Chapter 341 — The Month of Revival
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Watching Camille disassemble the crown's key arcane patterns and project them in midair, Gaoyang wore an expression of considerable interest: "With this thing, can we unlock the secrets of communication magic?"
"At the very least it will bring us quite close. And if we set aside the deeper mysteries and simply want to build a practical communications device, then it is more than sufficient," Camille said cheerfully. "This crown contains all the necessary rune arrays—structures for converting information into arcane oscillations, projecting those oscillations outward, receiving incoming information, and so on. But we still have problems to solve... This crown is extremely costly to produce, and its structure is extraordinarily complex. Human consciousness is a thing of immense informational density. To transmit human consciousness reliably, mid-tier psychic spells have been permanently inscribed into this crown... I do not think we need to go that far."
Gaoyang understood Camille's meaning—it was something he himself often emphasized: industrial products follow the principle of practicality and sufficiency, especially mass-produced goods issued to ordinary soldiers and workers. So long as they meet the requirements of use, they are qualified products. And did the mass-produced communications equipment being developed in the Cecil Territory really need to transmit human consciousness in its entirety?
At least for now, it did not. What Gaoyang required was merely the most basic communications platform. So long as it could transmit voice—or even if it could only transmit Morse code—that was acceptable.
Therefore, the vast number of complex structures in this crown could all be omitted.
"The projects for manufacturing mass-produced communications equipment and cracking the psychic network should proceed simultaneously. One aims for low-end practicality, the other serves as cutting-edge research," Gaoyang decided. "Also, regarding the relationship between the natural arcane environment and the arcane field generated by the obelisks—have you discovered anything recently?"
"That is precisely what I was preparing to report to you," Camille's tone immediately turned serious. "After discovering that oscillating arcane energy can propagate through an arcane field, I connected it to the process by which communication spells transmit information through the natural environment. I share your view—the natural world's 'primordial arcane environment' is likely also a kind of arcane field, one that appears disordered, chaotic, and randomly oscillating on the surface. Based on this conjecture, I conducted an experiment several days ago..."
Gaoyang nodded: "Go on."
"I set up a spell array at the highest point of the Dark Mountains—far from the ground, where interference from surface creatures and magical devices could be minimized to the greatest extent. I then placed a large number of shielding and filtering runes around the array to filter out the various noise from the natural environment as well. Over the following days of observation, I detected one very brief rhythmic tremor..."
"A rhythmic tremor?" Gaoyang's heart stirred, and he immediately pressed further.