I Created Scientific Magic

"Dean Lynn, can you tell me what all these things are for?" Orlando asked curiously.

"To make several weapons to deal with a war that may be coming," Lynn explained.

Orlando's expression grew solemn. Although news of the war was still only circulating within the council, many wizards had already gotten a hint of the upcoming events from the council's recent actions.

"Moreover, I plan to continue expanding Yiyeta Academy and to summon back those Wizard Apprentices who have left the school, even the official Wizards, to Yiyeta so that they can continue their studies," Lynn proposed once more.

Orlando was taken aback and took a moment to respond, "But, what should we teach them?"

Those expelled from the academy as Wizard Apprentices were all over thirty years old and had essentially completed all the teaching available to them, only failing to advance due to a lack of talent.

As for the graduates, needless to say, being official Wizards themselves, there was nothing they could be taught.

"Of course, we should teach chemistry, physics, and advanced mathematics!" Lynn declared emphatically.

"Chemistry? Physics?" Orlando paused. He understood advanced mathematics, but what were these two subjects?

"You can also understand these two new subjects as the principles of magic, or the laws of how things operate!"

Lynn briefly explained, then had Orlando compile a list of alchemists, especially those wizards who had done some research on steam engines, and invite all of them to the academy!

...

The next day at lunchtime, inside Yiyeta Academy's Alchemy Research Room.

Over twenty wizards were gathered around several large pieces of paper, scrutinizing them back and forth. The papers depicted a very odd machine with extremely complex components that baffled onlookers, but the ingenious design still caught everyone's attention immediately.

Darren and others had also been invited, but they were relegated to the outskirts, not daring to compete with the Wizards for the schematics. Lydia, on the other hand, had no hesitations in fetching a tall chair and even climbing onto the table to get a better view.

"Dean Lynn, what is this?" an alchemist asked, puzzled, looking at Lynn. Then suddenly, as though remembering something, he said with uncertainty, "Could it be the schematics for an alchemical steam engine?"

Upon hearing this guess, all the wizards present perked up.

The alchemical steam engine was considered the Alchemy Association's crowning achievement, a magical invention claimed to have the power to change the world!

They were naturally extremely interested in this contraption, and some even went as far as removing alchemical devices from ships to secretly study in private, achieving some results over the years.

However, the construction of the alchemical steam engine seemed not to look like this, and they even wondered if the dean had brought the wrong schematics.

"No, to be precise, it is an upgraded version of the steam engine; I call it an internal combustion engine!" Lynn explained with a smile.

An upgraded version? Philip and the others exchanged looks.

"How is it different from a steam engine?" another witch asked curiously.

"Its efficiency is over ten times that of the current steam engines!" Lynn replied confidently.

Lynn had already reviewed the steam engine developed by the Alchemy Association. Its thermal efficiency was between three and five percent, which could only be described as extremely inefficient.

The steamship, powered by this mechanism, was not much faster than a sail warship when traveling across the ocean, and the cruise speed of airships could only be maintained at a pitiful fifteen kilometers per hour.

Of course, this did not hinder the steam engine from being an invention that spanned eras.

"How much? Tenfold?" A group of Alchemists gasped in astonishment, looking at Lynn with a gaze normally reserved for beholding a monster, and then turned their eager eyes to the blueprints before them.

"Can it be installed on an airship?" Lydia asked, bursting with excitement.

"Certainly no problem, it can increase the speed of the airship from fifteen kilometers per hour to over seventy!" Lynn provided the most conservative figure possible. "It can also be used to power ships or anything else you want to get moving!"

"Seventy kilometers? Wouldn't that mean one could travel from Yiyeta to Greenrir in just one day?" Philip exclaimed in amazement.

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Could it really be that fast?

Lynn smiled, then took the blueprints and began to explain the principles of steam and internal combustion engines and their differences to the group of Alchemists and the half-bodied artisan craftsmen like Darren.

The steam engine, in essence, is really just boiling water, turning the water in the boiler into steam, and then sending it to the cylinders, which drives the piston to reciprocate.

In simple terms, it is the conversion of the chemical energy of the fuel into the thermal energy of the steam, and then the thermal energy of the steam into mechanical energy, thereby generating a continuous power source.

As an upgraded version of it, the internal combustion engine reduces steps, converting thermal energy directly into mechanical energy by using the rapid combustion of fuel to generate high-temperature, high-pressure airflow that drives piston movement, naturally making it much more efficient.

Regarding the fuel issue,

The most primitive internal combustion engines used coal gas as the energy supply.

There are indeed coal resources in Wizard Land.

In fact, Lynn would prefer to use hydrogen as the fuel directly, since that not only could increase thermal efficiency to over fifty percent but is also very eco-friendly and pollution-free.

This idea had been proposed as early as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but the extraction, storage, and transportation costs of hydrogen fuel were very high. In comparison, it was more cost-effective to use fossil fuels.

However, for Wizards, the production of hydrogen gas was not that difficult, which made it possible for hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines,

With this, it's not just about reaching a cruising speed of seventy kilometers per hour for airships—even two hundred kilometers could be possible!

It was the near-zero industrial standard of Yiyeta Harbor that gave Lynn a headache. He could only hope that these Alchemists would think of a way to use magic to solve various technical problems and create an alchemical internal combustion engine that combined technology with magic!

Even though Lynn explained the principles of the internal combustion engine in great detail, the abundance of technical terms still baffled the Alchemists for a while. After a period of arguments and discussions, they began the process of transformation.

For instance, improving the cylinders' ability to withstand high temperatures and pressures, and how to inscribe the Alchemy Formation inside the internal combustion engine to continuously produce combustible gas without being destroyed by the high-temperature environment inside...

Lydia and others did not participate in the research on magical modifications. Instead, they were extremely interested in a device called a gear inside the internal combustion engine.

Several gears of different sizes meshed together, transmitting power by rotation, immensely fascinating. Although she had seen something similar on steam machinery before, it had never been this intricate...

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