"Professor Lynn, what is this? A mirror?" Lydia propped herself up on the experint table with a chair cushion under her feet, staring in amazent at the flawless circular mirror before her and exclaid with curiosity.
There were mirrors in Wizard Land too, but they were all polished copper mirrors. So wizards would even enchant them with magic, but Lydia was certain, not even the finest copper mirror in Wizard Land could compare to this one—not by a ten-thousandth!
"That’s right, I call it a glass mirror," Lynn nodded with a smile.
Soon, Darren and the rest of the halflings gathered around, marveling at the clear reflection in the mirror.
"Perfect, it’s just too perfect... it’s even clearer than a reflection on the surface of a lake," Darren kept praising. He had never seen such a beautiful mirror; it was like a work of art.
After receiving Lynn’s permission, the halflings carefully extended their hands and held the circular mirror, gently touching the transparent surface as if even a little force could shatter it.
Seeing the expression on Darren and the others’ faces as if they had found a rare treasure, Lynn couldn’t help but chuckle. He had originally thought that since wizards had a basic understanding of the movent of the stars, the technology for glass, essential for astronomical observations, should have been discovered long ago.
However, after asking Harrov, he learned that the wizards from the Prophecy School, in their efforts to observe the stars, had developed various far-seeing magical spells and even upgraded alchemical scopes several tis, completely bypassing research in this area.
There was no helping it; magic was just too convenient. Lynn had even started getting used to solving problems with magic. For instance, making glass would normally require a furnace, but he managed it all with a single fire spell.
Lydia swung it back and forth, staring joyfully at her own reflection in the mirror. No maiden could resist such a sleek and flawless glass mirror that reflected her features so clearly.
"Professor, is it made from that special kind of sand?" Lydia reluctantly passed the circular mirror to the next halfling and looked at the basket of raw materials on the table, asking with curiosity.
"It must be the effect of magic!" Darren said with utter conviction.
Such a fine glass mirror couldn’t possibly just be made from so sand and rocks.
Therefore, it must have had magic added to it!
Lydia ignored Darren and looked straight at Lynn, waiting for his answer.
"You are correct, the main component of glass is silicon dioxide, which is found in sand. You don’t need to use any magic during the process. You just need to lt it at a high temperature and shape it into whatever form you desire..." Lynn nodded, affirming Lydia’s guess, and then briefly explained the process of making the glass mirror.
Now that he had made the glass mirror, Lynn was naturally not satisfied with just using it for an experint; this novel product was bound to set off a new craze in Wizard Land.
As for mass production that would follow, it couldn’t possibly be managed by him alone. There were not many people he could trust at the mont. These halflings had at least proven themselves trustworthy; during the operation of the airship, Darren had delivered a sufficient amount of Magic Gold Coins to him every month without any embezzlent occurring.
As for the leaked airship blueprints? It was Dalak who obtained Ralph’s corpse through Security Chief Lea and searched the mories with Spiritual Energy spells to get so of the information.
He couldn’t really bla a dead man for not keeping the secrets in his mind, could he?
Of course, Lynn also kept so of the more complex technologies to himself, such as the thods for making rcury and tin foil. He planned to teach them to a few Wizard Apprentices, dividing up the entire production process, which could prevent the recipe from being leaked to the greatest extent.
After Lynn finished explaining the thod of making glass mirrors, all the halflings were sowhat astounded. Aside from the high-temperature furnace needed to lt the quartz sand, there was hardly any technical difficulty.
And the cost was extrely low, probably only a few silver coins.
But if used for sale, Darren believed that even if the price was set at twenty Magic Gold Coins, people would scramble to buy them!
An earning of a thousand tis over, not even robbery was this quick!
...
Two days later, at noon, thousands of wizards were gathered in the great hall of the Magic Conference, eagerly discussing the next topic.
They had all received the news that today, Lynn would unveil the last secrets of the planet beneath their feet at this eting.
"What do you think this ti Lord Lynn will use to asure the weight of our planet beneath our feet?" Rafael looked at August next to him and said thoughtfully.
He had thought about it for two full days, losing quite a bit of hair, without any clue. It seed like sothing that was simply impossible to do.
"Probably using the thod of segntation, just like when asuring the circumference," August said with a confident and amiable smile on his face.
"Since we know the volu of the planet, we just need to select a few areas as samples, asure their weight, figure out the volu of a ton of soil, take an average, and then estimate the weight of the planet based on the volu ratio!"
"Of course, these are just my humble opinions. The geology varies from region to region, and there are special cases like mines and oceans, which require specific discussions," August said modestly, but still shared his estimated values. "My estimate of the weight is around thirty sextillion tons! The error should not exceed twenty percent!"
Rafael and others couldn’t help admiring that August truly deserved to be the Magic Realm Star; his brain was indeed very useful, managing to think of such a thod.
They had all heard that upon Lynn’s return to Greenriel, he imdiately had piles of sand and rocks brought over; now, it seed likely he was estimating their weight.
Luo’er also looked up to August in admiration, thinking his teacher had glimpsed the truth. This must be the only thod!
While they were talking, a snicker ca from nearby.
"Mr. Korol, do you have a different opinion? Or have you found a better thod of weighing?" Luo’er looked discontentedly at the male wizard beside him.
"Sorry, I don’t know what the thod of weighing might be," Korol shook his head. He only knew that Lynn needed the sand and rocks not for weighing, but for making so kind of experintal apparatus.
Before anyone could question further, Korol pointed to the curtains that had suddenly been drawn all around and said with a smile. "But I guess it has to do with darkness!"
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