Chapter 777: Golemancy Progress, Marks Goals in Building a New Golem (1/2)
Day 172 - 2:14 PM - Night Everred Pure Spirit Tree Subdimension, Mountain Base, Mount Malabito, General Nakar, Province of Quezon
Another three days passed. Mark's research was progressing smoothly.
Since yesterday, he moved his working area inside Chiyo's subdimension. It was due to various reasons, although for the most part was because the five-meter tall golem would not fit inside his workshop.
If Mark just needed it for a work reference, he did not need to work in front of the broken golem. He could perfectly recall everything he already saw and observed from his subconscious. However, it was not what Mark needed the broken golem for at this moment.
”How is it?”
Mark asked as he touched the golem's arm with his right hand and a glowing diagram on a table with his left.
In front of Mark, it was Annica and Berrak. They were his assistants for his work since yesterday.
After breaking more than half of the magical equipment his group brought back from the Kingdom of Black Duendes, Mark was confident that he collected enough [Magical Energy Conductor] to make three small golems or one human-sized one. The only thing Mark needed to do was figure out the functions of the [Magic Circuits] and how these things work in technical ways in particular.
In that case, one of the things that Mark needed to know was the flow of magical energy within these [Magic Circuits]. And the best people to get help from, in this case, was the two people in front of Mark.
Annica was recognized in the base as its animal tamer and animal handler. However, only a few knew that her eyes could see more than a regular human or even a [Mutator] could. As her eyes could see energy as colors, she would be able to see the energy flow within the [Magic Circuits] without problems.
As for Berrak. He was here due to his familiarity with [Magic Formations], also known as [Magic Circles]. He might not be a fully established magic user since he was a [Summoner], but, in the least, he was the most familiar with these kinds of things here in the base.
Mark also tried asking Teremillio and other magical races in his base if they had familiarity with [Magic Circles] and stuff. Unfortunately, none of them had a positive answer. In the first place, magical races could use magic naturally. They had no reason to rely too much on [Magic Circles]. However, it seemed that some of them knew some [Ritual Magic] in the least.
Nonetheless, [Ritual Magic] had nothing to do with Mark's current research. Mark also wanted to hear the details about this stuff, but definitely not now.
At Mark's question, Annica was concentrating on both the arm of the golem and the small replica on the table. As Mark poured magical energy into both mediums, Annica carefully observed the flow.
”The energy flow looks identical, but the consistency of the flow in the replica is unstable,” Annica said and pointed at a certain part of the replica. ”Right here. The flow weakens.”
”It doesn't get cut off or scatter?”
Mark asked.
”No.” Annica shook her head. ”It just weakens from this part, but the rest looks the same.”
”Then, it's good,” Mark said as he stopped pouring magical energy on both items. ”The consistency can be fixed later on. The most important thing right now is if the flow is correct.”
”I guess that's true.” Annica agreed. ”But this is better than yesterday. The flow yesterday goes either backward or scatters out of the medium.”
This was the second day that they were testing the [Magic Circuits] that Mark replicated. And the results yesterday? It was bad.
Mark's first attempts in recreating the [Magic Circuits] that he copied from the golem's body, and the documents went wrong in one way or another. Like what Mark had mentioned, some circuits got the energy flow cut off while some scattered out of the circuit causing disrupting the flow heavily.
One of the reasons was either the circuit in the golem being damaged because of its age. There were also errors within the diagrams in the documents.
And that was where Berrak's duty here started. Using his knowledge about the complex symbols of [Magic Circles], he would try to draft replacements on the broken parts of the non-functioning [Magic Circuits].
From the cooperation of the three, they managed to fix and recreate some of the [Magic Circuits] successfully. Well, of course, not everything.
Berrak's knowledge was not enough. The [Magic Circuits] used in the golem and the documents were also old enough to be called lost knowledge. That was why there were some of the circuits that had no success yet.
After testing and succeeding in recreating the replicas, the next part was determining the [Magic Circuit]'s specific function. Each part of the golem had different circuits interconnected with each other. It was not wrong to say that the golem's circuitry was as complicated as the motherboard of a computer.
For the golem to function correctly, each specific [Magic Circuit] had to be in the proper places. It was a hard endeavor if one had no experience in electronics or programming.
Fortunately, Mark had experience in both. He was a Computer Science Graduate. As such, Mark studied several programming languages. Although he did not learn anything useful in college, in the least, he could follow the programming language and syntax as a reference.
As for electronics, Mark had basic knowledge. He had to learn it to make some props he created as a living to function properly.
It was an unexpected but really good thing that he could make use of this knowledge with studying and building a golem.
”Bro, this is a new one, right?” Annica said as they tested another [Magic Circuit]. ”The energy gets cut off in half. There is no energy flowing on the other.”
”I thought so too when I'm making it,” Mark said. ”Is the energy stopping at this point?”
Mark then pointed at a certain part of the circuit. He then put his other hand on another part of the circuit.
”How about now?”
Mark asked.
”Ooooh!” Annica said, amazed. ”The whole thing is glowing now.”
”Knew it...” Mark nodded as he let go of the circuit. ”This one needed two inputs at the same time to function.”
Mark then looked at another circuit.
”This one also has two inputs. But one input is just enough to light the whole thing.” Mark mentioned. ”It's like logic gates.”
Finishing the test on another circuit, Annica looked at the broken golem.