my armed maid

Chapter 81 78: Special Research Results

"what?"

In the studio, Luo Zhen looked up in surprise, "You said you found a prosthetic material that can replace Lingfeng Wood?"

"Yes." Nolen pushed the copied formula of improved knight steel to him.

"I have sent people to collect these materials. Then you can test it and see if you can successfully create a finished product and replace Yuna with a new prosthetic limb."

Although the formula ingredients have changed, the core materials of improved knight steel are still meteorite iron and mithril.

Including some other rare auxiliary materials, they are actually quite valuable alchemical materials, and the cost is much higher than the original knight steel.

Fortunately, unlike magic crystals, these materials are basically produced in the Linfeng Mountains, and Linfeng City can be completely self-sufficient.

Although most of the land in Linfeng City comes from the vast Lebus grassland on the border of the Western Region, part of the area to the west of the Linfeng Mountains is also within its sphere of influence.

Compared with the relatively barren grasslands, the Linfeng Mountains are much richer in products, especially meteorite iron and various rare herbs.

Even if they only own part of the land on the west side of the mountain range, the various materials mined from it are one of the most important financial components of Linfeng City.

Due to the impact of the war, the passage between Linfeng City and the Linfeng Mountains was cut off by the prairie troops. The materials mined in the mountains could not be transported with support from other cities, which once put the city into a dilemma of lack of resources.

After the war, the city restored contact with the troops stationed in the Linfeng Mountains. As the general staff officer of the city lord's palace, he could use various resources mined in the mountains at will.

As long as the supplies are dispatched in the name of the military department, these expensive materials do not even need to be paid out of his own pocket.

"You might as well give it a try..."

Luo Zhen took the formula with a slightly complicated expression.

For him, puppeteering is a secret skill inherited from his family. Whether it is the puppet suspension wire or the materials for making prosthetic limbs, they are the best formulas they have obtained through continuous testing and optimization from generation to generation.

As an outsider who doesn't know the ropes, how can it be as simple as you imagine and can be optimized by just optimizing?

This is our family’s secret technique! You have optimized everything, where can we put our faces?

Originally, with his violent temper, he subconsciously wanted to refute the ignorant boy in front of him.

But when the words of refutation came to his lips, he swallowed them down. After all, the person standing in front of him was a genius alchemist and the general staff officer of the City Lord's Mansion!
  Designing individual flight equipment, manufacturing individual strategic-level magic weapons, and producing five new magic cannons in one day... Thinking about the achievements he has made, he became silent.

If it were any other alchemist, he would sneer at it, but if it were Nolen... maybe?

Don’t question, believe first.

This is what he summed up when he got along with Nolen.

If the formula experiment fails in the future, he will laugh at Ya severely... He silently put down the harsh words in his heart.

……

Two days later, Flamel City.

The person in power in Flamel City is the Flamel family. The head of the family also serves as the president of the headquarters of the Alchemy Society. Members of each family also occupy the vast majority of the society's director seats.

The so-called Flamel family is the descendants of the legendary alchemist Edward Flamel.

They inherited Master Edward's talent for studying alchemy. After hundreds of years of development and precipitation, Flamel City's alchemy technology was at the leading edge in the entire Roland Empire.

Of course, this is not all the research results achieved by the Flamel family. They are keen to collect various alchemical theories and are willing to conduct academic exchanges with like-minded colleagues across the empire rather than working behind closed doors.

The Alchemy Society was an organization spearheaded by the Flamel family. As its influence grew, a large number of talented alchemists responded to its call and jointly built the Alchemy Tower in Flamel City. The higher.

This morning, Arlande Flamel finished breakfast and went to the Alchemy Society to start today's work as usual.

He is a member of the Flamel family. Although he is only a collateral member, he was still appreciated by the family for his excellent alchemical talent and became a director of the Alchemy Society headquarters.

His job is to review the research results submitted by alchemists to the society and give an appropriate and reasonable rating to the alchemical results.

