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In just a dozen steps, Lin En had already reached the Land of Death outside the Fire Oil City. After practicing for several months, his control over space had become more and more handy...
This area has been heavily protected. The outermost side is a huge magic barrier, the inner part is a wall up to one meter thick, and the innermost part has a protective barrier he personally arranged, which can even block the detection of gods!
Lin En entered without any disguise, and was naturally quickly discovered by the guarding wizards.
"Speaker Lin, Lord Vittorio has been waiting for you for a long time!" Dennis hurried forward and said excitedly.
"It seems that you have already figured out the power system of the spacecraft?" There was a bit of anticipation on Lin En's face. Even in the database of the intelligent computer, the curvature engine is a science fiction weapon. It only exists in concept and cannot be built at all.
If they can make a breakthrough in this area, it can be said that they have left the Earth Federation of their previous life behind in the field of power!
"We have accomplished more than 90% of the work. The main part has been completed. The only thing left is the protection of the alchemy array. In fact, we can start the test flight today!" Dennis said complacently.
He provided a lot of ideas in the development of this power system and made his own contribution there.
Surrounded by a group of alchemists, Lin En quickly entered the spaceship. Many areas inside had been demolished, and a curvature generator was built at the front and back ends, thus forming a U-shaped curvature space with "compression in the front and expansion in the back", just like a slide, allowing the spaceship to slide all the way!
Dennis smacked his lips and continued to explain to Lin En that the spacecraft currently has two power systems. It needs to use a nuclear-powered detonation engine to accelerate, increase the speed of the spacecraft to more than fifteen times the speed of sound, leave the atmosphere of the Eternal Star, and then start the curvature engine to further increase the speed and fly into the vast universe!
The reason for adding an extra step is that they currently have no way to accurately control the power delivery of the curvature engine, and flying at ultra-high speeds in the atmosphere of Eternal Star may cause some terrible consequences.
Lin En nodded. Extreme speed means extreme power. The concerns of Dennis and others are not unreasonable. It is better to be cautious.
He also didn't expect the first generation of spacecraft thrusters to adopt full curvature drive mode. It would be nice to use hybrid power first.
"By the way, what do you use as the energy source of the curvature engine?" Lin En suddenly asked curiously, but the next moment he saw a spherical block of earth with a diameter of more than 100 meters suspended above a huge alchemical array, bound by heavy rune locks.
Using dirt and rocks as fuel?
Lin En was stunned for a moment, and then he felt that the breath above was vaguely familiar to him.
Could this thing be...
Lynn immediately thought of something, and then Vittorio's voice came over.
"This is lunar soil, which is also the body of the Moon God!"
Only this thing can provide enough energy!
Chapter 572: Space travel and clock slow effect!
The divine body of the moon?
After hearing Vittorio's explanation, Lin En's expression suddenly became very strange. This guy actually dared to use the divine body as a source of power, this is really powerful!
Vittorio also had a helpless expression on his face. He had previously tried to use high-purity magic stone crystals as energy, but after calculations, he found that even if he consumed one ton of magic stone reserves, it would not be enough for the spacecraft to move one kilometer!
After all, this thing is so huge that it can be regarded as a fortress or even a small city. Its mass is as high as hundreds of thousands of tons, and this is due to the special material. The energy required to drive it can only be described as terrifying!
The only thing that met the requirements was the lunar soil that they had dug up for research. Testing showed that the magic density of this thing was very high, hundreds of times more than the highest purity magic stone!
Having said that, Vittorio looked at Lin En cautiously, somewhat worried that this would cause displeasure to the other party. After all, this magic star has now broken through the divine realm. To some extent, this is an act of blasphemy!
Lin En obviously didn't care about this. In his view, God was just a high-dimensional life form. It was unimaginably powerful on a planet or a galaxy, but it was nothing in the vast universe.
The fall of Diana, the moon goddess, is a warning!
So although Lin En was surprised by Vittorio's audacity, he quickly discussed with him the composition of the lunar soil for constructing the divine body.
