Chapter 181 Magic Array Stabilizer
Using money to smash them really had a good effect.
When Xu Yi announced the large salary of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards and after Count Sean gave his promise, the five hundred elites immediately treated themselves as part of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
Although before this they were required to sign a contract with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and go through a series of procedures to obtain their true wishes, seeing their happy and expectant looks, one knew that they weren’t against becoming guards at all.
Xu Yi first had Count Sean draw up a contract in the name of the City Lord’s Manor, validating these five hundred elites joining the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Then he had Count Sean send someone to get Kennard who was at Sandton Manor and have him take care of everything.
Kennard rushed over with several assistants and began verifying the status of all five hundred elites starting with Hart before signing the employment contract with them.
Many of these five hundred elites were literate and after seeing that the benefits written in the contract were no different from what Xu Yi had promised, even being more detailed than he described, they became assured and each person happily signed the contract.
Xu Yi naturally didn’t need to meddle with these affairs and watched Kennard work for a bit. He then said a few words to Kennard and left the City Lord’s Manor, heading to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce magic research facility.
When he came in, Lotte was the first one Xu Yi saw.
After seeing Xu Yi, Lotte immediately revealed a bright smile.
Although Xu Yi returned this smile, he couldn’t help thinking of how Lotte had tried to seduce him that night.
Although it had already been half a year and Lotte had joined the Frestech Chamber of Commerce eventually, that night was Xu Yi’s first time having a girl openly trying to seduce him like that, so it left a deep impression on him.
Actually to be honest, Lotte’s actions that night had actually made Xu Yi and Still’s relationship even better.
It was that night that Still had proposed to him.
Afterwards, Xu Yi even considered Lotte to be his and Still’s matchmaker.
Of course, this matchmaker’s actions were a bit hard to say.
“Hey, sir chairman, are you here on an inspection today?” Lotte greeted Xu Yi with a happy look. It didn’t seem like her actions from before had left a single mark on her.
“I’ve said it many times, Lotte, you are an old friend and an old coworker. Don’t call me sir chairman all the time, it sounds very ugly. Just be like before and call me by my name.” Xu Yi said.
“Although I also want to return to before, I am part of the company and am your subordinate, so customs have to be retained.” Lotte said with a smile, it was unknown how much of her words were serious.
Xu Yi shook his head and decided not to pester her with this. He looked at the crystal ball in her hand and asked, “Is Sancheli still studying the crystal ball?”
“Un, I’ve been assisting team leader Sancheli research the influence of programmed magic on crystal balls. As for now…..the progress is rather slow. Sir chairman, are you very disappointed in us?” Lotte asked back.
“What do I have to be disappointed in? His research is very complicated and I already knew that it would take a long time for him to make progress.” Xu Yi said.
Lotte looked down at the crystal ball and doubtfully asked, “Sir chairman, why are you so confident in this research? Team leader Sancheli said that he hasn’t had any progress in the year since he joined the company, but you’re still confident in him and let him continue his research.”
“It’s because magic programming technology is a technology with wide application that is very much worth studying. I’m very clear on the importance of this technology and know how complicated it is, so I’m rather patient on this aspect.” Xu Yi explained slightly before saying to Lotte with a smile, “But it has to be said, your eyes really are good. Other researchers aren’t interested or confident in this research, but only you joined Sancheli’s team in the end. This research will take a lot of time and there’s no limit, so you’ll never have to worry that you won’t have work to do.”
Lotte said with a smile, “Naturally it’s good if there is work to do. Of course, I hope that I can help team leader Sancheli obtain some results, otherwise we would be letting down sir chairman’s expectations.”
“Help me tell Sancheli that he can’t rush with this research because it is very precise research, it requires very strong patience.” Xu Yi said with a serious look, “It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t have any results, I’ve already waited two years, it doesn’t matter if I wait another two years.”
Lotte nodded. She looked at Xu Yi before suddenly giving a sigh and saying in a low voice, “Sir chairman, you’re this patient with team leader Sancheli and you’re willing to give him all those chances, why can’t you be more patient with me and give me a few chances?”
