Farming in the Magical World

"This is the magical pressure gauge you made?"

Lanny looked at the square box in front of him and twitched the corners of his mouth, unsure of how to express his feelings.

It's clear that the box in front of you was made using the mold he used to make the magic battery casing; it's almost exactly the same in size and appearance.

It's one thing to be too lazy to change the appearance, but it's supposed to be a magic pressure gauge, yet it's the size of a fist. Is it supposed to be held in someone's hand when taking a measurement? Or is it supposed to be shoved directly at someone?

According to his vision, it should be as small and exquisite as a power pen, instead of being such a big lump.

However, considering that the other party seemed to have never seen a test pen before, I couldn't blame them; it was my own fault for not explaining clearly.

"Do you think making this is easy? There are hardly any materials; you're lucky if you can even put it together, okay?"

Melissa glared at him, clearly displeased with his expression.

Right now, the castle only has two things that can be considered magical materials: glass, which has an extremely low magic conductivity. It's already quite impressive that she was able to create what Lanny wanted with these limited materials, isn't it?

She was really looking forward to seeing Lanny's expression when she took it out, but this is what happened?

Do you know how hard it is for me?!

"Hmm, not bad, not bad!" Even if Lanny was stupid, he knew what to say now. His expression changed, and he smiled and pointed out his finger in praise.

Actually, if you look closely, this thing isn't just a box; there are some intricate structures inside. However, he still doesn't quite understand it. After all, he only came up with the idea and then left it to Melissa; it was all Melissa's doing.

"What's this yellow thing?" Lanny held up a glass box the size of a fist, looking at a faint yellow line inside. It looked like a wooden stick embedded in the glass, or like powder.

"Powdered algae from the high mountains," Melissa said casually, glancing at what he was pointing to. "This stuff has an extremely high magical conductivity, so I used it as a magic circuit!"

"Hmm, what about these little squares on top?" Lanny pointed to the other end. Through the glass, which wasn't very transparent, it was vaguely visible that the inside seemed to be divided into five small squares, and there was some kind of liquid inside, which was greenish.

"I collected the juice of the Magic Glow Grass from the wild."

The Magic Glow Grass emits a blue light when it comes into contact with magic. Some magic circles use this plant. As soon as Lanny mentioned that she needed to make it glow, she immediately thought of this plant. Fortunately, this plant is almost everywhere in the wild and is not hard to find.

What's even more ingenious is that this thing doesn't glow immediately upon contact with magic; it requires a certain amount of magic. Magicians use this property as a signal to activate magic circles.

Embed this thing in a specific location, and it will light up once the magic power requirement for that location is met! Oh, the formation has been successfully activated.

Lenny nodded, then pointed to the connecting element in the middle and said, "Oh, I know what this is, it's probably glass. But how did you draw such a small glass filament?"

“Of course, I asked that apprentice in the workshop. He didn’t find it difficult at all and figured it out after a few tries.” Melissa said with a smug look on her face.

She was very proud of her idea to draw glass into wires and then connect the two parts.

After accepting Lanny's task, she began to think about how to build a passage between the Magic Glow Grass and the outside world, so that the Magic Glow Grass would not glow as soon as it came into contact with magic, and that it would be distinguished according to the degree of magic concentration.

Ultimately, she decided to rely on her experience and use materials with low magical conductivity to control the degree of intensity. However, she had very few magical materials on hand, and the easiest material to shape was this newly made glass.

Thinking about these things isn't difficult; the challenge lies in trying them out little by little, figuring out exactly how big and long these materials, which act as a barrier to the magic, should be!

The sample she has now is the one she tested for a long time at the workshop before finally deciding on it!

It was because of the repeated attempts that she began to admire the people in the workshop. "The people in your workshop are really skilled. Were they really just ordinary people before?"

Hehe, compared to Melissa's surprise, Lanny didn't find it strange at all.

Ever since he implemented the artisan ranking system, these guys have been spending all their time figuring out how to improve their skills, all hoping to get the treatment of an artisan.

However, what he is more interested in now is how effective this thing actually is.

"How about we let Wright give it a try? It's been several days; his magic should have recovered by now, right?"

Melissa shook her head. "No need. This thing doesn't absorb magic, it only senses it. The loss of magic is negligible, so I can try it."

After saying that, she took the magic pressure gauge from Lanny's hand and pressed it against a yellow part that was exposed on the outside of the glass box.

Immediately, the entire box lit up, like a blue-glowing cube, giving Lenny the feeling of seeing the Infinity Stones.

Holding up the glowing box, Melissa looked at Lanny with a smug expression.

Even though she wasn't optimistic about it at first, thinking it was just a toy that Lenny had come up with on a whim, she still felt a great sense of accomplishment when it was actually made.

She put a lot of thought into making this thing.

Let's leave aside the glass fiber part; the main credit actually goes to the young apprentice in the workshop.

Take the alpine algae powder, for example. How could she pour it into the small holes made in the glass so that it wouldn't actually turn into powder and flow out again? She thought of many ways.

