Farming in the Magical World

As August arrived, the weather grew increasingly hot.

Due to several cases of heatstroke, the security guard's training has been adjusted. The evening cultural classes have been moved to noon, while daily training has been moved to the mornings and evenings when the temperature is relatively lower.

Lanny, however, did not change his habits due to the high temperature. He still came to the study early every day to feel the magical elements, arrange various things, answer questions from all sides, and then stay busy until night.

Melissa mocked him a few times for his continued desire to become a magician, but seeing his unwavering persistence, she spoke less afterward, though she talked much more about the various experiments she was conducting.

What she was thinking was that although she couldn't help him become a magician, she could make him more familiar with the magical world, so that if he did become a magician one day, he wouldn't suffer because he didn't understand the magical world.

It must be said that they put a lot of thought into it!

For example, right now, she's holding a glass hemisphere the size of a soccer ball and some other small odds and ends of unknown purpose, fiddling with them on her desk while muttering to herself.

"Illumination is a basic spell, mainly achieved through special magical circuits and different oscillation frequencies; it doesn't require particularly high-quality materials..."

As she fiddled with it, five roughly identical parts were stuffed into the glass hemisphere. After adding other odds and ends of unknown purpose, the function of the object became clear: it was a byproduct of making the magic flow meter—the magic lamp.

This magic lamp is created by simulating a basic magic spell called "Illumination" using an array. Although it looks like there are a lot of things, the most important parts are the five parts that are slightly smaller than a fist that were put in first, and the power supply device—a Rubik's Cube—that was left in the middle to be installed.

She was clearly very proud of being able to simulate a spell using an array in a short time, even with the scarce materials at hand; the smile on her lips never changed.

As she said, the Light Illumination spell mainly relies on the magic power within the body to form five special vortexes. Then, according to special corresponding angles and different oscillation frequencies, they interact and overlap, and then collide and influence each other at the convergence point, emitting white light.

Although it is a basic spell, it is still quite difficult to cast. The mage must not only control the amount of magic power, but also control the speed and angle of the five cyclones. If the angle and frequency change or the convergence point shifts, the spell will fail.

Lanny looked completely bewildered after hearing this!

Are you sure this is really a basic spell, or a high-level spell?

Are you kidding me? One person has to control five parts and can't make any mistakes?

That would probably require mastering the art of ambidextrous fighting to release it reliably, right?

Zhou Botong is good at this, so he definitely can't come!

"Attack with your left and right hands? Why would you do that?" Melissa was completely baffled by the stilted translation. She couldn't understand what nonsense Lanny was spouting. How could someone use their left hand to hit their right hand?

Since she couldn't figure it out, she stopped worrying about it. After assembling all the small parts, she stopped and handed over a Rubik's Cube that emitted a faint blue light. "Why don't you do it?"

"Just start it!" Although he said it in a fake tone, Lanny took over immediately.

The Rubik's Cube had already filled Wright, this captive, with magic, and the magic lamp already assembled on the table had a hole on top that was just big enough to fit the Rubik's Cube.

Lanny carefully placed the Rubik's Cube inside, and under the expectant gazes of the two, the thing... didn't react for a long time.

"It's installed backwards?"

Lanny took the Rubik's Cube out again and looked at it, confirming that the side with the magic outlet did indeed correspond to the bottom. He then looked at Melissa with a puzzled expression.

"No!" Melissa reached out and took the Rubik's Cube, installing it herself. She closed her eyes and carefully felt it for a while. "It seems like the angle is a bit off. Wait a minute!"

"By the way, you didn't let Wright see the whole thing, did you?" Looking at the Rubik's Cube on the table, Lenny suddenly remembered Wright, the prisoner who charged it. "He'll have to be released eventually; we can't let the technology leak!"

Because he had to cooperate with various experiments, Melissa was the one he had been dealing with the most lately, while Lanny hadn't seen him for quite some time.

"How could that be!" Melissa rolled her eyes as she looked up at Lanny's concern. "I always have someone bring the Rubik's Cube to him... ...Am I that stupid?"

"Heh, you're pathetic that you come knocking on my door the moment I have a little bit of magic!"

The thought of Wright, whose magic was being drained every day, made him want to laugh.

"Pfft..."

Thinking of Wright's helpless expression every time he saw the Rubik's Cube, Melissa couldn't help but chuckle, "Serves him right for coming to the castle!"

It's not a pleasant feeling to have your magic drained, especially since Melissa uses the Rubik's Cube to extract most of it whenever he recovers some magic. It's really quite pitiful when you think about it.

Now Lanny knows that the learning and training of a level one to level three mage only requires daily meditation to accumulate power and gradually expand one's capacity limit with abundant magic power, eventually completing the level upgrade.

Between levels three and six, one cannot improve by naturally absorbing magical elements; instead, one needs specific meditation spells to assist in cultivation. From level six to nine, one needs to change the meditation spell again.

In Lanny's view, this means that the magical pressure within his body has reached a certain limit, and he needs a corresponding method to compress it again in order to continue to improve his absorption capacity and further expand the upper limit of his body's capacity.

From the perspective of a fantasy world, these meditation spells are equivalent to the various basic cultivation techniques. If there is any difference, it is probably that these meditation spells do not have any distinction of the five elements, and almost all magicians can use the same set of spells to improve themselves.

As for whether not distinguishing attributes is good or bad, he hadn't experienced it firsthand and couldn't make an evaluation. However, it did make things easier for mages, as they only needed to raise enough gold coins to buy a spellbook.

