Chapter 421 "Safe Electricity" (First Shift Monthly Pass)
In the cold winter night with snowflakes, magic crystal lamps of different brilliance set off Duke James' villa beautifully and dazzlingly, just like the bright stars gathered in the deep night sky.
Even high-level magicians, no one would arrange their magic tower with crystal lamps, they often habitually used magic candles for lighting, and the effect was not bad anyway.
For the vast majority of the nobles here, they only understood today what it means to be truly brilliant and beautiful, and they did not expect that there would be such a dreamy scene in addition to the natural scenery, which comes from the great power of human beings to change the world and can be popularized spectacular scenes!
"Please enter the villa, all distinguished guests." Barek's schoolgirl Lillian seems to be the master of ceremonies for the banquet, smiling and signaling everyone to step into this "splendor" villa that resembles the Sun King's palace.
A noble lady who loved beauty carried her skirt, her eyes flowing, throbbing and yearning, and she couldn't wait to walk into Duke James's villa, followed by the gentlemen, curious and admiring.
"The effect seems to be very good, and the initial promotion of our magic crystal lamp seems to be fine." As a man who devoted himself to the great cause of making money, Arthur quickly recovered from this shocking scene.
Even if he had never seen such a spectacular scene before, it did not prevent him from focusing most of his attention on observing the nobles' reactions to the magic crystal lamp.
"I'm going to install my magic tower too!" Afrith had the least resistance to shiny things, and the bright light just now made it drool, "I'll pay the bill with arcane points!"
Lucian even suspected that it had "embezzled" most of the materials used to build its magic tower to make it look like an ugly and ugly mountain peak - anyway, it was located in Alinge, and it was not afraid of being attacked.
"But it is only limited to the aristocracy, if the cost cannot be reduced again and popularized to the citizen class, it will lose its meaning of simplifying and promoting, which is the result of civilization that every human being should enjoy." Lucian felt that the advancement of a civilization should be seen as the changes and improvements it brings to the lives of most members of society, and now, the electrical age that is about to begin has such an ability!
Arthur ruined Lucian's emotion in a puzzled manner: "However, there is probably no hope for reducing costs again in a short period of time."
"Well, we need a large number of skilled workers to separate some steps that don't require magic, and reduce costs through assembly lines, standardization, etc." Lucian nodded lightly like the capitalist, thinking of the dwarven descendants of the Night Plateau, but he had caused such a big change in the vampire race, and it was no longer suitable to pick them up in a short period of time.
"It takes a long time to train a large number of skilled workers......" Arthur didn't understand what assembly lines and standardization were, but he wasn't interested in asking for the time being, because he couldn't even meet the basic premises.
At this time, Lillian turned off the main crystal lamp in the banquet hall, leaving only a few small ones, and the light immediately became dim and hazy, bringing out a warm and romantic feeling.
She smiled humorously and said, "Don't worry, the popularity of magic crystal lamps will make us lose the romantic atmosphere of candlelit dinners. Romance is always the heart and feelings, as long as you do it sincerely, you will definitely be able to create the feeling you want."
"And when you walk through the corridors of the castle at night, you no longer have to worry about the candlelight being too dark and the environment is too gloomy, and the bright feeling will always be with you with the use of the magic crystal lamp."
Tsk, Lucian gritted his teeth, she should have taken Arthur's money, she really spared no effort to promote the magic crystal lamp, but, I like it! This can lead to significant annuity gains!
After visiting Duke James' villa, the banquet entered the elegant court dance session - the circular dance that circulated in the court of Tria had not yet begun to prevail in the conservative kingdom of Holm. The dance of hooking shoulders and hugging tightly made many conservative aristocrats scold, and only some young people danced this kind of dance in the name of pornography when they gathered in private.
"Mr. Evans, the magic crystal lamp you designed is so beautiful, I have ordered a set from Mr. Arthur, I didn't expect it to be so popular." A dignified girl with a tightly buttoned collar walked up to Lucian with plain water and said with admiration.
The set she said was the one needed to renovate the entire villa, and the price was only equivalent to a magic crystal lamp before.
Lucian shook the sky blue in the cup and smiled: "This is due to the convenience of electric current transmitting energy."
"Well, to be honest, when the lady pressed the switch just now, I was shocked by the bright lights, and I had an indescribable feeling, I felt both dreamy and beautiful, and I felt proud and proud, and all of this is your masterpiece, you are really a miracle magician." The noble girl's face was slightly red, and her eyes were like water, "Even people like me who don't have magician and knight talents can use it, so I don't have to envy others anymore."
Lucian laughed and said: "It is my ideal to popularize some alchemy items so that most people can use them without barriers." Especially in life.
"You are such a great person." The noble girl sincerely admired that a thick-skinned guy like Lucian couldn't help but blush slightly,
"Alchemy items that can be used by most people, Evans, you really have far-reaching ideas......" Duke James and the Seven Rings Mage Barek came over, and after hearing Lucian's words, he sighed in a low voice, as if he was keenly aware of Lucian's implied purpose.
Seeing Duke James, the noble girl's face turned a little redder, and she quickly said to Lucian: "Mr. Evans, I won't disturb you from communicating with His Excellency the Duke."
