Mage? Spell Engineer!

The next afternoon, Rorschach waited for Professor Poincaré’s call. Talling reminded Rorschach in Rorschach’s dormitory: “Intermediate Master Rorschach, Intermediate Master Rorschach, Professor Poincaré wants you to go to his office, located on the second floor. The third star in the eleventh house.”

Each floor of the ring-shaped building of the Tower of Stars is divided into twelve palaces. Some palaces are an entire classroom, such as the large staircase lecture hall in the twelve palaces on the third floor. Some are divided into several rooms, which are represented by stars. specific location.

The third star. Rorschach found the location. It was said to be an office, but it was actually a mixed research and office area. Countless papers were stacked. In addition to bookcases and lockers, there were also several complex and wonderful machines. Rorschach was attracted by these machines as soon as he entered. Their parts were extremely fine, and the gears and crank rods were arranged in a certain pattern.

"It's interesting, isn't it? Everyone who enters my laboratory for the first time will be attracted by these wonderful machines." The speaker was the owner of the room, Professor Poincaré.

His hair is thick but shaved short, which is unusual in Valuauna, and he wears gold-rimmed glasses, the lenses of which are overflowing with magical aura: "They are calculation machines from Istani, oh third The platform was imitated by myself, and the accuracy was improved a bit. And I am Poincaré."

"Hello Professor, I am Rorschach. Professor Kano recommended that I seek help from you."

"Yes, I already know. Show me the magic circle." Rorschach handed the metal plate to the professor, along with the Elf Totems and the [Forest of Dryats] that he had copied.

"I think your idea is fine, but for further design you should first convert it into a system we are familiar with, just like you converted the totem of 'divine rhythm and performance' into our geometric form."

"Can other elements be converted as well?" Rorschach didn't seem to find the correspondence of other elements in the mage's array system.

Poincaré took Rorschach to the corner of the research room, where the materials for making scrolls were laid out: "Now we need to get the spectra of these totems first. When each magic circle is excited, it will produce a specific waveform in the ether environment. The vibration, this is the sage of your empire.”

"Wilhelm van Leipzig's theory." Rorschach did not expect that Poincaré also knew about it. It seemed that the empire's efforts to block the blockade failed from the beginning. Before the manuscript of this genius was recovered, papers were published and flowed into magic. Guilds and various mage towers. However, researchers from the Tower of Stars and the Empire have branched out in two different directions.

Poincaré was also a little surprised: "Yes, you also know? Oh yes, Master Carnot's team has also studied the thoughts of this mysterious Viscount." He showed an understanding and gratified smile: "Although Mr. Mysterious Viscount has not been found, This man, but definitely one of the greatest geniuses of our time.”

You have an expression like "I am a genius too, I understand you", Professor.

Poincaré asked Rorschach to draw the totem with him, and explained at the same time: "The occurrence time of the 'ether wave' of general spells and magic circles is extremely short, and current methods cannot detect and record it, so what we are doing now is to find ways to extend it." The time of a single cycle of this wave.”

Rorschach immediately thought of the answer: "Learning scrolls?"

"Yes, similar to the production of learning scrolls, we also use this method to delay the time of their occurrence and obtain waveforms for these totems." Poincaré and Rorschach first drew the totems of "Guardian" and "Vitality" respectively, linking them to the geometric system. excitation unit.

"Okay, let's record the waveform." The professor took out a roll of paper tape and loaded it on a certain machine. After testing that there would be no paper jam, he placed the "Guardian" scroll on the platform on the side of the machine, with a mithril wire ring hanging from it. Come out of the "antenna".

"This is the input end. The etheric vibration signal will be detected, and then amplified and converted into a waveform to be recorded on the paper tape. In order to ensure the uniform speed of the roller, I installed a magic-driven uniform speed on the basis of the Istani machine. Rotary device.”

Entering the ether, the scroll is activated and the paper tube starts to rotate. There was a dense clicking sound, and the paper tape with small holes was spit out. It was the same as the hole-punch timer Rorschach had seen, but the holes here were much finer. These discrete points trace the waveform that occurs when the totem under test is activated.

Rorschach looked against the sunlight and saw clearly, it was a mess of pulse signals.

"Master Rorschach, if you accidentally tear off the tape, we will have to start over."

"Sorry, here you go. What's next?"

Poincaré took the paper tape: "If you have read my recently published "Applied Mathematics of Deterministic Problems in the Excitation Process of the Magic Circle", you should know that I will give a brief explanation."

While loading paper tape and operating the new machine, he briefly explained the principles to Rorschach:

"For arrays that are different from the Euclidean system, we can first detect the excited ether waveform. Of course, the spectrum you see now can be regarded as the result of the superposition of multiple basic waves."

Poincaré believed that during the excitation time of the magic circle, the fluctuation of ether oscillation could be broken down into multiple simple basic vibrations in repeated forms. After analyzing the fundamental wave, you only need to find the array unit that can cause the same waveform vibration in the existing Euclidean array system. By adjusting the proportion coefficient and excitation time, you can fit the non-Euclidean system array, The corresponding magical effects of runes and totems.

"So for now, my job is to 'translate' the ancient teleportation array into the structure of the modern system. The beginning of this research was when I was cooperating with Chief Kano, who also needed to translate the ancient teleportation array. Translated into the Euclidean system.”

"If we could get the spectrum of the unknown magic circle or even the spell," wouldn't the complete reproduction of the spell into the magic circle be solved?

"Even the magic circle can only be detected by making a learning scroll delay. It is still too difficult to record the spell waveform that is instantaneous and has some ether operating in the caster's body. Moreover, everyone's spellcasting will be subtly different, every time The obtained waveform deviation is much larger than that of the magic circle." Poincaré shook his head and continued his work.

Of course, the magic circle will have certain deviations due to non-standard drawing, but a magic circle that can be activated correctly shows that the error is still within the acceptable range.

After moving between several machines, Poincaré succeeded in conjuring several paper strips from one, and Rorschach also helped with three strips.

After checking the previous results, the professor loaded them all into the last machine. This machine was taller than the previous ones and had a gear set similar to a gearbox. The professor carefully dripped lubricating oil between some gears. "Young man, you have to work hard to shake this handwheel. Don't shake it too fast."

Rorschach did as he was told, and amid the high-frequency clicking sound, new waves were drawn, which were basically consistent with the first paper strip, as well as the disassembled fundamental wave spectrum.

"The next step is to query the geometric units against the fundamental wave, and design the configuration to achieve the fitting effect we need. The relative positions and relative sizes between the basic units, and the timing of the infusion of ether into the loop are all factors that need to be considered." The implication is that The "Sacred Shield" that Rorschach made yesterday didn't take any of this into consideration at all.

"Professor, what if I want to construct a special-shaped magic circle?" Rorschach rolled the scroll into a bucket: "I need to draw a magic circle on the inside of a cylinder wall, and then cast the spell on objects that pass through the cylinder wall. "

"It's a bit difficult. Other units and configurations can be obtained through topological transformation, but obviously your symbol is too complex and cannot be converted. It is not homeomorphic to the ring, but it just doesn't work."

"Can't it be translated like other totems?"

"Obviously it points to a god, and since this pointing talisman is useful, there is a god behind it who is not completely silent." Poincaré returned to the first machine that recorded the spectrum:

"This is the second machine I have made. Master Rorschach, you are from the Empire. You don't believe in the God of Light and Order, right?"

"I don't believe it." After Rorschach said Poincaré, he continued: "I once tried privately to record the spectrum when the talisman pointing to the God of Light and Order was activated, and the result was that I successfully blew the first machine to pieces. .”