The ratings from high to low are divided into special level, first level, second level, and third level. Each time the level increases, the society will pay more attention to the alchemist who has completed the research results.

If it reaches level one or higher, it proves that the alchemist has made a huge contribution in the field of alchemy.

Not only will he receive material rewards from the society, the society will also extend an olive branch to him without hesitation and invite him to become the management of the society.

With the recognition of the society, the alchemist's name will be quickly known by his peers and he will gain both fame and fortune. This is also the most common way for an alchemist to reach the top of his life.

Therefore, accurately rating various research results is a very important task, which is not only related to knowledge, but also related to the future of various alchemists.

The headquarters of the Alchemy Society receives countless research results reports from various branches every day, and they come from dozens of cities across the empire.

Before the branch sends the performance report, it will make a rating in advance to facilitate the screening by the headquarters.

A large number of second-level and third-level research results will be accepted by the headquarters' review team. Only a few first-level or even special-level research results will be handed over to the directors for appraisal and review by the most professional alchemists.

Research results of this level are naturally very rare and may not be seen a few times a month. Therefore, as a review director, Arland's daily work is relatively easy.

He walked into his office as usual, thinking of sitting here for a while and then leaving.

The assistant on the side came over and said to him excitedly: "Sir, an urgent email was sent from Linfeng City. Look at the logo, it turns out to be a special research report!"

"Linfeng City?" Arlande raised his eyebrows, "Is the branch over there labeled wrong?"

The rolling Linfeng Mountains separate the central part of the Roland Empire from the west. The places west of the mountains are remote and backward western frontiers for the imperial people in the central part.

Yes, remote and backward.

Even though the straight-line distance between Linfeng City and Flamel City is not very far, this city still gives this impression to most people in the empire, including Arland.

Alchemy is the highest level of human wisdom, and wisdom is a luxury in any era.

Generally speaking, the more remote, new, and further away from the imperial cultural center a city is, the less attention it pays to alchemists, and the correspondingly less alchemical results there are.

Linfeng City perfectly meets the above three conditions. It is a remote border city with a history of only more than [-] years.

Compared to the ancient city of Flamel, which had thousands of years of cultural heritage and existed before the birth of the Roland Empire, it was as ignorant as a clean newborn.

How could such a city produce special research results? This level is a great achievement that can be recorded in the history of alchemy and can make the inventor a "legendary alchemist"!

In fact, since the Alchemy Society established a branch in Linfeng City more than seventy years ago, not to mention special-level research results, not even first-level results have been produced.

This must be the wrong branch label in Linfeng City, Arland thought. The package probably contained level [-] research results. This should be handed over to the jury instead of himself.

However, the society has stipulated that as long as the branch's initial rating is above level one, it must be submitted to the director of the headquarters for review, regardless of whether there is any mistake.

He could only walk to the laboratory next door, nodded to the assistant and said, "Open it and take a look."

"Okay." The young assistant didn't think too much. He was just curious and excited about this special document.

Arriving at the laboratory, the assistant quickly removed the three inner and outer layers of the package and took out a document and a packaged half-meter long and wide substrate.

""Report on the Research Results of Simplifying the "Acceleration" of the Second-Order Wind Spell Array"..."

Arland recited the title of the first page of the document silently, and said with a smile, "It's really a third-level research result."

Simplifying the spell circle is one of the most popular research topics received by the Alchemy Society, and usually the ratings of this type of research are not very high.

Because the magic rune system has been studied by countless alchemists for hundreds of years since its invention, it has already reached a bottleneck period.

The optimal solutions for drawing many spell formations have already been explored. Even if optimization is done on this basis, each improvement will be very small and can only be regarded as the icing on the cake and cannot cause qualitative changes.

As a result, the rating will naturally not be high.

The array for high-level spells is like this, not to mention that this is just a simplified array for second-level spells.