"Hehe, Evans, how can you stand by and watch like us old guys? Just now, little Julie's face was full of 'please dance' and 'please dance quickly', you were indifferent? Don't you look down on our lovely little Julie? She is the precious granddaughter of Count Haisong." James made a joke about Lucian, "I noticed that you deliberately ignored several beautiful ladies before?"
Lucian pursed his lips and said semi-exaggeratedly: "Perhaps, my heart is really old, and I don't look like a young man anymore."
Young and handsome, gentle and elegant, talented, extremely high-status, promising, rich property, in the eyes of aristocratic women, Lucian, who has such an image, naturally attracted the favor of many ladies, and this is a pro-magic enlightened banquet, they have no prejudice against marrying magicians, and are often full of illusions.
Duke James laughed twice, and then said: "When the number of magic circles of water converted into electricity increases, and when the lines that transport electricity become popular and enter the citizen class, they will probably be able to use some of the simplified alchemy items cheaply and conveniently, and when they slowly get used to this kind of life, this kind of life brought by magic rather than gods, I think Evans, your purpose is almost there."
Lucian felt that it was time for him to get to know Duke James again, although he looked like a vicious and reckless bald man, but his heart was quite sharp, and his thinking was also very open-minded.
"When wires and electric energy drive methods become popular, we will have to consider an important issue. Electric current is much more dangerous than candle flames, and touching a candle with your hands will burn you at most, but touching a broken wire is likely to die directly, which will make the church demonize the current and prevent it from spreading." Lucian said the question he planned to ask recently. At present, electric energy is the cheapest and easiest energy to transmit, and it cannot be compared with direct spiritual power, solar energy, and tidal energy.
James looked sideways at Barek and got an affirmative answer: "In the magic laboratory of the electromagnetic system, there are magicians who forget to do electric shock protection and die accidentally every year."
The 50th place in the list of the stupidest ways to die in Alinge is this: "Poor sorcerer Osan discovered a more powerful lightning-type spell in a magic experiment accident, and he greeted it with joy and excitement, only then did he realize that the spherical lightning rolling around the room exceeded the limit of his protective spells. Let us thank him for his outstanding contribution to improved spherical lightning magic, and even more so for telling us with his scorched body that we must stay away from runaway currents."
"Then what should be done? Evans, since you have thought of it, there must be a way." James looked at Lucian with a smile, as if he believed in his ability.
Lucian said unhurriedly: "The damage of electric current to the human body cannot be eliminated, we cannot force users to be magicians, nor can we take magic isolation on every section of wire, I hope Mr. Barek, you electromagnetic mages can write a "Safe Electricity Manual" to teach people how to use electricity safely and avoid possible dangers."
"In the face of an unknown thing that is both harmful and beneficial, we should not blindly reject and directly reject it like a foolish fool, but should try to avoid and reduce its harm, use and give full play to its beneficial aspects, this is a mature and good arcane view, otherwise, we should not use flames, although it can make us eat cooked food, but it can also burn houses and burn humans."
"If the church and conservatives demonize the current and incite people to fight against it, we must open the wisdom of the people, let them understand the dangers and benefits of the current, understand how to use electricity safely, and restore the demonized current to its 'real' appearance, which is an arduous and meaningful struggle." Lucian's tone of speech was already becoming more and more like that of an arcane review committee member.
Duke James nodded slightly: "Very enlightening point, Barek, can you organize the electromagnetic mage to write?"
"No problem." Barek agreed.
In their eyes, although Lucian's teacher was the Storm Master, he himself had not yet shown talent in electromagnetism and had not obtained direct results - the electromagnetic mage believed that electrons were only incidental gains from Lucian's exploration of elemental magic, and could not reflect his true level in the field of electromagnetic magic.
"Evans, when did you simplify the phonograph magic circle, this is also something that the nobles will definitely like." James talked about his purpose in finding Lucian. The problem of simplification of electromagnetic messaging has reached a bottleneck, and they are not optimistic about Lucian's level in this regard, so they don't mention it.
Lucian shook his head: "We need to find suitable materials, and we are still experimenting again and again. I can't rush things in alchemical materials, so I can only try slowly."
In this regard, Lucian has experience on the earth, has avoided many detours, and already has eyebrows, but he doesn't plan to take it out so quickly, and wait for the magic crystal lamp to be promoted first. In the early stage of the electrical revolution, it was necessary to concentrate and work steadily.
"What a pity." Duke James sighed.
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In the magician management department, Eric looked at the familiar and down-and-out middle-aged man in front of him and said, "Levsky, long time no see, come to submit a new paper?"
"Long time no see, Eric, it's the improvement of the previous paper." Levsky said bitterly, his hair was like a withered yellow bird's nest, his blue eyes were full of fatigue, and his body was as thin as a bamboo pole.
Eric frowned and said: "Wasn't the previous article judged by several committee members to fail the review?"
"I have perfected ......," Levsky looked firm, "and I have heard that subversive papers that go against current theories can be submitted to Commissioner Evans."
"However, so many committee members think that you are just imaginary geometry, which is all fallacies and absurdity." Eric was embarrassed and seemed to want to persuade Levsky to give up.
Levsky clenched his fists, his eyes drooped, and said in a trembling and firm tone: "I don't think I'm wrong, I want to show it to all the arcanists. Eric, help me submit it."
Eric took the paper and saw that the title read:
"Rigorous Proof of Geometric Principles and Parallel Line Theorems".
(End of this chapter)