Chapter 202 - New Ore (2/2)

Gawain was a little worried and quickly opened up the laboratory’s oaken door that was carved with defense runes. As soon as the door was opened, a burst of smoke assaulted his face. Before he could see the situation inside, he heard Heidi screaming, “Rebecca! Stand there and don’t move!!”

Accompanied by the scream, a rather delicate figure rushed out from the smoke. When Amber saw the figure, she got a shock and instinctively dodged to the side and stretched her leg out to trip. As a result, the figure fell over on all fours while letting out a short shout, “Wa!!”

Gawain conveniently reached out and caught hold of Rebecca who had nearly flattened her face and breasts. At the same time, he looked at Amber with surprise while thinking: it was still understandable for Amber to dodge to the side due to her conditioned reflexes when seeing someone rushing at her, but how could she subconsciously stretch her leg to trip the opposition? It was truly perplexing to understand how someone could be nurtured in this manner…

Rebecca had only realized what happened when Gawain grabbed her. She strenuously lifted her head, revealing her face which had been smoked into a black patch. “Wa! It is Lord Ancestor!”

Heidi had also rushed out of the smoke at this moment. “Rebecca, you— Ah, Ancestor!”

“Are the two of you okay?” Gawain looked at Heidi who also had a gray face and noticed that Heidi’s magic staff was glowing with arcane radiance. “Mm… it seems like you are fine.”

“An experimental accident?” Gawain put Rebecca down before walking into the laboratory where the smoke was dispersing. He immediately saw a large ice residual on the experiment table. The ice residual must have been the result of Heidi using a freezing spell to prevent the damage from spreading further. “Did Rebecca throw a Large Fireball on the experiment table?”

At the same time, he felt a little strange in his heart: this foolish girl might have the hobby of throwing Large Fireballs, but she shouldn’t be so reckless…

Heidi shook her head in response and said, “She didn’t throw a Large Fireball, but when she poured magic into the test sample, she actually blew up the sample! I don’t understand how she can do it?!”

“Test sample?” Gawain immediately raised his brows and said, “It is the new ore discovered in the Dark Range?”

Heidi was a little surprised. “Ancestor, you know about this too?”

“I am here because of it. Some mishap happened at the manufacturing facility. Nicholas Egg touched this new ore and couldn’t float anymore as he caught a cold, but no need to worry, it is just temporary.” Gawain gave a brief explanation for his visit and the situation at the manufacturing facility. “Afterwards, I came over here to see if there was any progress in the research.”

“Egg Egg fell sick after touching the ores? And he can’t float?” Rebecca asked with a worried expression, “Could these new ores have poison?”

“That probably isn’t the case. I used a skill similar to Danger Detection and didn’t discover any harmful substances in the ore. It should only be able to affect Nicholas Egg who is a special lifeform, and it should be harmless to humans.” Gawain shook his head and looked at Heidi. “Have you found any harmful effects originating from it?”

“No, the ores are harmless by themselves. Furthermore, they had quite good magic-conducting properties. If we can purify it, it might become a brand new type of superior magic material.” Heidi summoned a water ball to clean up her face and hair before frowning and looking at Rebecca. Without a choice, she summoned a water ball for her too and helped to wash her niece’s face while replying to Gawain’s question, “However, its magic-conducting properties are very strange… When pouring magic rapidly into it, the magic would also rapidly scatter into the air. But when pouring magic slowly into it, the ‘leaking’ phenomenon wouldn’t appear. Also, I discovered that when magic was poured into two pieces of ores at the same time, the scattered magic would actually form a kind of magic field… The property of the magic field is still undetermined, but it is very unstable.”

When pouring magic rapidly into it, the magic would also rapidly scatter into the air? When magic was poured into two pieces of ores at the same time, the scattered magic would actually form a kind of magic field?

Gawain blinked his eyes as he was rather focused on the strange traits of the brand new ore. He instinctively felt that the ore might have some special usage, and not just to be used as a magic-conducting material in the magic circle.

However, he was even more concerned about how Rebecca was able to make this material explode. “What happened when you poured your magic in and it exploded?”

Rebecca immediately shrunk her neck and said, “I don’t know. When Aunt was testing another set of samples by the side, I merely followed her instructions to pour my magic into the sample. Before I even started, it had already exploded…”

Gawain frowned. “You didn’t even start?”

Rebecca’s neck shrunk further and replied, “Yes… I didn’t even start…”

“It is unlikely that she would lie to me,” Gawain muttered. He then looked at Heidi seriously and said, “The accident should be related to a special trait of the new ore.”

“Special trait?” Amber was a dabbler in this sphere but pretended as though she could understand and asked, “What could it be?”

Gawain looked into Rebecca’s eyes and asked, “Think about it carefully. Before the explosion, were there any changes to the ore, or was something placed beside the ore?”

Rebecca immediately lowered her head and tried to recall. “Let me think… Back then, the ore seems to glow a little. Beside it… there, there seems to be a detonating rune base plate…”

Gawain, Amber, Heidi: “…”

Moments later, the trio spoke in unison, “Why would you place a detonating rune base plate at the side?!”