Artificial Magic Web
Murphy arrived at the Magic Research Institute. Research into magical metals had begun here earlier than the Void Particles Research Institute in the Soviet Union, and they had long since realized that magic could affect the properties of all kinds of materials, including semiconductors.
But before he could find Denzel Evans, the research expert on magical semiconductors, he saw Hordan and the others tinkering with an enormous device. The thing was the size of a basketball court, almost filling the largest laboratory of the Spellcasting Path Research Group.
Near the huge device hung a construction diagram, and Murphy could not help stopping to look at it for a while.
"Director!" Hordan saw Murphy and hurried over.
"This is the Hive?" Murphy glanced at the three-dimensional structure on the construction diagram, made up of countless hexagonal cells, and asked.
"Exactly," Hordan said, looking extremely excited. "But what we're building now is only a partial test structure. It's mainly to verify whether the Department of Mysteries is a 'Magic Web' node, and to complete the experiment for extracting magical energy."
On his previous trip to the Department of Mysteries, Murphy had realized that the Department of Mysteries might very well be part of the "Magic Web." After Hordan and the others carried out preliminary theoretical calculations, they found that Murphy was very likely right: the Department of Mysteries had a high probability of being an important node of the Magic Web.
To verify this conjecture, and at the same time examine the possibility of extracting magic from the Magic Web as a stable energy source, they had, with Murphy's authorization, launched the "Artificial Magic Web" project.
The Hive was the first step of the Artificial Magic Web project.
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