He wasn't worried about that. As long as he could sense magic and successfully become a Rubik's Cube apprentice, Melissa would take care of the subsequent spell upgrades.

Yeah, being kept by someone feels so luxurious, haha!

“But I reckon he’s not thinking about improving any further!” Lanny shrugged and offered his opinion.

Although he hadn't had much contact with him, the fact that the other party had been in the capital for so many years and was still only a level one mage suggested that Wright probably wasn't too keen on further improvement.

"That's normal. Even if you meditate every day without fail, it would take an ordinary person five or six years to advance one level. Do you think you can advance very quickly?"

Melissa straightened up, rolled her eyes at Lanny, and then held out her hand, saying, "Try it again!"

As she spoke, she adjusted the magic lamp again and handed the Rubik's Cube over.

"So, you became a great magician before you were even twenty years old, weren't you a genius among geniuses?"

Holding the Rubik's Cube, Lanny didn't rush to put it into the magic lamp. Instead, he looked at Melissa thoughtfully and asked, "If you reach the level of a Grand Magician at nineteen, wouldn't you have to advance one level every two years at least?"

"Does it have to start from infancy?"

"You're only finding out now?" Melissa proudly raised her head. "Back then, I was hailed as a genius magical girl, the youngest magician on the continent, and a rising star!"

However, her face immediately darkened. "What's the use of improving so quickly? I can't cast any magic now. I'm just an ordinary weak woman."

Because she is under the forbidden spell of "Black Vine Seed," any magic she casts may cause a disruption in the magical energy within her body; if she's lucky, nothing serious might happen.

If you're unlucky, you might vomit blood at best, or even explode and die at worst.

That's not the worst part. The worst part is that this "Black Vine Seed" is like a leech, constantly absorbing the magic power in her body. She doesn't dare to use meditation to restore her magic power, because meditation is also a kind of magic.

This caused her magic power to keep decreasing. Once her magic power was exhausted, this thing would directly drain her life force, making her life worse than death.

Fortunately, she is a great mage and can continue for many more years. Based on the current rate at which the "Black Vine Seed" absorbs magic, she should be able to continue for another fifty or sixty years. This is even considering that she will grow old and frail, and her ability to absorb external magical elements will be greatly reduced.

The two had discussed how to replenish their magical energy, and there were ways.

The reason why mages need to use meditation spells after level three to continue leveling up is simply because the pressure from external magical elements is no longer sufficient to expand the upper limit of their internal capacity.

In that case, creating an environment with higher magical pressure should allow her to quickly replenish her magical power through her own absorption ability.

As for how to create such an environment, that is their purpose in making the Rubik's Cube.

She tested it as soon as it was made and found that the internal magic pressure was still not high enough to restore her magic power. However, this result was within her expectations, so she wasn't too disappointed. The one who charged the cube was only a level one mage; how high could the magic pressure be?

Lanny also thought that, like voltage, if multiple Rubik's Cubes were connected in parallel, it should increase the magic voltage.

As he expected, the experimental results showed that connecting multiple Rubik's Cubes in parallel could indeed increase the magic pressure, but this was still not enough and had a clear upper limit, and could not truly solve her problem.

Firstly, this parallel superposition does not seem to be exactly the same as the voltage, where 1+1 equals 2 volts. Instead, it is lower. As for how much lower, due to the insufficient accuracy of the current magic pressure gauge, it is impossible to obtain an accurate value.

Based on estimation, with about six Rubik's Cubes connected in parallel, the pressure is exactly five cubes stacked without loss. This ratio is about 80%, which means there is a loss of more than 10%.

Secondly, even if the pressure is there, the total number of these Rubik's Cubes is still too small, and they are almost useless to her. Not to mention that the stacking does not seem to be infinite. It seems that the effect decreases as the number of stacks increases, and it is very likely that it will have no effect in the end.

Therefore, the real solution is to cultivate cyanobacteria in large quantities, then create enough Rubik's Cubes, and use arrays to achieve mass energy charging.

"Don't worry," Lanny said, gently placing his hand on Melissa's fair skin. Looking at her slightly reddened eyes, he said sincerely, "As long as Ford comes back from Bauhinia, I will have him buy that Thunderfire Wood."

During this time, he also sent Frank to Elfen to inquire, and found that this Thunderfire Wood was really hard to buy. In the past two years, he had almost never heard of it appearing at auctions.

So there's no use in rushing things. The most promising option right now is the part that the magician, as Ford mentioned, has.

Unfortunately, Lanny was not familiar with the Locke Merchant Guild, and Ford had not explained how to contact the magician before he left, so they could only wait.

Fortunately, Ford has been gone for almost a month, and at his usual pace, he should be back soon!

"Thank you, Lenny!" Melissa was touched by the concern in Lenny's eyes, and her voice even sounded nasal.

"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore, go ahead and try it!" After all, she was someone who had experienced the escape, not an ordinary noble girl. She quickly shook off her gloomy mood and smiled.

Seeing that the other person was no longer sad, Lanny withdrew his hand, nodded, and smiled.

He picked up the Rubik's Cube again, carefully aligned it with the top of the magic lamp, and slowly inserted it.

As Lanny moved, a soft light slowly illuminated the hemispherical glass lampshade. Even at midday in summer, when the sunlight outside the window was still scorching, this cool light still lit up the dark corners of the room.

The first magic lamp was invented...