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On the second day after the internal meeting of the speakers ended, all the wizards proficient in thunder magic were summoned together, stopped their work, and started the mode of tritium refining!
The method used is the relatively old electrolysis method!
The only drawback is that the power consumption is too high. Fortunately, wizards can generate electricity artificially. Hundreds of wizards proficient in thunder magic gathered together and can process about ten tons of lake water in a day.
Vittorio led a group of alchemists to figure out how to set up an energy-guiding formation.
After listening to Lin En's description, he finally understood how arduous his task was. He needed to introduce energy equivalent to 10,000 nuclear explosions into the alchemy array, and then infuse it into the spirit body in an orderly manner. The difficulty can be imagined!
Vittorio was extremely careful, trying to make the magic circle perfect. After all, he was the guinea pig, and if he made the slightest mistake he would be completely annihilated by the rush of this horrible energy!
Such a large-scale personnel reshuffle in parliament is naturally difficult to conceal.
In order to prevent the problem of information leakage, Harof had people spread the word that due to the nuclear explosion performed by Linn, the magic star, the water in the river outside the city could no longer be drunk or used for irrigation, and they were trying to find a way to solve the problem of radiation pollution.
The rumors about water pollution caused a small panic in the city, but it was quickly calmed down by the parliament which was well prepared. In fact, the water they drank during this period was not from the river, but was drawn from Lake Earls.
The wizards spent several days digging a large canal. After extracting the heavy water, the rest was used to supply water to the city residents.
However, irrigation of farmland is indeed a big problem.
This made Monroe, who had been secretly gathering intelligence, very happy. He discovered that the wizards had no intention of reclaiming the land, and even the original land had been completely abandoned. All the poor people who used to farm the land went into workshops to produce muskets, cannons, or various strange goods.
Almost every day, caravans would enter the City of Kerosene with large sums of gold and silver, and then leave with satisfied passengers loaded with boxes of goods. The profits they earned were enough to make everyone jealous!
Monroe hated these imperial merchants who betrayed their Lord and traded with the devil, but he still endured it and let these wizards and wealthy businessmen be happy for a while!
As long as there is a problem with this year's autumn planting, it won't be long before the food reserves are exhausted, and the entire city, or even the entire kingdom, will inevitably fall into the dilemma of famine.
Apart from that, what Monroe particularly hated was the courses at the wizarding academy.
Taking into account the varying levels of magical proficiency of the wizards coming to the empire, the parliament discussed and decided to send them all to wizard academies for transformation.
Such a rough move also caused dissatisfaction among some wizards, especially several great wizards who came from afar and did not think they needed to study in the academy at all.
But after actually taking the courses at the magic academy, they found that it seemed a little different from what they had expected.
In addition to the basic subjects such as elements, shaping, alchemy, and potions, there are also three other subjects to study: Olympiad mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
After taking a few classes, Lucas and others soon discovered that the so-called physics was about learning the laws governing the operation of the world and was the foundation of force field magic.
Chemistry is the foundation of elemental magic, and a periodic table alone is enough to astound a group of elemental wizards.
They didn't expect that someone could summarize the various characteristics of the elements into a table and even rank them...
I can only say that this place is worthy of being a holy land for wizards!
Even the great wizards who had previously been so arrogant had to admit that their basic magical knowledge needed improvement after seeing the hundreds of elements on the list.
"Sir Philip, why does the element boron only have a name and a serial number in the ranking table? Is it some new and exotic element that is kept secret?" Lucas suddenly noticed a rather strange place on the periodic table.
Only half of the elements on the list have detailed descriptions, including mass, density, boiling point, atomic number, atomic weight, etc. ... while the other half of the elements, like chromium, are blank except for their names and serial numbers.
"That's the element that Master Lin En speculated might exist, but it hasn't been found yet!" Philip explained.
"Guess?" Monroe sneered. "Could it be that the entire element ranking table was guessed by Master Lin En?"
"According to the above statement, the volume of an atom may be only a few thousandths of a centimeter, and it will float in the air. How are their weight, density and volume calculated?"
Monroe's words made the wizards present frown.
