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However, they still summed up a lot of rules, such as light is often born with heat, can be reflected, absorbed, etc., and developed a lot of magic using light.
"You have a good idea, Johnny, but you have to find the secret yourself!" Lynn couldn't help but laugh, but he didn't mean to give a direct answer. After all, the exploration of the laws of the world must be done step by step, and both the right and the wrong must be tried before a truly complete magic theory can be developed.
“Whoever among you can thoroughly study light, no, even if he only understands the basics, will be awarded a Corona Medal and leave a mark in the history of magic!” Lin En said solemnly.
Corona Medal?
After hearing what Lin En said, Alok and others were very excited. That was the highest award in the wizarding world!
Even Lydia was a little eager. She had no magical talent and it would be difficult for her to pass the formal wizard exam, but this did not prevent her from becoming the first wizard apprentice to receive the Corona Medal!
"Professor? Then where should we start exploring the secrets of light?" Lydia asked anxiously.
Orlando laughed. If the dean knew about this, he would have brought it up long ago and would have left them the opportunity.
However, to his surprise, Lin En took out a crystal clear glass from his pocket and shook it in front of everyone.
“You can start with that!”
"Dean, isn't this just an ordinary piece of glass?" Alok curled his lips.
Glass products may be very precious in the Kingdom of Hadhrata, but in Iyeta even ordinary civilians can afford them. When expanding the school, they even planned to put them on the windows for better light transmittance. There is nothing special about it.
"To be precise, this is a prism!" Lynn explained with a smile, and placed it under the light. Only then did everyone present notice the difference.
This prism looks like a fine gem. Light enters from one side of the prism and exits from the other side after being refracted. However, the refracted light is not bright white, but an extremely gorgeous gradient of seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple. It is extremely dazzling when projected into the shadow...
Alok and others looked at the scene in front of them in amazement.
The light...was actually separated!
"The white light we saw was so beautiful!" Lydia said in surprise and delight.
"Professor, what is the principle behind this?" Pierce stretched out his hand and moved it back and forth on the spectrum. The colorful light shone on his palm, and he felt a little warm.
"Is this a phenomenon only seen in light generated by electricity? Or does it happen to all light?" Philip on the side asked anxiously.
Chapter 276: Control the last obstacle of the kingdom!
The strange light dispersion experiment aroused everyone's curiosity. They never knew that light was composed of so many colors.
Or does only artificial light have this property?
"Whether it is this light or the sunlight, they are of course the same. They are both complex color lights." Lynn explained to the curious Alok and others.
The principle of prism light splitting is that different colors of light have different refractive indices in glass, so when passing through the prism, each color of light is deviated in one direction, which forms a gradient spectrum...
A group of wizard apprentices listened thoughtfully. Lynn's explanation was very easy to understand. Even people like Redel who didn't know magic could barely understand it.
"Wait, I think I've seen this thing before..." Ham stared at the colorful light reflected from the prism, his face thoughtful, and then suddenly spoke. "Yes, it's like... a rainbow?"
After Ham said this, more and more people reacted. Although the rainbow phenomenon was not very common, many people had seen it.
"Is there a mirror in the sky?" Lydia asked, raising her hand high.
This time, Philip explained without waiting for Lynn to reply.
"It should be the refraction and reflection of water, right?"
There was a lot of water vapor in the air, which every wizard knew very well, and the water surface also had the ability to refract and reflect light, so Philip instantly understood its principle.
"Not bad!" Lin En nodded, and then handed the prism in his hand to Lydia. "As for the other properties of light, I'll leave it to you to explore."
Lydia took the prism excitedly, placed it under the light and kept rotating it. The light kept flowing and reflecting in the prism, changing its size and color.
Alok and others looked at Lin En eagerly. The dean just gave the only prism to Lydia. What should they do then?
Don't be so biased!
"Glass is not difficult to make, and you know the formula. I taught it in chemistry class. If you want, can't you just make one yourself? Studying the solar spectrum is also your homework assignment during the trip!" Lin En shrugged and spoke freely.
