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But Leier soon reacted and said viciously, "Fula, it looks like this thing has some tricks, you guys come too!"
He absolutely did not believe in the so-called Thunder Nemesis!
Perhaps my inspection just now was not thorough enough, and this so-called Faraday cage was cast with some kind of magical spell, or perhaps it was simply covered with a layer of copper on the surface, but the inside was actually made of resin, sand, and rock that could block lightning!
But even so, it will be smashed to pieces in the face of more powerful thunder magic!
"Chain lightning!"
After Leir spoke, more than ten wizards stood up and cast lightning magic together. Everyone put in all their strength and chanted spells. Dazzling lightning flashed from the void and blasted towards Lord.
Still coming?! Do you have to be so violent?
Lord, who seemed calm on the surface, was a little uneasy now. Although Lin En had demonstrated the magic of the Faraday cage to him before, seeing the terrifying lightning strike him, Lord still felt fear in his heart. His legs were trembling slightly, and he dared not move his body at all...
Lin En's words kept coming back to my mind. The reason why people get electric shocks is that the human body can conduct electricity. Only when there is a potential difference between the human bodies can an electric current be formed... and the inside of the Faraday cage is an equipotential body. The internal potential difference is zero, and the electric field is zero. This is the key to protecting against lightning magic.
He didn't know what electric potential difference was, but he knew that these terrifying thunderbolts were enough to turn him into ashes in an instant...
So Lord didn't dare to move at all, for fear that this so-called equipotential body would disappear.
The speed of thunder magic was faster than Lord's thoughts. The [Chain Lightning] released by a dozen wizards quickly hit the Faraday cage.
Almost substantial electric arcs surged continuously, forming a thunder net covered with lightning snake patterns in mid-air, covering the entire cage!
The strength of the thunder spell was more than ten times higher than before, approaching the level of fourth-ring magic, and even formed dense electric sparks outside the cage.
Cold sweat broke out on Lord's forehead, but just as Lord Lin said, all dangers were blocked outside the Faraday cage. Although lightning was leaping around him, he did not feel any discomfort, as if the thunder was an illusion.
The only feeling was a refreshing breeze blowing towards him. Lord didn't understand that this was called electronic wind, which was the air flow coming out from the negative pole.
"What a refreshing breeze..."
Lord couldn't help but sigh, which was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, leaving Flora and others who were trying their best to increase the current completely dumbfounded.
The inside and outside of the cage were clearly shrouded in thunder. They could see bright electric sparks appearing around Lord, but the other party actually let out a sigh of relief. How could they accept this?
Leir stood there in a daze, his face looking extremely grim. He could not accept that he risked his life to master the power of thunder, but he could not even kill a cripple who could not use magic.
Could it be that this so-called Faraday cage is really the nemesis of thunder magic?
"Impossible, this must be an illusion..." Leir shouted frantically. Perhaps the other party was a very powerful illusion wizard who concealed their perception and used some kind of magic to guide the thunder to other places.
Yes, that must be it!
Thinking of this, Leir cast a [Mage Shield] on himself, and then reached out to touch the Faraday cage.
"Don't touch it, Leir..." Abel, who had had similar experiences, spoke out anxiously to stop him.
However, Leir became more determined. He was determined to expose this scam and directly put his hand on it.
The violent thunder gathered near the Faraday cage and immediately seemed to have found its target. Before Leir could get close, a lightning bolt as thick as his arm struck him, and he was blown away by the thunder...
This is all real, not an illusion... This was the only thought left in Leir's mind.
"Rail?!" Flora and the others shouted in shock and hurried forward to check on Riel's condition.
Just a little aftermath of the thunder was enough to penetrate the [Mage Shield]. When Leir stretched out his arm, it was already charred black. His neck and half of his face were covered with horrible lightning patterns. He fell to the ground, his life or death unknown.
Everyone present was a little at a loss, and Anthony, who had been watching, finally spoke.
"Everyone, get out of the way!"
Hope appeared on the faces of Fulla and the others again, and they looked fiercely at Lord who had an innocent expression in the cage. Just because they, the formal wizards, couldn't do it, it didn't mean that their teacher, the founder of thunder magic, couldn't break this damn Faraday cage!
