I, Stone Golem, only want to forge.

Murphy tinkered with this water core as casually as taking a stroll.

This thing has only two parts.

The core technology mentioned above actually has the lowest technical content; Murphy has at least four or five solutions in mind that can solve it.

The simplest method is its old trick—controlling the concentration of magic power, thereby achieving control over magic power.

A slightly more complex method, like the one above, manipulates magic by adjusting the core's magic affinity.

Magic affinity is also not difficult to control.

Find an item with a high affinity for water, and then continuously adjust its contact with the outside world.

This step was actually the easiest for Murphy.

The difficult part is actually the base.

Although the essence of the base is not particularly complicated, it relies on the principle that the same element has transmissibility within a certain range.

But this transmission is chaotic and the sea is so vast, how can we unify and integrate the information coming from all places and then report it to the water core?

The next challenge is how to get the water core to respond based on the information it receives. These two points are the most difficult to address.

If it were simply a matter of gathering information, Murphy could have easily used his "powerful brick-throwing" method.

The water element is sealed in a container with three-dimensional coordinate axes, and then this spatial coordinate is scaled up proportionally and projected onto the real sea surface in a point-to-point manner.

This allows us to see the big picture from a small detail, and by observing the distribution of water elements within the container, we can determine the movement trend of the nearby sea surface.

The reason it's described as "powerful enough to make bricks fly" is because the distribution of water elements within the container is not visible to the naked eye, and it's not always possible to have someone watching it all the time.

Therefore, this step must be handled using runes.

What should we do?

Rune sensors are deployed at each grid point. The runes automatically record the magic concentration per unit area and report it back to the central control station.

Then, by utilizing the characteristics of the ocean waves themselves, these sensor data are iteratively compressed into a small number of key parameters.

Finally, these parameters are recursively processed to fit a complete set of wave functions, which are then recorded and output.

The premise for doing this is obviously to knock out all the rune sensors and pre-set the corresponding calculation formulas using runes in the main station.

And the number of these formulas is also extremely large.

To put it bluntly, it's all about quantity, all about Murphy's rune skills; there's almost nothing that can be called technique.

However, even with sheer volume, creating this water core on such a small area is as simple as taking a stroll for it.

Of course, it doesn't intend to treat something with no technological content as the final product.

At best, it's just casually creating a model for experimentation.

"This is garbage, but it can be used as a model temporarily to record data."

Yes, Murphy didn't create this thing just because he was bored and wanted to show off his rune technology.

The densely packed monitoring units on top monitor far more than just the reactions of water elements; they can also be used to record the specific dissolution reactions of the large water core in the center of the room to different sea surface conditions.

To put it bluntly, this is stealing data.

This is the method Murphy intends to use to solve the problem of how the water core automatically adjusts itself when balancing ocean waves.

Once all the adjustment data for different wave conditions is recorded, the adjustment-related algorithms should be able to be replicated.

"Mr. Murphy, how many runes are engraved inside this thing?"

Siri stared at the small model in Murphy's hand with a strange expression.

With his skill level, he could certainly sense the existence of the runes and vaguely perceive the information flow generated by them.

But when he probed the model with his senses, the density of the information flow and the density of the runes directly caused his brain to become chaotic.

This is a bit frightening. Even if he had a bunch of little people talking in his head every day, he wouldn't be this confused...

In other words, the amount of information in this model is as exaggerated as several thousand people speaking at the same time.

"Tens of thousands, I guess?" Murphy said.

Sri fell silent.

He mentally checked the number repeatedly, and even knowing Murphy's personality well, he couldn't help but ask:

"You're not joking, are you?"

"Maybe more?"

Murphy casually replied while placing the water core model next to the main water core and beginning to record data.

"Has your rune skill... improved again?"

Siri knew that Murphy's rune skills were extremely high, but he had never carved tens of thousands of runes on such a small object before.

When did it become like this?

"Because it feels right."

That's right, just because it feels like it's okay.

After seeing those markings composed of extremely tiny runes, Murphy realized that runes could be shrunk to this extent.

So it pondered for a while, then actually tried it out, and found that it wasn't that difficult.

Although its microscope is not yet sufficient to clearly observe such small runes, it was able to carve runes by feel in the past.

Now, with the help of microscopes, even if the runes to be carved are smaller, we can still see some blurry outlines and carve them by sense.

Sri didn't seem shocked or surprised. He just pursed his lips tightly, his facial muscles stiffened, and his brows furrowed, as if he intended to spend a lifetime trying to understand the meaning of Murphy's words.

What does it mean to say "because it feels like it's okay," and then it actually works?

Isn't this a bit too idealistic...? Are runes really like that?

Diaz, standing to the side, fared somewhat better. He couldn't understand a word the two were saying, but after Murphy finished saying "record the data" and placed the small model next to the large water core, he asked with some curiosity:

"What kind of data is recorded in this log?"

"It records data on its response to different sea surface conditions," Murphy said.

"Huh?" Diaz was taken aback. "You want to record this?"

Murphy nodded.

Diaz scratched his head for a moment: "But what's the use of recording this stuff?"

"Doesn't the water core have functions like maintaining stability?"

Seeing Diaz's strange expression, Murphy had a bad feeling and asked in confusion.

"Isn't this the same as not having anything at all? When the waves are big, this function becomes almost useless, and we still have to rely on our experience to operate it manually."

Diaz said matter-of-factly.

After hearing this, Murphy looked down at what he had just typed out, then looked at the larger one.

According to Diaz, this thing is not what he expected; it doesn't have this kind of automation function at all.

It seems that it's overestimating the creator of this thing.

So you created this complicated thing on your own wishful thinking?

However, this is not surprising.

Murphy didn't know when it started, but that kind of automated thinking had become ingrained in his bones, and he wanted to make everything run automatically first.

Therefore, they were prejudiced and assumed that the water core was fully automated.

Actually, you'll understand if you just step outside that mindset a little.

If even stable operation can be maintained automatically, then why are there so many crew members and first mates?

Murphy scratched his head, unsure of what expression to make, and simply stared silently at the two machines, one large and one small, in front of him.