I Created Scientific Magic

In the afternoon, Fire Oil City.

Following an order from the council, all visible alchemists gathered in the former Duke's mansion's front hall.

They needed to draw the most massive alchemy array ever recorded in history!

The scope was the entire mansion, totaling 1,720,000 runes!

Before that, the Elemental Wizards had already cast spells to dismantle all the decorations and furniture and had hollowed out the ground beneath, creating ample space.

For the sake of secrecy, the chairmen did not reveal that this was the legendary ascension ceremony, simply stating that Master Lynn had developed a new magic, and this was the site for experimenting with that magic!

"What kind of magic requires so many runes?" Tic murmured to himself as he drew on the floor with his own set of plans.

He could tell that the part he was responsible for seemed to be used to guide magical power.

This device was usually used to build up the power for casting some kind of magic, but creating such an extensive setup was indeed thought-provoking.

Like Tic, the more than 500 participating alchemists couldn't help but speculate what such a massive array was for.

"I heard, Master Lynn is planning to create a new Sun on the ground!" one alchemist whispered.

"The Sun? Charlie, that's not funny..." a witch beside him chuckled and shook her head.

What is the Sun?

It is the star that hangs above their heads, the source of light, and according to those prophets, the mass of the Sun is at least millions of times that of the planet under their feet. A slight tremor, and their continent could be doomed— that would be the real apocalypse!

I'm not joking... the man named Charlie said with a hint of helplessness. This was top secret information he had gathered surreptitiously!

"Stop the chatter! Focus, everyone, this alchemy array is extremely important. We need to complete it as quickly as possible without a single symbol out of place!" Vittorio commanded solemnly.

This ascension ceremony was linked to his life and the possibility of becoming a legend. Vittorio naturally cared deeply, not only overseeing the core formation's layout, but also personally inspecting every rune setup whenever he had a moment.

Under the direct supervision of the chairman, no one dared to slack off, and people like Tic were all hard at work, focusing on the task at hand.

What Lynn saw upon entering the mansion was a scene of hundreds of people gathered, drawing.

"How is the progress, Lord Vittorio?" Lynn asked in a gentle voice.

"Quite good; most of the challenging issues have been resolved. I've employed a complex structure for this alchemy array, so even if one or two areas encounter errors, it shouldn't significantly impact the overall plan..." Vittorio explained in detail as he led Lynn around the mansion, showing him the layout of the array and the prepared contingency plans.

Lynn nodded repeatedly, quite satisfied with Vittorio's caution. A nuclear fusion reactor going out of control was no laughing matter!

No amount of preparation could be considered entirely safe!

"Anyway, we've done everything within our capabilities to the extreme," Vittorio sighed as he spoke.

This was a summation of his life's learning and the collective power of the council's elite!

If even this couldn't work, then even if one's soul perished in an energy outburst during the ascension ceremony, Vittorio felt it wouldn't be in vain!

"Relax, as long as we've properly organized everything, I think success shouldn't be a problem," Lynn said as he handed over a set of plans for the nuclear fusion reactor.

Creating a 'small Sun' on the ground was an incredibly unbelievable task for the wizards; they thought it immensely difficult, but to Lynn, constructing a nuclear fusion reactor was fairly routine, except maybe the miniaturization had some technical challenges.

Vittorio treasured the blueprint, carefully admiring it.

Building a Sun was simply the greatest masterpiece in alchemy history!

Lynn was contemplating how to use magic to solve some material science problems.

If nuclear bombs involved breaking uranium atoms, making one large massed element split into several smaller massed elements, then nuclear fusion was the reverse, combining two lower-massed elements into a larger-massed element!

The principle behind energy release was the same, whether splitting or combining, it would inevitably cause mass loss, and this lost mass was the source of the terrifying energy in nuclear explosions...

The technical challenges for nuclear reactors were many, but the truly lethal problems were twofold!

One was how to heat the fusion material to a sufficiently high temperature.

To facilitate nuclear fusion, one must harness one of the four fundamental forces, the strong nuclear force, so that the two atomic nuclei would bind tightly together and not be repelled by having the same charge.

But the range of action for the strong nuclear force is extremely short; it required the two atomic nuclei to be very close together.

This distance had to be maintained at the scale of 10 to the negative fifteenth meters—essentially, 0.000001 nanometers.

This was undoubtedly a number that led to despair!

However, there was a way out, which was to apply high temperature and high pressure!

Given the atmospheric pressure of the planet they were standing on, the temperature needed to be raised to above one hundred million degrees to achieve this, bringing about the second problem—what kind of container could hold fusion material at a temperature reaching several hundred million degrees Celsius!