Chapter 440: Installing the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome
A week later, in a top-tier laboratory located 20km from the White Dragon Tower, the Constructors of the Shaping School installed a magnificent translucent Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome in the upper space of this top-tier research room.
Dragon crystals are something only the dragon race possesses, not the True Dragon race.
But even the dragon race consists of average adult First Ring creatures, and this ecological dome has no fewer than five dragon crystals installed inside; the entire three-hundred-meter-long ecological dome is also made of the expensive First Ring magic material, Time Crystal.
The surface of the hemispherical crystal dome features a complex array of enchanted runes, with eight chain-like wyvern spinal columns connecting to the crystal dome a hundred meters above the ground, responsible for anchoring it.
During the day, it is the color of white crystal, but at night, the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome turns a corresponding blackish-red.
Within the entire top-tier lab covered by the ecological dome, in its vast space, all climate and ecology are manipulated by the intricate enchantment arrays inside the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome. Even the magic tide concentration gradient can be freely controlled, and directly beneath the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome, the growth rate of First Ring magic plants can be accelerated, shortening magic plant experiments that originally took months to just days.
The people in the laboratory watched the Constructors install the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome—this top-tier First Ring breeding equipment—and were all struck with wonder at the sight.
Barbara the Witch looked up at the crystal dome and said, "I never thought I'd see such a good thing in my lifetime."
Tacitus said, "I also never expected to be able to use a Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome in my life."
As the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome, worth one million magic stones, was finished being installed by the Constructors, a wave of magic rippled out in all directions, vibrating the surrounding air as the magical power of dragons enveloped the sky above the thousand-acre ecological garden of this top-tier laboratory.
The subspecies of Chain Magic Vine within the ecological garden grew rapidly under the nourishment of this magic power.
The forty-five Wizard Apprentices felt the massive magic pressure fluctuations coming from above—a mana quality that seemed to shake heaven and earth—and were all plunged into shock.
This was the first time they had seen a piece of equipment worth as much as a million magic stones, and the first time they felt their knees go weak just standing in front of it.
However, the magic pressure of the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome was specially adjusted so that it wouldn't be unbearable for the Wizard Apprentices; otherwise, no one would be able to conduct experiments inside.
Montgomery was reading the manuals that came with the equipment. This set of equipment was purchased by the Plutarch Family from the Root Crown Court in the Leize Lowlands, and it came with ten thick magic book manuals to detail every function of the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome and its key points of attention.
Montgomery was a Formal Wizard after all, so he quickly finished reading the most critical points in these ten magic books. "Dragons possess the bloodline of True Dragons, and their True Dragon bloodline is very pure, so they have also gained some of the True Dragon bloodline's ability to command all magic elements."
"Therefore, using dragon crystal magic power allows for the control of most magic beneath the ecological dome."
"But it requires consumables every month, and the consumable is dragon blood," Montgomery said. "Including transportation costs, it's expected to be one hundred thousand magic stones per month. I think the Four Seasons Garden must be raising a few dragons, so they can provide us with dragon blood regularly; we just have to pay them one hundred thousand in consumable fees every month."
"That's ten magic crystal cards."
"It's such a moneymaker," Montgomery said. "For these equipment sellers, the most profitable part isn't actually the money from the equipment itself, but the cost of the consumables."
"At this rate of spending, in just ten months, we could buy another Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome."
"Besides that, I've memorized some maintenance points. We can maintain it ourselves without needing to invite wizards from the Root Crown Court for regular annual maintenance."
Locke nodded. "There's no helping it. After all, the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome is a giant piece of breeding equipment jointly developed by Alchemists and Breeders commissioned by the Root Crown Court. It is famous across various Wizard Lands. With this equipment, our development speed will be much faster."
Barbara the Witch, Tasitus the Wizard, and Montgomery the Wizard couldn't help but nod; this time, they had truly upgraded from muskets to cannons.
In fact, they had never used such good breeding equipment themselves; their research conditions had never been this affluent.
Each of them now had their own research plans in mind.
Since they had this Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome, they would naturally spend some time putting the equipment to good use.
Locke said, "In addition to this Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome, the Root Crown Court also provided us with a holographic magic plant sequencing scanner and an Super Large Radiation Cauldron."
"Because we bought their Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome, the sequencing scanner and the Super Large Radiation Cauldron were given to me at half price, costing only twenty magic crystal cards in total."
He currently has 300 magic crystal cards left, but these cards aren't in his hands right now. Only after he purchases equipment or consumables and proves they are used for this project can he apply for reimbursement, and then those magic crystal cards will be issued.
After all, this is money for the project, not for him.
At this moment, everyone saw the Constructors carry a radiation cauldron as large as a small house to the location in the ecological garden designated by Locke. They used earth magic to install it and then performed some relatively simple Alchemy School operations to activate the equipment's functions.
The Super Large Radiation Cauldron is essential equipment for large-scale Breeding Science. Not only does it allow dozens of Wizard Apprentices—Breeders—to use the Magic Power Resonance Cultivation Method simultaneously, but it also enables Senior Breeders, who are Formal Wizards, to use a larger-scale magic sun and a larger-scale Magic Power Resonance Cultivation Method, while improving the precision of their magic frequency operations.
One unit costs two hundred thousand magic stones. Since Breeding Science in the Six Towers Land has always been in decline, the laboratories here didn't even have a single piece of such equipment.
This meant that previously, many Wizard Apprentices in his research group had to rent radiation cauldrons and use them sporadically, which was extremely inconvenient.
Now, with this Super Large Radiation Cauldron, it would undoubtedly provide them with a lot of convenience.
As for that scanner, it was like a magic stone disk the size of a table. Thirty-one crystals of different sizes floated above the stone slab, their magical brilliance interlocking to construct a complex magic array in mid-air.
On the stone slab was a rotating mithril disk, and on the mithril disk was a hand made of vines that could assist the wizard in placing live magic plant sap on it. This would activate the magic array to begin testing the arrangement of plant factors within the magic plant's specific plant essence.
However, the difficulty of using this equipment is quite high, requiring professional Breeders to undergo repeated training to master it. It also has high requirements for an individual's observation and operational abilities.
Everyone looked at this brand-new laboratory, full of energy. With so much expensive equipment being brought in, everyone felt jubilant.
Locke himself had the synthesis cube, so he didn't actually have a great need for the scanner; it was to facilitate other First Ring wizards in sequencing magic plants and using the Finite Element Cultivation Method.
Of course, he certainly had to learn how to use this equipment that complemented the Finite Element Cultivation Method; otherwise, it would be quite inappropriate.
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