Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 520 The First Cornerstone

The interior of the starship was shaking violently. The passengers were tightly tied in the cockpit, and their internal organs seemed to be shaking with the hull, turning upside down. Not only that, their temples began to throb, as if all the blood was rushing up, and their vision began to blur and blacken.

At the beginning, Kano acted alone without any preparation. He temporarily avoided the problems caused by acceleration by teleporting during the ascent phase. However, in the subsequent breakthrough of laminar flow and the return process, he had stepped into all the pits with his own strength. This time, the team had anticipated and prepared for some phenomena. The captain released the [Resistance to Alien Environment] that he had practiced repeatedly on the ground, and immediately the human body, this exquisite system, returned to stability.

The captain is responsible for this most complicated spell, and the other two team members, with the captain's blessing, are responsible for releasing calming and healing magic respectively.

The leader of this team is the newly promoted mage Cavendish, who sits in the middle, with a male and female mage as teammates beside him. As the captain, he may be a little young, but his resume is very impressive:
He once participated in the Black Forest expedition and played a key role.

Other wizards knew very little about that mysterious operation, but when people looked back, they were surprised to find that four great wizards (one of whom was not yet an apprentice at the time) had personally or indirectly participated in the expedition, and Cavendish, who was only an apprentice, could actually "play a key role"!
In addition, this guy is an Istani and studies in the Tower of Stars, which perfectly fits the current "political correctness" of cross-regional cooperation among magic guilds.

Of course, he said that he got the job based on his own strength.

He has a solid foundation in astronomy, has seen big scenes, and chatted and laughed with all the masters. He didn't know how much more dangerous that so-called divine evil was than the mere fragments of the kingdom of God.

Having said that, Cavendish's palms were sweaty at the moment, but a captain must never show that.

He saw that the speed meter showed that the starship had reached the "escape velocity" calculated by Sir Isaac and had escaped from the thick layer of the atmosphere. Cavendish held the operation terminal in front of him and injected magic power. The top of the operating cabin that received the command was a hexagonal grid, and each block turned transparent.

Through the transparent top shell, they determined that their backs were to the earth, and ahead of them was a barrier that had bound all intelligent creatures for hundreds of years.

At this time, the transmutation laminar flow formed a terrible vortex, indicating the only window for them. Observed from the astral world, these fragments were just a colorful filter for the stars, and the refraction of starlight in different directions showed that the density of this "spherical shell" was extremely uneven.

Cavendish took a deep breath. "Now we have to start changing orbits and adjust the cut-in angles of the starship and laminar flow until we break through the upper layer. When approaching those dangerous and beautiful astral dust, the spells of positioning, transmission, and communication will be disturbed. The process of changing orbits takes 13 minutes."

He pretended to be relaxed and looked forward. "Of course, there is no chance to regret. The teleportation spell is no longer reliable under interference. During this period of time, we will make the last one-way communication to the ground before crossing the laminar flow. It is our freedom to write anything to record this history. It can be a suicide note, or a vow to win, anything. Sorry for being so long-winded, there are still twelve minutes."

The wizard beside Cavendish took out paper and pen from his storage bag, but he did not write, but handed it to the captain first. Although Kano repeatedly emphasized to them before departure that the Senate would definitely guarantee their personal safety, Cavendish and others could not imagine what other means the Senate could use to rescue people from the laminar flow, so they were determined to face the worst situation.

Cavendish was in a trance after getting the paper and pen. He saw his past self from his memory, the apprentice who once wanted to retreat, and recalled the countless nights he spent diligently drawing star maps.
The starry sky changes very slowly, but the world changes very quickly. Later, many things happened both on the mainland and in his hometown.

And he was about to pass through the veil of stars and observe the original appearance of the star world above the transmutation dust layer. The apprentice trembling in the Black Forest would never have thought that his future would be like this.

"It is now 12:13 on December 6th. The Cavendish team is reporting to the ground for the last time before crossing the laminar flow. Everything is normal on the ship. We are full of confidence!"

After writing this sentence in a very eloquent manner, he stuffed the scroll into a specially made protective spherical shell and then sent it into the transmission copper tube.

"The first-stage mechanism is detached and the trajectory change begins!" The exhausted first-stage propulsion mechanism is separated from the main body of the starship, and at the same time, the second-stage engine next to the cockpit is started.

The empty shell separated from the main body, the first-stage engine stalled, and the altitude dropped, and finally fell into the atmosphere and began to rub violently. The report letter of the Cavendish team's one-way communication with the ground was also on the separated mechanism. Its protective spherical shell began to melt and disintegrate, triggering the portable communication array preset in the inner liner. At this time, the altitude had already escaped the influence of laminar flow and was accurately sent back to the ground monitoring station.

To ensure strength, the starship's top shell was no longer transparent, and all protective measures were turned to the maximum. The side nozzles of the second-stage engine that adjusted the attitude began to operate, causing the starship to spin at an extremely high speed. This was to ensure that the starship could maintain its attitude when passing through the astronomical vortex, and also to use the spin to minimize the contact time between the surface and the transmutation dust.

The main part does not store much passivated transmutation dust, and it will be sourced locally.

The collector developed by Rorschach is a barrel with a circuit set up on the inner wall to purify and passivate the transmutation dust. At this time, the outermost layer of the entire starship is its flip - the device to render these grains harmless is set outside, and according to the direction of its breakthrough, the transmutation dust is partially passivated in the process of moving backward from the tip of the starship, and then sucked into the second-stage engine for use.

Of course, there are still a lot of unprocessed transmutation dust that will be sucked in, so compared to the first-stage engine, the tank connected to the second stage has now become a buffer tank, which is also a collector-like structure, but this time it is set on the inner wall of the tank to process the final residue.

The shaking became more violent, and the needles of all the instruments were dancing. Cavendish clenched his fists tightly, and there was nothing he could do.

He and his team could only trust that the design and manufacturing were reliable, and trust everyone who contributed to the project.

The hull was indeed reliable. Although it was shaking, there was almost no sound at this time. However, it was precisely this silence that amplified the tormenting moment.

"It is estimated that the starship will be able to pass through the transmutation dust layer in another seven minutes. I really don't know how Master Kano did it before." Rorschach was amazed.

His and Caroline's spirits were at the border. The scale of the laminar vortex this time was unprecedented, and the coordinates of the border relative to the material world were inevitably pulled towards the weak layer.

With the help of the branches of the golden tree extending to the highest sky, Rorschach was able to obtain a vague laminar density distribution. At this time, the golden sand at the junction could represent countless crystals. Among them, there was a small dot with significantly different density, and it was moving rapidly towards the laminar surface, leaving a faint wake. This must be the result of the starship expelling the transmutation dust.

There are also patches of equally inconsistent density, which are larger in scale and are no less than the "eye" of the vortex. They are slowly drifting at the edge of the vortex and are the projection of the boundary area onto the material world.

Caroline was also worried about the starship. Seeing that the starship's signal had smoothly reached the upper surface of the laminar flow, she said, "It looks like you don't need to do anything."

"Yes, this is their honor, the result of the entire Magic Guild."

The first "cornerstone" of the sounding program finally broke through the danger zone, slowed down its rotation, and smoothly adjusted its attitude to enter the predetermined orbit.

(End of this chapter)