Lord: Starting with Summoning the Regular Army of Earth

Chapter 127 Magic Power Generation?

Even at night, Jinshiling remains a vibrant and bustling place. The tireless roar of the steam engines seems to have become the pulse of this land, a familiar and reassuring melody for its people.

The outline of the new factory buildings stretched out in the firelight, while people were still seen on the standard housing construction site, their shouts and the sounds of hammering mingling together.

This place has become a vibrant land that refuses to remain dormant.

Inside the lord's study, the lights were on, yet it offered a tranquil and focused retreat amidst the hustle and bustle.

With a thought, Matthew felt as if an invisible hand lifted the heavy magical tome on the bookshelf in the distance and carried it steadily to the desk in front of him. The pages automatically turned to the one with the quill pen—"The Wizard's Hand."

Now, he has mastered this most complex zero-ring spell to perfection, making it more agile than his left hand, which has been single for over thirty years.

During this period of time, even when he was in the wind-eroded highlands or on a carriage, he persisted in his cultivation. As a result, his mental strength and magic pool have long since reached the standard of a formal mage. His control over magic has also become more and more acute and refined through countless practice sessions with a mage.

Therefore, he felt it was time for him to take the next step and learn first-level spells.

The magic books Will brought only contained two first-level spells: Fireball and Thunder Arrow.

There are no records of higher-level magic.

The Kingdom of Augustus, or rather this world, has extremely strict control over magical knowledge, no less than the intellectual property rights held by technology companies in my previous life.

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High-level magic is almost entirely controlled by royalty, nobles, mage towers, and temples.

Especially spells above the fourth ring, those are absolutely strategic-level power, absolute secrets, and ordinary people have no right to even glimpse them.

Matthew's gaze fell on the "Fireball" technique described in the book.

The model for the Mage's Hand is already quite complex, but the model for the Fireball spell is even more so.

It not only needs to build a core that can stably output flame energy, but also needs to design a burst structure that converts magic into high heat and shock waves, and reserve an "interface" to guide and control the flight trajectory.

The entire model resembles a core woven from countless luminous lines, containing a violent power, encased in a delicate yet fragile "guidance" and "constraint" shell.

It is indeed quite difficult.

If creating the Mage's Hand is like building a complex, three-dimensional maze in your mind, then creating the Fireball is like stuffing an unstable bomb into that maze while ensuring the maze itself doesn't explode.

But Matthew wasn't afraid; instead, he felt an excited anticipation.

In the two months since, he has long since ceased to be the novice who first encountered mana.

The process of building, maintaining, and fine-tuning the Mage's Hand model countless times not only honed his mental resilience and precision but also gave him an almost instinctive intuition about "structure," "energy flow," and "node resonance."

He mentally disassembled the Fireball spell model, including the core burst structure, energy conversion circuit, stabilization constraint layer, and external guiding patterns—like disassembling a precision instrument, understanding the function and connection method of each part.

Soon, he began his first attempt.

Everything went smoothly in the early stages, and it felt like a natural progression. But Matthew did not slack off at all. His mental energy was like the most precise laser beam in a lithography machine, "carving" the energy pathway of the spell model.

However, just as he was connecting the critical energy circuit between the "burst trigger" and the "constraint shell," a slight calculation error caused the energy flow to become instantly disordered. The entire model "exploded" in his consciousness, causing a buzzing in his head and ripples to spread across his magic pool.

Matthew rubbed his temples, undeterred.

Failure is to be expected; the key is to learn from it.

He carefully reviewed the energy overload point just before the model crashed and adjusted the "parameters" of the relevant runes and the "bandwidth" of the energy pathway.

The second time, he was even more careful and highly focused, as if he were performing a delicate surgical operation.

Build the core, stabilize; wrap the constraint layer, stabilize; engrave guide patterns, stabilize —

When the last node is lit up and perfectly connected to the entire network—

A structure about the size of a fist, with a stable structure, flowing red light inside, and a fiery energy that seemed ready to burst forth at any moment, quietly floated in his "consciousness space".

Unlike the gentleness of the shimmering light spell or the invisibility of the mage's hand, it can be clearly "perceived" as to contain a violent and bound force.

success!

Matthew had a thought, but didn't actually release it—testing the fireball spell in the room was clearly unwise.

He held the complete model for a few seconds, feeling the surging power and exquisite balance within it, and then slowly dissipated the magic, causing the model to disappear.

A feeling of fulfillment and power welled up within me.

Although it was never actually launched, successfully constructing a first-ring spell model is a milestone in itself.

This means that his magical reserves, mental strength, and understanding of magic have all officially reached the level of a "formal mage."

The threshold.

According to the rules of this world, he is now qualified to go to any city's mage guild for certification and receive the official mage badge that symbolizes his status.

However, Matthew had no interest in the badge.

His source of power and his future path were not within that rigid system.

