Chapter 210 (1/2)
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at 12th of August 2019 12:45:12 PM
Chapter 210
”Well Boris, what do you think?”
The council had moved down to his workshop, to be able to hold a meeting, because he refused to stop working . He didn't complain about them coming down, because he could focus on two things at once, with Joe helping . There did need to be a meeting, so they had teleported the large table and chairs down to be able to sit .
”Honestly, your majesty, I hope to never see the thing that you intend this beast of a machine to fight . I'm still not sure that putting the spirit of the swamp king you talk about in it is a good idea . ”
”Don't worry . He's a friend . You've seen his kin among the barbarians . ”
”With all reverence your majesty, I don't have a bit of talent in either ANIMAL or NECROMANCY . I understand steel and fire well enough, and I understand building things, but spirits, friendly or otherwise, are beyond me . ”
”Fair enough . I'm not done with the design just yet anyway . Has the design team agreed on the changes needed to turn my prototype generator into the TRUE SUN generator over the Citadel of the Sun?”
”Yes, your majesty . It will produce hundreds of times the mana required to keep the mountain with your palace afloat . ”
”Good . And the smaller versions will be constructed and maintained throughout the land as required?”
”Yes, plans for the smaller optimized versions have been made, and the second generation protoype has been constructed on the small scale . The power of the generators has increased by more than the cube of the radius of the generator as you explained . We have achieved 63% efficiency, but expect the theoretical threshold of 69% to be reached only after centuries of refinement . ”
”That's fine . The first CAGED SUN was plenty when my subjects were less than 100,000 but only a little more than sufficient when it has 3 million people to provide for . It doesn't have enough extra to be as useful to me as in the beginning . ”
”Your majesty, n.o.body else has that problem,” Boris said with a chuckle . ”I can barely channel more than 100 units of mana continuously . And I'm done after an hour . None of us can even guess how much was used to rebuild the nursery . We've been too afraid to even try . ”
”I earned several divine blessings that let me handle more mana without nasty side effects like dying . ”
”Oh, and the report about the stabilized mithril came in . Only the advanced earth mages among my people were able to detect a difference, and even they couldn't find a difference in how the mithril performed, compared to our mined mithril . Creating the pipes and generators out of stabilized mithril and adamantine that were enchanted to resist the heat, has been the only thing that allowed us to surpa.s.s the 40% efficiency threshold . Too bad none of the tests yet have allowed us to enchant orihalc.u.m any easier . We're still not sure how you managed to enchant your last staff blade so many times . The current limit for Ca.s.sandra is two and only three others have succeeded at more than one enchantment . ”
”Brandon, now that NURKONG is wounded and two of the invading factions have been destroyed, we can use GATE within the realm . We still need to be cautious and not to make permanent portals between realms, but you are going to oversee the portals between the 12 cities and capital . Make sure the portals are tied to the city and not straight s.p.a.ce, as I intend the capital to be mobile and the land cities to move at least once, once we reclaim the wasteland . ”
”Yes, your majesty . Your majesty?”
”Yes, Brandon?”
”I was wondering…if…well the truth is…”
”Goodness, Brandon . I hope when you were asking Sara to marry you it didn't take this long . ”
*Cough* ”Your majesty?”