As soon as Delta opened the door, she was shocked. More than twenty teaching assistants were all in this room, crowded together, lowering their heads around an open space.
All the tables and chairs in the room had been evacuated, and two strange devices were placed in the open space. On the ground next to them were some tools such as wrenches, clamps, or borescopes.
The upper parts of these two devices are not protected by shells. Pipes made of various guide materials are arranged in them. They look like an oversized printer. Some sliders are in multiple rows of card slots.
Slide back and forth, making a clicking sound.
Two mages wearing robes and assistant armbands were half-kneeling on the ground, pressing their hands on a small magic circle exposed on the device, seeming to be transmitting magic power to keep the device running.
"It's not like saying no." The assistant teacher closest to the door couldn't bear the interruption of the voice and turned his head. He heard that his voice was the one who responded to Delta,
"Hey, aren't you the new student who came out this time? Just come and see this, Master Wayne's great invention!"
As he spoke, he walked over, put his hands on the shoulders of Delta, who was only two-thirds of his height, and pulled him toward the middle. Delta couldn't resist him, so she had to follow him inside, unable to say the words she originally planned.
The more you squeeze into the crowd of teaching assistants, the clearer the operating status of the two devices becomes. As long as you look carefully, you can find that the running trajectories of the sliders on the two sets of devices are the same, but one runs smoothly, and the other runs slowly, from time to time.
The slider will get stuck for a while, giving people a stumbling feeling.
The mage known as Venn stood among the teaching assistants, enjoying the amazed expressions of others.
Before that, he had been working in the Abyss branch of the academy and belonged to the Abyss Watch, the first club of the academy.
There, they have to fight against intermittent violent demon tides every month. When exploring the depths of the abyss, after each battle, a team must break away from the large army and stay in the newly developed territory to build the magic network. In this way
It is possible to be attacked by sporadic powerful wandering demons, and the unfinished magic network cannot be used to send messages to the rear for help.
Whenever this happens, people are seriously injured or even killed.
In the abyss, the death of non-native life will attract more demons to gather, forming a new wave of demons.
The chain reaction can easily cause major accidents. The magic network fortifications that were finally built will be destroyed again. The battle mages trained so hard by the Abyss Branch will also suffer many casualties. The development mission must be temporarily stopped and the occupied area must be defended instead.
Such an accident occurs once every three years on average, and this happens even if the college is well prepared.
A hundred years ago, when the focus of the academy's development was still on the real plane, there was even a case where the battle mages of the Abyss branch were attacked by a chain of demonic waves. More than half of them died, and they had to contact the outside world and the king's team went to the abyss to suppress it.
Although demons can sense the disappearance of life and be attracted to it, if all the demons in the entire area are wiped out, the demonic tide will not appear out of thin air.
However, this cannot be achieved with the combatants of the academy, unless more than half of the mages in the academy receive training as combat mages, but this would consume too much money and talent.
It is for this purpose that Wien develops related equipment to prevent the construction team from causing an accident due to the inability to contact support.
It's just that the college has a large and complicated expenditure on various projects, especially when the number of students this year is far greater than in previous years. Just maintaining the college buildings and providing free potions to stimulate mental growth for students account for the majority of the expenditure.
Afterwards, the Star Tower explosion occurred, and the magic network procedures for repairing the tower and preparing the seventh tower were simply a bottomless pit. When Wayne submitted the design drawings of the communicator to apply for funding in early June, the college had no money left.
He did.
The main reason is that many parts of this communicator are made of magic-guiding materials, which are expensive to make. Without knowing whether this device can perform the functions mentioned by Wayne, the academy cannot arbitrarily allocate funds to him.
Wayne's face was radiant and his smooth head was shining.
In order to prove that his invention was effective, he had all the parts customized by a jeweler in Danches at his own expense. This time he personally applied to be an escort on the college tour, just to assemble it here and try to run his "infinite machine" for the first time.
"Net" communicator.
In this way, other people can testify to the normal use of his communicator by eliminating equipment failures caused by transportation accidents.
After submitting the invention, the college will at least give him a lecturer title, and he will be reimbursed for the materials and processing costs purchased at his own expense.
"My communication device is completely free from the shackles of the magic network to transmit information. It is driven by the repulsive force of the magic energy particles themselves, so that devices equipped with the same drive structure can receive messages from the other end. However, the relevant communication secrets are
The compilation still depends on the hard work of the mages from the Secret Literature Department."
