Exploring Technology in a Wizard World-Chapter 577 - 575: The Blade of Light

Several days had passed, and during this time, Richard had scarcely left the house, keeping busy in Eden.

It drove Wan An to desperation.

Inside the wooden building on the second floor.

Wizard Wan An listened to the latest report from his student, Mars, and frowned deeply, asking somewhat annoyed, "So, you’re saying that in these past few days, except for once when he went out looking for a special gemstone, there’s been no other activity?"

"Yes," Mars answered honestly.

"Damn," Wan An muttered under his breath, pacing the room. As he paced, he mumbled to himself, "It shouldn’t be like this, why did he suddenly change? Could it be..."

Wan An thought of something, his eyes widened as he looked at Mars and asked earnestly, "Tell me, you haven’t been exposed, have you? Did they notice you?"

"This—" Mars hesitated, then shook his head vigorously, "No, teacher, I’ve been very careful every time, ensuring that he didn’t notice me."

"What in the world is going on then?" Wan An shouted, clearly in a foul mood.

Mars cowered in a corner, unsure of how to respond. He touched his growling stomach and quietly started chewing on a piece of fish he had taken out. Seeing Wan An looking at him, he quickly stopped chewing and said, "Teacher, I really don’t know."

Wan An glanced at Mars and commanded, "Fine, if you don’t know, then get out and keep an eye on that boy. Report back immediately if anything happens."

"Okay." Although Mars was reluctant, he nevertheless responded resignedly and left the room.

...

Days later, inside the main laboratory in Eden.

A bizarre device was set up, roughly resembling a split copper bell.

Richard adjusted the device, then took out the metal plates he had made. He had created exactly nine square plates, each ten centimeters across. He arranged them in three rows of three to form a complete mask.

Richard snapped the thirty-centimeter-square mask into place in the middle of the device, about one meter off the ground, and locked it in place with force. He then took out a square centimeter of film—only one percent the area of the mask.

Carefully, he placed this tiny film, coated with photoresist, at the very bottom of the device. With a snap, it too was locked into place. Richard began adjusting the lenses located at various parts of the device.

The purpose of the lenses was to adjust the propagation of the light, ensuring that the light source illuminated the entire mask. After passing through the mask, the light would condense in a specific ratio and then illuminate the tiny film to complete the light engraving.

This was a delicate task. Richard continuously adjusted and tested, and it took quite a while to complete.

Afterward, Richard took a deep breath, placed his hands on both sides of the device, and pushed together forcefully. A "click" sound was heard—the device, which originally looked like a copper bell split from the side, was now closed.

Richard pressed a button on the outside of the "copper bell." A humming sound began as it started to evacuate the air inside, ensuring the device was in a vacuum.

After these preparations, Richard checked everything one more time to ensure there were no issues. He then reached for a button at the very top of the device, which was the light source switch.

"Click!"

The light source was activated, and thus began the first chip light engraving in this medieval-like Wizard World!

Through the specific transparent sections of the device, one could see the interior appeared slightly illuminated, but this was merely an illusion.

That’s because the light emitted was not visible light.

Normally, human eyes can perceive light wavelengths between 400 and 760 nm, and some particularly sensitive individuals can extend this range to between 380 and 780 nm.

The light source now emitted deep ultraviolet light ranging from 200 nm to 350 nm, completely outside the visible spectrum, and invisible to the naked eye.

This deep ultraviolet light, which has a unique energy reaction, is widely used on Earth for sterilizing air in water purification plants, hospitals, and dust-free workshops in factories. Now that the device’s interior was a vacuum, the deep ultraviolet light could be used directly for light engraving without reacting with the air.

In fact, using extreme ultraviolet light between 10 nm to 14 nm would yield better results, a technique corresponding to the fifth-generation light engraving machines on Earth. However, considering the difficulty of implementation and that this was only an initial experimental attempt, Richard decided not to complicate things and planned to gradually upgrade the technology after achieving some results.

Under Richard’s watchful eyes, the light engraving machine operated smoothly, and the invisible beams of light passed through the mask and lenses, concentrating precisely on the square centimeter of film.

Without any interference or confusion, the invisible beams strictly adhered to the physical laws of straight-line propagation, projecting the pattern from the mask onto the film with impeccable precision, reacting with the surface-applied photoresist.

At this moment, invisible light became the most precise blade—the Blade of Light.

It moved silently back and forth in nanometric and even smaller units within the photoresist, gradually setting and forming the projected pattern.

The entire process was silent, devoid of any movement, light, or sound—unseeable and quiet. Yet the changes were indeed happening, and ultimately, the film became a qualified chip as planned.

There were no prayers to the gods, no blessings from the ancestors, no mysterious forces descending—only the real existence of technology, the power of technology.

...

After a long while...

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

A green indicator light on the light engraving device began to flash, signaling the completion of the engraving. Richard carefully opened the device, removed the chip, and then placed it into another piece of assembled equipment to start the development process with the developer, fully revealing the patterns on the photoresist. He proceeded with a series of further treatments.

Eventually, Richard obtained a standard magic chip.

He held the nail-sized, thin magic chip at his fingertips, examining it closely. A moment later, a stream of extremely subtle free energy elements surged from the Magic Origin and infused into the magic chip.

"Buzz!"

Richard clearly felt a significant fluctuation and resonance of mana from the chip, indicating its functional effect. However, since the amount of free energy elements infused was too small, the effect had not had the chance to manifest before it disappeared into nothingness.

Richard’s eyes brightened. The response of the magic chip sufficiently demonstrated that his previous plans, hypotheses, and experiments were correct—the "Destructive Gloves" could indeed be made using Earth’s chip technology.

Next, the process continued.

The one chip at his fingertips involved magic runes corresponding to about one-tenth of the total number required for the "Destructive Gloves." To actually create the "Destructive Gloves," nine more were needed.

Nine more!

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