Similar to the moon in the previous life, the ten tons of lunar soil they brought back were rich in rare elements such as silicon, aluminum, potassium, barium, lithium, helium-3, neon-2, neon-22, etc. Of course, the most important thing is the huge amount of magic power contained in these elements!
This can be seen from the fact that the moon's revolution can trigger the magic tides of the Eternal Star.
"Have you done experiments before? How fast can it go when using the curvature engine?" Lin En asked curiously.
"The test flight of the spacecraft has not been carried out yet, but our experiments on the model have been successful!" Vittorio vowed. They made a smaller aircraft on a one-to-one scale and conducted preliminary experiments, and no problems occurred.
Model? Why does it sound so unreliable... Lin En raised his eyebrows, but didn't say anything. With him around, there wouldn't be any major accidents...
Vittorio turned around and spoke to the great wizards present. "Everyone, get busy. Perform the final inspection and then start this spaceship!"
Raphael, Jeffrey, Arad and others immediately started the final maintenance work.
For seven whole months, almost half a year, everyone had been preparing for this moment. No one wanted all their efforts to go to waste because of a slight mistake at the last moment.
"Charging completed, the front curvature drive device is operating normally..."
"Electromagnetic field detection device has been activated!"
"Path planning completed, all obstacles avoided..."
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A series of reports came one after another. Since they were fully prepared in advance, this inspection was just a routine matter!
Harrov, Aurora and Anthony were all present, and no one wanted to miss this historic moment.
The high-spirited Vittorio stood on the alchemical instrument in front of the console and expanded his scope to every aspect of the spacecraft.
This is the method he developed to control the spacecraft, directly utilizing the wizard's domain to achieve control over every atom inside the spacecraft!
The hatch of the spacecraft closed quickly, and the outer shell gradually shrank without leaving a gap. Then the disc-shaped spacecraft weighing hundreds of thousands of tons slowly rose up amidst the violent vibrations!
This is the anti-gravity device engraved on the bottom of the spacecraft.
Then Vittorio spoke again.
"Start the nuclear thrusters!"
Dennis immediately and solemnly took out two transparent spheres with a diameter of half a meter and placed them into the passage of the bottom cabin.
Harov and others' eyelids twitched as they watched, because they all knew that it contained deuterium and tritium elements!
They all knew that Vittorio was very bold and had even participated in the production of part of the propulsion device, but they had not expected that the other party would be ready to use this powerful weapon right from the start.
Because this nuclear power does not mean converting nuclear energy into electricity for driving, but directly using nuclear explosions to generate thrust to drive spacecraft that are unimaginably heavy!
If they had not discovered during their research on the weapon system of the spacecraft that this special metal had a film on its surface that could withstand terrifyingly high temperatures and high pressures, they would not have dared to make such an attempt.
In an instant, the entire spacecraft seemed to shake, and this was the explosion of the two hydrogen bombs that were dropped!
Fierce fire and light erupted in the combustion compartment of the spacecraft. The tremendous power frightened many great wizards present, because at this moment they were only a few hundred meters away from the hydrogen explosion. Once the compartment could not bear the terrible power of the explosion, the energy wave of the hydrogen explosion would tear them apart in an instant!
Fortunately, the technology of the alien civilization is still trustworthy. A mere hydrogen explosion is not enough to destroy it, not to mention that the combustion chamber is one of the strongest places!
Raphael and others wiped the cold sweat from their heads. Even Vittorio and Dennis, the developers, secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although they had done tests before, they were still not completely sure!
Very creative... Lin En, who witnessed the entire launch process, was also a little surprised. He didn't expect Vittorio to choose to use the powerful reverse thrust generated by the legendary spell [End - Atomic Breath] to drive the spacecraft forward...
The most dangerous stage was completed, which also indicated that the spacecraft was officially started. From the two nozzles specially left at the rear, extremely hot energy columns instantly erupted, stretching for several kilometers!