When they heard about the homework assignment, Alok and the others' faces immediately drooped, and they tried hard to recall the chemistry class that Lin En had taught them some time ago.
What is the main component of glass? Silicon dioxide, I think?
"I heard that there are many wizards in the city of Greenriel who are studying the mystery of light. Even the Speaker is very interested in it. You have a lot of opponents!" Lin En added.
Although the wizarding land has been busy with war matters recently, the parliament still pays great attention to academic research. After all, this is the foundation of all magical power.
As glass products gradually became more popular, more and more wizards have discovered their uses in research. For example, the simplest convex mirror can make objects appear larger or smaller in one's eyes.
This means that wizards no longer have to rely solely on magic to perceive things, but can use their naked eyes to directly see the previously invisible microscopic world!
Lin En has no doubt that after this war, the theory of "magic" in the entire wizarding land will usher in a leap forward in development!
When they heard that many wizards, even the legendary Speaker, were studying this, the apprentices suddenly felt that they had no hope.
Lydia was thinking about how to get more theoretical knowledge from the dean, which would be much faster than doing research on her own...
"By the way, Professor Philip, how is your research on the electromagnetic cannon going?" Lin En suddenly remembered this, turned to look at several people and asked.
"The principle has been figured out and the model has been made, but its power is somewhat unsatisfactory. It can only launch a 100-gram projectile at a speed of 100 meters per second." Philip said helplessly.
The generator they made is fine for lighting a light bulb, but it is too weak to be used in an electromagnetic gun. If there is not enough electricity, this thing is not as useful as a cannon.
Lin En was not surprised by this. The generator would need to be improved for at least several generations before it could meet the needs of the electromagnetic gun. After thinking about it, he asked someone to bring a basket of black stones and a plate.
"This is a lightning stone and several magic runes representing electromagnetism. You can study how to use them!" Lin En explained.
Since the old method doesn’t work, why not try a new approach?
These two things are the results of Anthony's research for most of his life. The lightning stone is like a natural battery, and it is a super-powerful one, and these electromagnetic runes are the key to converting magic power into electric current!
When Phillip and others heard this, their eyes suddenly brightened.
In this way, they can store all the excess electricity on weekdays, and find a way to export it when they need to use the electromagnetic cannon. They can even use lightning-inducing stones as the material of the guide rails, coat the outside with a layer of mithril, and engrave electromagnetic runes...
In just a dozen seconds, many ways to improve the electromagnetic gun emerged in Philip's mind, and many difficulties that had troubled him in the past were solved directly!
Thinking of this, Philip said goodbye in a hurry, took a few colleagues with him and went to do research with a basket of lightning-inducing stones.
The huge light bulb stayed on in the castle for the entire night. This was both a test of the sample and something Lin En did intentionally.
So much so that early the next morning, rumors about the electric light spread rapidly throughout the earldom, and then became more and more outrageous. Some people swore that they saw with their own eyes the wizard flying into the sky, grabbing lightning and a huge rainbow from the clouds and putting them into a ball and a gem!
Lin En did not make any blunt excuses for these rumors. Instead, he assigned a new task to the Musketeers who went out for training every day. That was to use water mist to create an artificial rainbow in the square, and he taught this method to every curious child who wanted to learn.
The change of concepts is often subtle. Lynn wants to let these people know that wizards are not scary, and the knowledge they spread is not a trap of the devil, but an explanation of the laws governing the operation of all things. Even ordinary people can understand and apply it!
The next question is how to solve the last obstacle to their control of the kingdom—the Cardinal Ansruch of the church!
Chapter 277 This is simply blasphemy against God!
A few days passed in a flash, and the news that Grand Duke Rickman led nearly half of the kingdom's elite troops to suppress the miners' riot, but ended up in a disastrous defeat, was known to everyone in the royal capital.
Then a piece of news came out from the church - the miners' riot was related to that group of notorious wizards. It was these devil's believers who secretly bewitched the miners to offer their souls to the devil, which led to such a terrible disaster!
Panic is spreading rapidly...
