Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 458 The Cage

The wizards' magical abilities today are not much different from those in the future.

However, without the magic network as a magical compiler and responder, wizards not only have to expend more magic power to cast spells, but also need to rely on their own imagination and knowledge system to form the magical effect, which is extremely inefficient.

If a magic network is established and further training is provided, the wizards' abilities, while not yet sufficient to confront enemies of the level of divine children and archangels, will reach the level of future Aurors. Dealing with those angel legions that are all show and no substance should not be too much of a problem.

However, Murphy's purpose in establishing the magic network was not solely to benefit wizards.

Like Rheinmetall, the magic network is a key component of his next "divine blockade" plan.

The children of the gods were skeptical about the magic network's ability to enhance the wizards' power, but after Murphy said that with some adjustments, the magic network could also greatly enhance the power of the children of the gods and even the gods, the children of the gods finally became interested and took the initiative to inquire about the method of establishing the magic network.

"The magic network can be seen as a magic amplifier," Murphy said. "Its construction mainly consists of three parts: First, various types of magic with different attributes, the stronger and more extreme the better. Second, the materials that bear the magic—magical metals such as mithril and orogen are among them. Third, the ritual that combines these materials and magic into a specific structure."

This is actually an "artificial magic network" technology that Haldane, Jim Best, and others reverse-engineered from the magic network in a future timeline.

But at this moment, Murphy was preparing to use it to create a real magic web.

In fact, by now, he is basically convinced that the "magic net" they discover in the future was probably created by himself.

Otherwise, he simply couldn't imagine who else but him would build such a massive magical project.

And he did indeed need the Magic Network to complete his plans.

Murphy then gave a brief explanation of the specific plans for building the magic network.

First, high-quality magic metal needs to be produced to contain and separate magic with various special properties.

The requirements for magic metals in magic networks are extremely high, and the magic forging techniques of the wizards in the camp are clearly insufficient.

However, it doesn't matter. The wizards' techniques were learned from the fairies, and the most essential part of the fairies' alchemy, apart from some of the racial inheritance, actually came from a certain Norse god of trickery and lies whose name cannot be mentioned. They learned a lot of advanced enchanting and smelting techniques from the artifacts that Loki made for the Aesir gods.

But now that Murphy, the patriarch of fairy metallurgy, is here, there's naturally no need to worry about forging magical metals.

After producing qualified magic metal, it is necessary to collect magic of various attributes. In this regard, the magic of each of the divine children is actually quite suitable. Their magic comes from their respective father gods, and the magic of those gods, because it is transformed from divine office and divinity, has been "conceptualized" and exhibits very extreme attributes.

For example, the magic of the offspring of the god of love has a strong alluring power, while the magic of the offspring of the sea god has the water attribute, and so on.

However, involving the divine child now would be difficult for Murphy to control, so Murphy simply chose to select from the wizards' individual magical powers.

In fact, he was not lacking in magic of all kinds. After Ragnarok, the extreme magic that Murphy collected from the Norse gods was more than enough for him to create several magic network nodes. However, he was not only creating the magic network for the magic network itself. He also needed to use it to drag the God Child and the gods behind the God Child into the water. Naturally, he had to leave room for the gods to intervene.

In the future, once these two steps are completed, the Magic Network node will actually be physically built. It will only need to adjust its resonant frequency to match that of the real Magic Network to be integrated into the Magic Network.

This magic network node is like a computer with only the most primitive paper tape input and output mode. Even without the magic network, Murphy can still use some means to communicate with this magic node and complete some operations that can only be performed through the magic network.

However, this requires a very deep understanding of the nature of the magic network, as well as a very high level of magic manipulation skills.

Looking across the past and future, it's almost impossible for anyone other than Murphy to replicate this method of manipulation.

Therefore, if Murphy wants to turn this magic network node into a tool that all wizards can use—and thus a trap to lure the children of gods and spirits into it—he must complete the final step: to build a set of operating rules for this magic network that only has hardware, that is, to load a set of self-running software for it.

This set of operating rules needs to meet the following requirements:

1. The simple interaction method allows wizards to precisely guide magical effects with just short incantations or gestures.

2. The low cost of mana allows wizards with limited mana to cast spells for an extended period.

3. Powerful scalability to satisfy the wizards' endless creativity, ensuring that it can always be used to better achieve the wizards' intentions, rather than limiting them.

To this end, Murphy plans to equip the MagicNet with a brain-like neural network and pre-train it to a certain extent.

This is not difficult. He already has memristor neuromorphic chips, and large neural network models are readily available. At the same time, he also has a large number of mature magic and spell paradigms. Using these as a basis, creating a program that can adapt to the vast majority of magic scenarios is just a matter of engineering workload, and there are no technical bottlenecks.

The entire plan for building the magic network had already taken shape in Murphy's mind, so he explained it fluently, but the children of the gods were left dizzy from his explanation.

With their limited knowledge and shallow understanding of magic, they simply couldn't comprehend the numerous and complex magic manipulation techniques Murphy was describing.

They were all groaning in dismay, but when they heard that Murphy planned to entrust the construction of the magic network to wizards who were more familiar with magic technology, they were all relieved and tried to avoid it at all costs.

While cursing these guys for only reaping the benefits, Murphy secretly sneered.

Don't blame me for not giving you a chance; it's just that you were useless when I did give you a chance.

They only thought of delegating such complicated and difficult work to the hardworking wizard community, and that they could enjoy the results themselves. They never considered that in doing so, the magic network would become a technical black box for them.

Murphy will provide them with the most convenient and quickest interface, while naturally leaving himself the most hidden and efficient backdoor at the underlying level.

It's a trap, but it's also a calculated move.

For users of magic, the magic network is like a computer after the advent of Windows; its ability to improve efficiency is an irresistible lure for even the gods.

However, until they possess sufficient knowledge of the nature of magic and magical techniques, their authority within the magic network will forever remain under Murphy's control.

However, the idealistic nature of deities dictates that they cannot acquire such profound knowledge.

This is an unbreakable trap set by exploiting the inherent flaws of the divine.

This is the cage that Murphy prepared for the gods.

(End of this chapter)