Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 401 Artificial Magic Network

Murphy arrived at the Magic Research Institute, where research on magic metals began earlier than at the Void Particle Research Institute in the Soviet Union. They had long realized that magic could affect the properties of various materials, including semiconductors.

But before he could find the magical semiconductor research expert, Dunzel Evans, he saw Haldane and others tinkering with a huge device, which was as big as a basketball court and almost filled the largest laboratory of the spell path research group.

Near that enormous device hung a construction drawing, and Murphy couldn't help but stop and look at it for a while.

"Chief!" Haldane saw Murphy and rushed over.

"Is this the beehive?" Murphy asked, glancing at the three-dimensional structure made up of countless hexagonal grids on the construction drawings.

"Exactly," Haldan said, looking very excited. "However, what we've built so far is just a partial test structure. It's mainly used to verify whether the Department of Mystic Affairs is a node of the 'Magic Network' and to complete the experiment of extracting magical energy."

After visiting the Department of Mysteries, Murphy realized that the Department of Mysteries might be a component of the "Magic Network." After conducting preliminary theoretical calculations, Haldane and the others discovered that Murphy was likely right, and the Department of Mysteries was very likely an important node in the Magic Network.

To verify this hypothesis and to examine the possibility of extracting magic power from the magic network as a stable energy source, they launched the "Artificial Magic Network" project under Murphy's authorization.

The honeycomb is the first step in the artificial magic network project.

"We explored the underground magical source rooms of the Danish Ministry of Magic with Jim Best's team, and had a shaman from Alkaim show us around the Holy City's magical nexus. Like the Department of Mysteries of the British Ministry of Magic, they have many similarities, and we are basically certain that they are all the same kind of thing."

"The unique marker magic we added to the magical torrents flowing through the Department of Mysteries can also be detected in the Holy City's Magic Hub and the Danish Magic Source Room, indicating that the magical nodes in the three locations are connected."

"We speculate that these torrents of magic, along with the Departments of Mystery of the Ministries of Magic in various countries, which serve as turning points, together form a vast magical network that covers the entire world."

Although the hypothesis has not been fully verified, Haldan is already very excited. He proposed the hypothesis of the magic network several years ago when he first came into contact with magic. At that time, he thought it would take at least several decades to prove the hypothesis, but he did not expect that this day would come so soon.

"The architecture of the Department of Mysteries is clearly the result of a magical ritual. Each room retains a special and extreme magical energy, isolated from each other yet connected, forming a powerful magical resonance."

"Jim Best and I agree that this resonance is the key to connecting the various magical nodes."

"The Hive mimics the structure of the Department of Mysteries, and if our guess is correct, it will resonate with it and become a tributary of magic."

Murphy nodded, looking at the construction drawings. Each hexagonal square in the drawings had a mark drawn on it, some were hearts, some were skulls, some were crystal balls, etc., representing energies such as love, death, and prophecy respectively.

But there were some things Murphy hadn't seen before. He pointed to a small head on the icon that looked like something from the anime "The Scream" and asked, "What's this?"

"Ah, this is the source of fear," Haldane explained. "We once had an experiment where we put a Dementor inside a sphere filled with Patronus energy and kept compressing the sphere to see if the Dementor would die. It turned out that it could be compressed into a mass of unconscious pure energy, and this energy has extremely strong psychological polarity; it is a very pure form of fear magic."

"This fear magic is almost limitless. As long as it is extracted within the limit, it can replenish itself like a Philosopher's Stone. We believe this may be one of the reasons for the Dementors' immortality."

"Polar magic and primal matter have many similarities. In fact, we once tried to compress a large number of Dementors to artificially create primal matter. However, the magic power produced by a single Dementor is too small, far less than that of a Philosopher's Stone, and has little value as an energy source. But it is sufficient as one of the extreme energies of the Hive."

"Oh, the Dementor compression experiment." Murphy remembered that he had seen this in the weekly research papers submitted by the Magic Research Institute.

It has to be said that these scientists are all geniuses; these Dementors were actually drained dry and turned into batteries...

However, Murphy was more concerned about the similarity between polar magic and primal matter mentioned by Haldane. There might be some connection between them, but the two are also different.

Each polar magical energy, such as love and death, has a very singular magical attribute, but the primordial essence is different. Its magical attribute is more like a hexagonal warrior, reaching extremely high frequencies in all dimensions.

However, the torrent of magic power generated by the resonance of multiple polar magical energies also possesses multidimensional properties similar to primordial matter. Given that mining on the moon is no longer feasible, it is the most suitable energy source to replace the magic stone.

"How long until the Hive is fully completed?" Murphy asked.

"Don't worry, Director. The main structure is almost complete. All that's left is the arrangement and installation of the magic wires. We can complete the verification test within a month."

Murphy nodded and encouraged, "Keep it up. Whether we can truly enter the magical age may depend on this experiment."

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After leaving the Spellcasting Research Group, Murphy found Dunzel Evans.

The latter locked himself in a laboratory. According to his assistant, he had been living there for more than half a month, and his meals were usually delivered directly to him by house-elves.

"The team leader is under a lot of pressure. He's almost obsessed with the research on the properties of magical silicon," an assistant said. "If this continues, I'm afraid he'll die in the lab."

Murphy frowned and Apparated into the laboratory.

A thin, short researcher with messy hair is testing the properties of materials at the test bench.

"No way!" He stared at the data on the testing instrument, his face showing a nervous anxiety. "Magic flux can affect the magical resistance of a material, but the resistance cannot recover on its own. This material can't be made into a semiconductor!"

Murphy stood behind Dunzel and glanced at the data on the screen, suddenly finding it somewhat familiar.

"What kind of material is this? Magic silicon?" Murphy asked.

"No, magical silicon carbide cannot be achieved with just elemental silicon. The silicon lattice is a complex lattice, containing two types of unequal atoms, which would hinder the flow of magical energy. Silicon carbide has better flow properties."

Deng Ze'er seemed unaware of the person behind him, and said as if to himself, "But it still doesn't work. Its magical resistance doesn't change linearly. It seems to be altered by the secondary magical transformation during the magical flow..."

As Murphy looked at the graphic, a sudden thought flashed through his mind: this thing really wasn't suitable for making semiconductors.

But who says that magic chips have to be made of semiconductors?

"Denzel, you're being limited by your semiconductor mindset," Murphy suddenly said. "The fact that the magic resistance changes with the magic flux and can maintain that resistance without recovering itself means that this material itself can store historical information."

Have you heard of artificial neural networks and memristors?

(End of this chapter)