Xu Yi was a bit surprised, “You’re helping Sancheli with his research, so I’m very patient with you. Of course, I will also give you many chances to display your ability like with Sancheli.”
Lotte revealed a bitter smile and took a step forward, pressing herself against Xu Yi. She looked into Xu Yi’s eyes and shook her head, “Xu Yi, you should know that I’m not talking about that. I want to say, why can’t you be more patient with me and give me more chances, allowing yourself to understand me better?”
Xu Yi knit his brows and took a step back. He thought about it and said, “Lotte, I’m married.”
“Marriage isn’t an obstacle. As long as you’re willing to give me a chance, I can give you all of me!”
Seeing that Lotte wanted to approach again, Xu Yi reached out a hand to stop her. He took a deep breath and said with a serious look, “Lotte, this is my warning to you. If you keep acting like this, I’m afraid that I can’t be friends with you anymore and I’ll ask you to leave the magic research facility.”
Hearing Xu Yi heavy intonation on the word “friends”, Lotte deeply knit her brow. After looking at Xu Yi for a while, she slowly asked, “What if I sincerely like you and I’m not just trying to seduce you?”
“Then I can only say that I’m sorry.” Xu Yi said.
Lotte gave a sigh and took a step back. She fixed her hair and her expression returned to a faint smile. She said to Xu Yi with a nod, “Alright, sir chairman, I understand what you mean. I will be careful in the future.”
“Then that’s good.” Xu Yi gave her a nod and moved away.
Watching Xu Yi enter the chief’s room, Lotte gave a soft snort.
“Humph, I don’t believe that your heart isn’t moved at all.”
Xu Yi who had entered the chief’s room naturally didn’t hear this. Moreover, there was another important matter on his mind right now, he had already thrown away the unimportant matter with Lotte.
“Evita, I’ve heard that you’ve made a new breakthrough with the long distance transmission research?” As soon as he came in, Xu Yi immediately asked Evita this.
“Yes, chairman.” Evita who was currently in the middle of an experiment replied with a happy look on her face.
“Then what specifically is this breakthrough?” Xu Yi kept asking.
“It mainly deals with transmission range and stability.” Evita explained, “Of course, these two influence each other, so it is because of a breakthrough in stability that the transmission range has increased. Because we wanted to increase the transmission range, we found a way to stabilize it.”
“This is what I said to you before, different research in the same system is actually related to each other. Then what new discovery have you made this time that could make a breakthrough in these two important aspects?” Xu Yi asked.
Evita took a long and white thing from the lab bench that seemed like a noodle.
“Chairman, look, this is our newly developed Magic Array Stabilizer. Using this stabilizer to wrap up a magic power line will greatly reduce the amount of magic that is lost in transmission, stabilizing and increasing the efficiency of magic transmission. Moreover, with this wrapped around the line, a normal magic line would be very weak against outside influences, but we can protect the Magic Array inside our magic machines. This will increase the lifespan of our company’s magic machines and will reduce the possibilities of problems occurring.
Xu Yi didn’t express his opinion. He first took the stabilizer made of an unknown material from Evita’s hand and then he drew a Second Grade Flame Array on Evita’s lab bench. He attached one end of the line to the Magic Array and the other end to his finger.
A trace of magic came from Xu Yi and poured into the Flame Array through the line.
“Hong!”
A flame suddenly came out of the Flame Array.
Xu Yi carefully looked at the flames temperature and brightness, comparing it with the reference in his mind. He was happy to find that compared to the normal Flame Array, the effects of this Flame Array with the stabilizer was only a bit weaker.
It had to be known that Magic Arrays normally couldn’t compare to normal magic. Not to mention that Xu Yi was injecting magic from a distance with the line, replacing a Magic Crystal.
This Magic Array actually wasn’t that different from a normal spell. Other than proving that Xu Yi’s Flame Array was outstanding, it also proved that there was almost no consumption when injecting magic through this line.
