about gossip?"
She is very self-aware.
However, there is still a trace of inexplicable feeling in my heart, remembering that when I first met Duke, the two still interacted as equals.
Or to be more precise, it is Joanna who is in the dominant position, she is the owner of the salon, and Duke is just a somewhat eye-catching genius newcomer. Others talk about it.
At that time, she had a good impression of Duke. After all, she was born in the Bobcat family. If she didn't want to marry in another city in the future, the best way was to find a good local husband.
Duke fits her criteria quite well.
However, with Duke's rocket-like training speed, and Duke's soon-to-be hot fight with Kylia Rage, she gradually extinguished this idea.
Just as she knows the level of the salon she holds, she also knows what her identity looks like.
Not good enough for Duke.
Nowadays, I don't even have the courage to regard Duke as a friend.
Sometimes when she follows her father, Jovis Bobcat, she can see Duke, but she always feels restrained unconsciously. Even though Duke still speaks mildly as usual, she always feels like seeing Keyston ·A big man like Nu Tao is average.
This is not only the aura emanating from the 3-ring arcanist, but also the pressure brought by the aura gathered on Duke.
"The distance between me and him is really getting farther and farther!" Joanna is not a person who likes to be sad, but when it comes to Duke, she always falls into sadness from time to time.
is thinking about something.
Suddenly, he was pulled back to reality by the fierce words of a young arcanist.
I just heard the young Arcane Master say: "I don't want to deny Lord Duke, but looking at Lord Duke's great inventions, the practical value is always greater than the technical content. Strong light technology, film and television technology, optical storage technology, almost It was all inspired by slide cards."
He continued to reprimand Fang Qiu and said, "It is the ring of branding that is shaking the world today. In detail, it is just an ordinary method. It only needs a little inspiration to break it. Even a newly promoted arcanist can understand the mystery. "
After Carlos heard this, he disagreed: "No, no, strong light technology, I don't deny that technology has little gold content, but more inspiration, but the branded ring is definitely a great masterpiece that can only be invented by great wisdom. "
"Where is the gold content of this technology?"
"The gold content is on the ring with a gap. Since ancient times, there have been no arcane masters. They have never studied the ring. Only the ring of branding relies on the ring with a gap to solve the problem of engraving. Can you untie it?"
"It is indeed a stroke of genius, and it is indeed a blessing of spirituality, but it is just that the research ideas are relatively novel, so it is not technically difficult, right?"
"Whether the technology is difficult or not depends on how many times you try, especially in the research of the gap ring. I don't know how many times Duke Duke has to try to find the right idea. It's difficult, how can you guess?" Carlos retorted loudly , "It's not difficult to make a card, but if the sages of Ijik didn't invent the spirit card, who could invent it?"
Ijik is one of the ancient sages enshrined in the Temple of Valor. His greatest achievement is the invention of the spirit card and the creation of the field of card making.
"In the final analysis, these techniques are very simple." The young arcanist spread his hands.
Carlos snorted and said, "You 1st-ring arcane mages have high eyesight and low abilities. When I talked and laughed with Lord Duke a few years ago, I knew that Lord Duke is definitely a person with great wisdom. He loves wise people the most spiritually. Only Duke really loves people with wisdom. Mr. Ke, let's be coquettish for a while!"
The young arcanist was suddenly speechless.
Who made Carlos on the opposite side, a 2-ring arcane mage, qualified to sell his old age.
Seeing that he had subdued the young arcanist, Carlos smiled contentedly. After all, Jiang is still old and hot.
Then he said loudly: "Many of you have never seen Lord Duke, and you really don't know the demeanor of Lord Duke. When I talked and laughed with Lord Duke back then, I was often shocked by Lord Duke's thinking. Now that I think about it, it is really true. Deafening!"
Margot, who was sitting on the sofa opposite, was a little dazed. She said that she was also in the salon back then, and it seemed that she had never seen Duke talk so loudly.
Joanna rolled her eyes, knowing that Carlos was bragging, but she didn't expose him. After all, getting acquainted with Duke was an important conversation piece in her life.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have to talk about Duke every time a salon is held.
"However." The young man who should have been convinced by Carlos was actually not very convinced. He held his head up and pretended to be relaxed and said, "I still don't like Master Duke's research this time. I heard the teacher say It’s been a lot, it’s too difficult, and it’s not easy to solve.”
