Chapter 155: Brian’s Research
Chapter 151 – Brian’s Research
In the end, Owen decided to meet the other party, and as for the hidden dangers and risks, it would depend on whether the benefits were great enough.
Mage Brian’s footsteps were slightly hurried, before he had been hesitant to give up his research, but once he saw a little bit of hope, he immediately abandoned all his concerns, after all, this was his life’s work and obsession, but where there was a little bit of hope, he wouldn’t give up, so he rushed to the castle at the first time and didn’t even care about the meter.
Meanwhile, Owen was also preparing for this meeting.
Mages were undoubtedly smart, especially when there was no bottom line, no one could predict what they would do, if it wasn’t for the fact that the research of mages required a lot of money and resources, and therefore had to be compromised to the secular world, it was hard to say what camp the mages as a group were considered to be in the end.
In other words, mages didn’t mind using a little bit of harmless tactics in the process of obtaining resources, and it had become customary.
Brian had used such tactics more than once, but this time he was silent.
A Grand Sorceress and a Legendary Warrior were located on the left and right of the Lord of this place, especially which Legendary Warrior with a terrifyingly strong aura was looking at him as if he were a dead man, and Bryan had no doubt that the other party would not hesitate to cut him into pieces if he was the least bit out of the ordinary.
As for the use of some secretive means, not to mention whether it can be hidden from the witch who is playing with the magic wand, just the legendary warrior’s iron will and inhuman intuition, let Brian’s original stupid heart quickly calm down.
Taking a deep breath, Brian slowly took out the crystal ball that had been prepared long ago, and after glancing at Amelia who was still gently caressing the magic wand like a wolf’s tooth stick, he gently clicked on the crystal ball, which instantly projected a large area of complex images, and then began to explain his own research in a tone of voice full of confidence, and as for the words that had been prepared before he came, he didn’t even mention them, and even more so, he didn’t activate certain additional functions on the crystal ball.
How could a lord with a great witch and a legendary warrior be a countryside nobleman who could be fooled with just a few words?
As for the small functions on the crystal ball, Brian, who didn’t want to be torn apart in the next second, even prayed that he would never activate it by mistake.
Right now, although he hadn’t given up on the idea of pulling investments, he no longer dared to play tricks.
The crystal ball that would project made Owen look at it twice more, the function of this thing was very interesting, projection was only part of it, it also had the function of storing information, kind of like a projector.
Owen who is not interested in Bryan’s drawing of big cakes reached out his hand, the invisible thought force controlled the crystal ball into mid-air, and then the spiritual power began to penetrate into it.
With the infiltration of spiritual power, a large number of images and words hidden in the depths of the crystal ball were read by Owen one by one.
The reading speed of the spirit was very fast, causing the projection of the crystal ball to turn into a blurry mess in the retina just like turning on the gas pedal, but Brian knew what this meant, it meant that all the information he had researched for half of his life had been leaked out, and suddenly his face looked ugly to death, if he didn’t know that making a move right now would be the death of him, he hated to get the other man killed directly, but now he could only watch the treasure belonging to himself being The other men kept going deeper and deeper, touching it from the inside to the outside.
Originally just out of curiosity about the crystal ball, but with the reading of the hidden information inside the crystal ball, Owen’s expression began to become surprised, and even cautious.
Putting aside the many brutal images, just from the research aspect alone, it had to be said that Brian was a genius, of course it was fine to say that he was crazy.
There were two research projects that Brian had received support from the Imperial Border Army, and it could also be said that they were two branches under one big project.
Prosthetic body transformation and magic armor, this was Brian’s research project.
War can’t avoid casualties, as the largest military organization in the empire, the Imperial Border Army naturally suffers from this aspect, because you can’t just kick out the disabled soldiers, at least you have to pay a fee, enough to buy a piece of barren farmland or drink yourself to death in a tavern.
Instead of giving disabled soldiers the ability to live on, Brian’s research was to make them into weapons for the battlefield, in the category of reuse. It sounded good, but in reality it was very cruel, such as prosthetic modification, which was the hard application of puppet technology to living people, replacing damaged limbs with puppet limbs, or even artificially removing and replacing excess limbs in order to better utilize them as weapons.
The question is do people have extra limbs?
More brutally, replacing flesh and blood with steel is not a matter of fixing it with straps or nailing it down, in which every bit of progress in flesh and blood stitching, nerve linking, and rejection represents a human life being consumed as material.
Although the mage is powerful, it is not omnipotent, and every problem requires a lot of time and resources, especially the human life as a consumable material.
Later on, because of the delayed results, Brian started a new project, Magical Armor.
Through certain techniques the armor was fused with flesh and blood nerves to achieve the role of an exoskeleton.
Because it didn’t require the removal of limbs, retained the reformer’s vitality, and reduced the reaction of rejection, it once again attracted the Imperial Border Army to extend its investment.
Unfortunately, the more powerful the magical armor the more resources it consumed, compared to consuming a large amount of resources to transform ordinary soldiers, it was not as cost-effective as using the same amount of resources to hire experts.
After discovering this problem, in order to reduce costs, Brian used many methods, but it was always difficult to solve, but instead there are many risks of losing control, the mage apprentice under his command and part of his own limbs were lost in the process of experimentation.
After reading this, besides being a bit disgusted, I have to say that Owen’s heart was moved, because he thought of the starfighters in Warhammer.
Although the strength and technical content of the two sides could not be compared, but it made Owen see the prospect of this technology.
“This technology is not unique to you, right?” Owen put down the crystal ball and looked up at Brian as he spoke.
Brian nodded, although the information was leaked, the good news was that the other party was very interested, so he didn’t hide much, after all, the mage’s circle is so big, if you ask around with your heart, you can find out.
The number of mages in the empire is quite a lot, in addition to the royal mages, all the major nobles have mages that are specially provided for researching various projects.
Like Brian this is not even considered top notch, otherwise it would not go to the imperial border army where to seek investment.
The number of mages is large, the direction of research is naturally varied, like Brian’s research has been studied hundreds of years ago.
Unfortunately, this research in the mage belongs to a relatively niche, coupled with the mage on their knowledge of the value, resulting in not much precious information passed down, Brian is also from their own master where to get some broken information, as a basis for the beginning of research and development.
As far as Brian knew, there were at least a number of mages that were enshrined by multiple forces that had conducted similar research, but what results they had taken were unknown.
He still didn’t know if the Imperial Border Army had given up on investing in his research because they didn’t see any prospects, or because other mages had made breakthroughs in their projects, and he wasn’t naïve enough to think that the Imperial Border Army was the only mage who was engaged in research.
(End of chapter)