บท 124: Inspection (II)
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A man dressed in armor with a sword in his side rushed to the delegation where Edward and the Council members were, yelling: "Your majesty, your majesty, I just want a few minutes of your time."
However, none of the guards listened to him. They gave him a warning not to approach, but the guy did not listen. So, the members of the Royal Guards attacked.
One of them created a fireball ten meters in diameter, rushing straight to that oncoming visitor. However, the guy took out his sword and slashed the fireball into two, thus completely negating the attack.
Unfortunately for him, what followed after the first spell was a rain of bullets. Nevertheless, this guy was quite skilled. Controlling the mana from his core to strengthen his muscles and nerves, he swung his sword so rapidly that he blocked most of the bullets.
But a few still managed to hit. Luckily for him, his armor was powerful enough to block some of these bullets--except for the enchanted one. However, once these bullets hit his skin, a white light flashed on his body, protecting him.
Seeing that the opponent was more skilled than anticipated, they prepared to use more force to take him down. However, they all stopped as Edward raised his hand.
"Seeing that no ordinary Wizard Knights are as skilled as you, you must have some sort of reputation. So, who are you?" asked Edward.
"Your majesty, my name is Mark Griffin and it's a pleasure to meet you," replied Mark while breathing heavily.
"Oh, you're the Wizard Knight who created the method to condense the shield and layered it around the skin to increase protection. Your method was quite ingenious and has revolutionized the Wizard Knight Path. So, what do I owe for this visit?"
"It is my honor for your majesty to know me. The reason that I'm imposing on you is that I would like to ask your majesty to find a way forward for us Wizard Knight."
"If I remember correctly, didn't Tower Masters Adola Obi and Ahalu create a way for Wizard Knight to place enchantments on the body, thus allowing them to increase their strength beyond superhuman levels."
"This method has many flaws, plus it is not the right way," replied Mark with a stubborn look on his face.
"So, you're one of those Mana Purists who believe that the path of Wizard Knight lies in finding better ways to control mana to strengthen the body."
Mark did not say anything. Edward gave him a look before saying:
"The sad truth is that Wizard Knight is a very new field with little knowledge to go on, so progress will indeed be slow. Adding to the fact that most of you are very stubborn and might even hold some prejudiced notions clearly outlawed by the Empire, it is no wonder that your general progress has been slow.
"So, my advice to you is either slowly develop your field as you have been doing, or work with other branches of the Wizard Knight Path that have been created. The Eastern Wizards have recently identified the energy known as Ki and its relationship with mana.
"Many of them have been trying to recreate Martial Arts based on their cultures. So, maybe you guys can try discovering the concept of Aura, and whether it is the same as Ki."
Mark's eyes light up after hearing, got on one knee to salute Edward before departing. Meanwhile, one of the Ten Rings Council Member hurriedly said:
"Your majesty is wise, always guiding our civilization in the right path when we are blind."
"You do not need to praise me," replied Edward with a smile. "Over the years, I have greatly supported all types of artists from writers to moviemakers, to game designers. All because I want the Empire to take the wild ideas from these people's minds and try to turn them into a reality. Unfortunately, not many people have discovered such benefits."
Many people had a sudden realization. Over the years, they all thought that the reason that his majesty supported these industries was that his cousin was a painter, but it turned out that he was using them as an "idea machine" to further develop the Empire.
After figuring this out, the gaze that these people looked at Edward became more respectful; their reverence for him drastically increased.
As the commotion ended, the group headed to the 2nd Magic Tower for the Inspection.
"Did you plan all of this?" asked Amelia through mind communication/
"Luna's prediction; she wanted me to use this event to further stabilize the Empire before I left. "
--Scene Break--
The group entered the Magic Tower, and the first thing they saw was Narcissa Malfoy and Soleil Greengrass. After a brief introduction, the group was teleported to the Fifth Floor where her main research took place.
"As you all know, many years ago, I researched placing a magic beasts' soul into a human," said Soleil. "At first, the majority of subjects died due to their souls being destroyed. However, after implanting a non-magical soul into a human body, one subject survived and transformed; to be precise, a genetic transformation."
Soleil showed a video of the first patient she mentioned. In the video, the subject displayed the ability of echolocation.
Unfortunately, not many people in the council paid much attention to this information as she showed the same thing in the last inspection.
Nevertheless, they knew that this was an introduction that would lead to her real experiment, so they waited patiently.
"This mutation was the result of the connection of the "Soul' and 'Body' in the Life Code. So, after placing the soul of a bat inside of him, he acquired the animal's echolocation ability."
