Celestial Mage

Chapter 336 Sir Hamilton (24)

After a while, under the guidance of the princess's confidant maid, Liliana, Rosen walked towards Sir Hamilton's guest room.

On the way, Leliana said softly: "Master, set up a barrier of silence, I have something to tell you."

Rosen immediately complied: "The enchantment is complete."

Leliana slowed down slightly: "It's about Sir Hamilton."

Rosen immediately knew that it must be the princess's order, and was moved in his heart: "I'm listening."

"Sir Hamilton was born in a family of merchants, but he was extremely gifted in magic arts. He was valued by the Duke after he was promoted to a higher level at the age of 26, and he devoted himself to training him. He was promoted to a master at the age of 33, and now at the age of 44, he is already a pinnacle archmage."

Rosen's heart trembled slightly when he heard this, and he felt that there were so many magic geniuses in the Golden Land.

Some were born in a humble background, and their growth was delayed for a while, but once they entered a favorable situation, they immediately plunged into the sea like a dragon, and soared into the sky in an instant.

"The Jazz's magical talent is really amazing."

Leliana smiled slightly: "Master, there is no need to be humble, no matter how amazing you are, you are not as amazing."

She continued.

"Perhaps because of his background, this jazz is very stubborn. He doesn't know how to turn like a bull charging. Even if he hits a boulder and his head is bleeding, he will charge forward again and again."

"Because of this character, as the Minister of Magic, he often talks back to the Duke. The Duke respects his magic achievements and pure temperament of focusing on research, and every time he just smiles wryly."

"But in any case, this is a very difficult person to deal with. It takes great skill and patience to communicate effectively with him."

Rosen understood, and was not surprised at all.

Without this tenacious temperament, I am afraid that I would not be able to rise from the humbleness.

At the same time, I also think that the Duke of Storms has a good personality. Although he likes to do big things, he also respects talents.

Of course, this talent must be 'irreplaceable'.

"So, Hamilton is my officer?"

Because he had just been named the Deputy Minister of Magic by the Duke.

Leliana nodded: "Nominally, but you each do your own thing and don't interfere with each other."

Rosen sighed secretly: "How can it be possible for the same duke to not interfere with each other?"

The duke's resources are also limited, if they are given to him, less will be given to others, and naturally there will be competition.

This kind of competition has nothing to do with personal grievances. It is because both parties want to pursue higher magical achievements, and it is a battle of paths and ideas.

If you don't do it well, your opponent will trip you up.

Therefore, it is still necessary to find a good relationship with this archmage.

So he asked, "Then does he have any hobbies?"

"Yes, besides studying, he likes to play Judgment Chess, and his chess skills are very high. This time, he signed up for the Judgment Masters."

"Then, he also likes to bet with people. Because of his outstanding ability, he can win every bet."

"Hmm~~ Interesting."

"Then he has other character traits?"

"The rest is probably extreme self-confidence."

"As we all know, the queen's younger brother, Master Nairofa, has an extremely outstanding brain, but Hamilton's evaluation of him is 'good brains, but too soft bones'."

This evaluation is really accurate.

And Sir Hamilton, who is a pinnacle archmage and has super-high achievements in magic arts, is indeed qualified to evaluate Nairofa, a level 5 archmage.

"How did Master Nairofa react when he heard this?"

"It is said that he spread his hands and looked helpless."

"Haha~ Sure enough, a mountain is higher than a mountain."

This crushing of pure intelligence is the most irrefutable.

At this time, the two walked to a magnificent but exquisite white stone long house.

There is a tall stone tablet standing at the door of the house, with the words: "Master Cliff, Peak of the World".

The longhouse is divided into three floors, and it can be seen from the walls and windows that there are many rooms inside.

In front of the house stood two magic sword guards.

Leliana stepped forward and reported her identity respectfully before the guard let her go.

The two entered the longhouse, followed the spacious stairs to the third floor, and then walked all the way in along the bright and spacious corridor.

You can see exquisite portraits of characters hanging on the walls on both sides of the corridor, and there are biographies of the characters below.

Rosen looked over one by one, and found that all the people who could be hung on this wall were the pinnacle archmages of level 9.

I couldn't help but secretly admired in my heart: "It really is the top of the world." '

Soon we arrived at the door of the room of Grand Master Hamilton.

Leliana asked the attendant at the door in a low voice: "Is Master free now?"

The attendant shook his head and replied softly.

"The master said, don't disturb him for the next two hours. He has an important inspiration to practice. And now it's only an hour and a half past."

Leliana showed regret, turned her head and spread her hands at Rosen, apologetic: "Then we can only wait."

For a character that the duke must respect, Lailiana, the princess maid, naturally did not dare to disturb her.

Rosen said: "Then just wait."

It's only half an hour anyway.

The corridor was very spacious and bright, and there were temporary resting seats. Rosen walked over to sit and pointed to the opposite chair.

"Ma'am, you sit too."

The royal attendant at the side immediately brought snacks and fragrant tea lightly, and asked softly, "My lords, do you need any books for recreation?"

Rosen thought for a moment: "Bring me some pens and paper."

"Yes."