This was a very powerful function.
Because if injecting magic into a Magic Array took no consumption, that meant that there was no limit to distance when it came to magic transmission.
Xu Yi twisted the noodle like string in his hand that Evita called a stabilizer and he suddenly had a thought.
This thing, doesn’t it look like an electrical wire?
Chapter 182 Tentative Magic Power Grid
Of course, this idea only existed in theory.
According to the data from Evita, although the stability of magic transmission was increased after the stabilizer was wrapped around the magic line, it wasn’t zero consumption. The current limit was that it could transmit magic a total of five hundred meters and still maintain basic function, fulfilling the request of the Magic Array.
Once it went past five hundred meters, the magic would become unstable because of the consumption and it couldn’t activate the Magic Array.
Although compared to the distance of a hundred meters from before, this was five times longer, compared to the electrical wires on earth that could transmit even thousands of kilometers away, the disparity was just too big.
But Xu Yi changed his thoughts and thought of another question.
Although when conducting electricity on earth, they just need to set a power grid and could transport the electricity, in reality when electricity uses a conductor, a part of it will be consumed.
The reason why earth can transmit electricity hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away from the power plant is because there wasn’t just a single connection, rather there were electric substations between points that ensured that the electricity was at a certain level, so it could satisfy electrical needs.
Another reason was that the output was much higher than the voltage actually needed, so even if it was consumed in transfer, there was still plenty of room for adjustment once it reached the electric substations.
If this theory could be applied to magic power transfer, it should be using Magic Crystals to release a high energy magic power with a facility that adjusted the frequency of this magic in between and then releasing the magic from this station, allowing it to have the power needed to activate a Magic Array.
When Xu Yi told Evita this tentative plan, Evita’s eyes lit up and they filled with excitement.
“This idea is great! Chairman, you really are a genius!” Evita excitedly walked around the lab bench several times as she became more excited the more she thought about it, “This idea can definitely work! Great! Why didn’t I think of this before? If we can use this, we could even transfer magic power from Banta City to Anvilmar City!”
Thinking of this possibility, Evita couldn’t help breaking out in laughter.
Evita normally had a calm and cool appearance, but this was Xu Yi’s first time seeing her lose it like this. It could be seen just how excited she was at this moment.
Seeing how Evita couldn’t keep her composure from her excitement, Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, “Don’t be happy too early. If you want to achieve this plan, there are many important problems to solve first. First, how will you adjust the intensity of the magic power? Although there is a difference in intensity and frequency for magic power, the magic power from Magic Crystals aren’t stable at all and different Magic Crystals release different intensities, so how can we turn this magic power of different intensity into the magic power we need to activate the same Magic Array?”
Hearing Xu Yi’s question, Evita stopped moving as her brows knit and she sunk into deep thought.
After a while, Evita’s expression suddenly changed as she said to Xu Yi, “Chairman, I got it. You said before that when you want to mass produce something, you need to standardize it. When the product produced has the same standards, we can guarantee that there is no need to worry about different parameters of the same product. I think that…..this idea can also be applied to magic power?”
Xu Yi gave a nod with a smile of praise, “This idea is very good. That’s right, magic power can also be standardized, but how do you think that this can be accomplished?”
Evita fell into deep thought again before replying, “What determines the intensity of the magic power released from Magic Crystals is the magic power contained within it, so that depends on the structure of each Magic Crystal. There are small differences in each piece of Magic Crystal, so naturally there are differences in the output. So I think…..if we want to standardize magic power transfer, we need to use the simplest method of changing the source, which is standardizing Magic Crystals.”
“Oh?” Xu Yi was a bit surprised. He thought about the specialty of electricity transfer back on earth, so he chose to discuss this with Evita. He wanted to see if it could be referenced for magic power transfer, but he never thought that Evita would realize all these things from his suggestion. He kept asking in a happy voice, “Then how should we standardize Magic Crystals?”
Evita thought about it before drawing two Magic Arrays on the lab bench.