Carlos looked a little ugly when he heard the words, and snorted coldly: "Since you think so, just wait and see!"
Joanna's salon is probably the epitome of the rumors in the market.
Some people are optimistic about Duke’s vigorously researched and reproduced materials, while others are not, but none of them affect Duke in the slightest.
He still maintains his own rhythm.
Go to the United Tower of Cuihai City every now and then to deal with government affairs, and spend most of the rest of the time in the laboratory, researching ring replication materials.
Of course, his life doesn't all revolve around work.
I often take time to go on dates, watch phantoms, or go hunting in the surrounding forests. Sometimes I will take an airship and visit the entire Heijiaohe land aimlessly.
Just before the end of the year, he purchased three airships from Runwu City at one time.
Sprayed the words "Duke Sage Mage Tower-Phantom", "...Magic Lantern", "... Mirage" respectively, for the arcanists in the Mage Tower to ride.
As for the battleship, it needs to be customized, and Duke has not considered it for the time being.
"The data you have collected is much more detailed and solid than the data that I have collected over the years, teacher." Suktara left the laboratory with Duke after a spiritual material refining experiment, "Teacher, I It will take time to reacquaint the data."
"Don't be in a hurry, teacher, you only need to grasp a general direction, and Leo Weiss can arrange the rest of the work."
Duke replied.
He handed over part of the experiments arranged by Xiaoyi to Suktara. This part of the experiments is not important, mainly related to the verification of a batch of spiritual materials.
Suktara has many years of research experience in ring replication materials, and it is not difficult to host this kind of experiment.
"It's okay, Leo Weiss is still very practical, but it's time for the Mage Tower to recruit a few more 2-ring arcane mages."
"Most of the 2-ring arcane mages have stabilized their careers, and recruitment still needs patience."
"It's a pity Sorel..." Suktara sighed.
The world is changing. In order to support Duke, she cut through the mess and drove away the student Sorel who had been with him for many years.
Now she misses Sorel a little bit, anyway, Sorel is a student she trained by herself. Even though Sorel changed his life domain, he still has profound attainments in the alchemy domain and is a qualified helper.
Duke didn't care, he hadn't seen Sorel a few times, and he was used to doing experiments by himself.
There are Xiaoyi, it is better than tens of millions of people.
After bidding farewell to Suktara, he turned around in Lingya Mountain. The castle is still under construction and has not yet been completed.
It is just the prototype of a garden castle, which has already begun to appear. There are green plants and flowers everywhere, and the air is filled with the unique fragrance of plants.
This environment is Duke's favorite.
No one else, Xiaoyi can rely on these plants to control the overall situation and monitor any blind spot when doing the on-hook breathing method.
The captain of the guard knights, the 2-ring Eudemons knight-Herdos, followed closely behind Duke with several 1-ring great knights.
They say they are guards, but they are actually followers.
Unknowingly, he walked down Lingya Mountain and walked to Lingchi Farm at the foot of the mountain.
James is now teaching at Sanhai University in Lingya Mountain, and most of the time at Lingchi Farm has been handed over to other people. Among these leaders, Duke met an acquaintance.
"Sally."
"My lord." Sally, who is the general manager of Lingchi Farm, is already a middle-aged woman.
Her two children, Shaf and Sharapova, are also in their teens. It was winter vacation at this time, and the two children followed their mother to learn management knowledge. When they saw Duke, they immediately bowed deeply.
Seeing Sally, Duke remembered his time in Snakehead Town.
At that time, he had just taken over Little Sam’s Shuka shop and recruited Sally to be the front desk. Later, he transferred to Little Duke’s Farm, and Sally followed him, until now.
It can be said that he is Duke's confidant and veteran.
It’s just that Sally is an ordinary person, and her talent is not in internal affairs, so she has been working at Lingchi Farm.
"Shafu and Sharapova are approaching the age of opening three seas?" Duke asked.
Sally quickly replied: "Thank you for your concern. Shafu and Sharapova will be fifteen years old next spring. They have already contacted the practice station of the 'Sanhai High School', and they will go to the practice station to take medicine to open Sanhai... Unfortunately, there is no It can be opened naturally."
"As long as you can open it by taking drugs, you will have the opportunity to practice." Duke said gently, "I also opened Sanhai by taking drugs."
"My lord, you have spiritual favor. As long as Shafu and Sharapova can open any sea, I will be satisfied."
