Volume 1 Chapter 76 (1/2)
Magic Crystal Lamp
It was a bit cold at the end of October. The people of Banta City began to wrap themselves up with long clothes, tightly wrapping them around themselves.
Compared to on the street, the temperature inside the rooms was naturally a bit higher, but even like this, one couldn’t keep wearing short skirts. Still, Evita, and Akali had already changed into loose long dresses suited for the home, completely covering up their figures.
Xu Yi looked over the three of them and a trace of disappointment appeared in his heart.
But this strange mood was quickly suppressed by him. He focused back onto the glass sphere placed on the table.
It wasn’t that all craftsmen had low skills on the Sines Continent, for example, they had many outstanding glassmakers. The sphere in front of them made of glass was completely transparent, not containing a trace of impurity. Even with how thick it was, the surface was very smooth. Even based on the standards of earth, this was an outstanding work of glass.
“This is the Magic Crystal Lamp?” Xu Yi looked at the ball and asked Still, “This thing costs two hundred gold coins?”
Still nodded, “Un, I had to ask my grandfather to get this. This is not something one could buy with just money.”
Xu Yi was instantly speechless.
This thing to put it bluntly was just used as a light bulb, but it was actually sold for over two hundred gold coins and it couldn’t be bought if one wanted to. He really couldn’t understand this.
When Xu Yi lit that candle in his house that night, there was an idea that appeared in his mind. He suddenly thought that since it was very troublesome to light a candle, why didn’t he just research how to make a light bulb?
Actually, he had already thought about this when he transmigrated, but he had gradually forgotten about it.
Thinking about it now, Xu Yi couldn’t suppress the excitement in his heart and decided to research it.
But when he raised this idea to Still and the others, he had received a blow to the head.
On the Sines Continent, there was already a magic lamp!
When Xu Yi asked the three of them that since there was already a magic lamp, why didn’t it become popular and why had he never seen one before, the answer he received had surprised him.
The magic lamp was too expensive!
It’s said the Magic Array in the magic lamp was very complex and normal magicians couldn’t draw them at all.
As for this Magic Array, other than being able to release a bit of light, it had no power at all. So since it was invented, there hadn’t been another magician who researched it anymore.
So the magic lamp became a thing of low value. Other than some fellows who bought it to show off how much money they had, normal people wouldn’t even think about buying a magic lamp.
After a long time, the magic lamp gradually became a very rare thing and naturally it became more and more expensive and more and more refined. It was completely different from the widely spread and cheap light bulb Xu Yi thought of from earth.
After receiving this news, although Xu Yi didn’t understand why magicians of the Sines Continent didn’t place importance on application of magic, that did not mean he looked down on the magic lamp. Instead he had Still think of a way to buy one so he could research it.
When he researched the small Magic Plowing Machine, Xu Yi had reached an epiphany. Even if the Sines Continent’s industrial level was far below that of earth, because of the uniqueness of magic, there were some parts where they had the advantage compared to earth.
If he could obtain some inspiration from the Magic Crystal Lamp and help him greatly decrease his production cost, he wouldn’t deny the thought of making changes to the light bulb design from earth.
“Have you studied this before?” Xu Yi pointed at the Magic Crystal Lamp and asked.
The three looked at each other before Still pointed at the Magic Crystal Lamp with a difficult expression and said, “This Magic Crystal Lamp is a whole, it can’t be opened at all. If you want to study the Magic Array inside, you have to break the crystal cover on the outside…..”
“Then how about we shatter it?” Xu Yi looked at her with a strange gaze.
“Ah? Shatter it? This cost two hundred gold coins!” Akali opened her mouth in an exaggerated manner. She pointed at Magic Crystal Lamp with a look of disbelief on her face.
“I bought it to let you study it, what use is there in just leaving it there?” Xu Yi looked around before casually picking up a stone from the table, smashing it in the Magic Crystal Lamp’s direction.
Seeing that Xu Yi really wanted to smash it, Akali and Evita showed unwilling looks on their faces.
The Magic Crystal Lamp was made very fine and the outside was very beautiful, so they loved it as soon as they saw it. Now that Xu Xi actually wanted to shatter this beautiful thing in front of them, they couldn’t look right at it.
“Wait!” Still suddenly reached out to grab Xu Yi’s falling hand.
“What is it? Still, it can’t be that you can’t let this two hundred gold coins go, right? You’ve been me for this long, you should know that the results from this research will far surpass the value of a trivial two hundred gold coins.” Xu Yi looked at Still with knit brows as he spoke.
“I understand this logic.” Still put down the stone in Xu Yi’s hand, “It’s necessary to break it, but can you not just casually break it like this? What if you also break the Magic Array inside? If you break the Magic Array, how will we study it? Will we need to buy another one?”
Xu Yi was stunned, “I forgot about this.”
Akali and Evita saw Still stop Xu Yi and they were happy because they could keep this pretty little thing, but when they heard the rest of Still’s words, they instantly looked at each other in blank dismay.
They were helpless since this Magic Crystal Lamp was bought with Xu Yi’s money, so they had no right to say how it was handled. They could only watch as Xu Yi and Still looked over the Magic Crystal Lamp before finally picking an angle to softly break it from.
“Hua la——”
The outer glass cover of the Magic Crystal Lamp shattered to pieces and finally revealed the inside.
The instant the glass was shattered, Xu Yi took a strong sniff. Other than some dust that flew into his nose, there wasn’t any strange smells at all.
After giving a sneeze, Xu Yi confirmed that the outer glass cover of the Magic Crystal Lamp only covered and scattered the light. It wasn’t like the glass cover of the light bulbs from earth because they didn’t keep the inert gases in.
Of course, this world probably does not have any sealed glass that could keep inert gases inside.
Still carefully removed the shattered glass of the Magic Crystal Lamp’s outer cover. The four of them looked at the foundation of the Magic Crystal Lamp at the same time.
As expected, there was an incomparably complicated Magic Array on this foundation. Just based on the lines of the Magic Array, one could tell it was much more complicated than the low level Magic Arrays Xu Yi used in his magic machines.
Akali looked for a while before hesitantly saying, “Sir chairman, this Magic Array is this complicated, I’m afraid we don’t have the ability to study it?”
Still nodded, “Un, there’s a bit of a problem with me looking at it. How about you take it to grandfather, he should be able to understand this.
Xu Yi also looked at the Magic Array for a while and found that Akali and Still were right. This Magic Array was too complicated, it had already exceeded his level of magic knowledge.