As a military official who doesn't know much about cutting-edge magic technology and does not intend to switch to a researcher, Byron has visited the Magic Technology Institute for a handful of times. The last time he came to this place was for the Pea business.

Pea is a mute girl, and this incident means deep regret and regret for Byron, who has been her adoptive father for several years.

The poor child was once a mute slave of a great merchant. His tongue was cut off and he could not speak. Moreover, because the tongue was broken for too long, the conventional druid spells were powerless. Even if Cecil became the Cecil Empire, even if Byron changed from a country knight to the leader of the empire's army, he had no choice.

In a few years, the little mute of that year also grew into a graceful girl, and an unexpected turnaround also appeared at this time.

The legacy of everything dug out from the Thorin area gave Byron a hope of healing the pea.

Those incredibly cutting-edge biochemical technologies can be used to create terrible monsters, and can also be used to heal unlucky mortals.

After obtaining Pea's consent, Byron made his adopted daughter the first clinical tester in the Druid Laboratory under Pittman's name. The initial treatment was very smooth, and it took less than half a day to regenerate the tongue, but Pea encountered unexpected difficulties when she asked Pea to speak again.

Today, the middle-aged knight once again came to the Magic Technology Institute to seek new solutions.

Pitman, who was hunched and white-bearded, walked in front and led Byron to the depths of the Institute of Magic Technology.

After a period of development and improvement, this large-scale facility, established by Rebecca Cecil, has now become the most advanced research facility in the empire. It also has many new departments and departments. In addition to the conventional magic, machinery, and mathematics research rooms, two research rooms under the name of Rune Research Institute and a Druid Research Center under the name of Pittman.

As Gao Wen originally planned, the Magic Technology Institute is no longer a simple research facility. It has become a "greenhouse" for cultivating new technologies, providing services in venues, equipment, personnel, etc. for various emerging technologies or potential teams.

After passing through a gate on the third floor, Byron and Pittman entered the area where the Druid Research Center belongs. The walls here are decorated with flower vines and leaves, and the magic device at the entrance quietly projected a holographic image, with badges surrounded by flower vines floating on the image.

This badge is a druid mark in the imperial style.

There were many technicians wearing short robes with green patterns in the corridor. They all saluted Pittman respectfully. Although they saw this scene last time when they came, Byron couldn't help but look at the old man beside him: "To be honest, I was quite surprised to see that you, such a shameless guy, are actually respected by so many scholars."

"You're just talking nonsense," Pittman glanced at Byron, "What did I say when I saw the soldiers on the road salute you?"

Byron curled his lips and said nothing, but followed Pitman through the corridor and came to a laboratory with a seemingly high specification.

"Put on your outer robe and go in and stand on that platform," Pittman stood at the gate in front of the laboratory entrance, pointing to a small round platform inside the gate, "Wait for me after you go in."

"What is this?" Byron was stunned, "Why didn't the lab last time have this step?"

Pitman stared, "Nonsense, the laboratory biochemical isolation level this time is level iii, and you can understand that the things in this are more expensive than elsewhere."

Byron said oh, although he was rough on weekdays, he also knew the importance of rigor and order in the research facilities, so he didn't say much.

Under Pitman's guidance, he did not skillfully complete the steps of dressing and disinfecting, and then passed through the gate and entered this seemingly special laboratory.

After entering, the first thing that caught my eye was a rather wide room, with several large experimental tables arranged neatly on both sides of the room, while a large number of technicians wearing standard robes were busy between the experimental tables. The robes of those people were all covered with druid emblems surrounded by flower vines. But in fact, Byron knew very well that if according to the old rules, only a small number of them were real "druids", and the rest were at best "apprentices" in the extraordinary field, or even ordinary people who did not have extraordinary skills at all.

But after the development of magic technology and after many druid spells were also summarized into the system of rune logic, the definition of "druid" within the scope of the empire is no longer so old-fashioned.

Byron's eyes swept across the room and suddenly noticed a striking and special figure here.

That was Master Kamier who was full of arcane light shining and wearing rune armor.

He turned his head slightly and asked Pittman who had just entered the lab: "Why is Master Carmier here too?"

"He's involved in this project," Pittman said casually, walking forward, "Just follow and take a look, don't touch the things here."

Byron shrugged and followed indifferently.

Pittman seemed to be old, but his steps were fast. He soon came to Carmier and asked, "The morning test is over? How is the situation?"

"The neural response efficiency has exceeded 70%, and it should still be necessary to adjust a lot," Carmier said, pointing at the nearest laboratory bench, "Look at it, is there any problem with its artificial neuron state?"

Pittman turned toward the lab, while Byron stretched his neck and looked curiously at that direction.

He saw something with a weird shape lying quietly on a sloping table, and the bright light made the details of the thing appear in detail.

It was a "band" composed of metal parts, less than one meter long. One end had a diamond structure as big as a palm, and the other end was branched with some thin, dark red ends. The band-shaped body showed a ring-by-ring structure and fine metal bulges. This strange structure...

