my slow journey to infinity

Chapter 108 A special commemoration
  In the northern hemisphere autumn of 1991, the entire human world was running at high speed.

The waves of industrialization, modernization and globalization in the Muggle world have reached an extremely prosperous state.

Wang Shui has mastered the Imperius Curse and Legilimency. To be precise, he has mastered most of the wizard magic in this world, and has gradually sorted out some systems.

The best proof of his hard work is the new ability on the system panel——

[Basics of Magic·Magic Wizard (Advanced)]

This ability represents knowledge's recognition and strengthening of Aqua Regia's magical ability.

The system abstracts and digitizes abilities, and then expresses them into numerical values. The description is somewhat similar to "spell power +100" in video games.

But Wang Shui can clearly sense that this enhancement comes from his soul, his spirit, and the system is simply reading and displaying it.

Now, even if Wang Shui's extraordinary level is only second level (level 29), a large amount of knowledge and abilities have brought him quite terrifying attribute bonuses.

However, these superimposed attributes have an upper limit on the bonus to physical fitness.

On the other hand, the three inherent attributes of [Perception], [Thinking] and [Psychic], their basic numbers are still stuck at the extreme value of "5", but after taking into account various bonus effects, they have actually reached a three-digit level.

If a certain attribute exceeds [-], it is one of the thresholds for third-level extraordinary beings.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no fixed extraordinary system (career), Wang Shui would now be ready to reach the big threshold of promotion to the third level.

However, even with the blessing of terrifying inherent attributes, the effects of many local magics still make Wang Shui quite dissatisfied.

Especially the Imperius Curse that he valued most. The effect of this spell was not even as good as the previous one performed casually by Ms. Sheena Morton of [Silver Bullet Detective Agency].

It is relatively easy for ordinary people to control the Imperius Curse, but for wizards, it is not so convenient.

Especially when dealing with dark wizards with complicated thinking, the other party will not give in even until death.

No matter what method Aqua Regia uses to amplify the soul-stealing curse, the duration of this magic will never exceed a week, and the impact will not reach the level of [Thinking Lock].

Moreover, the effect of repeated casting of the soul-stealing curse on the same target will be greatly reduced.

This is a matter of digging deep into the spell, and the local wizards don't know enough about it. Aqua Regia needs a more powerful soul-stealing curse!
  Aqua Regia left Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the experimental base.

Based on some reliable information, he began to quietly "visit" many pure-blood wizard families and check their knowledge inventories.

To be honest, some of the so-called pure-blooded twenty-eight families have a rich heritage that is not even as good as Professor Severus Snape’s library inventory at his home in [Spider End Alley].

Even the Malfoy family, which has a high presence in the original work, is not as rich and powerful as Wang Shui imagined.

After all, the wizarding world is a bit small, especially the wizards on Europa. They are used to calling all extraordinary people in the world wizards, but according to their rough calculations, there are only about one million extraordinary people in the world.

The actual number of extraordinary people should be higher than this number. Many people have very low talents, so low that they cannot show extraordinary characteristics. For these "squibs", the wizarding world has chosen to give up.

Of course, there must be many people who are not included in the statistics.

The entire wizarding world is loose and backward. No, it is not just backward. Many system settings are simply too simple, and there are even many gaps. It is normal for statistics to be inaccurate.

The only thing that pleased Wang Shui was that the wizarding world had relatively coherent historical records, which gave him a reference for sorting out the development of magic.

The wizards on Europa have written the history of the past two thousand years in relatively clear writing, but the locals don't seem to like reading history or promoting changes in magic.

However, Wang Shui was able to find a large number of useful books and some particularly ancient documents, such as the old curse told in "ancient runes".

Wizard society will also progress. There have been no obvious gaps or rebirths in the history of wizards, so ancient magic is indeed no stronger than it is now.

They're just wilder, rougher, and less controllable.

In order to study ways to enhance the soul-stealing technique, Wang Shui broadened his horizons to the entire Europa.

A large amount of magical information was discovered, transcribed and collected by him. At the same time, due to the impact of many wars in the Muggle world, Europa's underground system also gathered a large amount of extraordinary information from all over the world.

Especially books and documents from "Africa" ​​and the "Far East".

After collecting almost all the information, Wang Shui once again began his lonely closed study journey.