The spacecraft weighing hundreds of thousands of tons also soared into the sky rapidly under the power of fusion. The huge mass and the sonic boom caused by the extreme speed instantly caused the ground, which was already devastated by the double baptism of nuclear and hydrogen explosions, to experience devastation again!
In just a dozen seconds, the speed of the spacecraft has increased to more than five times the speed of sound, and it continues to soar without stopping... A strong sound barrier appeared on the surface of the spacecraft, and the entire disc seemed to be wrapped in clouds.
This is because Vittorio and others specially engraved windproof magic on the outer shell, otherwise the destructive power would be several times more serious!
A huge light screen soon appeared in front of everyone, showing the outside scene. This was the light and shadow projection magic developed by Aurora. It could replace the display device and allow people to see the outside scene directly from inside!
However, everything in their field of vision was blocked by the sound barrier. All they could see was a vast expanse of white, which then turned into complete darkness, meaning that the spacecraft had escaped the planet's atmosphere.
It only took a minute or two!
For Raphael and others, this was already unbelievably fast!
However, this was just the beginning. After completely leaving the planet's atmosphere, Vittorio solemnly activated the curvature engine device!
The moon soil placed in the center of the alchemy formation peeled off layer by layer and was transformed into a large amount of magic power. At the front of the spacecraft, the space was constantly twisting like ripples, and finally formed a ring-shaped space depression...
The spacecraft was also accelerating at an extremely terrifying frequency.
Raphael and others who were inside could only see that the lunar soil inside the magic circle was rapidly decreasing, but they could not sense the increase in speed at all, because it was too stable, so stable that they could not sense any fluctuations at all.
"Are we really speeding up?" Arad asked in confusion.
"Of course, you'll see if you look there!" Aurora pointed to a small dot on the light screen.
That's... the moon!
They were passing by the satellite at a very fast speed. Arad watched in horror as the moon changed from a tiny, imperceptible point of light to a huge monster, and then shrank rapidly within two seconds and disappeared in front of them.
How fast is this?!
All the great wizards present were astonished. Even though their computing power was very strong, they could not find a reliable calibration object!
"You'll know when we reach the Brown Star!" Vittorio replied.
This is the destination of their trip, the planet farthest from the sun in the star system... According to the estimates of wizards who study astronomy, the distance between the two planets in their orbit at this time is about one billion kilometers!
It takes 3,300 seconds to travel at the speed of light!
That's about an hour!
The time scale on the atomic clock passed by minute by second, and everyone stared at the light screen above.
During the long dark voyage, another massive planet appeared and disappeared from their sight. Raphael recognized that this was the second farthest planet from them, and it happened to be within their planned flight trajectory.
This means they are not far from the Brown Star!
Just as Raphael had expected, the huge brown planet was already in sight, and the two were approaching each other at a very fast speed.
"Time... look at the time!" Vittorio said excitedly.
"It's two hours, seven minutes and thirty-six seconds!" Dennis pounded his palm with joy, his words full of disbelief.
This means that the spacecraft's cruising speed has reached half the speed of light!
Harrov, Aurora and Anthony's faces were also full of disbelief. They could actually increase the speed to such a terrifying level.
Raphael and others were equally excited. This is half the speed of light, 150,000 kilometers per second, and it circles the Eternal Star twice!
Lin En waited until everyone's excitement subsided before he smiled and corrected them. "It's no use looking at this clock. We have to wait until we return to the Eternal Star and look at the clock over there to know how fast it really is!"
Due to the clock slowing effect, their time is not accurate at all, but according to his estimation, the speed is definitely not slow!
You have to know that this is only the first generation of spacecraft engines, and there is still a lot of room for optimization!
With Lin's reminder, the wizards present gradually calmed down and thought of the clock slow effect mentioned in quantum theory. Although this magic star has proved that his theory is correct, many people are still confused about the difference in speed leading to the flow of time.
Will the clock really slow down?