Sword of Dawn

"Oh!"

"By the way, ancestor, have you given this device a name?" Hetty suddenly remembered something at this moment, "This is a brand new thing...you have the right to give it a new name."

"The name..." Gawain thought about it, and a name came to mind, "Then it's called the Magic Engine."

Hearing this unfamiliar word combined with strange grammar, Hetty slowly smiled: "Ancestor, this is indeed a good name."

Rebecca also nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, although I don't understand what it means, it seems very handsome!"

Looking at the two "granddaughters" in excitement, Gao Wen looked down at his sketch, and a new idea popped up in his mind:

Can this structure continue to be improved?

Or to put it another way... Now that we already have the repulsive circle and the rune trigger as a foundation, can we simply make a more advanced machine with a completely different structure?

For example, like an electric motor driven by electromagnetic force, cancel the piston, connecting rod, and crankshaft, and directly engrave the repulsive force circle on the ring shell at a certain angle to push the inner magic rotor?

Chapter 0103 Talk about a ball

To be honest, after receiving Rebecca's revelation, Gawain really realized in an instant that this little "repulsion trick" was simply the biggest surprise the world had given him: simple, low-consumption, stable, and the effect was not bad.

Anyone who has contact with magic mechanisms will be familiar with this basic magic: whether it is a magic door that opens automatically or something else, as long as there is a structure that needs to be pushed in the mechanism, there will definitely be "repulsion tricks" Exist, but how much power can it output?As a kind of spell, its power depends entirely on how much magic power you can provide and the performance of the magic material itself. In Gao Wen's opinion, its conversion efficiency is extremely high: the gate of the treasure house in the mountain is made of heavy purple steel. Casting, a single door leaf weighs several tons, and the ancient mechanism that controls the opening and closing of the door leaf can be easily operated without mechanical optimization. Of course, this is because the ancient Gondor Empire has black technology, and their purified magic crystals The performance is terrible, but the contemporary "inferior products" are not bad, and magic traps that can push boulders all over the ground are not too rare!

And all these magic mechanisms, their use of the repulsive magic circle is actually quite primitive and clumsy—that is, the route of the powerful brick flying. sort of things to optimize for...

So Gawain had high expectations for the magic engine. He believed that even if he used cheap materials to build the engine, the power it could provide would be inconceivable.

After the "piston version" of the magic energy engine was discussed, before Rebecca and Hetty completed the transformation and detailed demonstration of the blueprint, he thought of further using the repulsive magic circle and expanding it to a structure similar to an electric motor superior.

The motor composed of a stator and a rotor naturally has additional advantages: its structure is relatively simple, and the failure rate is greatly reduced; when it starts, the "repulsion point" on the rotor can directly operate at full load, and the starting torque is very large, unlike pistons. The starting torque of the traditional engine is insufficient, and the torque can reach the maximum after the speed is increased; its volume can be compressed to a small size, and it has a higher volumetric efficiency ratio when it is also powered by the magic net; thanks to the magic technology Particularity, the "rotor-type magic energy engine" does not need electric brushes, nor does it need a "toggle device" for frequently switching rune triggers, which reduces the failure rate and improves the overall life of the machine (because Very few wear parts), quite a bargain...

But it also has obvious disadvantages - regardless of the advantages and disadvantages of electric motors and internal combustion engines on the earth, only from the technology of "this world", the rotor-type magic energy engine in Gawain's concept needs a large number of "repulsion points" Distributed on the entire shell to ensure the balance and continuity of the afterburning process, and to put so many independent magic circles together, it is necessary to ensure that they cannot interfere with each other, the output is accurate and consistent, the distance from the rotor is accurate, etc., etc., In this way, the technical difficulty of the engine's mechanical structure is reduced, but the difficulty of drawing the magic circle is increased, and the latter... requires technical talents that are more difficult to train. This aspect is a little more complicated than the mechanical aspect. caused much more trouble.

But no matter what, this idea is extremely attractive, and it is impossible for Gawain to give up on it.

So he took a blank piece of paper from the side, and under the curious gazes of Amber, Rebecca, and Hetty, he quickly sketched a sketch.

An annular shell, an internal rotor with many inclined blades (objects of repulsion), and many symmetrically distributed repulsion arrays on the shell...

Its structure is as simple as that.

"This is..." Hetty raised her eyebrows and said curiously and hesitantly.

Gao Wen put down his pen, and said with a little excitement: "The second generation machine."

The other three people at the scene were dumbfounded, and after a long while, Amber looked at Gao Wen like looking at a monster: "How did your brain grow?"

