Exploring Technology in a Wizard World-Chapter 579 - 577: Death Finger

Pandora quickly spoke up when she noticed something was off with Richard’s expression, "It’s not just ugly, I’ve made a second discovery."

"You’ve made a second discovery? Let’s hear it," Richard said, though he had already completely lost hope.

Pandora spoke seriously, "This second discovery is... how should I put it? Well, it’s that your glove gives me the impression that the five fingers are not working together; they’re fighting each other, so it’s not effective at all."

Tilting her head, Pandora thought for a moment and then continued, "To be precise, your glove is not unified. Yes, not unified. It’s like the binary equations you taught me, which should be solved using the method of addition and subtraction; only by unifying the variables can you find the answer. Now, the five fingers of your glove are like five different variables. That... do you understand what I mean?"

Honestly, Pandora’s words were somewhat confusing. She wanted to make her point clear, but due to limited ability, her words fell short. Moreover, the example she used wasn’t quite appropriate. If it had been anyone else, they would have been utterly baffled.

Fortunately, Richard, who had spent a lot of time with Pandora, was able to grasp her true thoughts from within her words.

Fighting? Not unified? Elimination?

It made him involuntarily think of some descriptions in the design of the "Destructive Gloves." According to the description, besides having a powerful offensive force, the "Destructive Gloves" also possessed the "Power of Destiny," which was the effect of Prediction Magic.

Could it be that there was an issue with the effect of the Prophecy Magic?

And it was precisely because of this reason, combined with Pandora’s own talent for Prediction Magic, that she was able to sense the problem more acutely.

Everything made sense now!

Richard’s eyes flickered, and he stood up, appreciatively ruffling Pandora’s hair, quickly continuing his thoughts along this line.

If it was indeed the effect of Prediction Magic causing the "Destructive Gloves" to be ineffective, what could the fundamental reason be?

Could it be due to his modifications?

Because he used the light engraving method, he designed the overlapping Magic Runes on the blueprint to be flat, thus changing the multiple layers of Magic Runes into a single layer.

If it were a normal spell effect, naturally, there would be no problem, but using it for Prophecy Magic effects, it might have an impact.

He didn’t know much about Prophecy Magic, but he was aware that this kind of magic had a very mysterious causal relationship. If some details were not paid attention to, it could easily result in contradictions.

Take a simple example:

Cast a Prediction Magic spell, trying to predict the effect of your next spell.

Then cast a second Prediction Magic spell, predicting the effect of the first spell.

This would create a logical paradox and result in a causality conflict, ultimately leading to the failure of the magic and even a backlash.

Although the Prophecy Magic within the "Destructive Gloves" might not necessarily be similar to the example, according to Pandora’s description of "fighting each other," a contradiction clearly existed.

This contradiction, in the original design of the "Destructive Gloves" with its layered Magic Rune design, could be mitigated to a certain extent. But with the Magic Runes designed flatly, the effect of resolving the contradictions couldn’t be achieved, leading to the emergence of contradictions, resulting in the "Destructive Gloves" becoming unusable.

In that case, there were a few ways to solve this.

One way would be to abandon the current design and try to fully clone the original "Destructive Gloves." However, this would require substantial work, and besides, this method would only allow for cloning, imitating, without learning the real knowledge of the "Destructive Gloves."

Another way would be to stick to the current design but not attempt to make a complete version of the "Destructive Gloves"; instead, choose to make a part of it, such as... a finger.

According to the design on the blueprint, each finger of the "Destructive Gloves" has its own attacking capability, and the combined effect when all five fingers come together.

Since the complete "Destructive Gloves" could not achieve their effect, it might be better to start from scratch and make just one finger before slowly perfecting it.

With such an approach, the "Destructive Gloves" and "Divine’s Right Hand" might need a new name. What would you call a glove with only one finger, a right hand with just one?

Death Finger?

At this thought, Richard’s eyebrows twitched. He was a man of action, once he made up his mind, he didn’t hesitate and got to work right away. He stopped running his fingers through his hair, took a step, and walked out, then he heard a displeased voice behind him.

"Hah!"

Hmm?

...

With a clear mind, Richard quickly made progress. Soon enough, he created a new mold in the Mechanical Processing Sector’s research lab, which was the so-called Death Finger.

The Death Finger looked quite similar to the previous Destructive Gloves, except that it lacked four fingers and featured only a lone index finger jutting out from the palm. The magic runes on the surface of the palm and back of the hand had changed too, now mainly concentrated in the two grooves on the index finger.

With a "click-click," two new magic chips were installed. Richard tried to input an extremely small amount of free energy elements into the Death Finger. When he felt both chips responding, he was greatly reassured, an occurrence that had never happened with the Destructive Gloves before.

Without hesitation, Richard quickly left the research lab.

...

At the bottom of the Heavenly Pit, Magic Test Field.

Richard appeared here again, fitting the Death Finger onto his right hand, slowly raised it, and aimed at the giant metal humanoid target in front of him.

Free energy elements surged from within his magic origin, flowing into his arm, reaching his right hand, and from his fingertips into the metallic shell of the Death Finger. The energy first coursed through the runes on the surface and eventually thundered into the two magic chips.

The magic chips began to vibrate, and Richard could clearly feel a terrifying swell of energy fluctuations emanating from within the chips. And the fluctuation was increasing rapidly, quickly reaching its limit.

At that moment, as if the chips couldn’t bear the strain, Richard felt a tremble in his right hand and a burst of energy exploded at the same time the two magic chips fizzled out with a "crackle," suffering even more damage than the Destructive Gloves had upon failure. They melted into liquid and only solidified after cooling down for a moment.

Is the material of the magic chips not up to par?

That might well be the case.

Richard wondered.

The material he had used for the magic chips was silicon, that is, sand. This semiconductor material was suitable for the production of transistor chips on Earth, but to use it to bear the burden of free energy elements in magic chips might be a bit of a stretch. Even if it were successful, it might get damaged due to overload or another reason and not withstand multiple uses.

However, this wasn’t a problem as he had a mask for continuous production of identical magic chips. If need be, the chips could be replaced with new ones after every use. Or he could take the opportunity to upgrade his technology and look for new material solutions.

The most important thing for now was to see the effect of the Death Finger.

According to the design of the Destructive Gloves, there were two main effects: a powerful force of attack and the power of destiny.

Considering that the power of destiny could not be exhibited through the cold, lifeless object, this time he controlled the free energy elements to unleash only the powerful force of attack.

So just how strong was this "powerful force of attack"?

Thinking this, Richard looked up and gazed at the metal humanoid target a few dozen meters away.

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