Two Cities, I build mecha in Picheng

Chapter 5 unlock blueprint, Hex Energy Crystal! (Please support!)

"How do you know the substance inside is magic?" Li Lin was a little confused.

Clearly, Jess doesn't know that the energy of crystals is magic. Could it be that I have misremembered?
In Li Lin's impression, the crystal that Jess studied for the first time was not a man-made crystal, but the original crystal of the shell people found under the yellow sands of Shurima by the expedition team of the Gilaman family.

However, the reality is that Jess first studied man-made technological crystals, and found magic elements in them, which was quite different from the background story he knew.

It seems that the background story is just words after all, and it cannot be fully substituted into the real world...

Li Lin kept an eye out and secretly warned himself not to be blindly confident just because he knew the background story.

"It's a long story, and it happened when I was a child."

Jess subconsciously touched a bracelet inlaid with dim blue crystals on his wrist.

"My mother and I once encountered a blizzard in a desolate area near Mount Targon. Because of exhaustion, my mother fell into the snow. Just when I was desperate, a mage wearing a robe and holding a staff appeared in front of us. .

"He cast a magical spell, and many mysterious and obscure symbols appeared around him. Those symbols surrounded my mother and me. After a moment of confusion, we were teleported to the northwestern corner of Shurima. Kalamanda on the coast of the sea..."

Jess stared at the bracelet on his wrist, with a look of reminiscence on his face.

"Later, I found records about those magic symbols in books in the library. They are called runes, which are a kind of rune magic, and can also be called arcane magic.

"Different from ordinary elemental magic, arcane magic is very rare and pure, and can release great energy in an instant. It is very similar to the Hex technology crystal, and I have seen similar runes in the crystal."

After listening to Jess's narration, Li Lin's expression changed for a while.

Runes and arcane magic, if you only look at these words, Li Lin will only think of the rune mage Ryze and Xerath as the body of arcane energy.

He knew that the Hex technology crystal developed based on the original crystal of the shell-human race was a combination of magic and technology, but he didn't expect it to be a kind of arcane magic.

Li Lin was silent for a long time, "So, what do you want me to help you with?"

"I'm looking for a way to use science to control magic. If successful, we can not only stabilize the Hex technology crystal, but also use it in various fields, and even completely conquer nature... ..."

The more Jess spoke, the more excited he became, but the more Li Lin listened, the more worried he became.

Good guy, conquer nature... Lissandra, the Frost Witch, called herself an expert!

If Volibear, the demigod of the Freljord, knew about it, he might not have just turned into Thunderbolt and came to Piltover overnight to let an R sit on your ass...

Boy, your thoughts are dangerous!

Li Lin quietly wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, "Do you want me to help you research?"

"That's right!" Jess stood up abruptly, startling Li Lin, "With your help, I believe there will be a breakthrough soon!"

"Uh, well... let me think about it."

Li Lin rubbed his chin and fell into deep thought.

In fact, he didn't want to wade into this muddy water, but his original plan included contacting and researching the Hex crystal as soon as possible.

After all, as a mechanic, with the sponsorship of the Gilaman family, there must be no shortage of resources.

After all, a mechanic is inferior to a warrior in terms of physical strength, and inferior to a mage in terms of mana, which leads him to have a set of power armor similar to "Iron Man" for self-defense.

Since it is powered armor, it needs a powerful energy source to drive it.

Li Lin doesn't know if he can develop controllable nuclear fusion through the system in the future. After all, this is a technology that has not yet been achieved in reality.

Besides, only controllable nuclear fusion is not enough. If you want to reach the level of Iron Man's Ark reactor, at least you need to go further with cold nuclear fusion technology... These can only be imagined in a dream.

As far as the current technology of Piltover is concerned, it is probably hundreds of years away from the development of nuclear energy, but using hex crystals as a power source is also a good choice.

After some deliberation, Li Lin looked up at Jess, "How far has your research on crystals progressed?"

"Because the crystal is incomplete, my current progress is not much."

Jess bowed his head and hesitated.

"However, through various tests and analyzing the composition of the crystal, I roughly drew its conceptual blueprint in reverse, and also recorded the incomplete runes engraved on it..."

