Throne of Magical Arcana

On a cold winter night with snowflakes, magical crystal lamps with different brilliance set off the villa of Duke James beautifully and dazzlingly, just like the bright stars gathered in the dark night sky.

Even high-level magicians, no one would decorate their magic towers with crystal lamps. They often use magic candles for lighting, and the effect is not bad anyway.

For the vast majority of the nobles here, they only understand today what is called the real brilliant lights, which are so beautiful that they can’t imagine that besides the natural scenery, there are such dreamy scenes. This comes from the great power of human beings to change the world and can be popularized. Spectacular sight!

"Respected guests, please enter the villa." Barek's female student Lillian seemed to act as the master of ceremonies of the banquet, and smiled and signaled everyone to step into this "brilliant" villa that looked like the palace of the Sun King.

A beauty-loving aristocratic lady lifted her skirts, her gaze wandered, and she eagerly walked into the villa of Duke James. The gentlemen followed closely behind, curious and admiring.

"The effect seems to be very good. It seems that there is no problem with the initial promotion of our magic crystal lamp." As a man who devoted himself to making money, Arthur quickly recovered from this shocking scene.

Even though he had never seen a similar spectacular scene in the past, it did not prevent him from focusing most of his thoughts on observing the reaction of the nobles to the magic crystal lamp.

"I'm going to install it on my magic tower too!" Afris was the least resistant to shiny things. The brightly lit lights just now made his mouth water. "I'll pay the bill with arcane points!"

The gold, gemstones, crystals, etc. that have been collected in its treasury are very difficult to get out. Lucien even suspects that it "embezzled" more than half of the materials it used to build the magic tower to make it what it is now. Ugly and ugly mountain appearance - anyway, it is located in Allinge, and it is not afraid of being attacked.

"But it's only limited to nobles. If it can't reduce the cost again and popularize it to the citizen class, it will lose its meaning of simplifying and promoting. This is the achievement of civilization that every human being should enjoy." Lucien felt. Whether civilization is advanced or not should be viewed as the change and improvement it brings to the lives of most members of society, and now, the electrical age that is about to begin has such capabilities!

Arthur perplexedly spoiled Lucien's emotion: "However, there may be no hope of reducing the cost again in a short time."

"Well, we need a lot of skilled workers to separate some steps that don't require magic, and reduce costs through assembly lines, standardization, etc." Lucien nodded lightly like a capitalist, thinking of the descendants of the dwarves on the night plateau, but he It has caused such a big change in the vampire family, and it is no longer suitable to pick them up in a short period of time. At least two or three years later, when everyone's attention is completely shifted to the search for the new unknown space.

"It takes a long time to train a large number of skilled workers..." Arthur didn't understand what assembly line and standardization were, but he wasn't interested in asking for the time being, because he couldn't even meet the basic prerequisites.

At this time, Lilian turned off the main crystal lights in the banquet hall, leaving only a few small ones, and the light immediately became dim and hazy, bringing out a warm and romantic feeling.

She smiled humorously and said: "Everyone, don't worry that the popularity of magic crystal lamps will make us lose the romantic atmosphere of dinner by candlelight. What is romantic is always the heart and feelings. As long as you do it sincerely, you will definitely be able to create the desired feeling. "

"And when you walk through the corridors of the castle at night, you don't have to worry about the candlelight being too dark and the environment too gloomy. The bright feeling will always accompany you with the use of the magic crystal lamp."

Tsk, Lucien gritted her teeth. She probably took Arthur's money. She really spared no effort to promote the magic crystal lamp, but I like it! This can provide a significant annuity benefit!

After visiting the villa of Duke James, the banquet entered the elegant court dance session-the circle dance handed down from the court of Tria has not yet become popular in the conservative Holm Kingdom. The shoulder-to-shoulder and tightly hugging dance made many old-fashioned nobles reviled, and only some young people danced this kind of dance, which was labeled as pornographic, when they had private gatherings.

"Mr. Evans, the magic crystal lamp you designed is really beautiful. I have already ordered a set from Mr. Arthur. I didn't expect it to be popularized to such an extent." A dignified girl with a tightly buttoned collar walked away with plain water In front of Lucien, he said with admiration.

The set she mentioned refers to the set needed to renovate the entire villa, and the price is only equivalent to a magic crystal lamp from before.

Lucien shook the sky blue in the cup and said with a smile, "This is due to the convenience of electric current to transmit energy."

"Well, to be honest, when the lady pressed the switch just now, I was shocked by the bright lights. I had an indescribable feeling. I felt dreamy and beautiful, and I felt proud and proud, and all of this was yours. You are truly a miraculous magician." The aristocratic girl's face flushed slightly, her eyes watered, "Even people like me who don't have the talent of magicians and knights can use it, so you don't have to envy others anymore."

Lucien laughed and said, "It is my ideal to popularize some alchemy items so that most people can use them without hindrance." Especially in terms of life.

"You are such a great person." The noble girl's sincere praise made a thick-skinned guy like Lucien couldn't help but blush slightly.

"The alchemy item that most people can use, Evans, you really have a far-reaching idea..." Duke James and Barek, the mage of the Seven Rings, came over, and after hearing Lucien's words, he sighed in a low voice In one sentence, it seemed that he had keenly seen Lucien's hidden purpose.

Seeing Duke James, the noble girl blushed even more, and said to Lucien quickly: "Mr. Evans, I won't disturb your communication with Your Excellency the Duke."

