ebookslot Chapter 62 Decoy, Space Dust Capture Device
Chapter 62 Decoy, Space Dust Capture Device
Inside the bottle was a small pile of gravel and a tattered piece of animal hide.
The sand itself was nothing special, but in his mental perception, there were several extremely tiny, almost invisible transparent crystals mixed in with the sand.
It exudes that unique, faint spatial fluctuation!
"It really is spatial dust!"
A surge of joy welled up in Luo Lin's heart.
Although the quantity was extremely small, perhaps only a handful, it unequivocally proved his judgment and verified the caravan's intelligence.
He carefully put the cork back in, affixed a sealing talisman, and put it away safely.
This small achievement signifies that he has taken a substantial first step towards his goal of solidifying his innate magical abilities.
He glanced in the direction of the Sobbing Canyon.
The spatial fluctuations emanating there are far stronger and more chaotic than here, suggesting the possible presence of more spatial dust, or even other space-related materials or opportunities.
But the danger there must be far greater than that on the outskirts of this Gobi Desert.
"Let's get out of here first."
Rolin suppressed the urge to immediately explore the canyon.
The commotion just now may have attracted attention. We need to find a safe place to carefully examine this initial gain and plan our next move.
He chose a direction, and with Baha in tow, they quickly disappeared into the vast Gobi Desert.
Leaving the desolate Gobi Desert was much smoother than entering it.
Rowling chose a different, roundabout route, avoiding the area where he had encountered the sand-eating ant swarm on his way there.
Five days later, he returned to Black Rock Town, travel-worn and weary.
The town remained exactly as it had been when he left, with black stone buildings standing silently in the sunlight and a familiar scent lingering in the air.
He returned to his courtyard quietly without alerting anyone.
The courtyard gate was tightly closed, and the security array he set up before leaving was intact, indicating that no one had broken in during this time.
Luo Lin deactivated the magic array, pushed open the courtyard gate, and found the courtyard almost exactly the same as when he left, except for some dust blown in by the wind.
Upon entering the laboratory, everything was untouched. He put down the dimensional bag, and the first thing he did was take out the specially made glass bottle containing spatial dust and carefully place it in the safest spot on the lab table.
He didn't start his research immediately, but first thoroughly cleaned himself, changed into clean clothes, and dispelled the fatigue from days of travel.
Then, he lit the specially made calming incense from the laboratory to completely calm his mind.
Once he had adjusted his state, Luo Lin refocused his attention on the bottle of spatial dust.
Instead of immediately opening the bottle, he used his mental energy to perceive the glass bottle more thoroughly.
The few tiny, transparent crystals inside the bottle, like the finest dust, had almost no physical presence.
The spatial fluctuations they emit are extremely weak, yet they possess a unique sense of alienation, as if they exist in another miniature dimension, maintaining a detached relationship with the primary material world.
This characteristic is precisely the key to their ability to serve as the core of stable spell models and to contain fragments of spatial laws.
"The quantity is too small."
Rowling assessed the situation.
This amount of spatial dust is barely enough to solidify talent spells, let alone conduct a complete experimental test.
They are more like conclusive evidence, a starting point for research.
He needs more!
However, venturing deep into the Wailing Canyon is too risky, and the canyon is vast, making a blind search inefficient.
He needs a more efficient way to locate and collect space dust.
Rowling fell into deep thought.
Space dust is difficult to observe using conventional methods and can only be detected through energy sensing.
Those mutated silver-spotted sand ants are exceptionally sensitive to spatial energy; they seem to be able to directly smell the presence of spatial dust.
If we could simulate similar spatial fluctuations, or create "bait" that could attract spatial dust, we might be able to improve search efficiency.
This idea gave him a boost.
The direction of the research has been clarified:
Analyze the energy characteristics of space dust and attempt to reproduce or utilize these characteristics.
He opened the glass bottle stopper and, with extremely careful use of specially made bone tweezers, separated a grain of spatial dust from the sand.