"Since you said it is the nemesis of all thunder, then let's try this!" Anthony's expression became very serious, and a huge amount of magic power surged from his body. As his hair and beard fluttered, dots of lightning flashed throughout the conference hall.
As the spells were chanted, lightning flashed between Anthony's pupils. His aura became more and more concentrated, and a suffocating sense of oppression surged in everyone's heart...
Lord felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy, and he gritted his teeth to avoid kneeling down.
It wasn't that he felt ashamed, but he was afraid that his kneeling action would create the so-called electric potential difference, and then he would be dead!
As wizards, Fulla and others felt a sense of death in their hearts. Even though Anthony's target was not them, the wizards present couldn't help but construct protective magic.
[Magic barrier], [Protective force field], [Mage shield].
One after another magic barrier emerged from the air. Seeing this, Lord's scalp went numb and he felt secretly regretful in his heart. He should not have come here!
"Disappear under the thunder - [Heavenly Punishment - Thunder Judgment]!" Anthony raised his hand, and the purple thunder that enveloped the conference room intertwined and gathered above the Faraday cage, turning into a huge lightning pillar that fell down with a loud bang!
The purple thunder came in an instant, and it seemed that only the shining lightning and the violent roar were left between heaven and earth.
The power of six-ring magic is undoubtedly terrifying!
The entire Faraday cage began to vibrate violently. The violent electric current rushed through the cage made of copper wire. As the electric arc surged, the bricks and stones on the ground cracked layer by layer.
Ripples echoed in the conference hall, and the magic barrier set up by hundreds of official wizards exploded in just a few seconds...
Chapter 232: The Cracked Faraday Cage
Under the raging thunder, the conference hall has now turned into a ruin. A giant thunder vortex in the center is constantly spewing out violent lightning. The powerful destructive force causes the entire area to collapse.
Even though Fulla and the others reacted quickly, they were not completely immune to the disaster. The violent force instantly blew away the people closest to them.
"This is the power of thunder magic!" Fulla wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her face full of admiration.
"He's dead, he's dead..." A wizard shouted excitedly. Under such great power, let alone a civilian who doesn't know magic, even a great wizard involved would have no way out but death!
The so-called Faraday cage would only turn into dust under such thunder...
"Ahem..." Unleashing the six-ring magic was a huge burden for Anthony. His face was pale and his eyes stared at the flashing vortex of lightning, as if he wanted to penetrate the barrier of lightning and peek at the situation inside.
This magic was originally his trump card to deal with Cardinal Losak, but he used it at this moment!
He was eager to defeat this so-called Thunder Nemesis and justify the results of his hard work over the years!
After more than ten seconds, the thunder vortex gradually disappeared. However, what made everyone present feel despair was that although the copper cage was somewhat twisted by the falling rubble, it was still strong and stood upright in the collapsed ruins.
Lord, who was in the Faraday cage, was dizzy from the violent impact. It was obvious that he had not yet recovered from the lightning column that almost covered the entire area.
"I'm actually alive!"
Lord said in a trance, just as surprised as Fulla and others. At the moment the thunder fell, he thought he was dead, but the facts once again proved the power of the Faraday cage.
Even under the baptism of such powerful thunder magic, he still did not suffer any harm.
It was not until this moment that Lord suddenly realized that in order to maintain his body balance, his hand had unconsciously grasped the edge of the copper wire. Bursts of flashing electric sparks emerged, but he seemed to be fine.
For a moment, Lord had the illusion that he was controlling the thunder!
The conference hall was in complete silence. Hundreds of wizards stared at Lord, who was in a copper cage with electric currents all around him, looking like the god of thunder. Their eyes were filled with disbelief.
"He's still alive?" "Impossible, this is six-ring magic!"
Fulla collapsed to the ground, thinking back to her colleagues who had paid the price of their lives in order to study and master thunder magic.
If this so-called Thunder Nemesis really exists, then what is the meaning of these people’s sacrifices and the pain they have experienced?
