CHAPTER 71: AM I DEAD?

"Everyone can use magic swords now—what’s the problem?" Viscount Roster was obviously stunned, somewhat confused.

"When we want to put away the magic sword, we can only remove the energy storage module. This is really too inconvenient. Both the apprentice and I want to be able to cut it off mechanically."

The Wild Mage felt that having to pull out the battery to shut down after each use was too inconvenient, but how to turn it off without affecting normal use had become a big problem!

"You mean, just like now, you just need to press a button to temporarily cut off the magic power supply and return the magic sword to an inactive state?" Viscount Roster looked at the Wild Mage with some surprise.

"Yes, don’t you think the current magic sword is still imperfect?" The Wild Mage nodded emphatically: "But if everyone could freely activate and freely cut off, the situation would be completely different!"

"Got any ideas?" Viscount Roster was noncommittal. If this could really be achieved, this technology might not have any use on ray guns or magic bombs, but it would be hugely significant for future civilian Magic Conductors.

Ray guns only fired one ray each time they activated, then ended—no need to consider cutting off. But other things all needed to be considered! Future Magic Conductors would especially need this technology...

"We have ideas, but they’re not mature enough yet. We think the core should be cutting the connection between energy storage runes and other runes, but we have no clue how to cut them off. The apprentice thinks we can use mechanical structures to drive it—close the energy storage runes when using, cut them off when not using. But I think this operation causes significant rune wear and high manufacturing costs—might as well just pull out the energy storage runes directly..."

The apprentice wasn’t a real apprentice—he was an excellent mechanic. Maybe this skill came from his clockmaker father. The reason he was called apprentice was because he was the Magic Net’s wild instruction manual, the first "magician’s apprentice" to get a Magic Net ring—Horace. His teacher, Unlucky Drew, was even more famous, with almost half the continent knowing about this unlucky magical rune researcher!

He’d always been in contact with the Wild Mage. When Ren originally discovered self-charging arrays and perfected them in the divine realm, it was thanks to these two’s private chats.

Almost considered someone who could only be a mage apprentice his whole life, he had unparalleled talent in mechanics. In a short time, he’d created a series of achievements in Roster territory, especially in Magic Conductors, with many creative ideas that could perfectly fuse runes with mechanics. He was highly appreciated by Viscount Roster and had become the second top researcher after the Wild Mage.

"Actually, you can totally replicate all the methods you’ve thought of. We can now spend those big nobles’ money to do what we want to do. We don’t need to worry about costs at all—just occasionally show them results. I’m the Finance Minister now—they’ll believe this achievement can arm all soldiers."

A sly gleam flashed in Viscount Roster’s eyes. To promote Magic Conductors as quickly as possible and rapidly develop the Magic Conductor industry, he’d chosen to pull countless small and medium nobles, even some big nobles, into this community of interests. But he’d ultimately paid quite a price for this—naturally, these research expenses should come from those people!

"Of course." The Wild Mage smiled knowingly. He understood very well how Roster territory currently operated—after all, he was the Chief Technology Officer and also the second largest shareholder in the entire community of interests.

The two chatted for quite a while. The Wild Mage suddenly felt that Viscount Roster seemed somewhat out of it, so he persuaded him to get some good rest.

After saying goodbye and leaving, Viscount Roster also felt he should get some good rest... he was really too exhausted now!

His eyelids seemed to be fighting each other.

Maybe it was because now he not only had to manage Roster territory but also manage the kingdom’s finances. Especially the kingdom’s current state consumed way too much of his energy. Traveling between two places every day was just despair.

Who knew when magic-powered vehicles could be realized...

Roster thought about these things and gradually his consciousness fell asleep. But he always felt like he couldn’t sleep at all, yet seemed to be already asleep. A strange dream appeared before him—or rather, there was no dream at all. Everything around was dark, void, silent, without a trace of movement, as if the world had disappeared.

After an immeasurable stretch of time, suddenly countless brilliant light particles appeared in the sky, like the Milky Way pouring down. He didn’t feel any fear. He didn’t know why, but he always felt that each point of light was a spark of knowledge, flickering with wisdom and mystery.

Countless light points scattered down. Gradually, he discovered these light points weren’t everything—there were also some night-like spherical objects, exactly the same size as the light points.

The dark points and light points seemed to have some pattern he couldn’t understand, arranged neatly in the void. Gradually, they actually wove together into a dreamlike land, with strange digital vegetation growing on it. Each leaf seemed to record the river of history, each flower seemed to bloom with predictions of the future.

Earth, vegetation, sky, sun, stars, wind, rain, clouds, thunder... everything was woven from those light points and dark points.

Soon, in the center of this land, a magnificent temple actually appeared. It was a building that could never appear in the real world, with a very unique design. It seemed to be built from metal and some kind of transparent crystal, reaching straight to the sky, incredibly solemn...

Around the temple floated countless light spheres that seemed to be produced by prayers. Each time he touched one, he could feel that inside was a believer’s prayer to the deity... Viscount Roster was stunned.

He was dumbfounded!

He was confused!

Could it be... he’d died suddenly?!

Wasn’t this the legendary divine realm?!

He didn’t know what expression he should show. Coming to a god’s divine realm proved he was a true believer, but coming to the divine realm, what about everything in the mortal world? His wife, his family, his industry, and... the expectations from the god...