Based on all the new things they saw after entering this kerosene city, they did not have too many doubts about the contents of the periodic table.
However, after Monroe's interruption, Lucas and others also had the same doubt in their minds: How did Master Lin En measure the data of such a small element?
"Idiot! Just because you can't figure it out doesn't mean that others can't think of a solution. How can you understand Master Lin's wisdom?" Philip looked at Monroe with contempt, and then explained to everyone.
The order of the elements in this periodic table is not random, but is determined by the number of protons in the element structure.
For example, among the many elements they discovered and confirmed, the atomic number of hydrogen is one, helium is two, lithium and beryllium are three and four, and then the sequence of carbon suddenly jumped to six, and the sequences of nitrogen and oxygen were exactly seven and eight, but there was no five!
Lynn believed that the sequence of five (protons in the nucleus) must exist, they just haven’t discovered it yet!
The rest of the elements are also 'predicted' in this way!
As for their masses, we use gravity as a ruler, and then use the method of tiny deformation amplification to magnify the slight difference hundreds of times to obtain their masses.
"Master Lynn once said that you don't necessarily need a ruler to measure the length of an object, and you don't need a beam balance to measure the mass of an object!" Philip explained Dean Lynn's wonderful ideas to the wizards present in a simple and easy-to-understand manner.
Monroe, who had a limited education, was confused by what he heard, but he did not dare to reply because the wizards around him were already praising him in unison.
"Using gravity as the ruler and time and space as the curtain, you are worthy of being the Magic Star to be able to think of such a method!" Lucas said in admiration.
"Since the ranking of an element is determined by its internal structure, I guess the parliament has figured out the structure of the elements?" a gorgeous witch suddenly asked.
Lucas and others also looked at Philip. In their previous impression, elements were the most basic things that constituted the world and the foundation of all things.
However, this concept had been broken in the previous physics class, because in the study of magnetic fields and electric fields, the wizard in charge of teaching them explained something even smaller than the basic elements, that is, electric charge!
Moreover, electric charge is universally present in elements and should be one of the basic substances that make up the elements.
"Of course!" Philip nodded proudly, whetting everyone's appetite, but then changed the subject and continued, "The research on the internal structure of elements is the most advanced magic theory in the parliament. It is still in a state of perfection, and for now only parliamentarians are qualified to participate in it!"
"Then how can one enter parliament and become a member of parliament?" the gorgeous witch asked again.
"Well, of course you have to pass the assessment. Every member of parliament is selected as an elite!" Philip said in a pretentious manner. It is not easy to become a member of parliament.
They are the core members of the parliament and have the right to vote on all major matters.
Now is a time of war, and these foreign wizards from the empire must go through a long probation period if they want to become members of the senator.
Having said that, Philip paused for a moment, and in order to inspire the fighting spirit of these foreign wizards and let them share his research results in magic, he spoke again.
"In fact, there is a shortcut to becoming a councillor, and that is to obtain high enough merits!"
"For example, Master Lin En proposed the law of universal gravitation as force field magic, and won the highest honor of the parliament - the Corona Medal, and was immediately nominated by several speakers!"
Philip talked incessantly, and then comforted everyone. After all, magical wizards like Dean Lin En were only a minority. In fact, to become a senator, one did not need to obtain something as exaggerated as the Corona Medal. A Silver Moon Medal or three Morning Star Medals would be a 100% sure win for the nomination!
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The chemistry class quickly ended with Philip boasting. For the whole half of the class, Philip was telling a group of wizards from the Empire about someone's great achievements.
From using two balls to verify the law of free fall to using the angle of icicle projection to measure the circumference of a planet, it seems that as long as you work hard, you can also be the next magic star!
"Ridiculous, this is absolutely ridiculous!" Monroe couldn't help but scold as soon as he returned to the school's residence.
Those wizards actually said that the continent beneath their feet is round and is constantly rotating!
Have their brains been hollowed out by witchcraft?
How could someone come up with such ridiculous remarks!
If the continent is a sphere, how would people at the bottom of the sphere survive? Wouldn't they fall headfirst?
Ivana was also thinking about this question. During the week since she entered the Wizarding Academy, every class she had taken seemed new and strange.