This process requires extremely high concentration and stability; any fluctuation in magical or mental power could interfere with or even damage this tiny crystal.
After successfully separating one of the particles, he placed it on a chip inscribed with amplification and stabilization runes.
Only with the aid of runes could he barely make out the shape of this speck of spatial dust.
It is not a regular geometric shape, but more like a solidified, slightly twisted, transparent energy flocculent.
Next is the energy analysis.
He mobilized an extremely subtle amount of star power and slowly approached the speck of space dust.
Stellar energy possesses inclusiveness and a certain spatial affinity, making it the gentlest and most suitable detection energy he has found so far.
When the stellar energy touched the spatial dust, the distortion on the surface of the dust seemed to accelerate slightly, and the faint spatial fluctuations also increased instantly, as if they had been activated by the stellar energy.
At the same time, Rolin clearly sensed that this speck of space dust exhibited a peculiar tendency to attract stellar power, though very weak, it was indeed present.
"Star power can trigger a reaction..."
Rowling recorded this crucial information.
This may mean that stellar energy can serve as a medium to guide or even attract space dust.
He continued to try.
He separated a second speck of spatial dust, and this time he tried to contact it with his magic.
The results were quite different; the spatial dust had almost no effect on ordinary magic, and that sense of alienation remained.
"As expected, only high-level energies with specific attributes can interact effectively."
Rowling's guess was confirmed.
This explains why spatial dust is so difficult to collect; even if ordinary wizards encounter it, they can only sigh in vain without special means.
He resealed the remaining space dust.
This sample size is too valuable to be wasted on repeated validation.
With the initial analysis results in hand, Rowling began to design the bait.
The idea is to use stellar energy to simulate the unique fluctuations emitted by space dust, or to create a miniature, stable stellar energy field to see if it can attract free space dust to actively converge.
This requires an extremely high level of precision in controlling stellar energy.
He first tried to condense a highly concentrated ball of star power at his fingertips, and then adjusted its fluctuation frequency in an attempt to mimic the rhythm of space dust.
This process is extremely difficult.
The power of stars is vast in nature. Forcibly simulating a weak and peculiar fluctuation is like making a giant elephant imitate the flapping of a mosquito's wings.
He failed dozens of times, expending a great deal of mental energy, before he could barely make the cluster of star power at his fingertips emit a slight fluctuation that was somewhat similar to spatial dust, but still much coarser.
He placed the simulated stellar energy within a small, sealed magic array and observed its changes.
Several hours passed, and there was no sign of any spatial energy gathering within the magic array.
"Simulated fluctuations won't work."
Luo Lin decisively abandoned this idea.
Simulated fluctuations are ultimately imitations, lacking the primordial characteristics of spatial dust.
He then tried the second approach:
Construct a miniature stellar field!
On a palm-sized black iron plate, Luo Lin meticulously carved a miniature version of the [Glimmering Star Array], which was the array he currently mastered that was best at condensing stable star power.
The magic array was activated, and a soft and continuous starlight emanated from the center of the black iron plate, forming a stable miniature star power field.
Lorin placed the Star Power decoy in a corner of the laboratory and continued to observe it.
One day, two days... until the third day, when he performed his routine check, his mental power keenly detected that at the core of the stellar energy field, there was an extremely subtle and abnormal fold in the spatial structure!
He immediately focused his mind to sense it, and sure enough, in the center of the fold, a transparent crystal, even more imperceptible than the ones he had collected before, was slowly condensing and taking shape.
Although it is so small as to be negligible, the spatial fluctuations it emits are undeniable.
Astral field can indeed attract spatial dust to spontaneously gather!
A surge of joy at success welled up in Luo Lin's heart.
This discovery is of great significance!
This means that he no longer needs to risk fighting with sand-eating ant colonies or blindly searching in dangerous areas as before.
He could easily find a relatively safe area with relatively active spatial energy, lay down this stellar bait, and wait for it to come to him, slowly and steadily collecting spatial dust.
Although the efficiency may not be very high, it is safe, controllable, and can be carried out continuously.