After the attendant brought the pen and paper, he said to Leliana apologetically, "Ma'am, I have an idea I want to record, and I might neglect you."

The small details greatly enhanced Lailiana's perception of Rosen. She laughed softly: "Master, just record it, don't worry about me."

Rosen concentrated on studying the two master spells that Dora gave him.

A great tide spell, a flawless phantom.

These two master-level spells are the crystallization of the wisdom of the great mage Turan. Each spell contains exquisite wisdom, and is also very complicated and cumbersome. It is much more complicated and delicate than the dragon scale armor provided by Anvinia .

This kind of wisdom cannot be solved by simple super computing power, it has to be analyzed bit by bit by Rosen himself.

He studied it for seven or eight days before he could barely understand the Great Tide Art, but the Phantom of Timeless hadn't fully understood it yet.

It can be clearly felt that his intelligence seems to be a little insufficient, and it is a bit difficult to understand some exquisite spell structures.

"Sure enough, every peak mage is a representative of the highest level of intelligence of the human race. His knowledge is self-contained. It is not an ordinary difficulty to understand."

It was not the first time Rosen had encountered such a situation of absolute insufficiency of intelligence, and it would happen occasionally when facing his wife Serendis.

With more blows, Rosen also has a clear understanding of his own intelligence, which is much higher than the average person, but compared with the real top genius, there is still a gap.

The current achievements are basically due to the advantages of super computing power and earth knowledge.

When he was concentrating, time flowed quickly, and half an hour passed in the blink of an eye. Rosen was focusing on nothing else, when suddenly a slightly familiar male voice came from beside him.

"My boy, I'm sorry to keep you waiting."

Rosen was taken aback, and turned his head to see that Hamilton was sitting opposite him, and Leliana was already standing beside him respectfully.

He hurriedly got up and saluted: "Salute to the master."

Hamilton waved his hand: "I don't like these vain etiquette, go, go to my room and talk."

After speaking, he said to Leliana: "You must not understand our topic, it's still in the way if you stay aside, go back and report to the princess."

Leliana saluted again: "Yes, master."

After she left, Rosen followed Hamilton into his room.

The room is also extremely spacious, over 200 square meters, filled with warm sunlight, but not exquisite.

Or to be more precise, it was originally exquisite, but because of Hamilton's large number of personal belongings, the living room was abruptly crammed into a private workshop.

On the generous table, there is a strange creation about one meter in length and width. The main body is metal, but there are also wood, cotton, and some alchemy creations that cannot be named.

It gives people a sense of primitive wildness that they can use whatever they have.

Hamilton took the initiative to introduce: "This is the prototype of the steam magic weapon. Through the conversion of steam, I can convert mana into the power of motion."

"I know, as a master of gravity, you will definitely think that this thing of mine is rough, but this thing of mine can be improved all the time, and it doesn't require a high spellcasting ability."

"Your gravity spell can't do it, at least not right now, can it?"

When he said this, Hamilton was very low profile, because he was also shocked by the idea of ​​​​floating stars in high gravity.

Rosen nodded in approval: "The penetrating power of the gravitational spell is indeed too strong."

Using real objects to assist spellcasting can greatly reduce the difficulty of spellcasting and greatly improve the efficiency of mana utilization.

for example.

Use a semi-closed iron pipe with one end open, and then insert an iron ball slightly smaller than the inner diameter as the propellant ammunition.

Then, as long as one imagines an explosive flame in the confined space behind the iron ball, the iron ball can be launched at a high speed with a high degree of precision, exerting a very good lethality.

The iron pipe is perfect for compressing and confining mana flames, and helps with aiming.

As a result, this natural throwing spell dropped from a 3-star spell to a 1-star spell, and its mana utilization efficiency rose to almost 100%.

Other spells born out of ordinary natural phenomena can easily do similar things.

But gravitational spells alone don't work.

Rosen has yet to find a substance that can perfectly restrain the gravity of spells.

Even Sejin, who breaks the law, has very ordinary effects.

Therefore, gravity can only be constrained by force.

In this way, the difficulty of casting spells will naturally be greatly increased, making it difficult to popularize.

Mana efficiency is greatly reduced, resulting in a lot of waste of mana.

"But I can increase the efficiency of mana utilization by increasing the number of spellcasting stars."

Hamilton understood as soon as he heard it.

"You mean the low-level spell juxtaposition method?"

Rosen nodded: "That's right."

A four-star low-level logical gravity spell has a mana efficiency of up to 90%.

Rosen connected multiple low-level spells in parallel to obtain the same magical power as high-level spells.

Hamilton laughed: "This plan is also feasible."

"But you have to connect 10 four-star spells in parallel, the total power can be equal to a high-level 14-star spell, but the difficulty of casting the spell has become 40 stars."

"No mortal can use such a complex spell."

Rosen immediately said: "But you can also use parallel casting techniques to reduce the number of stars. Of course, the reduction is not complete. To achieve the same driving force is always more complicated than a single spell."

A similar method was adopted on Sky One, but a compromise had to be made due to the sharp increase in the number of spellcasting stars. In the end, a mixed solution of high-level, mid-level, and low-level was adopted to improve efficiency as much as possible.