"Why?" Anthony's body trembled violently. According to his perception, the structure of the entire Faraday cage could not be clearer. There was no life magic cast inside. It was just an ordinary cage, but it blocked his most powerful thunder magic.
"Thunder Buster..." Anthony murmured softly, and he looked like he had aged ten years. The thunder magic that he had spent half his life researching actually had such a fatal flaw!
Normally, it is impossible for the enemy to fight with a cage, but for a great wizard of the same level, as long as he knows the method, it is not difficult to create a [Faraday Cage] with magic.
Under the gazes of the crowd that were either astonished, fearful, or hysterical, Lord swallowed hard, fearing that these people would become angry and kill him.
"Can you tell me why this Faraday cage can protect against lightning?" Anthony stared at Lord in the copper cage and asked in an almost asking-for-advice tone.
"Lord Lin En said that this is related to the elimination of electric potential difference... I don't know the details." Lord said cautiously.
Anthony frowned and wondered what this electric potential difference was. At this moment, a voice suddenly rang out in the conference room.
“Its principle is actually very simple, because electric current always flows from high potential to low potential. For example, if a person is standing on the ground and is hit by thunder magic, the human body becomes a temporary conductor, directing the current to the ground.
The Faraday cage is an equipotential body, and the electric potential of every point on its outer shell is the same. Since there is no potential difference, there will naturally be no current passing through the human body. "
As the voice sounded, a figure appeared out of nowhere in the Faraday cage. It was a very young wizard wearing a green robe, with magical light shining all over his body.
"Are you Lynn?!" Anthony looked at the young wizard who suddenly appeared in front of him and quickly realized that this was not his real body but just a magical projection.
"Not bad." Lynn nodded.
Anthony didn't care what means the other party used to make the projection appear here. He was thinking about the meaning of Lin's words. Although the so-called "electric potential difference" and "equipotential body" were new words that he had never heard of before, they were not completely incomprehensible.
"In addition, copper is a very good conductor. Under the action of an external electric field, the electrons inside the conductor will move to the surface of the conductor, generating an electric field of equal magnitude and opposite direction, thus canceling out the internal and external electric fields. I call it electrostatic shielding." Lin En said with a smile. "You can think of it as the Faraday cage using the power of lightning to resist lightning!"
"I see..." Anthony was shocked.
Yes, only the power of thunder is enough to fight against thunder...
"Then how do we crack this Faraday cage?" Anthony asked anxiously, but soon paused, because this was obviously the most important secret.
And after Lynn introduced the principle of the Faraday cage, he couldn't think of any way to crack this nearly perfect [Thunder Buster] unless he used power other than thunder magic.
"Where there is electricity, there is magnetism. When electricity is passed through a copper coil, a magnetic field will be generated. So why don't you try another method and test the magnetic force?" Lin En said with interest.
Anthony's eyes suddenly lit up, he closed his eyes and tried to sense it. The electric current of magic mimicry was being conducted along the copper wire, and an inexplicable force was radiating outwards. That was the magnetic field!
Anthony suddenly opened his eyes and clenched his right hand. A hoarse and unpleasant sound came over him. The Faraday cage, which was still strong under the high voltage current of tens of millions of volts, began to bend and twist inwards...
"Enough, enough!" Lord shouted in horror. The sturdy Faraday cage was no longer his guardian, but instead became a deadly cage.
Chapter 233: Lin En: My goodness, everyone has to receive electrotherapy!
At Lord's urgent call, Anthony's movements suddenly stopped.
At this moment, the Faraday cage has become dilapidated and has turned into a spiky sphere that is concave inward, and the electrostatic shielding formed on the surface has been completely destroyed.
If Anthony had not been using a magnetic field to confine the electric current, Lord would have been electrocuted to death inside the cage.
"Lightning and magnetism..." The gray-haired old wizard looked at the Faraday cage that he had easily destroyed, his expression a little dazed.
One second ago, it was the nemesis of thunder, and the next second, because of the property of generating magnetic field when electrified, it turned into a real cage...
Only then did Anthony realize that it was not that the thunder magic he studied had huge flaws, but that his research and understanding of it was too shallow and still superficial!
The power of magic changes in just a moment!
As the saying goes, for wizards, knowledge is power!