"Meanwhile, during that time, I conducted a different experiment that resulted in similar results," added Narcissa. "After implanting the organ of a werewolf inside one of my subjects, she did not acquire magical abilities as I speculated, but her gene also mutated. The subject displayed an increase in strength, reflexes, acquired sensitive smell and even grew fangs."
"After that, the two of us started working together. We placed different animals' souls into people's bodies. Although only a few survived, they all underwent genetic mutation and acquired some characteristics of the animals whose souls were placed inside of them.
"By studying these individuals' genes, the Empire's genetic technology developed rapidly to the point of being able to genetically modify the body without implanting another soul into the body."
"Fellow Tower Master," interrupted one of the council members. "We all know that the Empire's current genetic technology is due to all your efforts, but please show us your recent findings instead of wasting time."
Both Narcissa and Soleil glared at the person who spoke, and that person was immediately scared as he remembered that these two were wizards that have broken through their Third Limiters, and are classified as 'walking city destroyers" according to the Empire.
Despite being outraged, these two did not say or do anything else. So, they continued their explanation.
"One of the failures of our research has always been the fact that most magical animals' souls or organs, after being implanted on people, would always lead to death.
"However, recently, after implanting the soul of the newly discovered magical beast Niwas, a new power was discovered."
A video appeared in the air showing a few different individuals. One of them was levitating things around him, one was floating in the air, while another was banding a metal plate with a wave of his hand. However, none of these individuals had any mana.
"We have discovered a new energy in their brain which is currently labeled as psychic energy," added Narcissa with a hint of joy on her face. Unfortunately, she was one of the few who thought that way
"Is that it?" said the previous council member. "Telekinesis? There are countless spells in the Grand Arcane Library that grant such ability."
These words instantly made these two upset, however, they soon realized by these council members ' facial expressions that many other people felt the same way.
Although angry, Narcissa and Soleil did not say anything as these council members would decide the number of fundings they will receive for the next 20 years. This was a method to balance the rising influence and power of wizards--especially Tower Masters--in the Empire.
Meanwhile, Edward--who was silent for most of the time--finally spoke.
"You guys fell to see the potential of this discovery"
"Your majesty, how so?"
Everyone looked at him, including Amelia who also was not that impressed with this discovery.
"Let me paint a scenario for you guys. Our Arcane Empire encounters a civilization that studied magic extensively and has even developed Anti-Magic technology. They managed to bypass our security system and dropped an Anti-Mana Bomb on Earth, rendering all our technical and magical creations useless, thus turning our civilization back to the stone age."
"How is that possible?"
"Why is it not possible? I've warned all you countless times not to get complacent of our achievements; the Arcane Empire is not the only magical civilization existing in this universe, and we are way too young compared to the vast majority of them."
The council members quieted down after hearing this, then someone asked: "What does this scenario have to do with anything?"
"The answer to such a problem is right in front of us," replied Edward with a smile. "This psychic energy is a brand new power system not inferior to magic in terms of potential.
"As such, we can build an entire system based on it. For example, if we could recreate all our magical and technical advancements to make sure that they run on psychic energy instead of mana, then we can deal with the scenario I just spoke about.
"Not to mention that there may be things that psychic energy can do better than magic, so we can take advantage of that and combine the two together--just like we did with technology."
These council members finally understood the importance of Narcissa and Soleil's discovery. So, after discussion, they agreed to increase the number of fundings for these two so that they could better develop psychic energy.
Then, the group headed to the next Tower.
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บท 125: Inspection (III)
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9th Tower, the Council delegates walked inside to see someone waiting for him. However, that person was not dressed properly and only had a regular shirt and jeans with a lab coat on.
"Tower Master George Weasley, where is your brother?"
"I'm Fred."
"Sorry about the mistake."
"No problem. As for my brother, our shop is having a week-long discount, so he's attending to it."
The council members were speechless after hearing this.
"Oh, did you guys come up with a new catalog of joke objects?" asked Edward. "Show me!"
Immediately, George showed Edward a holographic image describing some of their new inventions.
"Oh, a potion that allows people to taste color? That sounds interesting. I'm sure you guys went through the proper review before selling them right?"
"Of course, Professor. We are law-abiding citizens."
"Yes, said the guy that just lied to officers of the Empire by taking his brother's identity."
"Professor, why can you always tell us apart when even our mother cannot? We even developed special magic to make us indistinguishable."
"For one, I always assumed you guys were lying about your identity. Plus, I have a few tricks up my sleeve."
"Do tell."
"Hehem," suddenly coughed Amelia lightly.
