The Economics of Prophecy

"Let me show you the edge of this technology."

I'll open the box. It was Fulsey and Noel who took it out. A simple symbol with a mixture of straight and curved lines is depicted on a silver plate with red and green lines. Strongly speaking, it feels like [&] has three similar symbols that fit in one centimeter square.

"... not magical silver. What are you doing with this old thing?"

"Go ahead, take a look with that eye."

I recommended it to Maityle with a strange look.

"No, mentor. If it had been poisoned."

A nearby magician stops the Lord. But when Mathier controlled it, he took it into his own hands.

"The shape of the circuit is the basic unit of our magic guide formula. Although it is quite small and thin. It means nothing if you make something like this with the magic conductivity of magic guided silver..."

Mathier flips the board over or looks from the side. By the way, nothing is painted on the back or sides. I have a lot on my mind in the future, but I still can't do it.

"Expect... uh, what the hell is this... wait, maybe this color too. What!"

Maitille laid her finger on the edge of the circuit, the mark of the interface of the empire. And I trembled.

"You. What did you do"

The proximity pokes a magic wand at me. It's like I planted a poison needle. They'll suspect me. There's no way a warm person like me would do that.

"Liar, he said he was so thin and small that he would work as a magic guide. Besides, the speed with which this magic flow switches..."

Mayteel apparently read the meaning of this device without being overwhelmed.

"Of course, this is just a toy to show us what technology we have."

I laughed like a venture entrepreneur who succeeded in attracting investor interest. This toy, Mock, is the most advanced technology in the kingdom created desperately by Fulsey and Noel. It's a little too cutting-edge, though, diverging from the existing technology in the kingdom.

Later, this is the only one who succeeded in making ten or more of the same things, and doesn't say anything about less than 10% yield or anything like that. It's important to be clear.

"You definitely know what a toy is..."

Mathier stares at me. The invincible attitude just now has disappeared. It's just a very simple imitation of some of the magic leads they use. I see that with amazement.

This toy means nothing as a magic circuit. It's just a circuit where the magic switches on and off depending on the will of the operator.

What makes the difference is finesse. Lines less than half the width of the same circuit of the empire, fitted in an area of less than a quarter.

It's the material that's making it happen. First of all, the base is made of "silver”, a demon conductor with far worse demon conductivity than demon conductive gold. On top of that demon-guided silver, a circuit of magic is drawn using two types of magic catalysts that conflict between the green magic inhibitor [IG-1] and the red magic amplifier [ER-1].

The line uses Noel's ballpoint pen. Since the ball is 1 mm in size, is the line about 70% thinner? Of course, it changes with the viscosity and other of the solvent that dissolves the magic catalyst.

Ultimately, I'm thinking about using something softer than magic gold to push the pattern with a mould or using a capillary phenomenon, but naturally I haven't made it. I can't show you in time, though.

In short, this is close to a semiconductor that runs magic, not power.

"This is the magic technique of the kingdom, how about it?

What is [Semiconductor]? It is used as a synonym for computers, but the real meaning is that it is a substance that flows current well like copper [conductor] and a substance that has an intermediate conductivity of [insulator] that is extremely difficult to flow current like glass.

It is not this halfway conductivity itself that matters, but the accommodation it provides. In other words, conditions allow us to shed magic or stop it. Then, by manipulating the conditions, the magic flowing passages can be precisely ”drawn”.

When we compare magic and power flows to water currents, conductors are a deep ditch, so to speak. Easy to run water through, but if you want to design a water stream, you have to work hard to build the dirt from scratch. Insulators are rock beds. We have to go to great lengths to dig the waterways in order to create a flowing passage of water.

Semiconductors are sponges, so to speak. Where I want the water to flow, I treat it with an agent that will enlarge the hole in the sponge and dissolve it. Where you don't want the water to flow, inject another drug and block the hole. This accommodation is the value of the semiconductor as a material in the circuit.

Of course, computer chips in the previous world are more advanced, just basic principles, but in extreme terms, we have in common the fact that we use semiconductor accommodation to create magic passages.

"I don't know. I don't think the kingdom has the kind of technology you'd be interested in."

"... here, you're wrong. One line is missing. This is why the monkeys..."

Maitille pointed to part of the circuit with her trembling fingers.

"Where?"

"Right here."

"Heh, then fix it with this"

I let Mayteel hold a ballpoint pen stuffed with red ink. Mathier added a line. By the way, they struggled quite a bit to anchor the ink in the Demon-Guided Silver. I don't know the details. I didn't dare ask.

"I just pulled the line and the circuit switched!

Incidentally, the Imperial Breaking Castle Hammer makes a circuit out of the conductor, the magic conductor, so to speak, so he deliberately digs a ditch and implants an insulator to create an unwittingly flowing earthen. I can't be finer than constant to prevent the short of magic.

"... ok. It's the same magic catalyst that I have."

Mayteer took out a single magic wand. It has a patterned spot. They took the [IG-1] and [ER-1] that I smashed and put them away without muddling them.

"Well, what can I do with this? Give me that pen back later."

Mathier keeps his pen tight. Of course, I only have a very small amount of ink in it.

"There's too much I can do and I'm going crazy. But first, I can undoubtedly reduce the amount of magic I use in my magic tricks. Maybe a half, no. It'll be a third."

Maitille said as if she had been floated by heat. Listen to me. What, are you okay talking so easily? Thanks to you, it was my question. We now know the two steps that activate magic as magic and magic, that is, the ratio between arithmetic and expression.

As expected, most of the magic is probably used by the arithmetic. In order to get certainty, I'd like to see the magic guide first.

"Tell me. How did you make this!

Mathier embarks on herself. Where did you do your politician position until just now? It's not full-sea, so why don't you just calm down a little bit?

No, I'm sure it's a play to extract information from me. As a politician, you can never throw this technology away if you know it as a commander of the army. Because as it is, we should assume that the Kingdom's level of witchcraft will overwhelm the Empire in no time.

"I hope you remember what you said earlier. It's not fair to disclose technology all the time. Let me see your guide too."

I believe that magic and magic instruction are both information processing using a special power called magic. In order to clarify that hypothesis, that fiery guide is actually optimal.

Of course, they'll reject it. I don't know how it rocks...

"What are you talking about? You're on your own."

"Fine. What should I show you?"

"Instructor!?

disregarding the proximity stop, Mathier said. What, you okay?

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In the meantime, I was taken out to a place like a castle courtyard. Apparently, Her Royal Highness will demonstrate herself.

From the pattern depicted on Mathier's thin, white arm, a magic circuit connected to the surface of the magic wand, and at the same time a band of light occurred. The band draws a spiral and converges slightly away from the tip of the magic wand.

I see you resemble that mucous fungus magic stream. Maybe it's a biomimetic technique from the Warcraft. I approached Mathilde to make sure there was one.

"Stay away from inadvertent"

Said the wizard who was poking his wand at me. Danger, I rushed back to my original position. There's no thermometer, no pressure gauge, but it's obvious. For a moment, but I got tinnitus. And the ambient temperature is dropping despite flames. That's not as flaming as it looks.

A flaming bullet popped up and struck out the target more than two hundred meters away precisely. I'm just saying look back at me, Mathier. But my interest was met before it was fired.

Strict verification comes after you return to the Wang capital, but the nature of the magic guide is determined by information manipulation. But I knew to some extent with the antenna and the observational accuracy of Fulsey, especially seen in the colony's assay, but it's really outrageous. Information processing is too efficient.

I saw Meer. Even without personal affection, she definitely needs to get it back. It is too compatible with statistical mechanics, which derives its properties from the statistical behavior of gaseous molecules.