She first tried to mix it with water, but found that the water dried up quickly, so the attempt failed.

She then thought of using animal fat, which doesn't dry out easily, but the magic conductivity changed, seemingly decreasing significantly. Although this was a good discovery, it was useless for what she needed to do now, resulting in failure.

Finally, she remembered the pine oil in the forest, went out and got some, mixed it with the powder, and poured it in. That's how she got it working.

Actually, that wasn't the only problem. Another challenge was making glass wires of different thicknesses that met the requirements, which took her a lot of effort. She made many finished products, but none of them met the requirements. The thinnest ones were almost as thin as hair.

If Lanny saw this, he'd probably exclaim, "You actually made fiber optics?"

Thinking of the difficulties involved, she felt a great sense of accomplishment, and her hand holding the object unconsciously rose a little higher.

Lanny looked at her and was somewhat taken aback, and couldn't help but smirk.

Honestly, this blonde beauty holding a glowing object looks just too much like the opening sequence of a certain company, doesn't it?

If you made this box into the shape of a torch, and then dressed her in her old loose dress, it would look exactly the same, haha.

"What are you laughing at?" Finally, Melissa realized something was wrong. She turned around and saw Lanny looking at her with a half-smile. She was a little confused and didn't understand what he was laughing at.

"It's nothing," Lanny said, naturally unable to explain, and his smile faded.

"All five sections are lit up." Looking at the "magic pressure gauge" that was emitting a soft blue light, she noticed that almost all of them were lit up. "Does this only have five magic pressure readings? Or is this the maximum it can measure?"

"That's all there is!" Melissa pouted, somewhat dissatisfied. "The thing is only so big; it's too difficult to fit in more parts!"

"If we had more materials, we could use materials with different magical conductivity to make it, which would probably be more comprehensive!" Melissa guessed uncertainly.

She already had a vague sense of the benefits of this thing, and even if Lanny didn't urge her, she planned to continue improving it to make it more accurate. It was just that the castle's magical materials were currently so scarce, which she found somewhat regrettable!

"Not bad, not bad. At least we can do some measurements now, and we don't have to rely on your feelings to judge every time." Unlike Melissa's regret, Lanny was quite satisfied. He hadn't expected Melissa to be able to do it so quickly.

Of course, we must exclude its strange shape and inaccurate measurement range.

Melissa also told him that the very standard magical material he was looking for was not currently available in the castle, nor was it something she remembered.

Considering that it had to be a perfectly accurate integer, which was indeed a bit difficult for them, Lanny had no choice but to give up on agonizing over it.

Let's use it like this for now. After all, we don't even have any testers who have just reached the first level of magic. Whether the measurement data of this thing is correct or not can only be determined through gradual adjustment during use.

"Do you think it's possible to make a tool to measure the flow of magic?" Looking at the square magic pressure gauge that resembled a Rubik's Cube, Lanny stroked his chin and had another sudden inspiration.

Now that we've made something to measure magic pressure, shouldn't we also make something to measure the flow of magic power?

As anyone who has studied electricity knows, voltage multiplied by current equals power.

Can this formula also be applied to magic?

For example, does magic pressure multiplied by magic flow equal magic power?

Uh, magical power? How many watts? Or how many fireballs, or simply how many balls?

When the time comes, it will be much easier for everyone to assess its power and combat strength.

This is a ten-ball fireball spell, that's a twenty-ball flame storm, wow, this is incredible, it's a forbidden spell with over a hundred balls, awesome!

The unluckiest are the level two mages; they get hit with a level two ball...

It seems we need to change the word; "two balls" is just too awful.

Thinking about these random ideas, he couldn't help but chuckle; they were just too funny.

"What do we need to do?" Melissa countered.

She had become somewhat immune to his whimsical ideas, so she wasn't too surprised. However, she was at a loss for what to do and wasn't even sure what he meant, so she could only throw the question back at him.

Lanny was also a little stumped for a moment.

He vaguely remembered the principle of the voltmeter, and he often encountered similar concepts in his daily life, since even when charging a device, he had to check whether it was a 5V charger.

However, the measurement principle and working principle of an ammeter are much more complex, and he really doesn't remember the specifics of how it works, so he naturally can't provide any related design ideas.

After thinking for a long time, he realized he really couldn't remember, so he could only explain in detail the effect he wanted to achieve and the concept of measuring flow, to see if Melissa could come up with a relevant measurement method herself.

After hearing his explanation, Melissa did not consider how to make it first. Instead, she kept looking Lanny up and down with a strange expression on her face.

"Where do you get all these strange ideas? And you even have a whole set of reasons for them," she wondered, genuinely curious about his odd ideas.

The key point is that what the other party said sounded quite reasonable.

"Just tell me, can we do it or not?" Lanny tilted his head to look at her, his attitude saying, "Just tell me if it's okay or not."

She slapped her forehead in exasperation at Lanny's childish tantrums and rolled her eyes.

This guy really knows how to give me a hard time!