There was the great Dumbledore and many famous scholars in the wizarding world of England, but they could not help Aqua Regia much.

Aqua regia is to push the magic of this world to a farther and more systematic direction.

And this time the research took longer than Wang Shui imagined.

Wang Shui not only sorted out an orderly spell system, but also modeled and digitized this system.

But the current problem is that aqua regia's research is very theoretical, and many of the inferred areas need to be filled in with experimental data.

The entry point that Wang Shui chose was the soul-stealing technique.

After removing the shell of a relatively idealistic and vague description, and then going through detailed modeling, the new spell can finally be amplified by the inner power of Aqua Regia itself.

Even without suggestion and hypnosis, and directly using spells to control him, Aqua Regia can easily capture traditional wizards.

Coupled with special magic such as [Legilimency], [Occlumency], and [Amnesia Curse], Aqua Regia can now easily edit real false memories.

However, manipulating memory is reversible, the magic can be lifted, and the process is not safe, so Wang Shui prefers to use commands to control mice.

Finally, there is no shortage of superhuman guinea pigs for the mobile armor experiment.

Wang Shui set his sights on dark wizards who liked to travel alone. The experiment also had many requirements for the age, gender, and physical condition of the mice, but he still found hundreds of suitable guys.

Starting from the beginning of 1992, the research on mobile armor began to advance by leaps and bounds, which excited everyone in the base laboratory, and everyone began to speed up the research progress unconsciously.

Aqua Regia also reduced his research on [Gloria Mithril], which meant that he reduced his rest time.

It is really difficult to do research work at the base without him. Many equipment and parts require him, a master alchemist, to work together with the [Extraordinary Substance Printer].

The only pity is that this kind of printer cannot make [matter needles]. If they can make a few more printers, their research may be faster.

As smooth as the research is the business empire led by the sisters.

Wang Shui paid much less attention to this aspect and just let the sisters do it freely to master more resources.

In the Muggle world, a behemoth named [Hill Group] began to quietly affect the world.

Even without magical intervention, "Chocolate" sister controlled a lot of military production capacity just by relying on favorable timing.

When Shui Wang saw the cannonballs produced by Muggle factories being packed and transported at the base, he was also shocked.

Muggles are developing extremely fast, but if they really want to come into contact with the wizards who seem to have stayed in the Middle Ages, it probably won't work.

The supernatural power is too magical and weird.

Even if there are not many elites among wizards, as long as a few wizards take action, they can destroy the Muggle command system in a short time. The "International Confederation of Wizards' Statute of Secrecy" seems to impose great restrictions on wizards, but in fact it imposes even stronger restrictions on the Muggle world.

At least Muggles have almost no chance to come into contact with supernatural powers.

It is the wizards, to be precise, the wizards who have established governing bodies such as the Ministry of Magic, who have a monopoly on magic.

In this fantasy world, no wizard has yet tried to merge magic with modern scientific knowledge.

Wang Shui is not included. The mobile armor system and some alchemical gadgets he is researching are beyond the scope of the known extraordinary power in this world. He has brought a new system.

And Wang Shui's teammates, those awakened ones who developed underground forces, brought another fast system - [Forced Reproductive Armor].

[Strong Breeding Cells] based on special conductor metal can construct biological armor according to the blueprint in the biological brain computer.

These colonial armors and mobile armors with certain extraordinary abilities are completely different from each other, but against the average local wizards, their effect seems to be pretty good.

What surprised Wang Shui even more was that the way his teammates controlled the agents was quite simple.

They seemed to have just blocked the energy supply of this [strong reproductive cell], but judging from how obedient their subordinates were, Aqua Regia probably had other means.

Aqua Regia is also somewhat interested in this kind of cells, but the research at hand is a big project and he is very tight on time.

……

……

In mid-April 1992, Wang Shui put on a set of third-level mobile armor for the first time in a long time. Its model was——

【NR15-A1·Magic source】

This set of mobile armor cannot be folded into cards. It is a mature packaging technology and requires the purchase of special blank cards for the finished product. Wang Shui has not prepared it in advance.

On the other side of the battle laboratory, Sylvia also put on the [NR15-A1 Anti-Demon Thorn] mobile armor.