Hamilton nodded repeatedly.

"What you said is very good. It seems that mages with sufficient practical experience are much better than those purely imagined academic mages. It is no wonder that they can achieve such achievements."

But as soon as he finished speaking, he patted the steam artifact on the table, with a hint of pride on his face.

"But my steam magic weapon is different. Even a magic apprentice can perfectly control it as long as he has enough mana."

Luo Sen hadn't fully understood this steam artifact, so he said, "Master, can you introduce it to me in detail?"

"Naturally."

Hamilton began to introduce his big baby carefully.

Listening to it, Rosen knew that this thing is essentially a heat engine, but because of the assistance of various black-tech-like spells, its starting point height has been greatly increased.

For example, the baby in front of me has a thermal efficiency of 10%, while on the earth, the efficiency of Watt's improved steam engine is less than 5%, and even the later gasoline internal combustion engine is about 30 to 45%.

From Rosen's demeanor, Hamilton felt his attention and was very happy.

He continued.

"My steam magic weapon has another feature, that is, the larger the scale, the higher the efficiency, and the upper limit of thrust is extremely high."

"If you cooperate with your endless mana core and create a giant steam magic weapon, it will be a breeze to push the Lord of the Ocean."

Rosen nodded in approval and gave a final evaluation.

"The master's steam instrument, although it would be clumsy to fly, but it is easy to use it to drive a boat, pull a carriage, or even push a waterwheel to pump water."

"Therefore, each of our studies has its own use, and there is no question of replacing each other."

At least for a short time.

Hamilton was delighted to hear that.

To be honest, he was really worried, because he was afraid that the steam artifact that he had spent many years researching would be eliminated by the times before it was born.

Then the energy he spent in the past five years was wasted.

Now that the two sides have discussed carefully, they feel that their worries are gone, and they have a good impression of Rosen.

After chatting about spells again, he asked, "Master Rosen, the treatment given to you by the Duke should be enough to satisfy you, right?"

As a sorcerer of the Eastern Realm and also the Duke's Minister of Magic, he personally hoped that such a genius as Rosen would settle in the Eastern Realm.

As for the arrogance of the people in the East, it has long been wiped out by the unattainable wisdom that Rosen showed.

Rosen didn't hide anything: "The duke has made me a god-given earl. As the great lord of the Flying Fish Islands, I think it's good."

When Hamilton heard about the earl, he was still a little envious, but when he heard about the Flying Fish Islands, his envy disappeared without a trace.

"Flying Fish Islands? What's so good about that place? To shovel bird droppings?"

Rosen was too lazy to explain, it was better if the other party didn't understand, so as not to be jealous because of envy.

"Master, I am deeply attached to the land, as long as the land is given to me, I will be happy in my heart."

Hamilton didn't understand: "What's so good about the land, if you don't bring it with you when you are born, if you don't take it away after death, how can you concentrate on studying spells?"

Upon hearing this, Rosen knew that Hamilton was a pure scholar, and he was secretly relieved.

This kind of person, as long as you give him enough respect and recognition, you can get along very well.

He also likes to get along with this kind of person the most.

Future resource competition should also be healthy competition.

So he smiled slightly: "This is my hobby. Just like a master, although he focuses on spells, he also loves judging chess, doesn't he?"

That being said, it's not wrong.

Hamilton nodded to express his understanding, but persuaded: "I play the trial chess just for fun. But managing the territory requires a lot of effort, which will greatly waste time and energy."

"The Earl has to carefully consider the importance of this. Don't become a slave to the land. You waste your important time all day long because of a group of ordinary people."

Rosen could feel that this was the other party's sincere thoughts, so he nodded seriously: "Thank you for your kind words, Master."

After a pause, he expressed his true intentions.

"I am very interested in the idea of ​​the master's mana container. I wonder if this knowledge can be exchanged?"

In fact, with the Shentie core, the demand for the method storage container is not high, but it must be available as a buffer against accidents.

For example, the core of the god iron suddenly broke. If there is no buffer, the floating city flying in the sky will really fall down. After all, it is impossible to lift such a heavy thing with human power.

And with the high-density magic storage container, the large amount of stored mana can be used to top it up immediately, which greatly improves the reliability of the big floating city.

But upon hearing this, Hamilton showed a trace of embarrassment on his face, and coughed lightly.

"Actually, my mana container has just started. What I said before is just the result of prediction. I don't know if it can be achieved."

As soon as Rosen heard this, he understood that this guy was hardly real, and he was just bragging for attention.

He was a little disappointed and unwilling, and asked again: "Then there must be some basis for guessing?"

Hamilton just laughed.

"Yes, but this is the knowledge I am most proud of, and I will not exchange it lightly."

The more he said that, the more itchy Rosen became, and he said, "Master, let's make a bet?"

Hamilton's eyes lit up suddenly: "How do you bet?"

"Play judging chess, fast chess with 5-second moves. If I win you within 300 moves, just let me take a look. If I can't win, I'll give you 200 Feusa's Titan Iron?"

Hearing that there are so many magic irons and the bet is so favorable, Hamilton immediately took out the trial chess.

"Bet!"

(End of this chapter)