For example, in physics class, there are vacuum free fall experiments, prism spectrometry, artificial rainbow creation, etc.
What surprised Ivina the most was that many of the so-called experiments did not require any magic at all. The simplest one was to create a rainbow, which only required a simple water mist device and a suitable angle.
According to the wizard who taught the class, the development of their magic studies is actually a process of exploring the truth of the world. Magic only enables wizards to more easily transform the laws that govern the operation of all things into power!
But all these novel experiments combined are still not as shocking as this planet theory!
Anyone who hears that the continent beneath their feet is not flat but a sphere will find it unbelievable!
According to the Bible, the entire world was created out of thin air by the merciful Lord, and all the morning stars, including the sun and the moon, revolve around the continents beneath our feet.
This is common sense throughout the empire!
However, the world described by the wizard is completely different. The continent under his feet is not only a sphere, but the sun is the center of the entire galaxy, and the rest of the planets are constantly rotating around the sun driven by gravity.
The wizard who gave the lecture also elaborated on a lot of 'evidence'.
For example, the phenomenon of a lunar eclipse is that the outline of the planet below blocks the moon. Another example is when you are on a boat and use magic to observe a towering lighthouse in the distance, you must first see the top of the tower, then the tower body, and so on...
Lynn, known as the Magic Star, even proved through an ingenious pendulum experiment that the planet is rotating. He also used tall towers and icicles erected on the sea to successfully calculate the circumference of the planet!
A full 43,200 kilometers!
The most important thing is that not long ago, they had just learned the formula and law of triangles and the calculation methods for the circumference and area of a sphere in the Mathematical Olympiad class. That is to say, based on these conditions, they can easily calculate it themselves!
Exquisite logical reasoning, rigorous mathematical calculations, and various evidences made Ivana unable to tell which side was right for a moment.
Years of common sense told her that the mainland could never be round, but logical deduction leaned more towards the other side.
After all, the star map was so beautiful. The sun was located in the center of the stars, pulling the rest of the planets with its absolute weight. It was orderly and regular, and everything seemed natural.
Ivana turned her head and looked at Monroe, wanting to find someone to talk to about her inner confusion, but she quickly stopped talking. She knew that Monroe had never listened to any of the classes seriously, and he had done his best by being able to endure until returning to the base to start scolding!
Magic Star, Messenger of Doom, Lin En...
Ivina was thinking about the most important goal of this mission in her mind. From the moment she entered the City of Kerosene, she heard people mention this name almost every day.
She had heard so many stories about Lynn's legendary deeds that her ears were almost covered with calluses. Whether it was the various powerful alchemical creations or the novel magic theories, they all seemed to be related to this magic star.
Just as Ivana was thinking, Monroe beside her suddenly stopped, took out the red crystal ball from his arms, and spoke happily.
"The church has contacted us! Ivana, keep watch for me. I need to report the situation here to the Pope in person..."
Chapter 451: I bet that the Magic Kingdom will collapse within a month!
In the city of kerosene, inside the school’s headquarters.
Monroe carefully checked the room again to confirm that the wizards had not secretly set up any eavesdropping magic, and then placed the crystal ball on the table.
The red light became increasingly intense, and a strange wave of magical power quickly spread in all directions.
Monroe was not worried that the energy fluctuations would alert the wizards.
Although the entire Fire Oil City was set up with magic to detect divine arts, the crystal ball in his hand was essentially a magical weapon, which was why it had passed the previous search.
The wizards have a wide variety of alchemical tools, and the parliament cannot check them one by one, nor will it do anything that could easily cause dissatisfaction.
A wizard used magic in the room, which caused some magical fluctuations. This was completely normal and there was nothing suspicious about it.
After all, there are too many wizards who conduct experiments in the room and even cause accidents...
However, Monroe's face showed a trace of disgust and aggrieved. He was an adjutant of the God's Punishment Army, but he had fallen to the point where he had to rely on such an evil magical weapon!
This is simply a shame!
While he was thinking, the red light gradually faded, and what appeared before him was a blurry image, but he could vaguely recognize that this was the current head of the Holy See - Pope Alvis!