Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 645 Plane Shield Machine

The Valois Empire Maxime interstellar flagship.

The emperor of the empire already showed signs of aging. He had spent most of his life winning victories and planning for the next victory, leaving him no time to hone his skills. Therefore, the blessing of longevity that the arcane brought to the emperor was very limited, and wrinkles were re-carving his majestic face.

"My majesty, the restoration over there has failed, and a wizard from the Tower of Stars has been detained by the alliance." The minister carefully delivered the news, causing Paul to raise his brows.

"I want to know the details."

The minister quickly handed over the first-hand information he had collected, and at the same time dictated a summary. This was a habit brought by His Majesty the Emperor from his military service, which required both details and omissions, and the coexistence of absolute right to know and efficiency.

After learning what happened, the emperor shook his head and said, "It seems that the alliance has long wanted to catch all the restorationists in one fell swoop, and used the heirs of the royal family as bait. Are those restorationists all idiots? Why do they do things like this? I have spent a lot of money to support these people, but I haven't seen any splashes!"

Originally, he wanted to take the opportunity to push the "Imperial Restoration Faction" in the alliance and create some trouble for his opponents when he needed it. However, with the arrest of the foreign aid of the Tower of Stars, he got into some trouble instead.

"You mean, those who still want to restore the old empire are just assholes, right?"

Paul was speechless for a moment. On the one hand, he wanted to ask the minister what kind of person he was for supporting a fool. On the other hand, he was a little dazed, because when he was young, the "Old Empire" and "Empire" meant something completely different from today. Now the former is called the "Ancient Empire" by Valois historians.

It seems like everything is becoming distant.

After reloading the language module, the emperor asked, "Do the Imperial High Court and the Executive Council know?"

"I don't know. Only a few of us Privy Council ministers know."

"Okay, let's seal the files and end this." After making the decision, Paul looked at the most important component of the Maxim. They were in the front section of the starship.

The bow of the ship was occupied by a huge machine. Runes from ancient to modern times were carved on various parts, which were connected in series by an integrated magic circuit. In the middle was a large tapered disk, inlaid with more than a hundred crystal cores, each the size of a wheel hub, all of which were salvaged from the water elemental plane, polished and engraved with the required patterns.

This machine looks like the giant machine called "Tunnel Boring Machine" in Rorschach's previous life, and its functions are similar. It can open up new roads between planes.

As Paul stared at the machine, Master Simon came over. He was the chief of the Alchemy Order of the Starry Tower and Paul's junior fellow apprentice.

The leader of the order showed amazing talent during Valois' most turbulent time, presiding over a large-scale starship manufacturing program at Kepler Space Station, laying a solid foundation for the new empire's march toward the astral realm.

Now he wanted to introduce the Tower of Stars to his senior brother, the Supreme of the Empire, or the most advanced achievement of the entire magic world: "Your Majesty, do you need me to explain it to you?"

"Although I have heard the report, I would rather hear you introduce it in person." Paul looked at Simon's still fresh face, and a hint of envy flashed in his pupils.

It is said that since the promotion of the spell cloud system, the promotion of mages has tended to be younger. People like Simon who can become high-level spellcasters before the age of forty are likely to live longer than the older generation of great wizards.

Simon, unaware of the emperor's thoughts, was immersed in the world of technology:
"You must know that inter-dimensional and long-distance teleportation are extremely difficult. In the first stage of related research, we looked for inter-dimensional teleportation magic from ancient books, especially from extinct religious rituals.

“The introduction of the descriptor system marks the second stage of research:

"We can finally abstract the steps related to locking the destination in the casting process and conduct an inductive analysis, and get the first question: why must specific casting information be displayed when pointing to a specific plane, and it is almost strictly one-to-one correspondence. "After entering the astral world, we realized the second problem:
"Whether the teleportation array is one-way or not, whether its connection can be established is related to the starting point. In the past, we basically projected outward from the main material plane, and this problem was not prominent enough. When we want to move from other planes to another secondary plane or unknown area, it becomes particularly difficult."

"So?" Paul hoped that a sensible minister would stand up and tell Master Simon: The emperor's time is precious.

"So we have the 'channel hypothesis' - the existing cross-border and long-distance teleportation arrays can only be established because they rely on the spatial channels opened up by the divine power in the Age of Gods. Of course, it is a channel in an abstract sense and has no entity in the material world.

“This hypothetical theory can also explain why it is difficult for us to directly enter the astral plane when the transmutation dust layer completely envelops the main plane, but we can teleport to other planes over long distances, although they are separated by these fragments of the kingdom of God and the void.

“At the same time, the theoretical model allows us to imagine the process of teleportation - in the material world, the planes are scattered in the void, and the distances are very, very far;
“In the symbolic realm, they are closely connected. The subtle enrichment of symbolic elements and the differences in plane laws create a thick transition layer or even a solid spatial barrier between them.

"It is the passage left by the gods that allows us to cross the void of the material world, enter the astral world towards the symbolic world, and then come out again, achieving cross-dimensionality."

Simon asked the apprentice to unfold a diagram, which made Paul's eyes light up: the diagram marked the existing channels that had been explored and the planes connected in series. For example, there was no channel between the Fire Element Plane and the Water Element Plane, but they were both connected to the main plane and the Air Element Plane.

For Paul, this is a map of great military strategic significance. The marked areas are no longer scattered between the star realms, but have definite depth and geographical relationships.

Of course, the main plane is the most important hub with the most connections, and the Kepler station on it was not taken over by the Valois Empire, but its independence was guaranteed by the Magic Guild and the Space Guild.

This made Paul sigh, and what made him even more regretful was that the following technology was not exclusive to the Starry Tower. Simon then went on to explain what the machine did:

"And it, which was developed by the Tower of Stars, the Tower of Myriad Arts, and the Tower of Secret Arts, is the 'Path Path Explorer' developed by the entire Magic Guild. It integrates almost all of our achievements in space. It allows us to drill through the interface like gods and gain the convenience of teleportation.

“We can even say that this is our precursor technology to reaching the end of the world and heading to another universe.

"Not only that, the entire ship is also integrated with the most advanced shield. Just as its name suggests, it will be 'unshakable'. Only it can shake the entire universe!"

Simon's voice almost trembled at the end, while Paul was less excited.

He was thinking about something else: What a pity, what a pity, the Alliance must have similar machines, as we all know, the Tower of Magic and the Tower of Mystery are its backers. Not only that, there is also the Church of Order, for some reason, their "Holy Expedition" went smoothly, it seems that the ships also have this kind of "shield machine". No, it is incredible that they can have a starship of this scale, damn dwarves, they do any business if they have money.

Paul Zhuang collected his scattered thoughts and asked casually, "Is the Austrian Senate going to hold the 'Sixteenth Annual Meeting' soon?"

Simon was startled: "How do you know?" He quickly turned around and confessed: "Oh, you are the emperor of the greatest empire in human history, of course you have a way to know. Yes, I will be there with Chief Snow."

The listener vaguely felt that Simon was teasing or even sarcastic, but today was not the time to care about it.

"I will go with you," the emperor said firmly, trying not to give the master any room for objection.

"May I know why?"

Paul put his hand in his pocket and stroked a faded Star Tower badge: "Because I want to meet my senior brother and talk to Rorschach face to face. This sixteenth annual meeting is my only chance."

(End of this chapter)