Although successfully constructing the Fireball spell model had left him somewhat mentally exhausted, his gaze was still eagerly fixed on the next spell—Thunderbolt.

Unlike the explosive and bright light of flames, lightning represents extreme speed, penetration, and paralysis.

The spell model for Thunder Arrow presents a completely different picture.

It no longer pursues the intense internal reaction and restraint of the Fireball spell, but emphasizes "guidance" and "polarization".

At the core of the model is a series of dazzlingly complex, constantly intersecting and oscillating magic circuits used to violently disturb mana with specific properties in a very short time, inducing rapid separation and flow of charges.

Then, through a sharp, needle-like, progressively accelerating spiral structure, these raging electric currents are bound, accelerated, and...

Focused, it is ultimately projected out in the form of an "arrow".

It is fast, has strong penetrating power, and has a paralyzing effect. It is also particularly effective against metal armor and humid environments.

A typical point-to-point kill technique.

However, as Matthew carefully studied its principle description, especially the parts about "inducing charge separation and flow" and "binding and guiding current," an unprecedented, audacious, and almost absurd idea struck him like a thunderbolt, making him instantly forget about learning the spell itself.

electricity!

Electric current!

Isn't the essence of the Thunder Arrow simply using magical means to artificially create and control a powerful, directional electric current?

But what if we don't treat it as a one-time killing "arrow," but rather as a "power source" that can continuously output power and is stable and controllable?

Once the idea took hold, it spread like wildfire in his mind and could no longer be contained.

He quickly flipped through the books, his eyes flashing like lightning, scanning the descriptions of the basic runes and their common combined effects.

The basic meaning of the "Guiding" rune is to cause energy to move along a predetermined path.

Combination changes can be interpreted as "guiding" or "directing".

The basic meaning of the "Constant" rune is to maintain a certain state or effect in a stable state.

Commonly used in continuous spells or magical items.

The basic meaning of the "Shaping" rune is to give formless energy or malleable matter a specific shape.

The basic meaning of the "Transformation" rune is to facilitate a limited transformation of energy from one form to another.

Higher-order rune combinations can achieve more complex elemental transformations.

The basic meaning of the "Resonance/Amplification" rune: to enhance a certain effect by utilizing similar or complementary energy fluctuations.

A rough but heart-pounding idea began to piece together in Matthew's mind:

If we take the "inducing charge separation" part of the "Thunder Arrow" model as the core basis, and make significant simplifications and modifications, eliminating all the complex acceleration and focusing structures designed for "burst", "projection", and "destruction", we can achieve the following:

Then, using the "Guide" and "Shape" runes, a closed, circular magical circuit is constructed, allowing the induced charge to "flow" continuously and stably within this circuit.

Then use the "Constancy" rune to maintain the stable operation of this "power generation" core, preventing it from being released instantly like a spell.

Next, using "conversion" or specific energy guiding runes, such as borrowing the idea of ​​"light manifestation" in the spell of shimmering light, but changing the goal to "electrical energy extraction", the "magical current" flowing in this closed magic loop is "extracted" or "converted" into a physical current that can be carried by metal wires and conforms to certain rules.

Finally, perhaps we could add "resonance/amplification" runes, using external structures similar to "coils" or "magnets" to enhance and stabilize the current output.

This is no longer a "spell" that can be cast and be done with!

This is a prototype of a "magic generator" that can operate continuously and transform ubiquitous mana energy into usable, stable electricity through a specific magical model!

Magic is energy, and spell models are conversion devices that output electricity!

Matthew's heart pounded wildly, and his fingers gripping the book pages turned slightly white from the force.

If this idea is feasible—what would that mean?

Does this mean that Emberstone Ridge can skip the steam engine and go directly into the electric age?

At least it was an era where electricity and steam power coexisted!

This means that the problems of "power source" and "control precision" that plague many precision machining processes may find another solution—electricity!

Electric machine tools, electrically driven—although it sounds far-fetched, at least it provides a possible starting point.

This means that lighting, communications, and even more electric-based creations from Earth's technological tree have an energy foundation that can be replicated in this world.

Of course, he knew that the idea was currently just a crazy castle in the air, built on many assumptions and uncertainties.

Simplifying and maintaining a magical model that generates electricity can be extremely difficult, and the drain on mental and magical energy can be a continuous and enormous burden.

The conversion medium and efficiency from "magical electricity" to "physical electricity" are unknown;

Stable output, voltage and current control, safe use—every aspect is a formidable barrier.

But the door seemed to have been pushed open a crack, letting in a dazzling light.

He was no longer in a hurry to build and test the Thunder Arrow.

Instead, he quickly spread out a new sheet of parchment, grabbed a quill pen, dipped it in ink, and began to write and draw frantically.

The rough idea of ​​a "magic generator" in my mind, the runes that might be used, the envisioned circuit structure,

The problems encountered and the conjectures—I will record them as meticulously as possible, bit by bit.

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