Chapter 449: Gossip 25 - Development Rush (1/2)
“First of all, Cooling, right…?”
Jin and Laojun had started the development of the new weapon. Elsa was helping out as well.
“It means to take away something’s thermal energy.”
“Convection, conduction, and emission, right?”
“Right. But this Ice magic, “Eis”… I think we should better analyze it.”
Ice magic was causing a phenomenon that couldn’t be explained by thermodynamics alone.
“Elsa, could you try using Snow Bullet on the surface here?”
“Sure.”
Jin and Elsa went out of the laboratory together, and started to analyze magic.
“…Snow Bullet!”
Snow was generated from Elsa’s hand and flew forward at a considerable speed. Jin studied its movement using the Trace spell.
“Hmm, so it has its basis on Cooling after all.”
The Engineering magic spell, “Cooling”. It was a spell that cooled down overheated components.
“I wonder how much the temperature can be lowered by unraveling the principles behind this and modifying its activation method.”
Reiko was also helping Jin and Elsa on their research of “Cooling”.
“After all, it’s not convection, conduction, nor emission, but a process that snatches heat away…”
Seeing a hot object being instantly cooled off was something truly magical.
“I can only think of it as transferring the object’s thermal energy to some other space, or even another dimension…”
Jin decided he would remodel “Cooling” based on this new hypothesis.
“Can something like that happen, Brother Jin?”
Elsa, who was looking from the side, seemed to be amazed at the idea.
“Yeah. Perhaps the Magi Formula here is the key. We can’t remodel a spell if we’re trapped in common knowledge.”
“I can understand that. You’re that kind of person after all, Brother Jin.”
And after a lot of trial and error, Jin managed to complete his “Super Cooling Spell”, naming it “Absolute Zero”.
It was a spell that instantly transferred the thermal energy of an object to (probably) another dimension.
By adjusting its power, it was possible to cool an object down to anywhere between an extremely low temperature close to absolute zero and below freezing. However, there was still a lot of work to do regarding the amount of magic power it consumed.
It only took a single use for Elsa to be almost completely drained of her magical power. It seemed that they would have to make and use magic tools.
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Laojun was making a plasma sword using the mobile terminal “Laozi”.
The biggest problems with it were strength and durability.
Based on the Masamune and Muramasa that Jin had remodelled, the hurriedly constructed plasma sword had 500 times more magical power than what it originally had.
“So, enhancing the magic circuit… And then, Cooling.”
Since it is a plasma of 1 billion degrees, even though it was confined within a super strong barrier, the effect of such heat on the main body was nothing to sneeze at.
It seemed that it wouldn’t be unbearably hot after being kept on going for a long time.
“Thankfully, My Lord has just developed this Super Cooling Spell…”
With it, the excess heat would appear to be taken care of.
The only thing that remained was that the amount of magical power consumed was extremely high, but this could be dealt with by using high-quality magical crystals and installing a highly efficient ether converter.
No matter how much magical power would be consumed, it was far from being all of Reiko’s reserves (about 40% of them, to be precise).
For Titan, it was relatively easier because one could simply install a larger mana tank on it.
“Let’s make these Vibration Swords the standard for Hourai Island’s armament.”
Laojun had already begun with their mass production.
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“I’m thinking about making a barrier bomb.”
After finishing development of the “Absolute Zero” spell, Jin suddenly brought that up.
“A barrier bomb?”
Reiko asked as Elsa silently pricked up her own ears to listen.
“Yeah. It’s an easy thing to do. All that I’d have to do is create a barrier that enclosed my target, and then make it smaller.”
“Wouldn’t that smash the barrier?”
This time Elsa was the one who asked, frowning.
“Well, maybe.”