"Don't insult my ancestor!" Rebecca immediately became angry when she heard this, she picked up the staff and put the head of the staff on Amber's forehead, but she also turned her head and asked, "Master Ancestor, what is your brain?" How long?"

Gao Wen: "..."

Rebecca didn't realize it until two seconds later, quickly put away her staff and apologized honestly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Zu, I can't speak out of my mind..."

"No, that's not the problem." The half-elf lady who survived the headshot crisis with the iron rod was not at all peaceful, and continued to exclaim with her eyes wide open, "We haven't even finished discussing your first-generation sketches here, you You actually managed to get a second generation out of nowhere? And no matter in terms of principle or structure, it doesn’t look like it was born by a real mother at all... Don’t you have a lot of sketches waiting in your mind?!”

Gao Wen almost choked his saliva into his bronchi: Is this guy caught by accident?

"It's just an immature idea." He quickly restrained his expression that was about to collapse, and looked at Hetty, who was more thoughtful. "Its principle is very simple. What do you think is its feasibility?"

"It is indeed much simpler, and the theoretical feasibility is very high...but it may not be easy to implement in practice." Hetty saw the problem with just a glance, and the answer was exactly the same as Gawain's idea, "A large number of repulsion methods The formations are arranged together, and this symmetrical and tight arrangement is almost specially prepared for magic resonance, they will interfere with each other [-]%, and whether they can move after activation is a problem."

"If the diameter becomes larger, the distance of each 'repulsion point' also becomes larger?"

"...The feasibility is still not high. I can understand what you mean. These repulsion points must be 'relayed' continuously in order to push the rotating part in the middle with maximum efficiency, so their distance is limited no matter how far they are. Rather than extending the distance , it is better to find a way to add a forbidden magic structure between the magic circles to shield the interference, but in this way... the cost may be terrifying."

Gao Wen immediately twitched the corner of his mouth with toothache: Forbidden magic materials, even the cheapest ones are precious metals in magic materials, if they are really used in mass-produced machines, then even if he dies on the spot, he will be buried, Rebecca I can't afford to collect tickets with Hetty for people from all over the country to visit... By the way, what kind of metaphor is this?

"Then let's do a prototype research if you have spare capacity, which can also be regarded as technology accumulation," Gao Wen sighed, "First get the piston prototype, and hand over most of its parts to Hammer and his apprentices. They can all be built by hand, and the more difficult parts and the repulsion mechanisms are handed over to the new rune craftsmen. Remember, the cost of the first machine should not be considered, as long as it can run safely and stably, we will be successful—and It’s not even a problem to sacrifice some performance on top of that.”

Hetty and Rebecca left with a lot of blueprints. Considering the administrative pressure on the former, Gawain handed over the main task of manufacturing the magic engine prototype to Rebecca, while Hetty still only provided some technical support. , this once again made Rebecca very happy.

After both of them left the tent, Gawain gathered up the remaining drawings and handed them to Betty who was squatting on the nearby ground and practicing writing with twigs: "Put them away. By the way, I will let the carpenter I made a small desk for you, and it will be delivered to your tent in the evening, and by the way, there is also a set of stationery and some white paper—save for it.”

Betty took the sheepskin bag containing the blueprints and was stunned for a moment, then showed a particularly happy expression, bowed vigorously and almost threw herself forward: "Thank you, master~! You are so kind!"

The little maid almost jumped and ran away.

Gawain looked at the bouncing back of the little maid with a smile on his face, couldn't help but shook his head with a smile, and the eyes of Amber next to him became strange: "I'm surprised, you are so busy all day long, and you still have time to take care of this girl." Stupid girl... Is it possible that this is your real hobby? Hey - guys like you are popular with shooting your own maids... Oh, it hurts, it hurts!"

Gao Wen pinched Amber's ear hard, and he was not angry: "What kind of hobby is it? I just like that kid's hardworking, studious and motivated spirit. Can't your mind be clearer?"

Amber looked at Gao Wen angrily while rubbing her ears: "Don't you usually say that I have a clean mind?"

Gao Wen: "...I meant to say that your mind is blank and you are incapable of learning!!"

"Huh? Didn't you praise me for a long time?!"

Gawain glanced at the shameful half-elf, and walked towards the tent door.

As expected, Amber couldn't hold back her curiosity and followed her: "What are you doing? Are you going to secretly eat delicious food? Take me one!"

After Gao Wen waited for Amber to catch up, he said casually, "Go talk to that big iron ball. It has been lying in the tent for so long, so it should be willing to say something to me."

When Amber heard it was this, she immediately lost interest: "Oh, then I won't go..."

After Gao Wen fished it out, he put the thing under his arm and prepared to take it away.

