Published: February 10, 2025
The principle of the magic crystal cannon is not complicated. The reason it has become a unique skill is entirely due to the complex steps involved in extracting energy from the magic crystal, which must be executed with extreme precision.
Le Da Yuan's ability to become the father of magic crystal weapons is greatly related to his previous work with precision instruments. For him, while ensuring power, creating a smaller magic crystal cannon is increasingly challenging.
For example, the magic crystal cannon used in the Flame Tiger Project, which resembles a mortar, is more difficult to manufacture than the previous Sky Breaking series. By this logic, a larger magic crystal cannon should be easier to produce.
However, this is not the case.
This is because it involves the efficiency and safety of the circuit when extracting energy from the magic crystal. In simpler terms, the larger the cannon, the more complex the energy extraction circuit becomes. This leads to a higher energy consumption within the circuit, making it more difficult to activate the magic crystal cannon's firing mechanism. Due to the complexity of the circuit, there are significant safety risks, and they are far less than those associated with smaller magic crystal cannons, which are nearly devoid of the risk of explosion.
The simplest and most direct solution to this problem is to use high-grade magic crystals as the energy source.
However, extracting energy from magic crystals requires different methods for each grade, with higher grades being more challenging. Of course, high-grade magic crystals contain a lot of energy and require correspondingly larger cannon bodies to harness this power.
In the previous life, such large magic crystal cannons appeared about five or six years into the apocalypse. At that time, they were likely still prototypes, and they probably weren't fully utilized until about six or seven years after the apocalypse began. Although Ye Zhongming only knew about this from being a third-rate evolver in his previous life, the timeline shouldn't be too far off.
But now, less than two years into the apocalypse, Le Da Yuan is able to manufacture such a giant magic crystal cannon?
Especially when Ye Zhongming saw that the energy source was a sixth-grade magic crystal, he completely believed that in this life, Le Da Yuan had elevated his magic crystal technology to a level that Ye Zhongming couldn't even imagine.
Perhaps this is related to the ongoing instability in Cloud Summit.
The forces in that area are often at war, forcing Le Da Yuan to research magic crystal weapons day and night. Additionally, his evolution level must be higher than in his previous life at the same period, giving him more energy and time to study and experiment. Combined with Ye Zhongming's earlier teachings on his foundational theories, this led to Le Da Yuan's current achievements after quickly solidifying his fundamentals and confirming his concepts.
"This is too rushed; we can't even guarantee the most basic shooting accuracy. To properly tune this, it will take at least a month," Le Da Yuan said quickly, as he climbed up and down the metal ladder for final adjustments.
"There's even a 10% risk of explosion; this is truly too hasty."
Hearing Le Da Yuan repeatedly say this, Ye Zhongming realized that this giant cannon was likely just an idea and at most a rough concept drawn up before Cloud Summit fell into siege. This battle had prompted Le Da Yuan to firmly decide to put this immature design into practice, essentially gambling on luck.
"The least mature aspect is still the energy conversion rate of the magic crystal."
After the adjustments were nearly complete, Le Da Yuan stated. Ye Zhongming glanced at the two rows of magic crystals and asked, "How many times can these be used?"
"Twice."
Even with Ye Zhongming's wealth, he took a deep breath.
There are twenty-four sixth-grade magic crystals here, yet they can only fire twice?
It's important to note that with his highest-level exclusion technique, Ye Zhongming's success rate when spinning the sixth-grade wheel is one in three. If he were to add six more magic crystals to make it thirty, he might even be able to produce a bottle of six-star evolution potion!