Chapter 716 - New Discovery (2/2)
However, the players in the audience simply said, “Stop talking and get on the top 100 ranks first.”
They were also often compared with the experts.
The most frequent name that they were compared to was Roland.
For example, it often went like this.
The streamers: “The Warriors’ odds of winning against any other classes are above 50%. After all, the Warriors can use bows. A 1.5-meter long bow has an effective range of 400 meters and can kill vulnerable enemies remotely.”
Netizens: “Roland doesn’t know what to say. You’re talking about range with me?”
The streamers: “The Rogues are the Mages’ banes. A Rogue of a high level who has strengthened the stealth ability can easily kill a Mage. After all, nobody can be prepared for attacks forever.”
Netizens: “Roland will just let you attack him for half an hour, and you still won’t break my shield.”
The streamers: “You should make friends with the NPCs glibly and sophisticatedly like
me.”
Netizens: “Roland became the chairman of a Magic Tower a year after he entered the game. You haven’t even become a minor manager in your organization yet.”
Similar comments appeared in every stream channel at least five times.
As time went by, even the most tolerant streamers were disgusted. Then, some of the rich players and streamers who couldn’t hold back anymore secretly united, attempting to bring down Roland.
They didn’t want to kill Roland’s family or friends in the game; they simply wanted to lower Roland’s level.
What they said and did wouldn’t be convincing until Roland was no longer the top player of the server.
As for their cooperation with the liches, it was just a coincidence.
When the liches bought bodies from the players, they talked about Roland by chance.
The liches craved Roland’s body.
The Golden Sons’ bodies were really vigorous. They could be made into the finest Death Knights and skins.
Roland, as the strongest Mage in the server, was exceptionally gifted.
Magic Power Control and Magic Material Exemption were both great talents.
If they could occupy the body and maintain it well, they would be able to become a Legendary lich several dozen years later.
After the player returned to his tomb, he opened a browser, typed in an address, logged into his account, and posted the video of his conversation with the liches.
About ten minutes later, some anonymous guy replied to his post: “Retreat. We can’t turn our names red just to kill Roland. The virtual cabins are unbelievably expensive nowadays. If the liches cannot resist the Frostwolf Clan, so be it. We’ll just work with someone else. There are bound to be other people who want Roland dead.”
On Roland’s side, after entrusting the search mission to the Phoenix Guild and the Frostwolf Clan, he resumed his magic studies and simplified many interesting spells, such as the oil-making and sugar-making spells.
When Roland synthesized glucose with nothing in front of the scientists, they all got excited.
“Good heavens. Magic can replace photosynthesis. How incredible.”
“If he digs deeper, it’s possible that he’ll be able to synthesize amylose and even fat. Roland, you should learn chemistry.”
“Wait a moment, if he can extract the carbon dioxide and water in the air, can he extract deuterium from seawater too?”
After a brief silence, the scientists all seethed with thrill.
The director, in particular, looked at Roland earnestly, but didn’t say anything.
It was because he had been instructed that Roland could do whatever he wanted to. They could only work with him, and they couldn’t command or suggest things to him.
Seeing how excited they were, and looking at the director’s face, Roland asked, “Can you show me the molecules or atom model of deuterium? Also, give me several tons of water. I’d like to give it a shot.”
Roland didn’t know much about chemistry or physics, no more than what a high school student did. After all, he spent most of his time on coding and algorithms. However, it didn’t mean that he didn’t know common sense.
There were a lot of isotopes of deuterium in the seawater, but it was rather tricky to separate them.
“Thank you.” The director held Roland’s hand and said excitedly, “We’ll report the matter to the superiors. Whether or not the experiment works, you will be rewarded.”
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Roland shrugged, showing that he didn’t care. Then, several days later, the seawater was shipped to them. During these days, Roland had skimmed through information on deuterium
A lot of researchers even personally interpreted the data of the element for him.
While listening to them, Roland tried to tweak the spell model.
The day the seawater was delivered, Roland tested the tweaked spell and extracted a tremendous amount of hydrogen, but there wasn’t any deuterium.
He wasn’t frustrated, but kept optimizing the spell models.
The researchers were all very nervous, but there was little they could do to help.
It was because they hadn’t figured out just yet what mechanism was behind Roland’s spells.
Several days later, Roland fully optimized the spell, but it failed again.
After a long time of consideration, he realized that it might be due to the lack of “consequence.”
There was no description of deuterium in the original spell model.
In the end, he added Lesser Benediction to the spell.
This time, after a dazzling flash of colorful magic light, he succeeded.
A tiny bit of deuterium was stored in a special sealed container.
Then, Roland shivered and fell on the ground with blood gushing out of his nose, ears, and eyes.
All the researchers were quite frightened.
The medical staff carried him to the infirmary as quickly as possible. Then, a lot of doctors and nurses were summoned from the best nearest hospital.
While they were all uneasy, one of the researchers gave them several scans.
Everybody was horrified by the scans.
The scans all showed the vague shape of a human being at Roland’s back.