“Chairman, look. These Magic Arrays can extract magic from Magic Crystals and instantly explode. When using this Magic Array, one could display a good battle strength if they had enough Magic Crystals. But everyone found afterwards that this Magic Array was very inefficient in using Magic Crystals because the method of releasing magic from Magic Crystals was very crude. It didn’t undergo any magic…..processing, so it was actually very wasteful.” Evita pointed at one of the simple looking Magic Arrays as she gave this explanation.
Xu Yi looked down and with his strong understanding of Magic Arrays, he could tell that this Magic Array’s functions were very simple.
“Then you mean to say that you want to use this Magic Array to draw out magic from the Magic Crystals and then use another Magic Array to compress the gathered magic?”
Evita looked at Xu Yi in surprise, as her eyes were filled with admiration.
“Right, sir chairman, you shouldn’t recognize this Magic Array, right? It’s because I saw this one in a very old book a few years ago and there aren’t any magicians who know about this.”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “I just guessed based on the characteristics of the Magic Array. Evita, you even know this unpopular Magic Array and can instantly think of these two Magic Arrays, you really are incredible.”
Evita’s face turned a bit red as she said with a smile, “Sir chairman’s praise is too much. I just considered this problem when I was doing research before, but I never thought that it could be used like this. If you didn’t remind me of this, it would have been wasted.”
“Alright, no need to be modest. Since you already considered this problem before, you should have some ideas, right? Do you think that with these two Magic Arrays, you can standardize Magic Crystals?” Xu Yi asked.
“I can’t say that for now.” Evita shook her head, “Because the second Magic Array’s development wasn’t finished, so there’s no way to gather magic power from Magic Crystals and compress them.”
“Un, based on this array, it shouldn’t be finished.” Xu Yi looked down at the second Magic Array for a bit before falling into thought and giving a nod, “This isn’t a problem. Since it isn’t finished, then we can just finish it. Based on this array, this Magic Array was heading in the right direction. The problem we need to solve now is to finish the magic gathering Magic Array and not waste the magic contained within Magic Crystals. Then we must standardize the Magic Crystals that we’ve collected and even control their quality, letting them release the intensity of magic power that we want.”
“Un, this must be done.” Evita gave a nod before giving a smile, “Otherwise, wouldn’t refining Magic Crystals lose their meaning?”
“You’re right. Do you have confidence in doing this?” Xu Yi said with a serious look.
Evita thought about it before giving a calm and confident nod.
“Good, Evita, I’ll give you this project of refining Magic Crystals and standardizing them.” Xu Yi immediately made his decision, “This research is very important, so I approve a special research fund of ten thousand for you as the chairman.”
“Ten thousand gold coins? Isn’t this too much?” Evita asked in a surprised voice, “At most research projects only received a fund of five thousand gold coins before.”
“This is because it is very important to me, do you understand what I mean?” Xu Yi asked.
Evita nodded with a serious expression, “I understand. Chairman, I will do my best to research this topic.”
“Evita, I’ve never had any doubts about your abilities.” Xu Yi revealed a smile, “But Evita, I’m happy that you will work hard, but I hope that you will not spend all your time on this. I’ve heard that you’re always staying late in the lab and choose to work overtime all day, this is not a good thing. Although magic research takes a large amount of time, what I think is more important is a person’s body. If you tire yourself out too much and hurt yourself, the gains are not worth the losses.”
“Many thanks for the chairman’s care, I will be careful.” Evita said with a faint smile.
“Other than your body, you also need to spend some time on your personal life. Look at all the other researchers going out to play, I’ve heard that Bella has even gotten close to a noble young master and her relationship with him is quite good. Why don’t you learn from her?” Xu Yi asked in a very gossipy manner.
Evita pursed her lips into a smile, “Bella and Rabuka’s relationship is quite good, I think they just need to announce it.”
“You’re not jealous? You haven’t thought of finding a boyfriend? I’ve heard Still say that you’ve never dated back at school, isn’t this a bit strange?” Xu Yi began gossiping even more.