Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 605: Opening Champagne in Advance Will Not Have Good Results
Four hours after the banquet, which was early morning according to Byng time, Kepler received a message from the ground.

The Senate sent them a letter of congratulations on their successful docking and assembly, as well as a barrage of scolding.

"You guys, there is nothing good to eat and drink on the ground, but you must overdraw your supplies to enjoy in the sky. Do you know how much it costs? The barrel of wine you open in the sky costs enough to rent a winery; the value of a ham you eat can sell a group of pigs!

“If you hold this kind of event without permission again, everyone will come back with clean necks and wait for the guillotine!
"Since the progress is better than expected, we will start working quickly. We will send another supply ship to deliver replacement parts and replenish the materials consumed this time. The wine, fruits and desserts in the next round of supplies will be cancelled. You can eat canned food instead!
"The Senate of the Arcane, the Magic Guild, and the Space Guild."

Johannes finished reading it to all the senior crew members in the stationmaster's office. He looked at everyone seriously and asked, "Why did the Senate know that we were holding a banquet?"

No one answered, but he didn't care too much: "But everyone has heard it, there will be a supply ship soon." As he spoke, the sound of the sparkling wine being opened reached everyone's ears, and soon everyone in the stationmaster's office received a glass of southern Valois craft wine.

"cheers!"

Snow and Cavendish looked at each other and smiled. They seemed to have guessed who wrote the letter.

However, the supervision was still effective. The remaining rest time was cancelled and the process of observing the original layer was started.

The sixth day of Kepler's launch.

It is still the bow of the seventh ship, and has been changed from a banquet hall to a ceremony site, or it can be said that this is its original design purpose.

The detection of the original layer has been carried out in stages on the previous ships No. 4 to 6, completing the three steps of positioning, perception and concretization respectively.

Remove the wooden planks on the bow floor, revealing a complex circuit with pre-installed interfaces. The floor is the base plate. Now that the temporary gravity well on the central axis has been removed, everyone is in a state of not touching the ground.

Fortunately, the people present at this time were either spellcasters or dwarf technicians, so it was not a hindrance to not have their feet on the ground. On the contrary, it made it much more convenient to move large instruments.

Six specialized magic weaving machines were brought to the site and installed on the base plate. After being inspected one by one, they began to operate, essentially weaving the environmental magic into a one-way vector string to form a virtual "antenna".

At the heart of the Weaver, a broad-spectrum magic generator was at its core, emitting analog signals - its internal variable circuits were constantly looping the basic frequencies of various spells, even including the spells and rituals of the past of the dwarves and elves.

This machine itself cannot complete spellcasting on behalf of anyone, and will not go through the complete chain. Moreover, whether it is a zero-ring trick or a seventh-ring spell that can be recorded, the magic power consumed is the same.

Its real purpose is to provoke a response from the Tree of Truth, which is essentially a "deception". Moreover, the signal it emits is a multiple superimposed wave, equivalent to 128 spellcasters casting spells at the same time.

The six virtual antennas act as a matrix, comparing the feedback information with each other. They look for traces of changes in the original layer from extremely subtle differences. When the "deception" is successful and the Tree of Truth provokes a reaction, they will compare the reaction with the signal output by the broad-spectrum magic generator to see if they can match.

If the comparison is successful, it means that the virtual antenna is pointing towards the Tree of Truth.

At that point, the Broad Spectrum Generator will repeat the signal, and the Magic Weaver will attempt to bind to the Tree of Truth through elf-based contract magic.

The bound signal will contain a huge amount of information, which needs to be converted into information that mortals can understand through the analysis machine after performing the [Enlightenment Technique].

The machine started to operate according to the established program. Snow, who was in charge of all magic and alchemy technologies in the machine, stared at all the instrument indications.

Inside the glass cover, the thin low-pressure gas is penetrated by the high-voltage current, emitting a magnificent light. This is an indicator light, and it and its peers are jumping around like crazy.

"No response yet?" "Based on experience, analog signals of fourth- to sixth-ring spells can easily get clear responses from the original layer." Cavendish recalled the experiments he participated in.

"I know." Snow immediately explained the reason behind it: "There are too many low-level spells being used in real time. The changes caused by 128 spellcasting units are difficult to distinguish, and their characteristic frequency bands are very short and not easy to capture.

"The energy level required for high-level magic is too high, and the function of the broad-spectrum generator is limited. It cannot be perfectly simulated in reality, and the response will definitely fail.

"Considering both sides, the best launch area is between the fourth and sixth rings of the spell."

Cavendish nodded: "You couldn't be more correct, but the system of the dwarves and elves may give us unexpected surprises."

"Now that we have completed the simulation of the seven rings, let's switch to the dwarves and elves." Snow has learned from past data that it is not easy to take the first step, but he still holds on to hope. What if he can succeed immediately?

Unfortunately, this “what if” did not happen. The miracle template provided by the elves and dwarves did not produce a miracle. In the end, the feedback from the ship spirit and the message from the indicator light all told them that the search had failed.

"Warning, over 71% of band feedback is null. Trying to parse valid data.
"Error, the comparison of the return signals of units 3 and 4 and the generator did not converge. A singular solution appeared in the nonlinear equations. It is recommended to initialize and return to the settings at 03:12:52, or restore the original settings.
"Error, error"

"Who can make that ship spirit shut up?" Snow had a headache. Several other people in charge of the previous missions, including Cavendish, had a gloating expression on their faces. They had experienced such annoying errors before, and Snow was the person in charge of improvements on the ground at that time. Now it was his turn.

A few hours later, the energy was recharged, and they reset it and started locating the original layer again.

The Nixie tubes kept flashing and jumping, and the magical light in the circuit became brighter and brighter, but there was still no result.

There was a stalemate for a while.

Now everyone no longer had the spare time to hold a banquet. They were very tired and could only check the initial value settings and line connections over and over again.

"Record the data, run it again and then go home. We'll continue tomorrow." Snow pinched his brow.

Someone suggested a strange idea: "How about asking everyone on the ground to stop casting spells for three hours? Wouldn't our signal be much clearer this way?"

This is a bold idea that sounds unfeasible at first, but is quite interesting when you think about it carefully.

Unfortunately, after further consideration, it was still not feasible. Snow was the first to deny it: "You may not know that the number of alchemical equipment in operation in the world now far exceeds the number of spellcasters. To achieve the effect you envision, you must first stop the equipment.

"I can't think of any other way to stop all those machines and equipment for three hours except to destroy the world. If they really stop, those factory owners, civilians and our respected Senate will not mind destroying the world."

"Then pretend I didn't say it."

At this time, a wizard from the Tower of Light took out a burned microcrystal template and said, "We have tried the miracles of spells, elves, and dwarves. Is there an option that we haven't tried yet?"

"You mean the magic of the God of Light and Order?"

"That's right." The wizard of the Tower of Light smiled gently and confidently.

(End of this chapter)