Chapter 20 Anonymous Masterpiece
The mission detection center of Norlen College is located at the deepest part of the tenth underground floor of the college.
There is no sunlight here all year round, only the magic lamps emit a cold light.
Countless complex magical instruments were working, emitting low humming sounds, and the air was filled with a strange smell mixed with various materials, which was richer and more complex than the smell in the laboratory.
This is one of the busiest areas in the entire workshop.
As part of a wizarding organization that rules over multiple planes, the Norn Academy also has several small planes under its jurisdiction.
In addition, wizards coming out of the academy are constantly attacking new planes, and the academy receives a huge amount of new materials from various planes and channels every day.
These materials undergo rigorous testing to determine their nature, grade, and potential use.
The testing process is extremely detailed and tedious. Different materials require dozens or even hundreds of tests, including physical strength, energy conduction, elemental corrosion, chemical reaction, stability, and curse resistance.
Even though the wizards here are constantly busy, the testing queues are often desperate.
Due to lack of manpower, even though wizards often protested about this matter, they were still unable to alleviate the problem.
Today, the wizard in charge of testing isolation materials - an old man with gray hair and wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, a first-level official wizard nicknamed "Resistance Barrier" by his peers, was sitting in front of his testing table as usual.
His job is to place the various new isolation material samples sent to him into specific magical instruments and run a fixed set of testing procedures.
The job was dull and tedious, and most of the mature materials produced by senior wizards would go directly into higher-level testing or be sent directly to the research department.
Most of the things he handled were new things developed by low-level wizards or apprentices. These materials were often filled with unrealistic fantasies and their quality was also uneven.
"Stainless steel-based insulation material? Ha, another 'new type of insulation material'." He habitually picked up a sample bottle with a special number, and seeing the simple label on it, he couldn't help but laugh contemptuously.
The bottle contained a few pieces of material that looked very inconspicuous, like ordinary tin with a layer of gold powder on the surface.
He is no longer surprised by this kind of thing.
These newcomers always think that they can come up with some earth-shattering new inventions by finding some special-looking ores or randomly combining some alchemical materials.
They also carefully conceal the specific names of the ingredients, for fear that others will steal their "exclusive formula."
"Naive." The old wizard shook his head in his heart.
Not to mention that this work is restricted by the academic contract, no one would dare to covet these research results.
As formal wizards, they have a broader vision and deeper knowledge. In their eyes, the things these apprentices tinker with are just crude toys made by children. There is no need to steal the technology at all.
Those so-called "recipes" may be full of errors in their eyes, and may even contain basic alchemical common sense errors.
Although he was complaining in his heart, he still honestly placed one of the material samples into a large testing instrument and started the standard testing process.
This is the rigor of wizards cultivated through years of experiments. Even when faced with hopeless results, they will still follow the procedures.
The instrument began to operate, the runes lit up, and energy fluctuations scanned the interior of the material.
"Beginning basic testing, resistance to physical impact... blunt force impact... Level, inferior..."
Listening to the sounds coming from the instrument, the old wizard lowered his head as usual to record the test results without raising his head.
Soon, a series of physical resistance tests came to an end, and the final test results appeared on the instrument screen.
【Physical impact resistance: poor】
“As expected.”
He curled his lips and put the material into another instrument to continue testing.
"Energy impact resistance..."
【Energy impact strength: inferior】
"Ha! As expected." Seeing that the first two results were inferior, the old wizard's expectations completely dropped to zero.
In fact, he already had a premonition when he saw the specific structure of this material. It was obvious that the real function was the golden substance above, and the rest of the basic structure was supported by tinplate.
He had originally been looking forward to this thing's energy resistance, but now it seems he was overthinking it.
The physical energy resistance is not high, which means that there must be something wrong with the basic structure and energy conduction mode of this thing.
Unless it can demonstrate remarkable resistance to corrosion, the material will undoubtedly be deemed useless.
"Next is the corrosion resistance test... First, the elemental corrosion resistance..." He pressed the button to start the next round of tests.
Under the premise that both physical and energy resistance are inferior, if you want to make a comeback in terms of corrosion resistance, you must at least reach the level of a first-ring formal wizard to be barely considered "usable".
If you want to attract attention, you need to reach the level of a second-ring or even a third-ring wizard.
But this requirement is quite strict even for formal wizards, and it is almost impossible to achieve with the materials researched by apprentices.
However, just as he was waiting for the results with this thought in mind, the testing instrument issued a slight but crisp prompt sound.
The results are out.
[Resistance to Elemental Corrosion: Excellent! Assessment: Equivalent to the level of a third-ring official wizard!]
I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but the sound of the instrument broadcast seems a bit excited.
The old wizard's hand shook violently, and he almost dropped the clipboard in his hand to the ground!
"What?!" He suddenly raised his head and looked at the screen of the detection instrument in disbelief.
Excellent? Three-ring level?!
He rubbed his eyes, thinking he had seen it wrong.
He has been engaged in this testing work for decades, has seen countless materials, and has also tested the research results of some formal wizards.
The elemental erosion resistance at the level of a third-ring wizard is something that even the works of most second-level wizards may not be able to achieve!
And this is a material test result that looks like tattered tin, with even the submitter's name crudely labeled?!
Just based on this result, even if all other tests are inferior, this material is enough to attract the attention of official wizards!
However, his shock was premature.
"Corrosion resistance..." The new test results popped up immediately afterwards.
[Resistance to Mental Corrosion: Excellent! Assessment: Equivalent to the level of a fourth-ring official wizard!]
[Resistance to Mind Control: Excellent! Assessment: Equivalent to the level of a fourth-ring official wizard!]
[Corrosion resistance: Excellent! Evaluation: Evaluation exceeds the range of current instrument! Upgraded testing is recommended!]
[Curse Resistance: Excellent! Assessment: Assessment exceeds the range of current equipment! Upgraded testing recommended!]
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(End of this chapter)
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