Byron couldn't help but think of a person's spine, or something that could fit on the spine.

He leaned closer and saw a faint red surging between the metal links. After looking carefully, he realized that it was a fibrous object that looked like some kind of flesh and blood tissue.

Those "flesh and blood" grow between metals, maintaining their own activity in some incomprehensible way.

"What is this?" Byron blinked and asked curiously, "Why do you look a bit like the artificial nerve cord in the immersion cabin?"

"This is an artificial nerve cord, but not used in the immersion compartment," Pittman was carefully observing the nerve terminal extending from the end of the "metal spine", and responding without raising his head, "It's considered a branch application of the artificial nerve cord... I'll name it 'Nerve Thorn' for the time being."

Byron continued to ask: "What is this for?"

"In essence, it is still a nerve connection device used to connect the human brain to external magic devices, but in addition to this most basic connection function..." Pittman finally raised his head and pointed to the dark red fiber structure at the end of the artificial nerve cord. "It can also be used to break the boundary between ordinary people and extraordinary people and truly break it."

Byron frowned slightly, with a serious expression: "...can you speak the common words?"

Pitman couldn't help but give him a blank look: "Look at the book occasionally, otherwise you won't even understand her textbook when Pea enters Imperial College."

Carmire on the other side floated over and said with a buzzing voice after saying hello to Byron: "Your Majesty once proposed that the current magic technology has shortcomings, that is, all extraordinary powers are realized through machinery, and people use rune triggers to achieve the preset spell effects in the machine. This way of implementation has natural limitations.

"The magic machine can only be used to execute simple spells that do not require 'mental power' to maintain guidance, such as fireballs, ice cones, arcane missiles, etc., and once a spell requires the spiritual guidance of the caster, such as illusion, dream spells or larger-scale ritual spells, then the magic machine is powerless."

Byron laughed, nodded and said, "I understand this."

All extraordinary people have this common sense. Spells can be divided into two categories in terms of control methods. One is "forming is realization". After completing the construction of the spell model, it only needs to be stimulated. Complete spell effects can be released, such as fireball artifacts and ice arrows. The other is "mental power guidance". This kind of spell is usually continuous. During the release process, it requires the caster to continuously control the mental power level. Once interrupted, the spell will immediately dissipate.

It is obvious that the current magic machine can only realize the former spell, while the latter... is destined to be unable to get rid of the "controller" of the extraordinary due to the limitations of the maintenance method.

This is obviously inconsistent with the concept of magic technology "to attribute extraordinary to mortals", and it actually limits the development of magic technology.

In fact, in the current technological development process, this limitation has begun to show the virtual interface that the immersion chamber needs to present after linking the human brain. Some parameters of the Magic Network broadcasting system are "written". These cannot be controlled through a simple rune trigger and require the operator's mental power to participate. At present, they are completely dependent on real mages to operate.

This is also one of the reasons why the output of immersion cabins has been unable to increase for a long time. Every immersion cabin needs to be debugged by a formal mage for a long time. How many mages can be used in the institute to do this?

Byron vaguely guessed the role of this so-called "nerve thorn": "So... can this thing allow ordinary people to use their mental power to control those guiding spells?"

"To be more precise, it can make ordinary people 'sensate' magic power." Pittman smiled and said something that could make every traditional extraordinary person stunned.

Let ordinary people sense magic!!

Byron widened his eyes. After a few seconds, he realized what the strange form in front of him meant.

The dividing line of magical talent is induction magic. The first threshold for ordinary people to enter the extraordinary realm is also induction magic.

Only by sensing the existence of magic can one control it, use it, and then realize this extraordinary talent, but only a very small number of talented people have this special talent.

"We have been tinkering with this thing for a whole year and have been stuck on the issue of 'artificial neurons not being able to survive in small devices for a long time'. Until recently, the technology of the end of everything helped us make up for this link," Kamier said buzzing. "We have successfully created a nerve thorn that can work for a long time, although it is still a long way from perfection."

Pitman also raised his waist slightly, with a proud expression on his face: "As long as this thing succeeds, it will be truly 'everyone'."

Byron couldn't help but be infected by the atmosphere on the scene and became a little excited, but soon he remembered his purpose for coming here today: "...but what does this have to do with peas?"

Pitman looked at him: "As a superficial early technology product, the nerve thorn is still far from achieving the goal of "everyone is extraordinary", but before that, it may be used to achieve something simpler than casting. This thing can be directly connected to the human brain. If it is connected to a "gate" that makes a sound, perhaps it can 'talk' for the pea."

Byron was silent for a moment and asked only one question: "Is this risky?"

"There are risks in any experiment, and the main risk is brain damage," Carmier said very directly. "We will set up enough security locks and release spells to protect the mind and brain for the peas in advance, which can minimize the risk."

"...I'm going back to ask Pea for his own opinion."

"Of course, that's right."
Chapter completed!