But this time he failed: Amber, who had already been tossed like this once before, had experience, and had already disappeared into the shadows the moment he was caught. Gawain felt his hand was empty, and the half-elf thief had already run more than ten meters away. outside.

"Go and have a heart-to-heart talk with Qiu~" Amber stood in the distance and yelled proudly, "I'm going to find Betty for dinner~~"

Gao Wen couldn't help but look at this "name guard" who went his own way, waved his hands and turned to leave.

In front of the special tent in the south of the camp, Gawain asked the guard about the metal ball: "What's the matter with that guy in the tent?"

"No," the conscientious soldier straightened up and replied, "We have been guarding here, and the ancient magic device just stayed in the tent obediently, and has no intention of going out."

Ancient magic device, this is Gawain's explanation to the soldiers who witnessed the metal sphere, and now it seems that this explanation has been accepted by them.

After casually encouraging the soldiers who were conscientiously standing guard, Gao Wen stepped into the tent.

The metal ball was floating in the center of the tent, about half a meter above the ground, looking like a sci-fi floating device.

But this sci-fi-like ball said obsessively: "Oh my god, I thought you forgot about leaving me here! There are only a group of stupid soldiers standing guard around, or that annoying little boy The old man comes in, or the female human who likes to wear a red dress comes in, it’s boring. Let me tell you, if I didn’t pay attention to promises in this ball, I would have left early today..."

Gawain ignored Qiu's nagging, and went straight to the latter: "I'm here to chat with you today, and I need to confirm one thing - you, you shouldn't be from here...Qiu, right?"

Chapter 0104 Stranger... Ball

The ball was probably stunned when he heard Gao Wen's words - it's impossible to judge, after all, it's just a smooth metal ball, without facial features, expressions or even body movements, and you don't even know when it's floating in mid-air Was it listening, but it did answer after two seconds of silence: "Aren't you talking nonsense, I was transported by you from another place, it must not be this earth!"

"You should know that's not what I mean," Gao Wen was completely unmoved, "You should come from a place farther away, and I'm afraid it's hard to even describe it in terms of simple distance - a metal sphere that can think and talk, and it can also Release strange energy fluctuations, control magic power and metal, I have never heard of such a strange race in this world."

"That's because you don't know much," Sphere said sarcastically, "I've heard about you from the human who called himself Druid in the past two days. How many things can you see in your lifetime? With your human eyes and the way of word of mouth transmission of information, there are too few things you can see in your lifetime..."

When Gao Wen heard this, his heart became more stable.

This ball is right. The vast majority of people in the world in this era are indeed "blindfolded". The lack of information transmission methods and the chaotic state of separation make it difficult for people to access and collect new information. Only A small number of high-ranking nobles, great magicians, and great knights will pay attention to the outside world, while others, including field nobles like Viscount Andrew in Tanzania Town, are self-styled and autistic, while a man with his face facing the loess and his back facing the sky The amount of new things a farmer can come into contact with in his whole life is only as much as a few newspapers. Therefore, if Gao Wen is also such a "blindfolded" person, then he can only judge a ball based on "he has not seen it before". It would indeed look ridiculous if it was an alien.

But the real Gawain was not only not blindfolded, he even watched the world evolve with his eyes open for countless years. It is not the case of other continents, but no matter how isolated and strange the life forms on other continents are from this side, it is unlikely that an alloy ball will evolve from a pile of carbon-based organisms!

Unless it is true that there is a cheating race out of Gawain's sight that quickly clicked on the Zenith Star technology and built an alloy-shelled anti-gravity levitation strong artificial intelligence thing, and this thing still drifted back to 1000 years ago The Loren Continent was captured by those Gondor magisters... Instead of believing such a thing, Gawain would rather believe that Amber would return the pocket watch of the housekeeper Viscount Andrew next door.

So he smiles, walks up to the ball, and puts his hand on the opponent's surface.

The sphere immediately screamed: "Hey, what are you doing!? You don't turn into anger from embarrassment! Otherwise, I..."

The sphere got stuck halfway through, because Gawain sent a sentence directly into its mind through magic resonance (does a sphere really have these things?): "Don't you think, you are the same as the world in this world?" Are the painting styles of all creatures too different?"

The sphere remained silent for a few seconds, and then replied in a way of magical resonance: "...Speak as you speak, why do you have to be so mysterious."

"Because I know that there are some things you may not want others to know," Gawain smiled, "so you can just tell me."

"Then I don't want you to know either!"

Gao Wen was unmoved: "Where did you come from? How did you end up in this world? How long have you been here?"

Qiuqiu pretended to be confused on purpose: "I don't even understand what you mean—is your association ability too strong?"

