65: Chapter 65 Crystal Armor Test Data

Byron stood in front of the table, and 'Mage Hand' moved the chest armor of the Crystal Core Guardian that was on the floor up in front of him.

The entire chest armor was composed of layers upon layers of dense crystal lattices interlaced together. It had a deep, dark blue appearance overall, and its surface was smooth, appearing as if it were a single seamless piece without the slightest gap.

He raised his hand and pressed it onto the chest armor. The texture of the armor was heavy, dense, and cold, yet it possessed a trace of extremely strange flexibility, completely unlike the sturdy but brittle crystal armor of ordinary Worm Race.

As his fingers lightly traced over the chest armor, Byron's eyes sharpened. He immediately inserted his alchemical scalpel along a barely perceptible seam.

After that, his movements did not stop.

Piece by piece, the intact armor plates were dismantled by Byron and laid out on the tabletop in order.

Before long, the complete chest armor had been dismantled into fragments.

Looking at the crystal armor that now occupied the entire tabletop, Byron picked up one piece and turned to go to another table.

'Elemental Fireball'

A fireball, filled with a scorching aura that caused the air to slightly warp under its heat, immediately appeared between Byron's palms.

However, the moment the fireball appeared, it was like a lump of dough being continuously kneaded by a pair of invisible hands, eventually turning into a cone-shaped flame with a pointed front and a rounded back.

Compared to the name 'Elemental Fireball', it was more appropriate to call it an Elemental Fire Cone now.

But its essence was still 'Elemental Fireball'; it was just that Byron, through his knowledge of 'Energy Shaping', had modified the model nodes, energy circuits, and so on, to achieve a change in its shape.

After all, sorcery is not some rigid, unchanging thing. As long as you have the ability, you can make it do whatever you want, let alone just changing its shape.

In layman's terms, those sorceries are like open-source code, and wizards are programmers who can add their own knowledge to them, making them more suitable for themselves, while the underlying code remains the same.

However, don't let it sound so easy. Byron's modifications were very simple, as if anyone could do it, and he could even revert it back to the original 'Elemental Fireball'.

But being able to reach this step was only accomplished after millions of deductions and optimizations by the Eye of Omniscience.

It is best for ordinary Wizard Apprentices to honestly follow the sorcery models.

Because while you can make changes, whether it can still function normally after those changes is another matter entirely.

To create a complete, functional sorcery model that meets requirements, one needs more than just the corresponding knowledge.

One must also consider the structure, core, circuits, nodes, output, mana ratio, error tolerance, and so on of the sorcery model.

Only after satisfying these conditions can it be called a complete sorcery model.

And this is just at the stage of being able to use it and cast the sorcery; to meet specific requirements and be more competitive than other sorceries, it requires constant research, iteration, and modification to become an excellent sorcery.

Therefore, it is easier said than done.

If not for the help of the Eye of Omniscience, Byron would never have had such an idea, let alone succeeded.

However, this 'Elemental Fire Cone' at this moment only satisfied Byron's simple need to complete the experimental test; it could not yet be called a new sorcery.

After all, he had only simply changed the shape of the sorcery for now.

'Omniscience, record and analyze.'

After giving the command to the Eye of Omniscience, the fire cone in Byron's hand slowly approached the individual piece of crystal armor.

When the fire cone touched the surface of the crystal armor, the crystal armor actually slowly indented, but under the scorching heat of the flame, it did not sustain any damage.

Seeing this, Byron increased the force.

The fire cone advanced inch by inch, and the crystal armor also indented bit by bit.

When it indented to a limit, the crystal armor actually began to slowly rebound, and in the end, it even returned to its original state.

During this process, Byron also felt a force pushing back towards him.

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Byron immediately placed this armor piece into a miniature Magic Array and then manipulated the fire cone to rush towards the armor piece.

The moment the fire cone touched the armor piece, it exploded violently.

And this was another reason why Byron did not consider this fire cone a new sorcery.

Because apart from the change in the shape of the sorcery, its lethality still relied on the temperature of the fire elements and the explosive force produced by the combustion construct principle.

Its essence had not been changed.

"Pfft—"

Under the obstruction of the Magic Array, only a very slight muffled sound rang out in the Laboratory.

As the scattered sparks extinguished, Byron saw the armor piece again.

At this moment, the armor piece was pitch black, but it was not shattered, clearly having been blasted by the fire cone.

Seeing this, Byron reached out and took it out, wiped off the burn marks from the flames, and a brand-new armor piece appeared before Byron once again.

Seeing this scene, a look of surprise flashed in Byron's eyes; there wasn't even a single mark left on this armor piece.

But the next moment, his expression suddenly changed. He turned and placed the armor piece in his hand under a high-powered microscope, leaned his eyes toward the eyepiece, and continuously adjusted the focus.

The originally intact armor piece now had a small indentation, and countless tiny cracks had exploded around this indentation.

It seems the previous sorcery did not fail to cause any damage to the armor piece; there was some, it was just too minuscule to be seen with the naked eye.

Seeing this, Byron did not take it off but continued to increase the microscope's focus, magnifying those cracks.

As time passed, the cracks grew larger, and the things hidden within them became clear.

Crystal lattice arrangement, layered structure...

Discoveries, each one different from the previous anatomical studies of ordinary Worm Race, continuously appeared in Byron's field of vision.

Although the Crystal Core Guardian's crystal armor also used a lattice structure to distribute force, its crystal lattices were much denser and more orderly than those of the Soldier Worm.

In other words, the original lattice structure of the Soldier Worm's crystal armor had been compressed by another type of structure.

Although the volume remained unchanged, the structure had become tighter, leading to a qualitative change from quantitative accumulation; this was also the reason why the Crystal Core Guardian's defense was so high.

And Byron called this structure a Dense Crystal Lattice structure.

Moreover, this Dense Crystal Lattice structure also had a certain resistance to elemental and energy attacks, which was the reason why the damage caused by the fire cone to that armor piece was so small just now.

If there were a Crystal Core Guardian with a complete corpse to provide a comparison, Byron was confident that he could completely deconstruct this structure.

It was just a pity that what he had in his hands was only remains, and remains that had weathered for who knows how long, missing many things.

Therefore, Byron could only deconstruct a portion of it.

Afterwards, Byron conducted different experiments on the armor piece, including but not limited to elemental interaction test experiments, energy fluctuation and mana conduction experiments, material ratio experiments...

Through different experiments and the information parsed by the Eye of Omniscience, Byron also had a relatively comprehensive understanding of the Crystal Core Guardian's crystal armor.

It could not be used as a potion ingredient, had no resistance to Mental Energy, had a moderate reaction to mana injection... and so on.

It could be said that apart from being able to be used as an alchemical material to create some defensive wizard artifacts, its only real research value lay in the Dense Crystal Lattice structure.

Then, the next research direction would be its structure.

Thinking of this, a flash of brilliance crossed Byron's eyes.

This Dense Crystal Lattice structure, which possessed fixed angles, spacing, layered interlocking, and the ability to compress volume, was indeed of great research value; if it were applied to sorcery, he wondered what kind of wondrous reaction it would produce.