"Hehe, Evans, why are you standing by and watching like us old guys? Just now, little Julie's face was full of 'ask me to dance' and 'please me dance', and you were indifferent? Don't you see Not our lovely little Julie? She is the precious granddaughter of Earl Haysson." James joked about Lucien, "I noticed that you deliberately ignored several beautiful ladies before?"

Lucien took a sip of Tianlan, and said half exaggeratedly: "Perhaps, my heart is really old, and I no longer look like a young man."

Young and handsome, gentle and elegant, with outstanding talent, high status, great future and rich wealth, Lucien, who is such an image in the eyes of noble women, has naturally attracted the favor of many ladies, and this is a pro-magic enlightened banquet. They don't have any prejudice against marrying a magician, and they are often full of fantasies.

Duke James laughed twice, and then said: "When the number of water flow magic circles converted into electric energy increases, and when the lines for transporting current become popular and enter the citizen class, they will probably be able to use some of the simplified alchemy items cheaply and conveniently. And when they gradually get used to this kind of life, which is brought about by magic instead of gods, I think your goal, Evans, has almost been achieved."

Lucien felt that it was time for him to get to know Duke James again. Although he looked like a vicious and reckless bald man, his heart was quite sharp and his thinking was very open. He could guess a lot of things just from a sentence he said casually. , he is an ally.

"When electric wires and electric power drive methods become popular, we have to consider an important issue. Electric current is much more dangerous than candle flames. Touching candle flames with your hands will at most cause burns, but touching a damaged wire is likely to directly kill you. Let the church demonize the current and prevent its promotion." Lucien said the question he planned to ask recently. At present, electric energy is the cheapest and easiest energy to transmit, which is not comparable to directly used spiritual power, solar energy, or tidal energy.

James turned his head to look at Barek, and got an affirmative answer: "In the magic laboratory of the Electromagnetic Department, there are magicians who forget to take electric shock protection and die accidentally every year."

The 50th most stupid way to die in Allinge has this one: "The poor magician Osan discovered a more powerful lightning spell in a magic experiment accident, so he welcomed it with joy and excitement." Going up, at this time, he found that the spherical lightning rolling around the room exceeded the limit of his own protection spells. Let us thank him for his outstanding contribution to the improved spherical lightning magic, and at the same time thank him for telling us with his scorched body, Runaway currents must be kept away."

"Then what should we do? Since you have thought about it, Evans, you must have a solution." James looked at Lucien with a smile, as if he believed in his ability.

Lucien said unhurriedly: "The harm of electric current to the human body cannot be eliminated. We cannot force the users to be magicians, nor can we isolate every section of wire by magic. I hope that Mr. Barek's electromagnetic system Masters can write a "Handbook for Safe Use of Electricity" to teach people how to use electricity safely and avoid possible dangers."

"In the face of an unknown thing that is harmful and beneficial, we should not blindly reject it like a foolish fool, and reject it directly, but try to avoid and reduce its harm, and use and develop its beneficial aspects. It is a mature and good arcane concept, otherwise, we should not use flames, although it can let us eat cooked food, it can also burn down houses and burn humans to death."

"If the church and conservatives demonize electricity and incite people to fight against it, we must enlighten the people's wisdom, let them understand electricity, clearly understand the dangers and benefits of electricity, understand how to use electricity safely, and turn the demonized electricity It is an arduous and meaningful struggle to restore it to its 'true' appearance." Lucien's tone of voice has become more and more demeanor of an arcane review committee.

Duke James nodded lightly: "Very instructive point of view, Barek, can you organize electromagnetic wizards to compile it?"

"No problem." Barek agreed.

In their eyes, although Lucien's teacher is the master of storms, he has not yet shown his talent in electromagnetism, and has not produced any direct results - the electromagnetism mage thinks that electrons are just a by-product of Lucien's exploration of elemental magic , cannot reflect his true level in the field of electromagnetic magic.

"Evans, when did you simplify the gramophone magic circle? This is something that nobles must like." James talked about his purpose of finding Lucien. The problem of simplification of electromagnetic communication technology has fallen into a bottleneck, and they are not optimistic about Lucien's level in this area, so they didn't mention it.

Lucien shook his head: "We need to find suitable materials, and we are still experimenting again and again. There is no rush for alchemy materials, so we can only try slowly."

In this regard, Lucien has the experience of the earth, so he has avoided a lot of detours, and he already has a plan, but he doesn't plan to take it out so soon, and wait for the magic crystal lamp to be promoted first. In the early stage of the electrical revolution, we need to concentrate our efforts and fight steadily.

"What a pity." Duke James sighed.

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In the magician management department, Eric looked at the familiar and downcast middle-aged man in front of him and said, "Levsky, long time no see, come to submit a new paper?"

"Long time no see, Eric, it's the perfection of the previous thesis." Levsky said bitterly, with hair like a withered yellow bird's nest, blue eyes full of tiredness, and a thin body like a bamboo pole.

Eric frowned and said, "Didn't the previous article be judged by several committee members to fail the review?"

"I have perfected it..." Levsky's eyes were firm, "and I heard that subversive papers that go against the current theory can be submitted to Commissioner Evans."

"However, so many committee members think that your geometry is just imaginary, full of fallacies, and extremely absurd." Eric said embarrassingly, as if trying to persuade Levsky to give up.

Levsky clenched his fists, his eyes drooped, and he said in a trembling but firm tone, "I don't think I was wrong. I want to show it to all Arcanists. Eric, submit it for me."

Eric took the paper and saw the title read:

A Rigorous Proof of the Principles of Geometry and of the Parallel Line Theorem.