After chatting with Sally, Duke asked, "Where's Levin, isn't he at the farm?"
Levin was bored living in the mage tower, so Duke let him come to the farm to help Sally. He always took good care of his friends who were in their infancy.
Sally smiled and said, "My lord, you don't know yet, Director Zina introduced someone to Levin, who seems to be a niece from Director Zina's hometown, who came to join Director Zina. I don't know what's wrong, Levin Just met the girl's eyes."
"Oh, Levin has a date?" Duke was surprised, he really didn't know.
Zina was the head of the Broken Sword Mercenary Corps in the past. Now that Duke is in a high position, he naturally wanted to benefit his relatives and friends, so he promoted Zina to the Mercenary Mission Center under Faling Tower in Cuihai City as the center supervisor. .
"It's probably because Director Zina didn't dare to mention it to you before the formal relationship was confirmed. After all, you care about Levin the most."
"This is a good thing. If there is anything I can't mention, I will have to ask Levin later." Duke is really happy for Levin.
Of course, he had to check for Levin.
Levin is a bit silly, and has no experience in human affairs. In case he meets a bad woman... However, with Director Zina's prudence, her niece in her hometown should be a woman of good conduct.
Suddenly heard that Levin was in love, Duke was really emotional, but soon he thought of another person: "Aunt Abby, have you seen her recently?"
"I've seen it. I just went back to Snake Town half a month ago and went to Black Snake Manor as a guest. Aunt Abby's children all work in Black Snake Manor, so she takes her grandson by her side, um, Black Snake The family takes good care of Aunt Abbie's family."
"That's good." Duke smiled, feeling a little nostalgic for the dishes made by Aunt Abby.
said.
Duke suddenly said again: "The New Year's Eve is coming soon, Sally, I'm going to hold a small banquet in the castle for some old friends from Snakehead Town, you go find Butler Morris and arrange it with him. "
"Okay, I'll go find Butler Morris when I get back." Sally replied, she knew almost everyone Duke knew in Snakehead Town.
After giving the order, Duke shook his head and left Lingchi Farm.
His true heart is hidden in the portal of the twisted ring, ensuring that he will not get lost on the path of spiritual mysteries. But the more than a year in Sheshou Town was another twisted ring, guarding every bit of his heart.
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Nothing interesting happened on New Year's Day.
Have a banquet with old friends in the early days, and it was not as warm as imagined. Many people didn't even dare to breathe in front of Duke.
That’s Sally and Levin, because they can often see Duke and they can keep calm. Others dare not touch their buttocks to the bench when they are really sitting.
A level 1 arcanist is already an absolute big shot in their eyes.
Duke is not only the third-ring arcane mage, but also the chief executive of the United Tower in Cuihai City and the second in command of the entire Heijiaohe land. This power is too great for these ordinary people to calm down.
So after the banquet was hastily eaten, some gifts were prepared and handed over to these people, and Duke sent them away.
After the New Year's Day.
Duke is one year older, already twenty-three years old.
One after another, arcane masters came to Lingya Mountain to visit him, but he only visited Keyston Rage. Of course, it cannot be said that he was visiting Keyston Rage, or he was here to date Kylia Rage. In short, he had a good time joy.
"Teacher, Happy New Year, I'm glad to see you again." Brothers and sisters Brock and Buprofen rushed back to the Mage Tower on the third day after the New Year's Eve.
Duke didn’t teach them much, Leovis taught them on his behalf, just like when Duke was in Penrose Mage Tower, Vikas taught him.
"Happy New Year." Duke said with a smile, "You have been studying in the Mage Tower for half a year, and your respective meditation methods have been stabilized, and the arcane wonders have also begun to be built. Next, I will let Associate Professor Leovis, for You arrange some research topics."
Ibuprofen said happily: "Great, mentor, we can finally participate in the experiment."
"Use snacks, I will check your research groups from time to time."
"do not worry."
The two brothers and sisters promised again and again.
On the fifth day, Delong Kaishu also rushed back. He came back from Runwu City. After all, the main branch of the Kaishu family is in Runwu City.
Duke also encouraged Deron a few words.
He looked down on Delari Kaishu, and directly blocked Delari Kaishu's hope of serving as the chief ruler of the Element Tower, but he felt pretty good about Delari's son Deron.
This is a hardworking and general-minded young man.