"Hey, I understand your efforts, but I have to say that you can't hide your fresh and refined appearance, and you have somewhat underestimated the amount of knowledge I have. Did that druid named Pittman follow you?" You mentioned that although most people in the territory were born after the decline of civilization, the lord here, that is, I, was actually resurrected from the peak of civilization 700 years ago, and I am also a naturalist."

The sphere was completely silent this time, obviously, the druid with a mouth as clueless as amber had mentioned this to it.

With the open mind of the traveler and the information he has so far, Gawain can almost assert that this sphere is a foreign visitor, but he can't be sure whether the other party has traveled through the world like himself, or just came from another planet, but anyway, This unlucky guy is definitely the most unlucky kind among the traversers: its painting style is different from others...

This TM is embarrassing, at least 200 times more embarrassing than those black-haired and black-eyed routines that travel through the past and are regarded as the sons of devils: Why do you pretend to be an alien creature and tell people that you are from a distant oriental mysterious country?

For his own safety, and because he still doesn't know the details of the sphere, Gao Wen can't directly tell the other party the secret that he is also a time traveler, but he has other identities to fool him: a naturalist from a civilized and developed society 700 years ago, This identity should be much easier to deal with the ball than those "closed and ignorant natives".

"Think about it, your secret may not be as important as you think," Gawain slowed down, "I'm not a fanatical religious person, nor are the magisters who studied you 1000 years ago, so I don't care about you." Is it a visitor from a foreign land, I will neither purify you by calling the name of some god, nor will I use a lot of metalworking tools to make holes in your body-I just hope to have a good talk with you, on the one hand It is to satisfy my personal curiosity, and on the other hand, it is also to find a way to help you.

"You know, you have almost nowhere to go. There is a wasteland on the other side of the mountain. The wasteland is full of the monsters you saw two days ago, and going north is a feudal civilization after the decline of civilization. Kingdom, where 90.00% of people are more stubborn, extreme, superstitious and unreasonable than me, you can only be here, so why not become friends with us?

"Of course, if you still have doubts, I can let you go. You can go to the human country or the south of the mountain to have a look, but it's hard for me to guarantee that you can come back alive, and..."

"I can't remember either." In the resonance of the magic power, the sphere suddenly made a metallic trembling sound, interrupting Gawain's words.

Gao Wen blinked his eyes and realized that the other party was cooperating with him. He quickly controlled his excitement and asked curiously, "Can't remember?"

"I can't remember where I came from, and I can't remember how I came here," the ball said sullenly, "You guessed it right, I do come from a 'very far' place, and you are so far away that you can't see it." Imagine. 1000 years ago, you had the concept of planets and the universe, so you should have, let me tell you straight, those guys who studied me back then also discussed in private, wondering if I came from another planet—— But I'd say it's farther than that, that's beyond the notion of 'cosmic space'."

Gao Wen's expression became serious: "In fact, some astronomical knowledge has not been lost. It's just that after completely losing the observation and calculation technology in this area, the relevant knowledge has degenerated and distorted into legends. But you don't mean that you can't remember clearly. What does your hometown look like and how did you come here? How can you be sure that you didn’t come across the universe?”

The voice of the sphere was a little helpless: "I am amnesiac, but I have not lost my common sense - the laws of physics in the two places are different, how can it be the same universe?"

Gao Wen couldn't restrain the excitement and excitement in his heart - a companion (although it was only a ball), a companion who traveled through the same time as himself (although it was only a ball), a companion who could discuss planets, the universe, and time and space travel with him. How exciting is this for him who has been alone in this world for tens of thousands of years?

Of course, now he has new friends and relatives (although the blood relationship is a bit far away), Amber, Rebecca, Hetty, Byron, etc. are all trustworthy people, but can these people discuss the universe and time and space with him?

Hmm... It should be okay if Rebecca's brain hole expands a bit...

Gao Wen tried to suppress the chaotic thoughts that popped up in his mind for a moment, and finally sorted out a new question: "Are you so sure that you have crossed the universe? Have you ever thought that the laws of physics in the universe may be 'uneven'? 'Yes, maybe the rules of each galaxy are different?"

"Oh, why didn't I think about it, but it's impossible," Ball said dejectedly, "My race has explored the entire universe we live in, and even started to think about punching holes in the world barrier. The laws of physics are uneven, we have already written it in elementary school textbooks... So from the first day I came here, I ruled out the possibility of being on another planet."

Gao Wen was dumbfounded.

Did this ball come from such a powerful and advanced civilization?They explored the entire universe?Even studying how to go to other universes?

