Chapter 194 Your gear rotation lacks energy, but the ether makes up for this part
Looking at the stationary gear, Horn climbed onto the stage, reached out and touched it, trying to turn it.
No matter how hard Horn tried, the gear did not move at all, as if it was not the gear that had just moved when the crank was turned.
“It’s really magical.”
No matter how incredible it is for Horn, the phenomenon is already in front of him, and all unreasonable things are part of the operation of this world.
But he still believed that matter was conserved, and there must be something about this star-cast gear that he didn't understand.
At this time, Shilov looked at Horn, who was standing in front of the gear and was meditating, and gradually understood.
Her original mentality of showing off the toys gradually calmed down, and she began to introduce it to Horn in a serious manner.
“Don’t think of it as turning out of thin air. It can turn because I am also turning the handle.” Shilov turned the wheelchair and sat over. “When I turn the handle, you The star cast gear can be regarded as a small gear whose weight is only one-tenth of the original or even almost nothing.
For other gears in contact with the star cast gear, the star cast gear is still extremely fast. And heavy gears.”
This made Horn even more confused. The problem is that the energy at the input end is smaller than the output end. Who can provide me with the missing energy?
“You have such a high-speed gear to drive the machine, but your input end only has the energy to turn the pinion. It’s like putting a drop of water into a pool, and a basin flows out...” Horn Suddenly he stopped talking.
If you put a drop of water into a pool and a basin flows out, in this case, there is either a water inlet or there is water in the pool.
When I first used the orichalcum rod, I also encountered similar questions, and Horn’s diagnosis was that “the lack of orichalcum potential energy is relatively large, but the user’s mana makes up for this part”
Do star cast gears have the same properties?
But when he just turned the handle, he didn't feel the mana draining.
“Let me ask you, does the operation of this gear consume mana?”
“Yes, and no.” Covering her thighs with her long wolf tail, Shilov continued to explain. stand up.
This star-cast gear is a major alchemical invention of Shilov's adoptive mother. It was originally intended to be used as a water pump to help drain the swamp, but for unknown reasons, it was not implemented.
According to Shilov, star-cast gears are alchemical products, and their alchemical reactions are carried out during rotation.
Although the required mana is only slightly higher than that of glowstone, it is indeed needed. In other words, if you are an ordinary person, you will not be able to turn this crank at all.
“But our mana is far from enough to turn it, right?”
“Let me use an analogy, the mana you gave is just a flame, but what really makes the flame ignite is underneath. "The firewood."
"You mean, the gear itself stores energy?"
"Correct." Shilov's tail shook, "That firewood?" The water in the pool is called ether ”
"Aether?!" Paslik's uncontrollable scream sounded from behind.
Horn quickly glanced back: "Master Crispa, do you know what ether is?"
To this day, Horn still calls Paslik Crispa. , because if you call him by his real name, he will ignore you no matter what, as if his identity has not been exposed.
"Ether is a hypothesis put forward by the Priory of Scales, but..."
Seeing Paslik's hesitant expression, Horn did not continue to ask, Prepare to go back and ask privately. After all, the most important issue at the moment is the star-forged gear.
"Then where does the ether come from? How does it enter the star-cast gear?"
"The ether comes from the star realm. Our material world is in the star realm. We are flowed by the ether all the time. It’s just that the time, location and conditions for extracting it are very strict.
If you want to know the details, we can have a tea party and we can talk slowly then. ”
Turning the hand wheel, Shilov slowly drove towards the door: "As for how it is stored in the star-cast gear, what do you think the spire outside is used for?"
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After confirming that Afu was fine, Shilov took Horn and others to the gate of the minaret.
There were a lot of marks on the door at this moment, but no matter how they attacked, even using clockwork guns, they could not break through the iron door.
What is strange is that, except for the gargoyle relief in the middle of the door, there are no keyholes or mechanisms.
How do you open the door like this? Horn looked down at Shilov's raised wolf ears.
"Horn, push me to the door."
Pushing the wheelchair to the door, Shilov casually put her hand into the gargoyle's mouth. In the deep stone mouth, Horn saw a flash of cold light in a trance, and after Shilov took his hand back, a red blood spot appeared on the pad of his index finger.
