Necromancer, summoning 055? What the heck?

Chapter 225 Rainbow Bridge Wish: Composite Magic Array Ground Effect Vehicle

The use of psionic skills by professionals is just a tiny part of the supplies Chen Mo is sending back to his hometown.

Many technologies that could bring about revolutionary changes have already taken shape in the laboratory. The main remaining considerations are cost and compatibility.

For example, the controlled nuclear fusion technology, which uses the "Super Mage's Hand" combination of magic arrays for constraint, has undergone thirteen iterations and is now very mature.

The only problem is that the magic circle requires mana crystals.

In other words, although the raw materials for power generation are no longer expensive, spirit crystals are more valuable than gold on Blue Star. The key is that this thing is completely dependent on Chen Mo's transportation from the Starry World.

This is too uncontrollable.

On the desks of Dongxia's technical department, there are hundreds of contingency plans prepared for unexpected situations.

Therefore, although the technology is mature, it cannot be used for the time being. Dongxia's overall plan is that unless a spirit crystal incubation and production base can be established on the mainland of Blue Star Dongxia, this technology can only be a backup.

For reasons similar to those mentioned above, a large number of new technologies transported from the Starry World that currently rely on special materials, special energy, and special environments have become high-end and magnificent technology reserves in the Eastern Xia Treasury, but it is unknown when they will be truly put into application.

Of course, not all star correlation technologies are like this.

For example, Project 7101, led by the Cihang Engineering Office, mobilized more than a hundred laboratories and research institutes.

The origin of this technology stems from the rainbow bridge over the Crystal River that Chen Mo caught a glimpse of during his escape years ago.

A giant arch bridge spanning over three kilometers, yet without a single pier or cable.

A miracle of architecture, or rather, magical architecture!

From that day on, this image lingered in Chen Mo's mind. He was always dedicated to figuring out the principles of its construction, so much so that when the mercenary guilds of the Vast Ocean Territory opened, one of the top-ranked tasks was "[Provide the magical construction technology for the Rainbow Stone Bridge]".

Some people familiar with Chen Mo's past said that it was because the lord deeply missed Captain Peiwen, who was both a mentor and a friend to him. In short, the lord's obsession with that bridge was known to everyone in the territory.

But in this starry world without internet access, figuring out the technological origins of a spectacle is no easy task, and things have been delayed indefinitely.

Until Master Anthony of the Magic Academy became the chief technical advisor of the Vast Ocean Territory and a foreign academician of Blue Star.

Master Anthony Herrick is a psionic researcher, and megastructures and super wonders are not within his research area. However, since he has received the award, medal, honor and financial support from the Vast Ocean, the old man will naturally give back to the best of his ability.

This included lending the library of the Hanhai Territory a large collection of magic society journals from the old man's collection—"Arcane Origins".

The library in the Han Hai Territory can actually be understood as the data collection center of the Blue Star Dongxia stationed in the Starry World. It has been collecting a large amount of written materials from all over the Starry World, as well as audio and video materials passed down orally, and sending them to Dongxia every once in a while.

The vast collection of papers in "Arcane Origins" became the best way for the Eastern Xia research department to study the Star Magic technology. Twelve years ago, in a copy of "Arcane Origins", the library staff responsible for taking pictures and recording discovered clues about the Rainbow Stone Bridge.

They immediately reported it to Chen Mo.

This document from the Froststorm branch of the Magic Society explains the basic structural principles of the Rainbow Stone Bridge.

This is a double-layered legal array. The one inscribed on the core node of the main structure of the bridge is called the "Anchor of the Amber Field". It uses psionic energy to "stabilize" and "connect", firmly binding the bridge together and counteracting the deformation and displacement tendencies caused by gravity to the greatest extent.

Just like building a castle with blocks, after applying the "Amber Force Field Anchor", you can lift the entire block castle, which should be scattered, by holding up a block at the top of the castle.

Interestingly, the magicians seem to have been aware of the deformation of buildings at different temperatures long ago, and the "Anchor of Amber Field" uses a flexible "connection" rather than a rigid "connection".

Another technique is called the "Ser Water Element Support" magic circle, also known as the "Grip of Flowing Waves".