What was even more beyond everyone's expectations was that King Bazel did not seem to be in a hurry to organize forces to quell the disaster that was about to sweep the entire kingdom. The upper-class nobles also did not seem to take any action and chose to remain silent.
Under such circumstances, the church became the spiritual support of the poor. The only thing they could do was to go to the church and pray to the great Lord to protect them...
North sent away the last batch of poor people who came to atone their sins and pray, and turned his head in a trance to look at the holy and solemn statue of the goddess in the hall. However, as soon as he closed his eyes, the horrifying scene of fire rain and artillery fire still appeared in his mind.
North fell into deep confusion. Why were the evil forces so powerful? Why did the great Lord fail to give him any response when they fought against these evils?
“This is the punishment from the Lord!”
A familiar voice suddenly rang in his ears.
North opened his eyes, and a figure in a golden and red robe appeared beside him. It was none other than Anthrouk, the pillar of the kingdom and the cardinal of the church...
"Lord Anruk!" North bowed respectfully, and then asked in confusion. "You just said that this disaster was God's will?"
"No, it should be said that the ignorance of the nobles and royal family of this kingdom caused this disaster!" Anluk said slowly. "They are no longer satisfied with ruling this land under the glory of God, and for this reason they have colluded with the followers of the evil god in an attempt to shake the God's pasture on earth..."
At this point, Anluik's eyes became very sharp. He had naturally seen all the actions that the King had taken against the church in recent years, both overt and covert. He was even more aware of Basel's little thoughts.
This kingdom, whether it is the dull poor, the cunning nobles, or the incompetent royal family, needs a thorough purification!
After the catastrophe, the glory of the Lord will once again cover the entire earth!
"But, Your Excellency Cardinal...why would the great Lord punish the most devout believers?" North said in confusion.
In this disastrous defeat, not only was the army of over ten thousand people completely annihilated, but most of the Lord's believers in an entire priest corps of over sixty people also died on the battlefield, and only a few followed him and escaped.
North was extremely confused and in pain. He had been staying in the temple for the past few days, repenting for his shameful act of abandoning his companions and fleeing alone out of fear.
"This is a baptism, Bishop North!" Anluk's voice came over. "The souls of the pious will return to the Kingdom of God in advance, enjoying endless joy and feasts, while the sinners will be punished to hell, burning forever in the eternal fire of purgatory..."
North finally realized that life and death are not important, they are just two different states - God will decide the birth and death of all things!
Just then, a pastor walked in from the door.
"Lord Anluk, Viscount William sent a message saying that he needs to find you for something very important, and it's related to those wizards!"
"Then let him in!" Anluk said, and North also put away his emotions and stood aside.
About two minutes later, Cody, led by several pastors, walked into the magnificent church. The solemn setting made his already uneasy mood condense to the extreme. After seeing Anluik and others, he lowered his head slightly and saluted stiffly.
"Where is William? Where is he? Why doesn't he come to see me in person?" Anluk suddenly asked.
"The Viscount has accidentally contracted the plague recently and is now bedridden, unable to come and listen to the Lord's teachings..." Cody said with a slight tremor.
"In that case, what message did he ask you to bring?" Anluk said slowly.
"Reporting to the lord, the spies we sent out have discovered a group of people with strange movements these days. They entered the residence of the Second Prince Hattar. We suspect that they are all wizards." Cody replied in a low voice.
"Is that all?" Anluk continued to ask.
Cody hesitated for a long time before gritting his teeth and said, "We have also... we have also discovered that His Highness Hattar seems to be plotting to seize the throne, and many nobles of the kingdom are involved. I'm afraid he will take action soon!"
"How did you know this secret?" Anluk's face showed some emotion and his tone became heavier.
Cody said with difficulty under Anluk's gaze. "One of the barons involved in the conspiracy is a good friend of Lord William. He was unwilling to betray the kingdom, so he revealed the news to Lord William."
"What I need is the truth..." Anluk suddenly turned cold.
"In the presence of the Lord, liars will go to hell!"