A mage? A spell engineer!

Chapter 120 A Reunion Known Only to the Boy

Rorschach explained his ideas and needs, which Professor Poincaré recorded in his notebook.

"I will design it according to your requirements, and the timeframe will probably be around a month." The professor stroked his smoothly shaved chin. "However, Master Rorschach, I also need payment. Heh, not money, of course."

"Please speak."

"These elf totems should have a complete system, right? I want to translate them all, and it would be best if I could expand the basic unit library." Poincaré set his sights on Rorschach's elf totem book.

It originally came from the elven village, and Rorschach gave it to the professor, but reminded him, "Professor, it was discovered together with the Forest Tower; they hoped to..."

"I'll send you the original text along with the translated version in about a month, how about that?"

"Thank you so much, Professor." Such a good thing? Rorschach quickly handed it over to Poincaré.

After the young mage left the research room, Poincaré opened the Book of Totems, which contained thirty-four totems excluding the two that pointed to gods. He then instructed the tower spirit to summon his most capable student.

"Professor, you were looking for me?"

"I have a small task for you. You should be able to finish it within two weeks." Poincaré had the magic array he had promised to improve for Rorschach, and he had asked that all of it be written in a small notebook. Now he tore off a page and handed it to the student.

The student didn't immediately take the materials: "Professor, I'm very busy! I have to defend my thesis right away."

"Didn't you just hire a few new apprentices? You should guide them and let them practice on this project. Don't do it yourself, let the newcomers do it."

"All right."

"Also, starting from the latter half of the month, notify the apprentices in the advanced 'Spell-Array' class to conduct professional experiments. Two groups will be arranged to come to my place every afternoon to translate spell arrays. You can contact the apprentices in the class to create a schedule, and those who have conflicts with the course can adjust accordingly." The experimental materials were already in place, and Poincaré stroked the cover of the Book of Elf Totems.

"OK."

The professor thought for a moment and felt he needed to encourage his apprentices: "When you notify them, tell them that the runes translated in this experiment are being made public for the first time. If they discover anything particularly valuable, I will personally guide the team that makes the discovery to write and publish a paper."

Overlapping with memories from three years ago, the professor's star pupil now felt a strong sense of déjà vu. He forced a smile and said, "I'll make sure you get the message right. If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave."

"Go."

The lab door closed completely, and the professor returned to his seat. He casually flipped through a few poems by elves before immersing himself in his research.

The airship manufacturer wanted to improve the protective magic circle on the surface of the airbag, so they approached Poincaré. The professor picked up an inflatable ball as a model, sketched a magic circle on it with charcoal, and then filled it with other geometric units, thus completing the schematic diagram of the magic circle.

The circles drawn on the sphere became smaller and smaller, until some units were reduced to tiny dots. The professor opened the valve to release air, and the sphere became deflated, with convex and concave surfaces. He unfolded the deflated sphere to observe the diagram of the magic circle he had just drawn. After observing for a while, he blew air into the sphere again, and it returned to its approximately spherical shape.

Slowly, a conjecture emerged in his mind: Are all simply connected three-dimensional closed manifolds homeomorphic to a three-dimensional sphere?

During the month that followed, Rorschach couldn't just wait idly. He revised his research proposal several times as Kano had requested, and he also diligently improved his skills in the subject of magic circles. When Poincaré saw Rorschach in the last row of the "Spells and Magic Circles" advanced class, he nodded to him and then began the lesson.

After that, Rorschach didn't miss a single class.

"I can design it myself now." As practice, Rorschach turned the [Melting Ray] into a scroll.

The heat ray developed during the Black Forest trip has a higher temperature and a finer, more concentrated ray compared to the "pseudo-Dragon Breath" obtained by directly replacing the "Fireball" spell. It has burning and cutting effects. Whether these characteristics can be inherited after being made into a spell scroll remains to be tested.

"Consider it homework I've assigned myself." Rorschach took out a reel in the practice room, but according to his design, he needed to roll it up so the ray would be released at the tip. He held the tube formed by the reel and fired it forward, the bluish-green ray shooting out and successfully passing through the target.

The parchment and alchemical ink could not withstand the concentrated ether and spellcasting fluctuations. When Rorschach unrolled the scroll, he saw charred, radial burn marks, and some ink had exploded, making the spell array blurry.

"Like a wand, but it's a one-time use item." Rorschach had no interest in developing it further, because he himself knew this spell, and the efficiency of the scroll's charging process and energy utilization might not be as good as his own charging and activation.

In Rorschach's vision, transmutation dust would no longer be covered by a crystal dome, but rather designed as a cylindrical tower with an inverted magic circle at the top that would project transmutation dust downwards.

The eruption of transmutation dust was extremely violent, and he needed to slow it down. He had prepared several plans for this, including using [Featherfall] and [Hover] to slow it down and hover it after it became dulled. However, Rorschach didn't know if it would work, so it was only one of the plans.

To this end, Rorschach spent a "heavy sum" to purchase two spell learning scrolls. He also made several copies using his own skills, and found related notes and spell-casting tips from predecessors in the archives. He learned the two spells on his own without the help of the control panel.

[Levitation] involves an enchanting process for items. Currently, the aether organized by Rorschach is circulating in a certain pattern within the body of a charcoal pencil, resisting gravity.

Rorschach grabbed the suspended charcoal pencil, canceled the spell's effect, and then cast [Featherfall]. This spell not only provided a downward repulsive force but also made the air around the charcoal pencil very viscous. Under Rorschach's [Arcane Vision], the aetheric light was not only inside the charcoal pencil but also enveloped its entire body.

Okay, the next step is to draw the magic circles for these two spells, converting them into a ring shape, and then arrange them on the inner wall of the cylinder.

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During this period, Rorschach was in a state of self-isolation, spending most of his time in the Tower of Stars, and every few days he would go to the Research Building to report on the progress to Kano and test the effect of the magic circle on the transmutation dust.

The only way to learn about the outside world was during lunchtime when I read the newspaper.

"His Highness the Prince personally cut the ribbon at the Saliana Mining and Metallurgical Plant in the eastern suburbs. Under the watchful eyes of everyone present, the first batch of commemorative gold coins rolled off the production line and were distributed as an advance dividend to the top fifty major shareholders."

General Manager Mr. Varan stated that, in order to fully address external concerns, the company will organize a 30-person tour group next month to visit the gold mine site in the sub-plane. Besides the 15 shareholder members and 5 journalists, 10 spots will be randomly offered to members of the public in the Valuwana region.

The draw for the tour slots is simple: purchase a six-pack of "Hercules" purple soda in the Valuana region, and you'll have a chance to find a gold voucher in the packaging. With the voucher, you can receive a commemorative gold coin and a tour of the sub-plane gold mine.

"Not bad, you know how to play." Rorschach closed the newspaper without any particular thoughts. The secondary dimension was no longer his concern; he could let that minister and that young man, Valon, do whatever they wanted. He finished the last bite of bread and sipped it with milk.

Suddenly Rorschach choked, and his nose tasted the milk.

Cough cough cough.

The control panel is finally updated!

Sorry for the late update, something came up at school tonight and I had to go to the college building TT

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