"Alright, let's get back to business," said Edward. Then, George led the group to show his result. So, he led them to a room that was generating massive amounts of electricity.
However, all the electricity was directed to another connected room that had a massive floating Crystal Ball with blue light in the middle.
"As you all already know, our task was to create a magic item that could convert other energies into mana. After many experiments, we discovered that electricity could be converted into mana.
"Although a large amount is needed for even the smallest amount, with nuclear power plants, the amount of electricity generated is nothing," explained George.
"Excellent," added Edward. "Although the solar system has plenty of leyline nodes that generate mana, we can never be too sure whether one day they will stop. However, with this method, we will not have to worry about mana in the future.
"Let me see the data for the experiment."
After receiving and reviewing the data, Edward said: "It should be possible to also convert solar energy into mana if you change the enchantments a bit."
On the spot, he designed the basic enchantments to accomplish this, then he said: "You guys can finish the rest."
"Professor, I was planning to take a vacation," complained George.
"Then do so, but get back to work after that. However, if you procrastinate longer than necessary, the Royal Guards will arrest you to send you back."
Ignoring George's angry look, Edward and the delegates headed for the next inspection.
8th Tower.
"Cedric, how have you been? How is the wife?"
"Everything has been fine, professor. As for Cho, she just transferred to a new team, so she has been busy with Quidditch training."
"That's good. Now, let's begin."
Nodding his head, Cedric led the team to show them his result. What appeared in front of them was a gigantic spider with twelve legs. For the spider eyes, there was only a giant red glowing orb.
"In front of you is the 8th generation AG-23 Spider Golem. It comes in three modes: Water, Earth, and Sky."
After Cedric Diggory said that, the spider started to fly under his command. Then, he led it to the large ocean that was inside the room. The spider's legs entered his body as it floated on the ocean, acting like a boat.
Finally, it dove deep inside the water, resurfacing a few minutes later.
"It can serve as both a weapon and a reconnaissance drone."
Many modern and magical weapons including laser cannons appeared from the spider's body. Some of the cannons shot elemental magic, and one was enchanted to shoot Bombarda Spell.
"It can scan a planet's basic conditions, search for lifeforms, minerals, and plants. It can even serve as a mining golem--although not as efficient as one, its multipurpose abilities more than made up for that."
Controlling the holographic screen in front of him, Edward asked: "Can they be mass-produced?"
"Yes. With the recent 3-D Printing technology that is enchanted with the same enchantment as the Room of Requirements, as long as the necessary materials are available, they can be mass-produced."
"This is indeed a great invention. With this, the Space Fleet's next expedition will be much safer," commented Edward.
5th Tower:
"Neville, how are you doing?"
"I'm fine, thank you for asking, professor."
"How about your mother and father? Your grandma?"
"Father and Mother are fine, they are now working at St. Mungo's hospital. As for grandma, she is quite healthy. A-and she asked me to hand over some tea she personally made for this Inspection."
"Tea? You can hand over it to me now," replied Edward with a smile. After doing so, Neville said: "She wanted me to thank you for supporting my promotion as Tower Master."
"There is no need to thank me. You are one of the most talented herbalists of the Empire. You deserve that title. Now, show me the result."
Inside a very large room that was expanded with the Extension Curse, an enormous tree stood in the middle. The tree was as tall as a 10 story building, the leaves on them were entirely blue. In the dark, they might glow.
Powerful energy could be felt coming from them. As soon as the delegates walked into the same room as the tree, the wizards amongst them instantly felt like their mana was alive.
Their minds became clearer, and using magic became easier for them.
"After years of studying, with the combination of genetic engineering and herbology, the Mana Tree was finally created. After being planted on a leyline node, they absorb mana from them and release it on the surrounding through photosynthesis.
"More importantly, the mana in the surroundings did not dissipate after being released, but remained active in the environment."
"Excellent job, I knew that I could count on you, Neville," said Edward. "What about the effect of the tree on the nodes? Have they shown any sign of activation?"
"Yes, they do, however, the process is very slow. According to our calculation, even the node with the least concentration of mana would take more than 500 years to activate. As for the more powerful one, an estimate of over 100,000 years is the smallest number we could calculate."
"That's indeed too long," replied Edward. "Could the process be accelerated if the tree was planted all over the world at the same time?"
"It's possible," replied Neville. "But there is not enough data to support this claim."
"Then study."
"As you wish."
'This should be enough to placate Death and not make him act rash. As long as he has hopes to activate the leyline nodes to escape, he should continue to remain patient as he has been in the past few decades.'
So, the group headed for the next Tower for inspection.
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