I have to say that aristocratic families may educate some dandies, but they can also educate elite disciples.
The trivial matters of the Mage Tower did not take up much of Duke's energy. When he resumed his normal work after the New Year's Eve, he also resumed the experiments that had been stopped years ago.
Mr. Suktara led the team to do various miscellaneous experiments, and he himself tackled the core problem of replicating materials.
"To accurately project the copy ring in the spiritual ocean and condense the avatar, the fog of spiritual arcana must be cleared away, otherwise the ring of projection cannot be cast at all... Then how do I solve the projection positioning problem of the 3rd ring arcanist?"
The ring of projection is based on the projection of the real spiritual sea by the great arcane master, which is a special state of reflection.
Xiaoyi has collected enough projection ring data, and is gradually analyzing and studying these data to decipher the mystery of the projection ring.
But Xiaoyi is only artificial intelligence after all, not human intelligence.
It doesn't have a flash of puzzle solving.
This flash needs to be found by Duke: "People and the spiritual sea, the replica ring and the real spiritual sea, these should correspond to the points on the four quadrants, just like (1, 1), (1) on the coordinate axis. , -1), (-1, -1), (-1, 1), we need to find out their relationship and find out a solution.”
"Or to explain it in terms of yin and yang, real people and things are yang, and the invisible sea of spirituality is yin, then the human spiritual sea is the yin of yang, and the replication ring is the yang of yin, how to realize the transformation between yin and yang, There must be a trick."
Duke was thinking hard.
But the answer has not been found for a long time.
Suktala persuaded him: "You and I are both 3-ring arcane mages, and have never cleared the fog of spiritual arcane magic. Maybe this is the reason why you can't do it... maybe you can't answer until you are promoted to a real great arcane mage. Bar."
She was a little bit emotional, and there was no lack of regret in her tone, but she didn't force Duke to conquer the ring copy material.
This is her obsession, but what she is obsessed with is not solving the problem, but the problem itself.
Someone inherits what she has learned and researches her direction. This is helping her solve her obsessions, so she persuaded Duke.
"Teacher, please don't worry, I won't dig into the dead end. If I really can't think of the answer, I will study it when I am promoted to the Great Arcanist." Du Ke is more open-minded than he imagined, "I just think that there is only one thing between me and the answer." There's a layer of window paper left."
Pierce it, and you will get the perfect answer.
Therefore, Duke is not willing to relax for the time being. As spring and autumn come, he is still looking for a flash of inspiration to break the situation. From time to time, he invites Erwin, Keyston Raging Waves, and even Boyton Wind Serpent and other great arcane mages to perform the ring of projection. He studies.
He already knows the fog of spiritual arcana.
There is a barrier of fog between ordinary arcane mages and great arcanist mages, preventing arcan mages from observing the power of spirituality.
If it is said that ordinary arcane mages cannot see the power of spirituality, but can only perceive it, then in the eyes of great arcane mages, spirituality has a wonderful trajectory, which is displayed in the field of vision all the time.
That is a kind of rule that can only be seen by great arcane masters, and belongs to the rules of spiritual arcana.
In a simple understanding, the world seen by ordinary arcane mages is a black and white photo, while the world seen by a great arcan mage is a color photo.
As far as the instructor of the arcane method, the world you may see is a colorful dynamic video.
"It's hard to describe this feeling. Clearing away the fog of spiritual mysteries means a change in the level of life. Things that used to require a lot of energy to understand may now be understood with just a glance and no brains. principle."
Erwin tried to describe how to get rid of the fog of spiritual mystery, but ended in failure: "This feeling can only be felt but not expressed in words."
After a pause, he continued: "All in all, the direction of replicating materials in the ring itself is very difficult. It's not because you don't study well or understand it thoroughly, but it itself may be restricted by spiritual mysteries."
"I understand." Duke nodded.
Da Arcane Mage can see certain rules clearly at a glance, so when casting the ring of projection, they can accurately locate the copy ring and project.
This is a natural method, just like a baby who has grown a pair of legs and has a solid body can run and jump.
Instinct.
"So, don't be influenced by your teacher. I can't say that the ring copying material is a dead end, but the prospect is gloomy." After Erwin finished speaking, he immediately changed the subject, "Ofa Tower will add new ones soon. The chief sage of Offata, Duke, you have great hopes this time!"
Looking for tickets~
(end of this chapter)