"Have you recorded the runes?"

Hearing this, Li Lin's eyes could not help but brighten, and a bold idea emerged in his heart.

My [data-based thinking] skills might be able to allow me to understand arcane magic through runes...

If he really succeeds, he will be able to truly master Hextech crystal technology!

"Where are your research results? Take me there first, if I have a clue, maybe I can help you."

"Of course no problem!" Hearing that Li Lin promised to help him, Jess walked towards the door excitedly, "Come on, it's in my studio..."

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A few minutes later, in the innermost room of Jess' studio.

Li Lin stared at the crystal shards placed in the Hex resonance instrument on the table, unable to complain.

"You put such an important thing on the bright side? Your heart is too big..."

"Ahem, except Mrs. Karina and Mr. Erro, no one else has the key to my studio. Besides, Mrs. and Mister basically don't come here, so don't worry."

"I...forget it, let's not talk about this." Li Lin had a helpless expression on his face, "Let me see your results."

"Here." Jess first handed him a design drawing, "This is the crystal concept drawing I drew based on this fragment."

Jess' drawings are different from the general design blueprints that Li Lin knows.

It is relatively complete in terms of structure, but there are many places that are simply marked, without detailed concepts and principles, and do not meet the drawing requirements of the Piltover standard.

If this design blueprint is handed over to other craftsmen, most of them will not understand what is drawn.

But for Li Lin, these are trivial matters.

He took the drawing and pretended to watch it carefully. In fact, he activated the [Data Thinking] skill, and a progress bar appeared in front of him.

This skill will consume 1 point of mana per second. After consuming more than ten points of mana, the progress bar finally reaches 100%.

【mistake!Invalid design drawings. 】

"Your conceptual drawing is wrong. In fact, this kind of crystal has a much larger proportion of technology than magic, rather than most of it being composed of magic as you imagined."

Li Lin put the drawings back on the table.

"After all, Hextech crystals are all made by machines...but it's pretty good that you can reverse engineer to this point."

"You can understand?" Jess was surprised, but at the same time, he was inexplicably relieved and sighed.

Finally someone can directly understand my drawings.

"If you can draw more details, maybe I can see it more easily." Li Lin said nonsense without blushing, and took another small notebook from Jess.

He turned the page lightly, and the first thing he saw was a very strange and familiar symbol.

Li Lin squinted his eyes and looked back and forth carefully for a long time, feeling a little startled.

Isn't this special symbol composed of icons in the rune page before entering the game? !

Precision, dominance, witchcraft, determination, and enlightenment, which symbolize the imprints of the five world runes, are split and combined, pieced together, and reconstituted into magical symbols.

"What's wrong? Did you see anything?" Jess noticed the change in Li Lin's face and asked quickly.

"No, not yet."

It is reasonable for rune magic to originate from world runes...

Li Lin shook his head, temporarily put aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, and started [Data-based Thinking] again.

With the rapid drop in mana, the progress bar progressed very slowly.

As the time passed, Li Lin paused his skills several times to wait for his mana to recover, and Jess had been patiently waiting beside him.

Until he was dizzy and felt that his mental strength was about to be drained, the progress bar finally came to an end.

[Runes (incomplete): Original crystals from the shell people. 】

【Congratulations!You have learned some of the mysteries of the Shell Terran crystals. 】

[Reward: Hex Energy Crystal Blueprint (Advanced Version)]

[Hex Energy Crystal: A stable core energy device, a small crystal contains extremely strong energy. 】

[Attributes (for machinery): 500 HP, 500 energy]

【Ability Effect】

[Passive Energy Core: When the energy crystal is used as the core energy supply device, it provides an additional 1000 energy bonus for mechanical creations. 】

[Passive·Recharging: The energy crystal can absorb the magic elements in the air to recharge itself, recovering 3% of the maximum energy per second. 】

[Active Overload Operation: Through the overload operation of the energy crystal, the mechanical creation temporarily gains an additional 500 life points and energy, and the maximum energy recovered per second increases to 10% (the energy crystal will be scrapped after 3 uses). 】

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