Chapter 124: Chapter 121: The Tieyan Family’s Technology, For Free?
Inside the workshop, the air was thick with a pungent odor.
"Fubao-5, set ventilation to maximum."
Allen’s brows were tightly furrowed. He leaned back in his chair, staring at the scrapped tal and molten replacent crystal on the workbench before him.
This was the seventh one he had burned through in three days.
Failure, failure, and more failure.
He had incinerated hundreds of Magic Stones’ worth of various materials, even using the most expensive Magic-conducting Material, Mithril. The result, without exception, was complete failure.
The problem was finally clear.
The Overclock Rune Array he designed had to withstand an absolutely terrifying torrent of energy the mont it activated. This energy instantly destroyed the Rune’s own structure. Forget firing—the amplification unit and the Transformation Crystal themselves couldn’t even be saved.
He had already used the most cost-effective Magic-conducting Materials available on the market. He had even spent a fortune using expensive Mithril to etch the core circuits, but the result was still the sa.
It wasn’t that better materials didn’t exist. Those top-tier magic materials, which easily cost hundreds of Magic Stones, could certainly withstand it.
But that would defeat the entire purpose of his "single-use unit" design.
He wanted a disposable item that balanced performance and low cost, not a cannonball forged from Gold.
The problem lay in his design philosophy, and also in the fundantal processing of the materials.
His reservoir of knowledge had hit a bottleneck.
Allen shut down the Protective Array and stood up. His face was devoid of expression as he issued a command, "Ah Fu, clean the workshop."
"As you command, Sir."
He had Master rcer’s "Golem Manufacturing" class today. Perhaps he could find so inspiration from the Alchemy Master.
「...」
In Master rcer’s office, rcer wore his usual cold expression. His lecture was crisp and efficient, without a single wasted word.
In the vast space, Allen and Victor were the only two apprentices.
"...The Energy Core of a Level 3 Golem is a generation apart from a Level 2. The stability and peak of their energy output are entirely different concepts. Any attempt to simply scale up the design of a Level 2 Golem to a Level 3 is both foolish and fatal."
When rcer finished a section and paused to let them digest the information, Allen asked the question that had been troubling him for days.
"Master, how can one ensure the instantaneous stability of a Rune Array under a high-energy pulse?"
Victor turned his head to glance at him, a trace of surprise on his face.
He was clearly aware of the difficulty of this question.
Allen had frad his own dilemma as a purely academic inquiry.
"When designing a high-power energy projection module, if one uses conventional materials for the sake of cost control, is there any way, through Rune or material design, to make the Rune Array ’survive’ for an extra second when subjected to an energy impact far exceeding the material’s threshold, just to complete a single energy transmission?"
This was a classic problem in alchemy—how to squeeze out the strongest performance within a limited budget.
rcer glanced at Allen but didn’t answer imdiately. His gaze shifted to Victor Iron Fla.
"The Tieyan Clan had a solution to this problem a century ago."
rcer’s tone was flat and emotionless.
"Victor, this involves your family’s technology. It’s up to you whether you want to answer."
That single sentence plunged the entire room into silence.
The atmosphere suddenly beca delicate.
Victor was stunned for a mont. Just as Allen thought he was about to refuse, or perhaps muddle through with so pleasantries...
He spoke, offering a purely technical analysis.
"What you need isn’t better Magic-conducting Materials, but a ’flexible’ Rune Array structure, and a change to the material structure of your conduction unit itself."
Victor didn’t look at Allen.
"A conventional Rune Array is rigid. When the energy impact hits, it can only take it head-on. If it can’t, it collapses. You should consult the book *A Study on the Heterogeneous Structures of Ancient Elven Rune Matrices* from the library. It ntions a ’laminated flexible structure’ that allows the Rune Array to buffer the energy."
"As for the material itself," Victor continued, "simply etching Runes on the exterior is useless. You can use my family’s ’Molten Fire Refining thod.’ During the material’s shaping phase, you use a specific Spiritual Power model to guide the process, forming a web of special energy-channeling pathways inside the material."
"The mont the energy hits, these channels can divert eighty percent of the overload to the non-Rune-core areas of the unit. That way, the pressure your core Rune Array needs to withstand is reduced to just three-fifths of the original."
’A flexible Rune structure... internal channeling within the material... so that’s how it works!’
His mind was suddenly flooded with ideas!
’As expected of an Alchemy Family with a thousand-year heritage. Their foundations truly run deep.’
After Victor finished speaking, that arrogant, unapproachable expression returned to his face.
It was as if he wasn’t the sa person who had just been speaking with such eloquence.
"Very good," rcer nodded, then resud his lecture. To him, this was just a trivial interlude.
「...」
After the lesson concluded, Allen walked over to Victor.
"The ’Molten Fire Refining thod.’ Na your price."
Allen was direct. He was prepared to pay a hefty sum.
Victor, who was about to leave, turned his head to look at him. The corner of his mouth twitched into a mocking sneer.
"Can you afford it?"
"Try ."
Victor stared at him for a few seconds, then suddenly let out a cold snort.
"I’m not charging you."
"Huh?" Allen thought he had misheard.
"What do you an?"
"I just don’t want to see a disciple of our Master get stuck on such a fundantal problem. It would be embarrassing for him if word got out."
He paused, then added, "Besides... your ideas about ’cost control’ and ’single-use modules’ that you ntioned in class were interesting. They gave
so inspiration, too."
"I don’t like being indebted to others."
"I know you’re also building a Level 3 Golem. I’ll co by your workshop to take a look one of these days. Consider this a technology exchange. Then we’ll be even."
Allen looked at him and suddenly understood.
This guy’s pride stemd from his family’s profound knowledge and his absolute confidence in technology.
He wasn’t here to offer charity; he was here for a "technical exchange."
"Deal," Allen nodded.
Victor said no more. He retrieved a Recording Crystal from his Space Ring, channeled his Spiritual Power into it for a mont, and tossed it over.
"The basic application of the ’Molten Fire Refining thod’ and three fundantal ’flexible Rune Array’ models are on there. It’s for your personal use only. How much you can comprehend is up to you."
With that, he turned and walked away without a backward glance.
Allen clutched the crystal in his palm, watching Victor’s departing back. For the first ti, he felt sothing for him other than rivalry.
A kindred spirit.
Despite their vast differences in personality, background, and ideals, they were the sa kind of person on this path of pursuing technological perfection.
His own greatest advantage was the out-of-the-box thinking from another world. Victor’s greatest advantage was the technical knowledge accumulated over countless years by a top family of this world.
The two of them were not complete opposites.
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