Once this magic circle is activated, the laws of psychic magic will be evenly applied beneath the bridge, drawing energy from the abundant water elemental environment of the river to achieve a lifting effect similar to buoyancy.

This allows the Rainbow Stone Bridge to maintain strong support without piers.

In this paper, the author specifically notes that "Ser Water Element Support" has a twin brother, "Ser Fire Element Support".

The author, Master Ser, believes that among the mainstream elements of nature, water and fire are the two most "dynamic" and "dynamic" of the basic elements.

Earth is too "inert" and "stagnant," while wind is too "dispersed" and "unpredictable." Fire represents the ultimate power of "expansion" and "ascension," while water has inherent characteristics of "repulsion" and "support."

By activating and guiding these forces using specific magic circles, it is possible to counteract gravity.

According to the conventions of the Magic Society's papers, the theoretical analysis is very clear, but there is no content on how to construct this magic circle. If you want to use it, you have to find a relevant mage and spend money to purchase it.

But now that we've found the right person, things will be much easier.

Chen Mo asked Master Anthony to act as a go-between. After agreeing to a series of conditions from the old man, the old man used some of his own techniques, along with a large amount of money, spirit crystals, and magical materials provided by the Vast Ocean Territory, to finally obtain the construction method for this set of double-layered legal arrays.

The Eastern Xia's Psionic Research Institute was overjoyed and immediately began to reproduce and analyze the technology. It took them nearly half a year to fully understand the technology and assemble their own composite magic array.

Well, the magic array has been completely domestically produced in terms of materials and technology, but the spirit crystals still need to be provided by Fanxing.

What can this magic array technology be used for? To build bridges across rivers, or to apply it to offshore drilling platforms?

There's no need for that. Dongxia's own technology level is more than enough. Why build a bridge that requires spirit crystals?
Just as this technology was about to become another "reserve technology", the Northern Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering Research Institute, which participated in the project, put forward a bold idea at an internal seminar.

"Could we apply this technology to ground effect vehicles?"

Ground effect vehicles, also known as seaplanes, utilize the characteristics of reduced induced drag and significantly increased lift-to-drag ratio when flying at low altitudes, thereby greatly saving flight power and achieving higher payload and greater range.

The most representative of these is the infamous "Caspian Sea Monster," a monumental work by the Northern Double-Headed Eagle Empire during the previous Red era.

A large airplane, hundreds of meters long, that needs to fly close to the water's surface!
The fact that this device ultimately failed to achieve widespread adoption is partly due to its somewhat awkward positioning: it was fast, but not as fast as an airplane; it had a large payload, but not as large as a warship; it was easily affected by weather conditions, becoming unusable with even slightly large waves; and its limited ability to fly close to the water surface meant that any accident would be a major disaster…

In short, this was one of the many ingenious inventions of the Red Double-Headed Eagle during that special period, but it ultimately met with a dead end amidst the rapid development of equipment. Now, the Northern Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering Research Institute has remembered this behemoth again.

“Previously, our ground effect wings all followed a miniaturized approach because these large devices were too power-intensive. Now, could we use ‘Ser Water Element Support’ as an auxiliary support, relying on technology for dynamics and magic for statics, to forge a new path?”

After several internal clashes, the idea gained the support of the military.

To save time, the military directly instructed its foreign affairs department to seek to purchase the complete set of information on the "Caspian Sea Monster" from the Double-Headed Eagles.

The Double-Headed Eagle has always been extremely vigilant about transferring technology to East Asia.

Dongxia is really too strange. Techniques that I don't use can be used to great effect in Dongxia's hands. Equipment that I have an advantage in can be far behind mine after Dongxia figures it out. Even large equipment that I can't complete can be repaired and rebuilt by Dongxia, and quickly form a strong combat force that is ahead of Blue Star.

However, the current Double-Headed Eagle is really too weak. After being tricked by the Bald Eagle, it suffered heavy losses and was severely weakened. In addition, the brothers turned against each other and fought each other, and it was suppressed and sanctioned in various ways. It needs the support of Dongxia on multiple dimensions.

Even so, the two-headed eagle was still unwilling.

So, the Dongxia negotiation team, familiar with the other party's style, started with an unrelated suggestion.

