This chapter is an extra update for "qwettfxse"'s 10,000-coin reward.
As more and more magicians gathered at the Magic Guild, each experimental team could recruit numerous magicians, greatly speeding up progress.
However, the magic communication array was highly classified. At present, only a small number of trusted magicians could participate in its core construction.
As for the binary and octal encoding, only A Ke and Chris understood the underlying principles and procedures.
After all, the magic communication array could be used not only for civilian purposes, but also for military ones. If foreign nations were to master it—for instance, if the Eagle Kingdom acquired the magic communication array—then dragon knights could support any border battle at any time, completely eliminating the journey required for manual message delivery.
"Your Highness, these are the current four core units." Chris reported her progress to Liszt every day.
Two of the core units were square box-shaped devices. When their lids were opened, intricate magical structures could be seen inside. They resembled three-dimensional compasses, with eight layers of compass disks stacked on top of one another, each layer inlaid with different kinds of crystals. They used the crystals' sensitivity to magic power to transmit magical attributes.
These were octal core units. Based on the mechanisms' responses within the compass disks, they could encode a set of information for exchange.
However, the codes had to be entered manually, like sending a "magic fax" by telegraph.
Beside the two core units were another two flatter boxes. They also contained compass-like structures, but with only two layers. These were binary core units, and their principles were much the same as those of the octal core units. They might be simpler to operate, but because binary encoding was so long, message transmission was slow.
Following the encoding, Liszt