CHAPTER 61: THIS ISN’T A PARADOX

For a moment, the Magic Space was filled with various exclamations. Even if some mages occasionally showed disdain, believing magic should strengthen oneself and pursue truth rather than create such random things, it didn’t affect countless mages’ frenzied discussions. In a short time, there were barely any debates or arguments—that divine ascension vision was truly shocking!

Of course, there were definitely some noble lords having all their mages promote the God of Technology. Partly because many of them were God of Technology believers themselves, and partly because the God of Technology’s Magic Conductors showed them hope for expanding their families and profit opportunities, so they naturally did such things.

But overall, most people were still very shocked after learning the complete vision content, their minds struggling to process the magnitude of what they had witnessed. The implications were staggering—a world where magic and machinery worked in perfect harmony, where the impossible became commonplace, and where the very foundations of society would need to be rebuilt from the ground up. Many even began discussing how to bring that vision into reality, their conversations animated by equal parts excitement and trepidation as they contemplated the monumental challenges that lay ahead!

Roster Territory.

After the ritual ended, Viscount Roster held a lavish banquet in his castle. But after simple greetings, he came to the Wild Mage’s side—the man was still somewhat dazed, sitting alone in the hall’s corner.

"My friend, feeling quite shocked? Magic Conductors’ potential is much greater than we imagined... This time, it can truly change the world!"

Viscount Roster’s voice startled the Wild Mage, who took a while to respond: "Actually, when Lucina sent back news about discovering an ore that could emit weak magic power, I knew the Magic Conductor era was truly coming! I just never imagined it would become like that! An era with countless times the current population, extremely abundant materials, Magic Conductors everywhere!"

Roster could clearly see the Wild Mage swallow hard. It seemed his current mood was more unsettled than expected. Even when the self-charging array was completed and his lifespan extended, he hadn’t been this excited: "Yes, a hard-to-imagine era..."

The Wild Mage directly interrupted his sentiment: "But I’m not dwelling on that. I just feel trapped in a paradox and don’t know how to escape."

"Oh? What?" Viscount Roster was stunned, not quite catching on for a moment.

"About that ore." The Wild Mage said: "The ore produces magic power when stimulated by external force, and magic power can trigger Magic Conductors. That’s fine, but how do we make the ore collide to produce magic power?"

"Just hit it... wait, you mean create a module to integrate into Magic Conductors as a switch?" Viscount Roster initially wanted to say carrying a stone and hitting it when needed would work, but realized mid-sentence this wouldn’t work at all!

"Yes, but we’re trapped in an endless loop. We need magic power to make that stone produce magic power, but people with magic power don’t need to use that stone. We’re caught in an infinite cycle with no way out."

The Wild Mage looked increasingly helpless. To make the stone produce magic power required magic stimulation, but magic stimulation required being a mage or having that stone, and to make the stone produce magic power... infinite loop.

"Have you considered using mechanics?" Viscount Roster said seriously: "The vision we saw today, the prayer words we were naturally guided to speak—can’t you see? The Magic Conductor era isn’t purely magical, but an era fusing magic and mechanics!"

Using mechanics?

That might actually work.

The Wild Mage’s mind raced. Suddenly, he thought of clocks—when time arrived, the pendulum would swing. If that ’pendulum’ could strike the stone, wouldn’t that work?

"What? You see a problem?"

"No, I’m just thinking. I have a friend who’s a Runic Society member, very skilled with mechanics. His father, grandfather, uncle—all clockmakers. I think if we got him involved, he could develop a mechanical module that even ordinary people could use to operate Magic Conductors." The Wild Mage shared his thoughts directly.

Take ray guns—currently they had three modules: storage module, spell model, and overall framework. Now they could add a mechanical trigger module. Just press a button lightly, internal mechanics would strike that special ore, the ore would produce magic power, thus activating the ray gun successfully.

"Where’s your friend? Should I send someone to fetch him? Actually, let me go myself! I think if this idea works, our Magic Conductor business will absolutely skyrocket!"

Roster was naturally a decisive, highly action-oriented person. He didn’t care or worry about what impact Magic Conductors usable without mages might have on the world. His Roster workshop had already signed cooperation agreements with dozens of nobles—these were profit bindings, so they would definitely find ways to protect this foundation... they might want to protect it even more than Roster himself!

"He’s the first person in the Kingdom of Dawn to use the Magic Net. Let me ask his opinion first... That legendary Unlucky Drew was his teacher. He got that title because he was first to get the Magic Net."

The Wild Mage smiled: "Actually, compared to the Runic Society, I always thought the Crafters’ Association might suit him better, but their status difference..."

He didn’t continue, but Roster already understood: "If our idea is right, the Crafters’ Association might rapidly develop into something no weaker than the Runic Society, or even the Mages’ Association."

"Don’t worry about ’what if our idea this or that’—the god’s ideas are definitely correct." With his long-troubling problem solved, the Wild Mage’s expression brightened: "The Crafters’ Association is destined to be one of the protagonists in the new era."

Teylir Emirates

Lucina couldn’t break free from prayer for a long time, falling into prolonged silence. She was a soldier from a military family, guarding against ice spirits for generations. After seeing that vision, her first thought was—if these cars were war vehicles, if this train was like a mobile fortress, if this aircraft could conduct air strikes...

"If all of these could be manufactured, we could probably unify the continent easily! Not just this small Teylir Emirates—the Gray Fort Empire, Elf Kingdom would have no resistance capability. Maybe even the dragons’ realm could be taken!"