Seeing this, he couldn't help but lose interest, but as he turned to the end of the document, his expression slowly became strange.

The size of the magic circle can often be several meters, and it is generally quite large. Therefore, the results report sent generally does not include the finished magic circle, but instead attaches a page with a simplified structural diagram of the magic circle.

After the people at the headquarters received the structural diagram, they used it to reproduce the magic circle.

The original process was like this, but for some reason this document report did not come with a simplified structural diagram of the magic circle.

On that blank page, there is a line of words written:

This magic circle is written by the new magic rune system, so——

"Can't it be expressed in the form of the old structural diagram?"

Arlande read this sentence and frowned deeply.

There isn't even a structural diagram, so how does the headquarters know what this array looks like?

His peripheral vision glanced at the half-meter-long mysterious substrate next to him, and a ridiculous thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Didn't Linfeng City send the finished product of the "Acceleration" magic circle?

But isn't the general size of the second-order magic circle about two meters? This base plate is only half a meter in size, so the size difference is too big, right?
  But if not, what is this thing?

He knew it quickly, because the assistant on the side opened the encapsulated substrate and took out the half-meter-sized magic circle base.

"This, this is -" Arland looked at the pocket magic circle that was only thirty centimeters long in front of him and held his breath for a moment.

Indeed, as the report said, the various magic runes painted on this pocket magic circle were something he had never seen before, as if they came from a brand new rune system.

The reason why we can be sure at a glance that they are a self-contained system rather than random drawings is because these runes are obviously arranged according to rules, and they are arranged like a magic circle——

Very beautiful.

Yes, magic circle science is also an aesthetics, and this has reached a consensus in the alchemy community.

The magic circle that can be successfully activated must secretly conform to the elemental laws between heaven and earth. It is a beautiful existence.

This pocket magic circle was so beautiful that it made his heart beat faster.

You can't be serious...

Because the branch directly sent the magic circle base, which saved the headquarters the trouble of reproducing the magic circle, he immediately ordered: "Insert the base into the experimental bench, I want to activate this magic circle!"

"Yes!"

The assistant skillfully placed the base of the magic circle on the experimental bench and connected it to the source of magic power.

"Om-"

Under Arlande's nervous gaze, the next moment, a blue magic circle spread out in front of the experimental table.

In front of the cyan magic circle, the air shook suddenly, but because there was no acceleration target, it did not appear to cause any obvious abnormality in the world.

But as a mage, he could feel that the flow of elements in the laboratory had changed at this moment.

Arlande's expression was a little dull. He stood there, his head unable to process the information in front of him for a moment.

The magic circle was indeed successfully activated.

This means that this magic circle, which is only thirty centimeters long, is real and effective.

It also means that the new magic runes that make up this magic circle are completely of practical value.

Successfully streamlined the two-meter-level magic circle to a thirty-centimeter level?

Did this kind of fantasy really happen before my eyes?

"Oh my god...oh my god, oh my god!"

After realizing how much value was hidden behind the pocket magic circle in front of him, Arland felt like he was going crazy.

"Special grade! Yes, this is the result of special grade research!"

He trembled with lips and said, "This is not as simple as streamlining a low-level magic circle, this is creating a brand new rune system!"

As he spoke, he stamped his feet vigorously and ran out impatiently.

He is going to see the president.

"Sir?" The assistant had never seen Arlande so gloomy before, and asked at a loss, "What should I do with this magic circle? Should I put it here first?"

"Magic circle...yes, magic circle!"

Arland came to his senses, trotted back, and said quickly, "Take it out and seal it. I want to keep it close to you!"

The special research results are the treasure of the society, and no mistakes are allowed.

No, it’s not just a treasure for the academy, it will be a treasure for all alchemists!

The more powerful the alchemist is, the more he understands the value of this pocket magic circle. Arlande is convinced——

A legendary alchemist who is about to redefine the science of magic circles is about to be born in a remote border city.

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