Exploring Technology in a Wizard World-Chapter 631 - 629 "Improving the Destructive Gloves

"Click!"

The key was inserted into the lock, emitting a crisp sound.

"Clack, clack..."

The key turned, driving several rusty mechanisms to move together, producing a chilling noise.

"Creak—"

Finally, under the coordination of the rusty machinery, an ancient iron door slowly opened, revealing a hidden chamber inside.

"Tap, tap, tap..."

Richard stepped into the chamber. With a "bang," the iron door swiftly closed behind him, leaving not even a crack.

Far from being panicked, Richard was actually quite intrigued and squinted as he surveyed the entire chamber.

He saw that the chamber’s area was about three hundred square meters—roughly half a basketball court. The walls were engraved with stones of lighting spells, radiating light and illuminating every corner.

Dozens of tall metal racks stood in the center of the chamber, each with several chains hanging down. At the end of each chain was a metal box, squarely built and incredibly sturdy, difficult to forcefully break open. This reminded Richard of the Monroe Chapter he had once seen, which was protected by a similar metal box.

Approaching them, he could see each metal box had special magic runes on its surface. They required the input of free energy elements to activate the runes, open the boxes, and access the precious materials inside for reading—it was a quite advanced preservation method.

And here was the secret library of the Jungle Hut’s Dark Forest Gathering Place.

Unlike the public library managed by Wizard Teddy, which housed less sensitive materials accessible to most wizards and even wizard apprentices, the secret library was highly confidential, containing sensitive information about the entire Gathering Place and Jungle Hut, as well as very profound magic scrolls.

Not just any ordinary wizard, even core wizards had to apply for access. Previously, Richard had made a modest request to Eva—to enter this secret library to consult some materials.

After receiving Eva’s agreement, Richard had arrived here.

Gazing at the numerous metal racks and the iron boxes hanging on them, Richard felt somewhat nostalgic.

He remembered how, in the beginning, he had thought of many ways but couldn’t decipher the metal box protecting the Monroe Chapter. It wasn’t until he hunted a Fire Python and extracted magic-laden grease from its body that he succeeded.

Now, it wasn’t so troublesome. To open an iron box, simply injecting free energy elements sufficed, simple and efficient. This was progress he had made since leaving the Blue Lion Kingdom two years ago.

Thinking this, Richard walked up to a metal rack, glanced at the text on a metal box, and placed his hand on its surface, rapidly injecting free energy elements.

"With a click," the metal box opened, revealing a relatively well-preserved scroll inside—the handbook of Yatis, founder of the Jungle Hut, written during his lifetime.

His purpose for coming to the library was to read Yatis’s handbook to try to understand more about the "Destructive Gloves."

After all, his research on the "Destructive Gloves" had reached an impasse. After creating the "Death Finger," he had been unable to make further progress for a long time and needed more knowledge to break through.

Although he didn’t feel that the necessary knowledge would definitely be found here, trying wouldn’t hurt.

With this thought, Richard began browsing.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

Nearly at a speed of ten lines at a glance, Richard quickly browsed through the entire scroll, rubbing his forehead in the sun as he recalled, finding no knowledge related to the "Destructive Gloves." He decisively put the scroll back into the iron box.

Next, he opened another iron box beside him and took out another scroll for browsing—Yatis had left many handbooks, apart from those buried with him in the Holy Land, most were preserved in over a dozen Jungle Hut Gathering Places, and just the handbooks in the Dark Forest Gathering Place alone could occupy him for a long time for browsing.

Following, Richard spent his time in the secret library, continuously browsing, browsing, and browsing.

During the browsing process, Richard couldn’t help but think about cramming all the scrolls into Eden at once, reading them all through, and then placing them all back again, which would have been more efficient. However, he also knew that this was impossible.

Because in this secret library, each scroll bore hidden magic rune imprints; the metal boxes storing the materials also had magic runes of Prediction Magic.

Normally, this wouldn’t be an issue, but once the materials left the metal box beyond a certain distance, the metal box would issue a warning and notify the manager of the secret library, Eva.

That would be hard to explain.

It was a very effective anti-theft measure. Compared to the anti-theft measures of White Stone City’s Underground Market and Taboo Bookstore, it was much stronger.

In fact, it was said that some wizard organizations employed even more formidable anti-theft measures: under the influence of Prediction Magic, if any material was stolen or even spied upon, it would automatically self-destruct, completely preventing any leakage of information.

Faced with this, Richard did not want to waste a lot of time decommissioning the anti-theft mechanisms just to read materials that he was already permitted to view. It was too much trouble for what it was worth, so he could only proceed in the permitted manner.

...

Days later,

Richard finished browsing through all the required scrolls and left the secret library, heading straight back to his place and entering Eden.

Inside Eden,

Richard strode into the main laboratory.

As soon as he entered, with a "swoosh," he took down a long scroll from a shelf beside the wall, then placed it on the experimentation table with a "rustle" as it unfolded.

"Clap Clap!"

With both hands pressed on the surface of the experiment table, Richard leaned over, his eyes glued to the contents of the scroll, unblinking.

The contents on the scroll were the schematics for creating the "Destructive Gloves," including the main body of the "Destructive Gloves," magic chips, and connecting magic runes.

In the past few days of browsing, he had found a lot of knowledge about the "Destructive Gloves" from Yatis’s handwritten notes, giving him new ideas for crafting the "Destructive Gloves." Now, looking at the schematic, his mind raced with thoughts.

After a while, Richard straightened up, took a deep breath, and said quietly, "Indeed, the previous design was problematic. With conflicting magic runes, using just one finger was already pushing it; the other fingers were just for show, not to mention achieving the gloves’ full functionality. With that in mind, substantial modifications are needed. First, the main body of the gloves needs to be changed, a few magic chips need modifications, and the connecting magic runes need alterations..."

Having said this, he didn’t hesitate and immediately got into action.

...

In the following days, Richard stayed busy in Eden, handling a plethora of tasks such as configuring special alloys, crafting a whole new body for the gloves, modifying blueprints, altering light engraving templates, remaking magic chips, installing components, and engraving connecting magic runes...

Once all of these tasks were completed, Richard obtained the new version of the "Destructive Gloves."

Made of an alloy comprising various elements, the main body of the gloves glinted with a silvery glow and had specially treated joints for free movement. Hence, wearing them continually neither impacted daily life nor combat, although enduring the odd looks from others was another matter entirely.

Besides, the newly designed magic chips ensured more effective operation, significantly reducing conflicts between chips, and the power was also slightly improved. Ideally, it could achieve a hundred percent of the original "Destructive Gloves’" effect.

Of course, to find out exactly how much could be achieved, testing was necessary.

In the Mechanical Processing Sector, laboratory.

Richard slowly took off the completed "Destructive Gloves" from the control panel and stretched out his hand with a "click" to put them on.

He flexed his fingers, making a "clicking" sound, didn’t waste any time, and walked out the door toward the Magic Test Field.

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