"With this, there will be no resistance to our pioneering work in the abyss! As long as we bring a communicator like this, the abyss exploration team will still be a unit no matter how far apart they are. Wherever there is danger, with an order, the battle mage will immediately
Come to support, and report any new discoveries in time. Those brainless demons will never want to destroy the construction of the academy again!"
Wayne enthusiastically explained the glorious prospects of his invention, and the eager and amazed expressions on the faces of the mages next to him made him want to stop.
Only one of the calm onlookers, Mr. Fantasy, said: "Isn't this the magic version of the telegraph?"
This thing appeared in his hometown more than a hundred years ago. From Delta's point of view, there is nothing to be proud of in a magical world that has developed remote communication equipment so late.
Wayne's speech was a success. No one made any other sound. Only the wireless communicator was clicking in the room, which did not stop until Wayne finished speaking.
Although this strange-looking communicator is still very laggy in operation, the mages all know that this is due to the interference caused by the high activity of the magic energy in the real plane. As professional researchers, they can see the hidden meaning of this device.
potential, everyone spoke at this time.
"I'm starting to look forward to the situation when colleges will popularize this equipment."
"With Master Venn's invention, we can temporarily postpone the construction of the Abyss Magic Network, which makes the academy's liquidity more abundant. This money can be freed up to make other contributions and give more opportunities to mages with ideas.
.Master Wayne is indispensable."
"This time the director will probably appoint you as a lecturer directly. You can stay in the real plane all the time and don't have to go back to the abyss to complete those endless patrol missions."
"This wireless communicator definitely has the potential to become a cross-generational invention. If the interference caused by the uneven distribution of magic energy particles can be solved in the real plane, it may open the ninth era!"
Delta originally wanted to wait until they finished talking before telling them the news that there may be high-level thieves nearby, but the direction of these assistant teachers' conversations became more and more biased, ranging from the improvement of the prototype of the wireless communicator to the discussion of magic particle repulsion resonance technology.
Whether it can be applied to remote casting.
They looked fanatical and rational, as if they could talk until the evening. Even the assistant coach who dragged Delta into the middle had forgotten about him. The others were even more confused because Delta did not exist and were within sight.
Simply ignore him.
"Gentlemen, I don't mean to disturb you, but there is something very important that you need to know." He reminded loudly and helplessly.
The teaching assistants woke up as if from a dream, and more than twenty pairs of eyes looked at Delta. After a long while, someone asked in confusion: "How did this new student get in?"
Delta: ""
He tried to keep his tone as calm as possible: "Mage Galen in the warehouse area of ​​the Dark Horse Chamber of Commerce believes that there are high-level thieves here, and he is not clear about his camp's position. I think it is necessary to let other students know this news."
A Mediterranean mage wondered: "Isn't it normal for Danches to have high-level thieves? Although the academy has always been watching here, it is perfectly normal for high-level thieves to stay here just to steal some enchanted equipment and potions.
It’s over.”
In fact, Delta didn't know what the appearance of a high-level thief meant, but Galen's serious look made him a little nervous. He thought it was something serious, so he hurried over to inform him. But now he was said like this
, it seemed that high-level thieves were not unusual, but now he was embarrassed.
Fortunately, the other assistant teachers seemed to have drawn some conclusions from the news, and looked at the Mediterranean mage who spoke first in surprise.
Another assistant teacher asked him: "How long has it been since you came out? The college stopped selling alchemy potions and enchanting equipment ten years ago. Now these materials are only provided to Wang ** Fang at cost price. This is why the college seems to be getting more and more popular."
The reason why we are getting poorer.”
"Sorry, I haven't left the abyss in eleven years." The Mediterranean mage looked confused. He felt as if he was completely out of touch with the real plane.
"It's been too long since I've been back to the academy's real headquarters. It seems that the information I know may not be correct." He looked a little lonely.
As soon as these words came out, everyone present took a breath of air.
Most of them had worked in the abyss for a period of time, not necessarily in the same group. They had all seen the Mediterranean mage, but no one thought to ask him how long he had been there.
What is the concept of staying in the abyss for eleven years?
The resident battle mages of the Abyss also rotate every two years. They are determined and physically strong, but they also have to return to the real plane every two years to undergo psychological adjustment and physical recovery to prevent their minds and bodies from gradually weakening under the erosion of the Abyss.
And this holiday often proves to be necessary, otherwise those mages will gradually become mentally sensitive and manic, and will use killing as the first resort when encountering any conflicts.
The only people who can stay in the abyss for eleven years are those truth-seeking scholars who are truly calm and indifferent and have no fear of the abyss.
Chapter completed!