Holding the gargoyle's chin, Shilov pushed it gently, and the thick and tall iron door slowly rose up as the chain rotated.
It’s as easy as pushing a rolling shutter door.
She stuck out her slender tongue and licked off the blood spots. The slight cut on her fingertips quickly healed: "Only my grandma and I can open this door. Well, those group of demon hunters back then, I don’t know how they opened it, maybe they used grandma’s blood?”
Before Shilov entered with Horn, a group of soldiers entered first and searched thoroughly inside and out.
But this time, Victor didn’t dare to take any chances. If a vampire showed up halfway, he would have said goodbye to his position as a legion commander.
He still wants to make further progress.
After confirming that the first floor was safe, Horn and his party walked into the tall and slender spire.
The entire minaret seems to be made of marble. The first floor is about a hundred square meters, but since there are no public stalls, it does not look too small.
In the center of the black, red and white granite floor is a pool with a radius of about two meters.
Since there are no windows on the first floor, everything is shrouded in fog-like darkness, and the only light is the vertical beam of light coming from the small hole in the ceiling.
Located in the center of the floor, the slender light pillar seems to support the entire floor.
The pool water reflects the sparkling waves, rolling on the arched structure of the wall, the tapestries and the thin Gothic columns.
However, Horn and others did not stay any longer, but pushed Shilov up the spiral chute to the second floor.
There are no more decorated walls on the second floor, only curved bookcases arranged in a circle along the wall. There are only a few books in the bookcases, and some of them even have traces of fire.
“It was all done by those group of demon hunters.” Shilov coldly straightened her tail and lowered her head. “I have memorized all those books. If it weren’t for the lack of paper, the bookcases here could be filled with at least Half.”
Pushing Shilov up to the third floor, unlike the dim light beams on the first and second floors, there are no other floors between the third floor and the top of the highest tower. .
Although it is daytime outside, there is still pale light falling from the top of the tower and the high windows next to it.
Horn estimated the distance. It was estimated to be fifty or sixty meters from the third floor to the top floor. There seemed to be an observatory made of brass and iron brackets and transparent glass leading to the top floor.
From the third floor to the top, there are circles of glowstones, going downwards along the spiral arrangement. In the middle of the third floor, there is a black but neither iron nor wooden base.
“There was originally an obsidian obelisk here, but the obelisk was moved away by the demon hunter.”
Holding the rim of his hand and pushing hard, Shilov came to the square. Near the base of the obelisk.
She looked up, and the sunlight filtered through the gray clouds, turning into transparent white light and shining on her face.
“When I was a child, I once saw them refining aether to cast star-forged gears.
But since the obelisk was moved and the ritual materials were emptied and burned, how this gear was cast has become an eternal mystery, and I have not been able to reproduce it to this day. "
Walking around the entire room, Horn's fingers grazed the smooth wall. There were mottled scorch marks on the wall. Rather than being marks of fire, they were more like laser burns. Shape.
"How is this star-forged gear poured into the ether? "
"Well..." Shilov lowered his head and pointed to the observatory above, "We need to first calculate the time and position of the stars to return, and then put the telescope in the appropriate position.
If the starlight can shine on the obelisk through the telescope normally, then perform the alchemy ceremony of [Ether Pump], then the ether in the star world will use the starlight as a channel to enter the material world.
The ether passes through the obsidian obelisk, and the current base will do, and enters the moon pool at the bottom. The star-cast gear placed in the moon pool will gradually absorb the invisible ether. "
Ether, it's so wonderful.
Horn, who reached out and touched the base of the obelisk, suddenly felt a little regretful. It would be great if the star-cast gear could produce energy.
Putting her head above the base, Jeanna turned her head and looked up: "Can the star cast gear be used forever like this? "
"Of course not. Shilov stroked the wolf tail on her thigh, "This ether will be used up every once in a while, so the star-cast gear must be recharged in the moon spring every once in a while."
The next constellation of stars will be in ten days. I will demonstrate it to you then. ”
(End of this chapter)