Gawain himself is a time traveler, and after discovering that the laws of physics here are different from those on the earth, he already wondered whether he had entered the so-called "different universe", so he was not surprised by the fact of time travel told by the sphere, but he was very Surprised that the race of this ball is so advanced... Then, is it possible that this ball is the golden thigh that started the technological explosion mode by itself, swept the continent in half a year, unified the world in a year, and rushed into space in two years?

After thinking about it for a while, Gao Wen chuckled: Just think about it, the laws of physics don't apply... In such a weird world, anyone who travels through will be blinded.

And this ball should be more blind than himself: the ball only has the world view of the ball, but at least he has Gawain Cecil's knowledge as a base...

At this time, Qiu couldn't help feeling emotional: "It's really not easy. It's not easy to be able to talk to people. People in this era are all ignorant and arrogant. Let alone the universe, time and space, just the people in your camp Help people, tell them about the atmosphere they can't understand... I think I have found a guy who can talk to me."

Gao Wen burst into tears when he heard it: The ball really spoke to his heart, so why not the emotion in his heart?

A foreigner meets a foreign ball, this is really a fate!

Chapter 0105 The New Identity of Nicholas Egg

The ball seems to have really been held back in this world for a long time - considering the state it was in when it pretended to be a stone ball, even Gawain, who has been hanging in the sky for many years, can't help but admire it, This kind of concentration cannot be explained by ordinary Buddha performance.

And after holding back the life of pretending to be a stone for so long, at this moment, he can finally open the chatterbox, and the ball chatters almost endlessly. It keeps lamenting the joy of talking with people, and lamenting how boring people in this era and this world are.

"Hey, if it weren't for the facts here, who would believe that your civilization has regressed to this point? The gang of guards don't even know the concept of the atmosphere and the earth's magnetic field..."

"That druid named Pittman, he must be out of his mind. Let me tell you, I don't know how many times he has been here in the past two days, and each time he talked about one topic, that is to persuade me to admit that I am a dragon egg, and tell me Asking if the dragon has to hatch twice from the egg shell, my god, I’m so annoyed, I’ve really come out of the shell, okay? I’ll die if I break the egg again!”

"There is also that female human in the red dress, who gestured at me with all kinds of weird magic props all day long, and even discussed with me to scrape some scraps from my body to study, hey - scared to death! It's just as abnormal as those magisters back then..."

Gawain couldn't help but interrupted when he heard this: "Then what, the abnormal female human in the red dress you mentioned is my family member, my granddaughter."

"Hey—then you have to educate her well, you can't do research like this, and sooner or later you will have mental problems," the ball floated up and down, as if a little embarrassed, "but then again, those magisters 1000 years ago Know something, I was planning to communicate with them at the beginning, to study the way to go home, but who would have thought that the only thing those guys want is to study me, tsk tsk, if those people were as easy to talk as you back then .”

Gawain looked at the other party curiously: "How long have you been in this world? Or, how many years have you been in this world when you were caught by those magisters?"

"Well, I was caught as soon as I got here," Ball said dejectedly, "and then I have been locked up in that laboratory for a long time - I can't even speak your language for a long time. Learned."

Gawain looked him up and down: "Have those magisters never discovered that you are actually an intelligent creature?"

"Hey, I'm cautious," Ball said triumphantly, "When I first landed in this world, I instinctively made myself a protective shell out of metal and rocks, and even put myself in a semi-hibernation state, with a little life reaction. Not at all. And because I didn't understand the language of this world at the beginning, and I didn't know what was going on here, so I kept pretending to be a rock and observing secretly.

"Later those magisters found me and took me to the laboratory. I wanted to run here at first, but they were really powerful. A little movement would make them alert, so I didn't dare to move at all. But I was lucky, those magisters found that some inexplicable phenomena always happened around me, they thought I was an ancient sealed item or something, and they didn't cut me open in the first place..."

Speaking of this, the voice of the ball suddenly felt a little scared: "But it's true, I remember that they finished the first stage of research and were really going to cut me up, but at that time an order came suddenly, requiring All personnel in the entire facility were transferred immediately, and they were not allowed to take away any test samples unearthed from the local area, so my life was saved—but when those magisters left, they added a seal to the laboratory in a very wicked way. I just fell asleep for many years, and you will know what happened after that."

After the ball finished talking about what happened to him back then, Gao Wen immediately noticed its last few words: "You said that those researchers suddenly received an order not only to evacuate quickly, but also to keep all the samples excavated in the local area. In the facility?"

"That's right," Qiu replied casually, "They never found out that I was actually alive, so they didn't hide from me when they talked about anything. The order was also read directly in the laboratory, and I remember it very clearly. "