"We want the blueprints and technology for Milia 225!"

"This is impossible! This is our nation's most precious and protective artifact!"

"A national treasure, bombed and shattered, parked in another country's hangar?"

"...That's not our fault, okay! I can help you build it, but I can't provide you with the technology!"

"Come on!" The Dongxia negotiator in charge of this communication shook his head helplessly: "You simply don't have the manufacturing capacity to produce Milia anymore!"

"You need to understand that all the research institutes in our country are submitting their project proposals for the next year, which is directly related to our funding. I need to come up with a big project to support this!"

"Yes, it has to be big, big in size, big in scale, big in reputation, so that I can get a bigger amount of funding."

After patiently explaining his technological development logic to the other party, the Dongxia representative raised a new request:
"Or, you could give me the Blizzard technology?"

"No, no, my old friend, that's absolutely impossible!"

"The God of the North Wind?"

"Are you joking?"

"Well, I brought all this money with me, so you have to give me a decent-looking guy, right?"

In short, after several rounds of tedious, complicated, and sleep-inducing negotiations, Dongxia finally exchanged money and some military technology for several technologies that were considered to be of no value to Dongxia's strategic projection capabilities.

Although there was no "Caspian Sea Monster" among them, there was a smaller version of the flower-tailed pigeon.

The introduction of this technology saved Dongxia a lot of time in exploring large ground effect vehicles.

For Dongxia, which possesses the world's most advanced supercomputers and top-notch wind tunnels, as long as the basic model and key parameters are available, reverse engineering, optimization design, and even innovation are all natural and easy tasks.

Just as Dongxia was fully digesting the technology and rapidly advancing the field testing of ground effect wings, a small accident occurred, completely overturning Dongxia's progress in this area.

Chen Mo established a connection with the sea tribe.

On their way to the Silver Kingdom, the Naga race was attacked by an unknown human fleet and unexpectedly came into contact with Lord Chen Mo's fleet that was heading south.

Through a weapons demonstration, the two sides temporarily turned from enemies to friends and established a temporary cooperative relationship.

During this process, the Naga arranged for a small group of sea creatures to travel with Chen Mo's fleet, including a young Naga tide sorcerer.

The child's name was Xilan. She had rare sea-blue scales and a pair of big, bright eyes. She usually liked to follow the fleet of ships on the sea, and when she got tired of the waves, she would climb onto a ship to rest for a while.

As young girls, the lively and cheerful Xilan quickly became friends with Liushuang, who was bored and blindfolded. As a result, she often followed the lord around, freeloading off him.

As always, Chen Mo pretended to be nonchalant and chatted casually, but in reality, he was scheming to find out all sorts of inside information from the sea tribe.

In this process, Liu Shuang played an important supporting role. Firstly, the two girls were close and could talk about anything. Secondly, Liu Shuang was genuinely curious and asked questions without any purpose.

One second the two were discussing which line of the Sea Clan's Tide Song sounded better, and the next second they were talking about how many people were in their families.

One talked about the inland mountains and strange beasts, which made Xilan, who rarely went ashore, look longing. The other talked about the conflicts between the sea creatures, which made Liushuang, who had lost her homeland, sigh endlessly.

During their conversation, Lord Chen Mo, who was the main host, would occasionally and unintentionally chime in with a few words.

"I'm a little curious, how do you sea creatures determine the boundaries of your territories in such a vast ocean?"

"How many people are there in your Naga race? Where do you rank among the sea races?"

"Who are you on good terms with? The merfolk? Oh, so you have the worst relationship with them, right? Why do you harbor such resentment?"

"I understand, I understand. By the way, I've always been curious, what is the relationship between the fish-men on the mainland and your sea tribe?"

Several deck chairs were fixed on the deck, and the sea breeze, carrying salty moisture, brushed against their cheeks. After chatting for a while, Xilan jumped into the sea. After bobbing up and down for a while, she leaped high up, grabbed the grappling hook specially left for her on the side of the boat, and flipped herself onto the boat. She ate some snacks, drank some beverages, and continued to relax sprawled out.

Then, Liu Shuang casually asked that question.

"How can you keep up with the boat going so fast?"

(End of this chapter)