Mage? Spell Engineer!

When Rorschach saw it for the first time, his reaction on the spot was "false propaganda"!

Fake, it must be fake. After all, in the previous life, to deploy an AI as intelligent as a tower spirit, the computing power required could exceed the limit of a personal computer. Do you want to compete with semiconductors just by relying on mere mechanical calculations? There are hundreds of millions of transistors! The abandoned prototype that Rorschach and others saw at that time was indeed the size of a building, but its computing power was probably about the same as the calculators of previous generations.

Even the engineering students in the sewers in the sinkhole will proudly puff up their chests when they mention the chip, the crystallization of human wisdom in the past life, and the glory of the engineering profession, the space machine!

Rorschach wanted to put down the manuscript, but he hesitated because there was obviously magic in this world, and there was a ready-made example, the tower spirit.

Compared to engineering documents, the first thing Rorschach read was the inventor's manuscript:

"At first, the spellcasters in the Tower of Storms were willing to cooperate. They had a good attitude and told everything they knew.

"But when we proposed that we want to study the oldest and most core secret in the tower - the tower spirit, these mages immediately changed their faces. Fortunately, in the end, my assistant convinced a mid-level mage. It's so strange, I didn't even know What happened to these two grown men last night?"

The inventor doesn't know magic? Rorschach saw such an interesting fact from a few words. There was Minke in his previous life, but now he seems to see an ordinary person who is very interested in magic and has a certain mind.

There are many such people, who is not interested in magic? The greatest qualities of this inventor are a heart for research, as well as sufficient wealth and power. He gave himself a fancy name, Count Apple. Not only did he sponsor a huge amount of money for the Mage Tower, he also organized a research team of his own.

If you want to construct a wise tower spirit, the premise is to integrate the structure into the entire building when designing the mage tower.

This is easy to understand. Just like the automated system that Rorschach introduced to Andre, there must first be an input end, that is, the senses, and a terminal that can be taken over by the tower spirit, such as the defensive circle, the magic lamp and its sound. element. Among them, the parts that can produce sounds include specialized [messaging] arrays, bells, automatic clocks and other components.

After the prerequisites are configured, it is time to create a core capable of intelligence.

Rorschach was a little surprised. The above information was written in the inventor's notes. The mages of the Tower of Storms indeed knew everything about this patron.

However, in Rorschach's opinion, it was not so much their good intentions as it was that the spellcasters of the Storm Tower were arrogant enough and thought that even if they told the rich Muggle about the above skills, it would not be a big deal.

So it's amazing that Rorschach got a "Talling Creation Guide" written by someone other than a spellcaster.

Rorschach continued to read, and the recorder's notes at this time were more like memoirs: "After finally transferring three South County estates, they agreed to show me how to make intelligence.

“First, alchemy is needed to create a container for thought. When they demonstrated it, they removed the brain of a hound in front of me and told me: This breed of dog is smart enough to be equivalent to a five- to eight-year-old human child.

"Then the whole fresh, fragile tissue was put into a container that I couldn't understand. It was a round metal jar covered with magic circuits, and the same thing was inside. Then the hot molten metal was poured into it. .

"The mages told me that the whole process must be very careful. The original brain tissue will be destroyed, but its symbolic structure has been 'imprinted' by the alchemical alloy."

With the container in hand, the wizard finally cast a magical spell called [Intellectual Enlightenment]. They made a lot of preparations, and then cast the spell on the metal ball jar containing the dog's brain. The author described:

"The white light gathers from nowhere, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't come from the caster. When it gathers to a certain extent, the light wraps around the mage's hand as if it has an entity, and is guided by him into the prepared container.

“According to the mages of the Tower of Storms, this magic is very difficult. If you just apply the same spell to a pure construct, you will even need an archmage who has studied this method to succeed.

"Fortunately, everything went well during the demonstration. The ball tank was put into a suit of armor, and the suit came to life, understood the simple commands we said and tried to follow them."

There is a wonderful feeling in an expert's analysis of layman's words. In Rorschach's eyes, that is to say, directly "enlightenment" the construct can only be completed by an archmage who is good at this aspect. Judging from the degree of difficulty, it is at least Eighth ring spell.

The one demonstrated by Tower of Storm to the author should be an intermediate mage. The [Intelligence Awakening Technique] he cast was only up to level six, and the effect seemed pretty good.

"The spell caster told me that the white light I saw might be the material of the soul, and the metal can and the processed dog brain are the containers. The higher the original intelligence of the container, the smarter the intelligence created by the spell will be.

"I asked at that time, where did the 'soul matter' summoned out of thin air come from? Are we living in a world full of ghosts?

"The other party just knocked on the armor and smiled. And I have a more horrifying question that I haven't said yet. How was the tower spirit in the Storm Tower that is almost the same as a real person created?"

In Rorschach's view, the intermediate mage made a trick. "Dog brain" is a very key casting material. He is more like giving intelligence to a dead organism and driving it. In other words, the sixth-ring version of [Intelligence Enlightenment] sounds nice, but it may be a necromancy spell.

This is not to say that the necromancy system is necessarily evil, but the white light of unknown origin requires biological tissue and after casting the spell, you will get a puppet that obeys the instructions of the caster. At least it is a spell that walks on the edge of gray.

According to the legend of the Tower of Secrets, a dragon was directly made into a tower spirit. I am afraid that the dragon was killed first, and then such a spell was used to create an intelligence that obeyed the instructions of the caster. If the strength of the "container" is high enough, such as the dragon's brain, then during his lifetime, memory can be retained.

The result was that the inventor had the technology to make an "iron can," or at least as much alchemy as his research team could master. However, he was very persistent and did not use the undead version of [Intelligence Enlightenment].

He approached Babbage, the designer of the Difference Engine, and designed a unit for his core capable of performing all simple calculations. It was made by the most skillful watchmakers and had more parts than the difference engine. As a simple calculation machine, it reached its pinnacle.

Then he really invited a great mage who was interested in this ordinary person's fantasy, and used the nine-ring [Intellectual Enlightenment Technique] that did not involve the dead body.

"My life is worth it if I can witness an archmage personally casting a nine-ring spell! What does it matter if I lose the property rights of thirty sugar estates?"

I was wrong. This guy is not an ordinary person. He has the ability to make money. He only knows one magic that can create miracles - throwing coins, which makes the mid-level mage and archmage bow to each other.

A miracle happened. The "container" with the computing unit as the core did not accept the "white light" they had seen before, but began to mechanically execute instructions like the created construct. The anonymous archmage was also surprised, but that was all, because it could not communicate with people like a real tower spirit. It could only input punched paper tapes and spit out more paper tapes.

In the past, to perform a calculation, you needed to input raw data, and then adjust the structure of the machine at the physical level to determine the calculation steps. But now you only need to input data and calculation formulas. The calculation core that has been [enlightened] can automatically got the answer.

"The farce is over, Mr. Generous and Mr. Who Likes to Watch Machines Count." This was recorded by the inventor as the last words spoken by the Archmage before he left.

Babbage and the inventor were overjoyed with this achievement. Babbage proposed that the peripheral magic circuit should be modified. Since the input and output are paper tapes that only the machine can understand, it is better to provide more peripherals. Computing unit and storage unit to get a machine that can solve all mathematical problems.