Chapter 276 — Shortcomings and Inspiration

Kamarel, stung by Amber's remark, flickered several times before explaining helplessly, "You left this on the city wall when you took Rebecca away. Did you forget?"

"...I suppose that did happen."

Gao Yang cut off the exchange between Kamarel and Amber. "In any case—what is this thing?"

Tyr, who had been lazily coiled beneath the table the whole time but had kept her ears pricked up, listening to everything, suddenly poked out from under the table and pointed the tip of her tail at the pile of metal plates. "Rebecca says it's an amplifier. Beyond that I don't know."

With that, the siren shrank back again, like a hibernating snake solemnly coiling herself into a ball once more.

"By my judgment, this is actually a set of mana-field receivers, along with some modifications for load balancing," Kamarel said, spreading out the metal plates. "Miss Rebecca's idea seems quite simple: because a person's mana reserves are limited, she connected herself and the entire magic web through the mana-field receivers, intending to let the whole magic web serve as her mana reservoir, and to cast spells through the web... We all saw the final result. She successfully produced an unprecedented giant fireball, proving the feasibility of this idea.

"Only her idea still has a limit—namely, the 'person' herself. The human body constrained her performance, which is why she fainted after one big fireball. But... machines and steel do not fear such things. Or rather, even if machines and steel cannot withstand such pressure, they can be mass-produced and expended.

"So if we install these amplifiers on a specific kind of weapon, we can recreate the glory of the arcane pulser."

Gao Yang could not help widening his eyes. "You mean the magic web... no, the mana field can serve as the power source of an 'arcane pulser'?"

"No, I don't intend to replicate an 'arcane pulser,'" Kamarel said, shaking his head. "The Deep Blue Well cannot be replicated, and neither can the arcane pulser built on Deep Blue mana. I merely drew inspiration from this amplifier and today's super fireball... If we can manipulate sufficiently powerful energy, then redistribute that energy in a rational way, and cast aside the mental shackles of 'personal talent' in the process, then we need not be confined by specific spells or so-called 'skills' at all. Like today's fireball... was it really still a 'Fireball' spell?"

In all honesty, that thing had already transcended the concept of a fireball, and Gao Yang felt that if this trend continued, Rebecca might genuinely intend to rub a sun into existence...

"Pure mana gathered together is itself a very powerful force—that was the idea behind the 'arcane pulser' of old. By the same logic, extracting the energy of the magic web, gathering it, and using it for attack may also be feasible. And compared with the Deep Blue Mana Well, which once lost can never be replicated, the magic web is something entirely within humanity's grasp."