She was stretching her body with a smile on her face, while the sisters on the sidelines were setting up the latest medical cabin.

To be honest, Wang Shui is a bit timid.

In fact, he is now used to fighting, and is used to injuries and pain, but there is a difference between fighting and seeking abuse. He is not interested in simply being beaten.

Sufficient funds and human resources allowed them to pile up more than a dozen different models of mobile armor in advance.

Of course, these mechas are still verification machines and cannot be mass-produced.

After a large amount of testing and fusion, the main laboratory finally selected the two models [Demon Source] and [Anti-Demon Thorn].

[Magic Source] is a balanced body, suitable for extraordinary people with various attributes and various means. The attributes are very balanced, and the durability and explosiveness are very strong.

The [Anti-Demon Thorn] is a special model that integrates a proprietary [Anti-Demon] module.

It is extremely resistant to all kinds of extraordinary powers, and even has good resistance to the energy of supernatural gods.

The module can give melee weapons a powerful [demon-breaking] effect, but it also requires the driver not to use any means of external energy release.

In addition, this mecha itself cannot use ordinary amplification methods at all, especially spell-type amplifications.

Even the energy that drives it is specially modulated. This is the masterpiece of the master alchemist Aqua Regia.

There have long been various means of breaking demons on the market, but Aqua Regia has achieved this effect to the extreme.

There may not be much market for this model now, but the "anti-demon" gimmick is still quite big, which will make it easier to advertise in the future.

And it is worth mentioning that the power sources in these two mechas are both [NR155-Luo·Xingliu] engines. Sister "Luo"'s efforts have finally come to fruition.

She used a special and personalized design of the seventh-level mobile armor, integrating the engine, splitter and computing core to create a truly seventh-generation engine.

Yes, these two seemingly ordinary fifth-generation third-level mobile armors contain genuine seventh-generation hearts.

And based on Wang Shui's personal testing, he believes that the new ideas of "Network" are no worse than those seventh-level engines in the design drawing stage.

After all the sensors were calibrated, non-testers evacuated to the observation room.

Sylvia took a few steps forward and then stood still. She stood with a sword at a position of about eighty meters, waiting for Wang Shui's attack.

Wang Shui did not directly pull out the long sword at his waist, but raised his left hand, and the whole person disappeared in an instant.

In the observation room, all kinds of data were soaring. The young wolf "Yue" immediately noticed the information of the [Three-item Table], and then blurted out:
  "It's not a deviation. The [Shadow Realm] data fluctuates abnormally. Brother Shui used magic to enter another dimension. The locator shows that he is approaching my sister."

"Moon" was just explaining to the smart sisters, Sylvia couldn't hear it.

Three seconds later, Aqua Regia still did not appear, and Sylvia in the [Anti-Demon Sting] mecha closed her eyes.

Then, she opened the [Super Mobility] module with great experience.

Just as the special energy fluorescence covered the mecha with a long lavender scarf, a ball of dark blue energy enveloped Sylvia.

The radiant light of that energy even darkened the entire experimental field.

【High Temperature Plasma Explosion】.

Silent improved fifth-level magic, this is a power that is unimaginable in the current wizarding world.

The second-level aqua regia, relying on the third-level mobile armor, released spells far beyond his ability in just about three seconds. This is the power of the [Magic Source] mecha.

Even if the mecha is responsible for most of the model calculations and energy consumption, Aqua Regia's attributeless energy and star energy are instantly cleared.

But he can recover energy quickly while squatting in the [Shadow Realm].

After a lavender shadow flashed, the explosion in the air around him was captured by the sensor.

Sylvia appeared ten meters away from the dissipated energy ball and was unscathed.

She relied on intuition and the [Super Mobility] module to effectively avoid it.

She even maintained physical invisibility for about half a second simply by relying on her physical skills and high mobility, which meant she could move beyond the feedback speed of the fire control system.

This kind of movement requires not only speed, but also extraordinary skills, and even under the protection of [Overload Gel], it will cause a huge burden on the body.

Wang Shui breathed a sigh of relief in the [Shadow Realm]. Sure enough, it was correct to return to reality, cast a spell, and then immediately jump back to the Shadow Realm.

Sylvia was not injured, but there was a shallow sword mark on the chest of Wang Shui's mobile armor.

(End of this chapter)